Club News 10th April 2023

Lotto Donation

As part of the Nenagh Éire Óg Community Friendly Lotto, Josie Mackey, Club Treasurer, recently donated €500 to locals Mary Sheils and Ciara Kennedy who will be travelling as volunteers to the Special Olympics World games which take place in Berlin in June.

Mary and Ciara regularly volunteer to help out at these games and have embarked on a fundraising campaign to raise the funds required. Best of luck to the ladies in their endeavours.

Since our Community Friendly lotto started in June 2020 we have now donated over €6,000 to local charities.

Josie Mackey (Treasurer) presents €500 donation from the Nenagh Éire Óg Community Lotto to Ciara Kennedy and Mary Sheils who are volunteering for the Special Olympics World Games in Berlin in June. Also in photo is Rachel Ryan who won a gold, silver and ribbon at the games in Los Angeles in 2015.

Lotto

There was no winner of this week’s lotto jackpot. The numbers drawn were 1, 2, 19 & 28.

The 3 X €50 lucky dip winners this week are:

Philip Hennessy, Limerick Rd
William Flannery, Millview
Shane Hennessy, Limerick Rd

Congrats to our winners.

Next week’s lotto Jackpot will be €6,500 and the draw will take place on Monday 17th April.

As the lotto continues into 2023, we thank everyone for continuing to support our lotto. If you have not yet joined the lotto or if your ticket has recently expired (check recent emails from Clubforce to check status of your ticket), please consider signing up again – it is our main fundraiser and contributes enormously to the day to day running of the club.

And the lotto can now be played in the following businesses in the town:

HI-B
JKC
CENTRA
THE 44 BAR
CLEARY’S DAYBREAK
ANDYS

So look out for our new lotto boxes in these places where you can buy your lotto tickets each week and they will be included in the next lotto draw.

Co Senior Hurling League

We will play Drom and Inch in Round 3 of the Co SHL on Sunday next at 1pm in MacDonagh Park.

Membership

All membership for 2023 should have been paid by the end of March. If you have not already done so please pay this membership ASAP.

For insurance purposes all players must have their membership paid.

Please note that those who availed of our membership offers last year, your payment/membership details will now be updated on Foireann. Any queries on membership please contact Enda Long at 087 221 3954.

90^th Birthday

Congrats to our Club President, Mick Hynes, who recently celebrated his 90th birthday. Belated happy birthday Mick and here’s to you celebrating many more birthdays!

North Junior Leagues

The draws for groups in the North Junior A and B Leagues were made recently and are as follows:

Junior A League – Nenagh Éire Óg, Kilruane MacDonaghs and Toomevara

Junior B League – Nenagh Éire Óg, Borrisokane, Portroe and Kiladangan.

The Junior A League starts on 26th May while the Junior B League starts on 7th May.

The draw for the North Senior Championship takes place on this Wednesday, 12th April, in the HiB.

Defibs for Life Launch

The launch and information evening of the new community group, Defibs for life, takes place in the Abbey Court Hotel Nenagh on Thursday April 13th at 8pm. You can sign up here for AED/CPR training with The Order of Malta and The Red Cross Nenagh branches.

The group have a number of events organised to raise funds to provide more life saving defibrillators in the town of Nenagh and surrounds – details of these events on their social media pages.

You can also donate on the link below:

https://www.idonate.ie/cause/defibsforlife

Clothing Bank

Reminder that if you are doing a Spring clean over the Easter holidays, our club clothing bank, situated inside the gates of MacDonaghPark, will take bags of clothes, sheets, towels etc. Details below of what you can and cannot put into the clothing bank.

All funds raised from the bank go towards the running of McDonagh Park.

JUVENILE NOTES

Under 13 Football

North semi final matches are upon us for all three teams this week.

Wishing our three U13 Football teams & the management groups the very best of luck in their football semi finals, fixtures are as follows:

Wednesday April 12th

U13A team play Kilruane in Nenagh at 6.15pm

U13C team play Shannon Rovers in Nenagh at 7.15pm

Friday April 14th

U13D team play Roscrea in Roscrea at 6.45pm

The juvenile club would love to see all of our families including our younger members out in their Nenagh Éire Óg colours supporting the boys.

Primary Game – Tipperary V Waterford

Nenagh Éire Óg U13’s were in Semple Stadium last Sunday supporting Tipperary footballers in their first round Munster football championship game against Waterford.

