A great aerial view of a wintery MacDonagh Park captured over the weekend.

Membership:
Membership for 2021 is now due and can be paid online at the following link:
https://member.clubforce.com/memberships_cart_m.asp?LL_ID=292&cbl=1. This can also be paid to Club Registrar Enda Long or by contacting any Committee member.
We ask that all our players, mentors and supporters pay their membership in the coming weeks. Our membership rates remain the same for 2021 with full membership at €50 and €30 for Student/OAP/Unemployed. Juvenile membership is also €30 and family options are available.

Community Response:
If any member of our community requires support during these difficult times, prescriptions and groceries collected or if we can support you in any way please contact our Community Covid Officer, Bartley Ryan, on 086 735 8359 and a member of our club will be only too delighted to come to your assistance.
Similarly, if any member of our club wants to volunteer to help out please contact Bartley and your name will be added to our response team.

Tipperary Talks Sport Webinar:
Tipperary Sports Partnership has launched a webinar – ‘Tipperary Talks Sport’ which will take place on
Tuesday, 26th of January from 7pm to 8.30pm.
RTÉ Sports Presenter, Evanne Ní Chuilinn will present the show which was created to celebrate the very best of Irish women in sport. The webinar is free but pre-registration is essential at the following link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Nd1LU5uLSBu6ygDe9hE7PA

Healthy Club:
The Every Step Counts challenge is up and running since 13th Jan and we now have up to 40 people in the club taking part in the challenge. It’s not too late to join, just simply download Irish Life’s ‘My Life App’, join the Nenagh Eire Óg team and be part of the walking challenge. This will run up to the 3rd March and clubs who reach the 4,000 km target will be entered into a draw with great prizes on offer.

 

Club Chairman John Tooher recently presented a cheque for €500 to Rose Walsh, President of Nenagh Lions Club. Nenagh Lions Club were the fourth chosen charity to receive €500 as part of our Community Lotto.

Hardluck to the Tipperary footballers, Bartley Ryan is The Toughest while we look forward to our AGM. All of this and more in this week’s news on the Blues

Tipperary

Commiserations go to the Tipperary footballers who were defeated by Mayo in the All-Ireland semi-final on Sunday afternoon in Croke Park. They fought to the bitter end and in doing so, honoured the victims of Bloody Sunday 100 years ago with determination and dignity. By winning the Munster championship they brought huge joy to a lot of people in this bleak year. 

Bartley Ryan – The Toughest

All of us in the club wish to congratulate Bartley Ryan whose modeling career has begun with a bang. Bartley is the face of The Toughest Season, a new photographic book chronicling the 2020 GAA year, which is on sale on the Sportsfile website, is a collaboration between AIB, Sportsfile, the GAA and the Camogie Association. All proceeds from the sale of the book go towards AIB’s charity partners; AGE NI, Alone, FoodCloud, Soar & Pieta House.

Anyone wishing to have their copy of the book signed by Bartley are asked to ring his agent Marion to book an appointment and in some cases, Bartley will happily pose for photographs with a lucky select few autograph hunters.

Junior-A Management

The club are delighted to announce that Ger McCarthy has been appointed as junior-A manager for 2021. Ger will be aided by Paul Lillis, John Phelan, David Minogue and Derek Lillis. We wish to thank outgoing manager Eddie Tucker for all of his diligent hard work over the last two years with this team and we extend our best wishes to Bryan Darcy in his new role with Cashel King Cormacs. 

AGM

The club’s AGM will take place this Thursday via Zoom. All members should received a link to the meeting in the coming days. If you haven’t yet received the link by Wednesday, please contact any committee member. A digital copy of the AGM booklet will be distributed on Monday and again, if you don’t receive or indeed would prefer a hard copy, please contact club secretary Catherine McTiernan.

Daryl McCormack – An Irishman Abriad

Juvenile News

Friday night was the final training session and the end to the 2020 hurling and football season for our super under-10 boys.

Thank you to Niall Cahill, Kieran Mularkey and the team of coaches who have put in tremendous effort all year in very difficult circumstances to bring this great bunch of boys along.

Sincere thank you to the Covid officers Claire Walsh, Elaine Ryan and Eileen Jones who facilitated a safe training environment for the boys all season.

