Congratulations Ella

All of us here in the club would like to extend the biggest and warmest congratulations to our wonderful club PRO, Ella Carey, on winning an IMRO Award for Best General Music Programme on iRadio this week. Along with her brilliant co-hosts Shane and Michéal, the trio saw off some seriously stiff competition from Ray Foley of Today FM and Dave Moore, also of Today FM.

We here in Nenagh Éire Óg have always known just how special Ella is. We’ve seen first-hand the passion, talent, energy and commitment she brings to everything she does, from camogie to PROing and we couldn’t be happier to see her receive this fantastic recognition.

Ella has done everyone here in Nenagh Éire Óg and our wider community incredibly proud. We always knew we had the greatest PRO in the land — now the whole country knows it too!

A huge congratulations once again, Ella from everyone in the club.

For a full report of the night, please scroll down this page. 

Nenagh Éire Óg – Juvenile Club Update

Under-8 Boys

The boys hosted a huge football blitz on Friday evening, welcoming visiting teams from Portroe, Toomevara, Ballina and Kiladangan. It was a brilliant evening of Gaelic football, with great skills, teamwork and plenty of excitement on display.

The lads now look forward to their final blitz of the season next weekend, which promises to be a great finish for a hardworking group.

Under-10 Boys

Our Under-10s travelled to Toomevara on Sunday morning for a blitz against Silvermines, Toomevara and JK Brackens. The boys performed superbly, showing excellent hurling, strong determination and great improvement across all of their games.

Under-12 Boys

The Under-12A panel were in action on Tuesday evening in the Plate Final against Silvermines. The Nenagh boys played extremely well and battled right to the end but narrowly missed out on the win.

A massive well done to all the players on a fantastic season. Huge strides have been made, great effort has been shown and real progress has been achieved throughout the year.

Sincere thanks to Greg and his coaching team for their dedication and commitment, and to all the parents for their support and cooperation throughout the year.

Under-14 Boys

The Under-14A panel played Silvermines in the Plate semi-final on Sunday morning. It was a fiercely competitive local derby, with Nenagh finishing three points ahead to book their place in the Plate Final.

A super win. Well done to the boys and coaches, and best of luck in the final.

The Under-14C team concluded their season with a win over JK Brackens on Thursday evening. Great strides have been made by this group throughout the season.

Thanks to the coaches for their guidance and mentoring of the boys all season, and to the parents for their continued support. Well done to all involved.

Under-16 Boys

The Under-16s continue their preparations for the upcoming Under-16 Football Championship.

Any players interested in joining the group can contact Niall on 087 408 6439.

Camogie News

Under-10 Girls

Our Under-10 girls played their final blitz of the year on Saturday morning against Drom & Inch in The Ragg, Thurles. The girls played some great games and finished off the morning with a well-deserved pizza back in Éire Óg.

A huge thank you to everyone who committed to training and games throughout the season. Your support and dedication are greatly appreciated.

We look forward to welcoming everyone back in 2027.

Under-12 Girls

Our Under-11 Blue team travelled to Dolla on Wednesday evening to play Silvermines. The girls played extremely well and put in a fantastic performance.

They will travel to Newport next Saturday, 10 October, for what will probably be their final blitz of the year. The Under-11 and Under-12 midweek training sessions also concluded on Wednesday.

We are taking a break from training for about a week before returning to 4pm Saturday sessions, with the focus on skills and fun.

Club Lotto

There was no winner of this weeks lotto jackpot. The three €50 lucky dip winners are:

Eoin Fitzgibbon, online.

David Hogan, online.

Auven Lillis, Kilruane

Next weeks jackpot is €3,300 and you can play it here. 

Nenagh Run Club

Nenagh Run Club continues training every Wednesday evening at 7pm and Sunday morning at 10am in MacDonagh Park. This is an ideal running group for those interested in taking up jogging or for those looking to improve their running in a fun and social setting.

For more information, search for Nenagh Run Club on Instagram or join their WhatsApp Group by clicking here.

ELLA CAREY: AWARD WINNER, JOURNALIST, SOURCE AND SUBJECT

The announcer had barely finished revealing the names Micheál, Shane and Ella as winners of the IMRO General Music Programme Award 2026 when Ella Carey rushed the stage like a tornado, scattering her fellow winners to the side like a bowling ball through skittles, grabbed the microphone, declaring that she “totally deserved the award”, without even briefly hinting that she had to share it with her two colleagues.

In the confusion that followed, Ella, a lady who gives herself a massive welcome where ever she goes, launched into an emotional acceptance speech thanking herself for her years of inspiration, dedication and outstanding contribution to the music industry.