They were also supporting their team mate Ronan Quinn who represented Tipperary at half time in the Cumman na mBunscoil games. The boys got to meet Commercials Seán O’Connor after the game who duly obliged with the photo below taken by Enda O’Sullivan.

Thanks to Niall for organising the trip and to coaches Brian, James and Joe.

Above – U13 group with Tipp footballer Seán O’Connor and below the Primary Game with Ronan Quinn back right.

Under 15

Well done to the boys and the management team on progressing from their group to the knockout stages of the hurling Féile on Saturday in Clonoulty.

The boys now play Arravale Rovers in the semi final next weekend – this game will take place on Sunday evening at 6pm in Clonoulty. The winner of this game will play the final at 7pm.

Upcoming football fixture is on April 13th when we play Toomevara at 6:30 in MacDonagh Park.

Easter Camp

We had a marvelous Easter camp last week with our biggest number of children attending a Nenagh Éire Óg camp yet. Thanks to Niall, Pat, Catherine, Páuric and all the coaches for their efforts in running one of our best camps yet.

Éire Ógres

Éire Ógres are back on Saturday April 22nd, please spread the word in schools, after school, creches, to neighbours, friends and family. Looking to get our biggest number of Little Ógres Stars enrolled & having loads of fun over the 4 weeks.

Nenagh Éire Óg Gaelic Games Youth Academy

The 2023 Nenagh Éire Óg Gaelic Games Youth Academy proudly sponsored by Albany Home Decor Nenagh & A Sportsmans Dream is underway and welcoming new boys to join in and give hurling and football a try. Contact club social media with any queries.

CAMOGIE NOTES

Under 6

Éire Ógres will start on 22nd April at 10am.

Under 8

Training Monday 17th April at 6pm.

Under 10

The girls had a brilliant start to their season with a blitz in Borrisoleigh Wednesday evening. We had over 30 girls participating. Well done to all girls, the majority of which spent the morning at our Easter Camp.

Under 10 girls in Borrisoleigh last Wed evening.

Under 12

Training Continues Thursdays at 6pm.

Under 14

Our first team put in a battling performance but lost out to Borrisoleigh in the U14A championship on Sunday morning. We now play Cahir in the final group game in two weeks time.
Our second team welcomed Slieve Felim 2 to McDonagh Park in the next round of the U14C championship on Tuesday evening.

Training this Thursday 6-7pm.

Under 14s who lost out to Borrisoleigh on Sunday last.

Under 15

Our u15 team took part in Féile na Gael on Bank Holiday Monday in Borrisoleigh.

Under 15 group before the Feile games on Monday and Nenagh Éire Óg captain Alannah Peters with the Borrisoleigh captain and referee Donal Leahy.

Under 16

We played a Toomevara team who were without their county players in MacDonagh Park on Tuesday evening. Toome put up a good fight, but a strong 2nd half saw us run out winners 3-08 to 0-01. Next up is an away match vs Kilruane MacDonaghs – details tbc.
Training Thursday evening 7-8pm.

Senior

We had a very competitive match against a strong Silvermines team in Dolla Friday evening. Despite all the players giving an excellent account of themselves we lost by just two points. We performed brilliantly in the second half and there is little doubt that had the game lasted 10 minutes longer the outcome could have been in our favour.

Final score was Silvermines 2-07, Nenagh Éire Óg 1-08

Our next match will be at home in MacDonagh park against Borrisoleigh with details to be confirmed during the week ahead.

Tipperary

A number of our girls represented Tipperary in different age groups over the weekend:

Lauren Grace, Carly Walsh, Saoirse Ryan, Grace Cleary (C) made their debut at U14

Rhiannon Jones played with the U15 team

Clodagh Spain and Niamh Boland togged out for Tipperary in the U16B Semi-final Saturday against Limerick.

Laura Nagle togged out against Limerick in the U17 development league.

Rachel Maher was with the Tipp Juniors against Galway in the Very Division 2B league

Well done to all – we are very proud to have you all representing Nenagh Éire Óg and the County

Easter Camp

We had a very successful Easter Camp with 180 children in attendance.
Huge thanks to Niall Cahill for organising the event so well. Special mention must go to our supervisors Pat McCormack & Catherine McTiernan for facilitating the camp, but most of all the Camp Assistants and young Éire Óg players that ensured the camp was fun and friendly for all the kids.