Wishing the boys and everyone involved with this group a very Happy Christmas, we hope Santa is good to all.

Try get in a few pucks with the hurley every day boys during the offseason. We look forward to seeing you all in the new year.

John Gunnell, John Tooher, Chairman Nenagh Éire Óg, Enda Costello, Willie Greene, Coach Bertie Sherlock, Liam Heffernan, Coach Conor Hennessy and the wonderful boys from St Mary’s B.N.S.

St Mary’s Boys Primary School

We at Nenagh Éire Óg are well aware that the contribution made to our club and the GAA in general by our schools and teachers could never be overestimated. It was wonderful to meet with John Gunnell, Principal of St. Mary’s Boys National School and Willie Greene, Principal of St. Joseph’s C.B.S. Primary today and be able to reward them for all of their hard work with some necessary equipment, kindly sponsored by Costello Oil. We hope that the boys have fun hurling in school and that we’ll see them all at MacDonagh Park soon. Please ‘Shop Local’ this Christmas. It’s local companies like Costello Oil that keep the show on the road for our clubs, dance and drama groups.

Our juveniles get behind the Tipperary footballers today

Club News 29 November 2020

Tipperary

The very best of luck to the Tipperary senior footballers who will play Mayo on Sunday in the All-Ireland semi-final. The lads will be hoping to reach their first senior final since 1920, played in 1922 due to the War of Independence, where they defeated Dublin 1-6 to 1-2 with Tommy Powell getting the all-important goal. In the semi-final that year they defeated Sunday’s opponents Mayo 1-5 to 1-0. 

Tipperary County Board Draw

Congratulations to Jimmy Shanahan who won €1,000 in the recent county board draw.

Tipperary Sports Partnership

Congratulations to everyone who recently completed the Tipperary Sports Partnership course Online Physical Literacy Workshop. It was great that so many from our club took part. 

Camogie News

Intercounty

Our Nenagh star Grace O’Brien lined out for Tipperary in their All Ireland semi-final against current All-Ireland champions Galway on Saturday in Pairc Ui Chaoimh.

After a brave and tenacious performance by the Tipperary side who had been unbeaten all season, they came up short against a very strong Galway team winning on a scoreline of 1-11 to 0-8.

Nenagh Éire Óg Camogie Club AGM

The Camogie Club held their AGM this week and the elected members for the coming season are as follows;

Committee
Chairperson  Tom Boland
Vice-Chairperson James O’Dwyer
Secretary Jackie Sheehy
Treasurer Tom McAuliffe
Registrars Caitriona Cleary
Child Welfare Officer Mark Hassett
PRO Áine Gilmartin

Committee Member Catriona Fahy
Committee Member Deirdre Ní Loingsigh
Committee Member Barry Grace

Kieran Malone, the outgoing Chairperson, expressed sincere thanks to all of the players, coaches and management for their involvement over the last twelve months with the Camogie club. Thanks was extended to all of the team mentors and individuals that were involved as Covid Officers.
James O’Dwyer, on behalf of the committee, expressed his gratitude to outgoing committee members; Kieran Malone, Caitriona Morris, Denise Morris, Alanna Morris, Grace O’Brien, Lisa O’Meara, for their commitment to the club.

Juvenile News

Age Grades

Nenagh Éire ÓG Juvenile Club have received official notification from the county board that age grades will change to uneven in 2021. Management teams will be working over the next few weeks on the implementation of this change within the various age groups. Communications in this regard will be issued in due course.

Under-10

In anticipation of this year’s eagerly awaited Late Late Toy Show all the Under 10 boys who were at training last Friday evening received a mouth-watering Selection Box to enjoy while watching the Toy Show. We hope the boys enjoyed the Toy Show as much as their selection boxes :-).

Training for this group will continue every Friday evening under the new guidelines of non-contact and in groups of fifteen. Anyone who wishes to train is more than welcome, it is completely optional for the boys. Training will consist of skills work and fun activities. training has moved to Nenagh College on Friday nights from 7pm to 8pm.

Please keep encouraging the boys to pick up the hurley at home and practice daily.

