Nenagh Éire Óg Weekly Notes

Everyone associated with the club is looking forward to Sunday, December 7th when GAA President Liam O’Neill will launch the first two volumes of the book ‘A Central Culture – Gaelic Sport in Nenagh’ at the MacDonagh Park complex. All are welcome to attend!

The Nenagh Éire Óg lads pictured battling with Kildanga during Sunday’s under-21A final.

SENIOR

Under-21A: Kildangan won a first-ever north Tipperary under-21A title in Dolla on Sunday afternoon at the expense of Nenagh Éire Óg (0-8 to 0-9). Although Éire Óg were defeated on this occasion the club would like to thank the panel of players for the manner in which they represented themselves, their families and the club. Nenagh Éire Óg would like to extend its thanks to the under-21 management team of Ger Tucker (manager), Eddie Tucker, Greg Browne & Donie O’Brien for all of their efforts. Éire Óg would also like to wish Kildangan all the very best in their up-coming county semi-final against west champions Clonoulty-Rossmore. For a full report on this final please see the club website.

Book Launch: GAA President Liam O’Neill will launch the first two volumes of the book ‘A Central Culture – Gaelic Sport in Nenagh’ at the MacDonagh Park complex on Sunday, December 7th at 4pm. This terrific piece of work has been compiled by Donal A Murphy, PJ Maxwell and Nancy Murphy. For more information on this exciting project please see the club website. All welcome.

AGM: The Nenagh Éire Óg annual general meeting will take place on Thursday, December 11th at the MacDonagh Park complex.

Membership: Membership for 2015 is priced at €25 – family membership option A is priced at €60 while option B is priced at €85. Please click here to pay your club membership online.

Shop Local: Nenagh Éire Óg is asking its members and supporters to shop local this Christmas. The businesses of Nenagh will be open seven days a week from Sunday, November 30th right through to Christmas Eve.

Fixtures: Please keep a close eye on the club website and on the club’s various social media channels for all the latest updates on fixtures and results.

“Richie Flannery, in the 2006 county final programme, was asked what did the club mean to him and he just said ‘everything’. It was one word and it says a lot. That says a lot in many ways. The club means everything as such. This club means everything to me. I fell on my feet when I joined Éire Óg. I just fell on my feet.” – Conor O’Donovan

The cover of volume one of ‘A Central Culture – Gaelic Sport in Nenagh’.

LOTTO

Last week’s lotto jackpot was not won. €50 lucky dip winners: Siobhán Slevin (Bantis), Connie O’Meara (Limerick Road), Philip Kennedy (Limerick), Mary Coffey (Norwood) & Ciarán Morris (c/o the HiB). Next draw on Monday, December 1st – jackpot €2,600. Please support the Blues and play our club lotto online.

The Nenagh Éire Óg Club Lotto represents the club’s key fundraising initiative.

Please consider supporting the Blues by playing our club lotto online: click here!

Just watch how far we can stretch your €2!

Alternatively you can also support Nenagh Éire Óg by paying your club membership. Membership for 2014 is now due and can be paid to any club officer or online. The cost of membership is priced at €25.

VOLUNTEER APPEAL

In 2014 Nenagh Éire Óg catered for over 400 active members (170 juvenile, 225 adult) and in 2015 we hope to grow that number. Crucially, however, we are not simply interested in developing our playing population. We are also interested in attracting volunteers who are interested in becoming coaches with the club and administrators of the club.

Here at Éire Óg we appreciate that not everyone can train a team, that not everyone is interested in coaching and that not everyone has time to attend committee meetings. That said there are plenty of very practical ways in which you can help your club work hard for the betterment of the local community, our children and our cultural heritage.

We therefore encourage anyone in the community who supports the club and who is prepared to give of their time on a voluntary basis to get involved so that fresh faces can bring fresh ideas forward. If you take that brave first step over the threshold, we guarantee that you will not regret it. So, if you are interested in lending a hand drop us a line – contact us.