After twenty minutes hogging the limelight on stage, Ella then proceeded to the waiting paparazzi and dazzled them for twenty-five minutes, striking various poses with the trophy draped in one hand while the other caressed a large glass of Savvy B, before presenting herself in front of journalists, asking herself various questions and delivering the answers in front of the bemused hacks.

When asked by herself how it felt to win the prestigious award, Ella became visibly emotional before thanking herself for “always believing in Ella, even during the difficult times”. She declared that she was “absolutely thrilled” and that she had always known Ella had what it takes to reach the very top, before once again emotionally thanking herself for all that she has done.

The achievement will come as little surprise to followers of Nenagh Éire Óg, where Ella has already declared herself the greatest PRO in the history of the club, according to a source very close to Ella. Another source says she is now considering whether the IMRO award should be renamed in her honour, much as the Nenagh Éire Óg PRO role has effectively become the Ella Carey Media Empire.

“Fame will not go to my head,” Ella declared, before announcing that she will now only consider inter-county hurlers for dates and that senior club players need only swipe left. Her Tinder profile was immediately updated with photographs of herself alone with the trophy and a new byline: “The Liam McCarthy will look stunning beside that.”

Eleven Goals Tell Only Half the Story as Non-Bibs Prevail

There are evenings when hurling is played for points, evenings when it is played for glory and then there are evenings when four men take to an Astro pitch with hurleys in hand and discover that, for reasons known only to themselves, missing an open goal is almost as important as scoring one. Last Wednesday evening was very much in the latter category as Jamie Kennedy and Ger Ryan, resplendent in bibs, took on the youthful enthusiasm of Conor O’Donovan and the accumulated wisdom of Martin Gleeson in a lively 2 v 2 Social ‘ground’ Hurling encounter.

There was no messing about beforehand. A ten-minute warm-up of end-to-end alternate ball striking ensured that the limbs were loosened, the reflexes sharpened and nobody could later claim that the absence of a warm-up was responsible for any of the more spectacular misses that were to follow.

Then came the serious business. Three periods of ten minutes each, ground hurling, goals at either end and enough goal chances to have filled a much larger scoreboard. The bibs made the brighter start, Ger Ryan converting an early penalty with the sort of satisfaction normally reserved for a last-minute All-Ireland winner. Conor, between the sticks, could only watch as the ball disappeared beyond him.

But Martin Gleeson was not there merely to admire Ger’s finishing. He soon began to impose himself on proceedings and, when the first ten minutes came to an end, the non-bibs had established a 3-2 lead. Martin had found the net twice, Conor once and Jamie had replied with two of the bibs’ scores. It was already becoming apparent that the contest would be decided not so much by who could score as by who could refrain from missing.

The second ten minutes belonged decisively to the non-bibs. Martin continued his personal disagreement with the laws of probability by adding three more goals, while Conor contributed another two. Jamie, refusing to allow the scoreboard to become entirely one-sided, supplied the sole response from the bibs. At the interval the non-bibs had stretched their advantage to five and the bibs were beginning to look like men who had left their best ammunition in the warm-up.

Yet there was no question of surrender. The final ten minutes produced six goals, three apiece, as both teams finally discovered the strange and wonderful art of putting the ball into the net with something approaching regularity. When the final whistle eventually sounded, the scoreboard read 11-6 to the non-bibs, a scoreline which suggested superiority but perhaps did not fully convey the number of opportunities that had gone begging along the way.

Martin Gleeson emerged as top scorer on the night with a handsome six-goal haul. He was also involved in a spirited contest with Jamie for the less prestigious award of most goal chances missed. There are no official statistics for this category, thankfully, but both men would have had a reasonable claim to the trophy.

For the bibs, Jamie Kennedy and Ger Ryan finished as joint top scorers with three goals apiece. Ger will probably remember his early penalty with particular affection, although Jamie may prefer to remember the three occasions when he found the net rather than the numerous occasions when the ball apparently developed a mind of its own in front of goal.

The Goal of the Game gong, however, goes to Conor O’Donovan for a penalty of considerable precision. He placed the ball beautifully into the top right-hand corner of the net, giving Jamie in goals absolutely no chance. It was the kind of finish that briefly suggested that somewhere beneath the social hurling exterior there might be a serious hurler struggling to get out.

In the end, the result mattered less than the workout, the craic and the competitive spirit that makes these Social Hurling evenings such good value. Eleven goals for the non-bibs, six for the bibs and enough missed chances between them to keep the statisticians busy for several weeks.

Well done to Jamie, Ger, Conor and Martin on an excellent workout. The hurleys can be dusted down once again as Social Hurling returns next Wednesday evening at 8.15pm, when there will presumably be more goals, more misses and, with any luck, somebody prepared to take responsibility for counting them.