Under-14

Our brilliant Under 14 boys took part in the local Féile skills challenge in both hurling and football today. Not at all deterred by the heavy fog, the boys battled it out to progress to a place in the next round at North Tipp level and of course to win a fabulous trophy.

Well done to all the boys who participated today. Best wishes to the boys progressing to the next round. Sincere thank you to the dedicated coaches who coordinated and ran today’s competition.

Training will continue for the next few weeks in Nenagh College. Hurling on Tuesdays and football on Thursdays.

Under-16

U16/17 hurling training continues on Friday night at 8 pm in Nenagh College. Turnout has been good and we are hoping for all our squad to be back for our last few sessions before the Christmas break.

Fixtures

All competitive games are suspended currently in light of the recent guidelines.

Other Business

Thank you to all the parents who encourage practicing of both codes at home, please continue to encourage the children to pick up the hurley or football and get a few minutes of practice in each day.

Please continue to follow the GAA and HSE Covid safety guidelines. A reminder to all that the Nenagh Éire Óg clubhouse is closed to all for the coming weeks. Stay safe everyone.

Intercounty success for Grace, Jake and Barry, meet our new S&C coach while there is information regarding future age grades at underage. All of this and more in this week’s news on the Blues

Tipperary

Congratulations to Jake, Barry and the Tipperary senior hurlers who defeated Cork in LIT Gaelic Grounds on Saturday afternoon, 2-18 to 1-17, with Jake Morris grabbing the all-important goal with minutes remaining to secure the win. Tipperary now advance to play in the All-Ireland quarter-finals. 

We also want to wish the Tipperary senior footballers the very best of luck next weekend in the Munster final against Cork. This fixture has the added significance of occurring on the 100th anniversary of Bloody Sunday when British authorities attacked Croke Park resulting in the deaths of fourteen people including Tipperary men Daniel Carroll, James Teehan and player Michael Hogan. Hopefully, they will be directing proceedings from above and helping captain Conor Sweeney bring the Munster trophy home for the first time since 1935.

Mick Burns

We all extend our best wishes to club legend and hero Mick Burns who was recently hospitalised. We can’t wait to see him back around MacDonagh Park again in the near future.

Keith Hennessy

Nenagh Éire Óg are delighted to announce that Keith Hennessy, a lecturer in Strength and Conditioning and Sports Science in L.I.T. will join Brian Horgan as our senior coach. He has previously worked with the Waterford senior hurlers and has won All-Ireland honours with Tipperary minor hurlers. We welcome a man of many talents to the club.

Nenagh Éire Óg – Helping the Community

In light of the government’s decision to move the country back to level 5, the club has re-activated our COVID-19 Community Response Team

If any member of our community requires support during these difficult times, prescriptions and groceries collected or if we can support you in any way please contact our Community Covid Officer, Bartley Ryan, on 086 735 8359 and a member of our club will be only too delighted to come to your assistance.

Similarly, if any member of our club wants to volunteer to help out please contact Bartley and your name will be added to our response team.

Community Lotto

Due to the regulations and guidelines outlined for Level 5 of the national Covid response, we at Nenagh Éire Óg are suspending our weekly lotto until December 7th at the earliest. Thank you to our loyal supporters and Lotto sellers. The health and well-being of our community is foremost in our thoughts at this time.
Ní neart go cur le chéile.
John Tooher
Chairman
Nenagh Éire Óg.

Sympathies

The club would like to extend our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of the late Bernie Morris (nee Ryan) who passed away peacefully surrounded by her loving family.

Mrs. Morris’ husband Con has been a loyal supporter of the club having played hurling and Gaelic football for Nenagh for many years before moving onto a successful coaching career with numerous underage teams. Her son Cian played for the club while her daughter Danielle has always been a great supporter while her granddaughter Keevah is a top underage camogie player.

To her husband Con, son Cian, daughter Danielle, her brother and sisters, grandchildren and brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law and wide circle of friends, we offer our sincerest condolences.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam.

Age Grades

Following a mixture of confusion and misinformation, the Officers of Choiste Chontae Thiobraid Árann would like to clarify that it is now mandatory, following Central Council Policy ruling, that from January 2021 Tipperary must operate U-13, U-15 and U-17 grades.

We have discretion above Under 17 and below Adult so Co Convention will only decide if we play U19, U20 or U21.