“We all identify with our own place. My place is Nenagh and I respect every man who is from every parish in Ireland who is identifying with his home. That’s the breeding since the world was made. I see the club as nothing only a way of giving our locality an airing on the public stage. It gives the youth of our town an opportunity to play our games. That’s what I see our club as” – Jimmy Minogue

NENAGH HANDBALL CLUB

Hard luck to Michael McNamara who put in a great performance, but lost out in his junior B county final last weekend. Well done and best of luck to Eoin Meagher who has reached the Under-21 Singles county final.

Nenagh have representatives in both county junior B semi-finals this week. Shane Spillane and Eoin Meagher will take on Ballyporeen in the Horse and Jockey while Mickey McNamara and Brian Darcy will face Newport in Kilcolman. Both matches take place on Tuesday at 7.30pm.

The under-13 plate winners and their management team pictured with club captain Noel Maloney.

JUVENILE

Under-13: Our under-13 North Tipperary Plate winners were presented with their medals on Saturday by senior team captain Noel Maloney. Thanks to Noel, the parents and family members, team mentors and all who made it a great night for the lads. A special mention to club sponsor Joe Mulqueen and Andy’s for the fabulous food!

Shop Local: Nenagh Éire Óg asks it’s members and supporters to shop local this Christmas. The businesses of Nenagh will be open seven days a week from Sunday, November 30th right through to Christmas Eve.

CAMOGIE

Minor: Hard luck to our minor team who were defeated by Cahir in the county semi-final on Saturday last in Borrisoleigh by 3-16 to 0-8. The scoreline does not do our girls justice as they battled to the bitter end with Cahir only managing to pull away in the final fifteen minutes. While we are naturally disappointed with the result we are extremely proud of this bunch of players as they have become the first panel to represent us in the A grade at minor level. This is the first year that all our underage teams have competed in the A grade and reflects another important milestone in our history. It has been a long year for this bunch of players as they all played junior A and/or under-16 for the club and have been training since last February. We want to thank their mentors for their dedication and diligent work as well as the players themselves who worked extremely hard and yet always arrived to training with a smile on their faces. This match concluded our year’s activities on the field of play and thank you to everyone associated with our camogie club for everything throughout 2014.

New Kitchen: We are delighted to announce that the Camogie section has paid for and installed a new kitchen in the clubhouse. We particularly want to thank Denise Morris and Marie O’Brien for cleaning, preparing and painting the kitchen and to Paul Henry for all his expertise in this area. We hope that this upgraded facility will be used and enjoyed regularly by all our members for many years to come.

Volunteers: As we are making our preparations for 2015 we invite anyone who may be interested in getting involved in our club to make contact with us via our email address eireognenagh@gmail.com. If you are interested in coaching, managing or preparing a team in any way you are more than welcome to get involved. We also understand that not everyone is interested in coaching a team and as such if you would like to get involved in the administrative side of the club we would more than appreciate your help. Also we are looking for people to get involved in our monthly club newsletter. If you would like to write articles, take photographs or help out in any other way please do not hesitate to make contact with us.

History Book: The club is delighted to announce that GAA President Liam O’Neill will launch the first two volumes of the book ‘A Central Culture – Gaelic Sport in Nenagh’ at the MacDonagh Park complex on Sunday next, December 7th at 4pm. This terrific piece of work has been compiled by Donal A Murphy, PJ Maxwell and Nancy Murphy and features a comprehensive analysis of Gaelic games in our parish since the 19th century. All members, players and supporters are invited to attend this momentous day in our clubs history.

The cover of volume two of ‘A Central Culture – Gaelic Sport in Nenagh’.

CLUB NEWSLETTER

The Nenagh Éire Óg website has now been developed to host each and every edition of the monthly newsletter – please see here for more.

If you have any photographs, news or other information that you would like to see included please email eireognenagh@gmail.com

Thanks again to the club communications sub-committee and in particular to Catherine McTiernan and Enda O’Sullivan for pulling all this information together.

“There is very little in Irish life which is better value for money than membership of a GAA club” – Tipperary senior hurling manager Eamon O’Shea

CONTACT

If you need to contact Éire Óg please do so via our Contact page. You can also keep in touch by accessing our Facebook page or by following @nenagheireog on Twitter.