The following is the age-grade policy clarification we received from Croke Park this week;

Developmental Age Grades

All age grades up to and including U-17 are considered developmental
Within this range Association Policy is that counties shall operate U-13, U-15 and U-17 age grades as a minimum requirement.

Counties may, in addition, opt to play at U-12, U-14, and U-16;
Counties who wish to play these additional age-grades may do so in consultation with Central Games Development Committee

Age Grades above U-17

Counties are expected to operate at least one age grade above U-17 and below adult; that age grade(s) can be determined by the county in consultation with Central Games Development Committee
As indicated GDC are authorised to sanction U-12, U-14, U-16 and U-18 only in addition to U-13, U-15 and U-17

I hope this clears up the confusion and Divisional and County Coiste na nÓg’s can now go ahead and draw up their Fixture Programmes based on above.

The email below from the Ard Stiúrthóir confirms the age grades to be applied.

Is mise

Tadhg De Flóid
Rúnaí ChoisteChontae
Tiobráid Árann

A chara,

In response to a number of requests from Counties for direction, and following the reinforcement of eligibility for the Adult grade as 17 years of age at Congress 2019, Central Council, by way of adoption to the Talent Academy Report at its meeting on 29th June, confirms standard club age grades for child and youth players to be applied, as policy, in 2020 as follows:

Under 17 – A player shall have celebrated his 13th birthday prior to January 1st and his 17th birthday on or after January 1st of the Championship Year.

Under 15 – A player shall have celebrated his 11th birthday prior to January 1st and his 15th birthday on or after January 1st of the Championship Year.

Under 13 – A player shall have celebrated his 9th birthday prior to January 1st and his 13th birthday on or after January 1st of the Championship Year.

Note: In addition, further optional club grades are permitted at U-14, U-16, U-18, U-21, counties are required to seek approval of Central Council in these instances.

Is mise le meas,

Tomás Ó Riain

Ard Stiúrthóir

Camogie News

Intercounty

Congratulations to Grace O’Brien and her Tipperary teammates on their victory in the All-Ireland quarter-final against Waterford on Saturday. Grace scored a great point from play to contribute to a 1.12 to 0.10 win for the Premier camógs.

The draw for the @LibertyIRL All-Ireland Senior Championship Semi-Finals sees Galway v Tipperary and Kilkenny v Cork.

These ties will be played on Saturday, November 28th in Páirc Uí Chaoimh. Throw-in times for both matches will be confirmed in the coming days.

AGM postponed

As a result of the sad passing of Bernie Morris the Camogie Club Committee has decided to postpone the Club AGM until Monday the 23rd of November. A new Zoom meeting link will be organised and circulated through Facebook and WhatsApp groups.

Community Santa for Seniors

Spreading a little joy to our elderly this Christmas

 

Notice of both our adult sections’ AGMs are revealed, we have a new senior hurling coach and our juveniles continue to train. All of this and more in this week’s news on the Blues

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

We plan to hold our Annual General Meeting on Thursday, December 10th at 8pm. In line with Covid regulations and following Croke Park directives and guidelines, it will be a virtual meeting using Microsoft Teams. Further details and advice in advance of the meeting.

Nominations/Motions papers are available by contacting the Club Secretary at secretary.nenagheireog.tipperary@gaa.ie or alternatively text 086 0855165. Forms must be returned by 8pm on Thursday, November 19th. We are all advised by Croke Park that any matters that can wait, to make them wait and remain conservative – 2020 is not the year to consider contentious motions.

All reports will be made available in advance for deliberation virtually at the AGM on December 10th.

Thank you for your help and support in overcoming the challenges in organising this year’s meeting.

John Tooher
Chairman
Nenagh Éire Óg.

New Senior Hurling Manager/Coach

The club is delighted to announce that Knockavillla Kickham’s man Brian Horgan will be our senior coach/manager for 2021.

Brian comes with a wealth of experience following a very successful club and inter-county playing career. He played hurling for Tipperary at all levels won a Munster minor title in 1993 and an All-Ireland title as captain in 1995. Included on that panel were Nenagh Éire Óg players Kevin Tucker, Robbie Tomlinson and Declan O’Meara.