NENAGH ÉIRE ÓG WEEKLY NOTES

The latest edition of the club newsletter has been published, we offer our sincere congratulations to Jimmy Minogue following his election to the Munster Council and eagerly look forward to the Wellness Workshop on January 29th. Meanwhile Nenagh Éire Óg would like to wish all players, mentors, administrators and supporters of the Blues a happy Christmas and best wishes for the New Year. Let’s hope 2015 makes for a successful year on and off the field.

SENIOR

Newsletter: The final edition of the Nenagh Éire Óg club newsletter for 2014 is now available to download. As usual the newsletter makes for a terrific read and features a look back at the Blues’ 1957 north final win. Please click here to download the latest edition of the club newsletter.

Congratulations: Well done to club stalwart Jimmy Minogue who was elected as a Munster Council delegate after a vote at the Tipperary County Convention on Monday, December 15th. The former North Board chairman was elected alongside John Costigan (JK Bracken’s) to the provincial council with Barry O’Brien (Fr Sheehy’s) missing out on this occasion. Jimmy Minogue’s previous role was as County Development Officer.

Happy Christmas: The club would also like to extend its best wishes to all our members, players and supporters over the festive season. Happy Christmas to all and best wishes for the year to come!

Healthy Club Project: The Nenagh Éire Óg Healthy Club Project team, in partnership with SOS (Suicide or Survive), will host one-day Wellness Workshop which aims to help people understand, take charge of and responsibility for their own mental health – this Workshop, which will be delivered by SOS, takes place on Thursday, January 29th in the Business Innovation Centre on Stafford Street, Nenagh. The workshop is free of charge to participants. The workshop will be of benefit to anyone who is interested in mental health and wellness. Participants will be facilitated by people with both lived life experience of mental health difficulties and people with experience of working in the mental health area. Personal testimony will be combined with practical tools and tips that you can use in your everyday life to improve your own wellness. The workshop will examine our thinking process, the wellness continuum, mindfulness, personality traits, and the ‘wheel of change’. This is all done in a very interactive non-intrusive and fun way. Areas covered on the day include relaxation and stress management, understanding the relationship between thoughts and emotions, developing a wellness toolkit and daily plan. Places on the workshop are limited. Please contact Jacqui or Lisa at SOS to reserve your place – 1890 577 577.

Book: The first two volumes of the book ‘A Central Culture – Gaelic Sport in Nenagh’, which has been compiled by Dónal A Murphy, PJ Maxwell and Nancy Murphy, are now on sale for a combined price of €40 (both volumes). Copies of the book can be obtained in selected local shops or alternatively from officers of the club. ‘A Central Culture – Gaelic Sport in Nenagh’ is now on sale at the following book shops: Nenagh Book Shop, Eason’s, Cleary’s Garage and Cinnamon Alley Café. Those interested can also purchase a copy via the club website. Please contact PRO Brian McDonnell on 087 222 8976 or simply email Brian at bmcdonne@eircom.net – Nenagh Éire Óg are also prepared to post copies of the book to anywhere in the world. For more details please see the club website.

National Club Draw: We are thrilled to announce that Nenagh Éire Óg will be participating in the national club draw which features some sensational prizes – tickets are priced at €10 and available from any officer of the club or committee member. Please support this fantastic initiative! Please see the club website for more information on the fantastic range of prizes. Tickets for this wonderful initiative cost just €10! Please support the Blues!

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.

Club Presentation Night: A club social and medal presentation night will take place at the Abbey Court Hotel on Friday, February 6th – details to be confirmed.

“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

LOTTO

This week’s lotto jackpot of €1,100 was not won. The €50 lucky dip winners were: Mary Reddan, (St Joseph’s Park), Ivan Mitchell (Northville), Catherine Hall (Hamilton Drive) & Conor Delaney. Next draw on January 5th – please support the Blues and play our club lotto online.

Please support the Blues and play our club lotto online. https://www.locallotto.ie/play.asp?LL_ID=292

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

JUVENILE

Best Wishes: The juvenile club would like to wish all players, mentors, administrators and supporters of the Blues a very happy Christmas. Here’s to a successful 2015!

NENAGH HANDBALL CLUB

Congratulations: Well done to Mickey McNamara on winning two county finals this week. He took the over-35 junior B title on Sunday and added a second junior B win on Thursday following a play-off in Nenagh on Tuesday. A busy week for Mickey and we wish him congratulations.

Best Wishes: Nenagh Handball Club would also like to send get well wishes to David O’Brien of Ballinahinch who was injured in a recent match.

CAMOGIE

Bag Packing: We wish to thank all those who so generously volunteered their time to help out with the bag packing fundraiser in Dunnes Stores on Friday last. We also wish to thank the staff at Dunnes for their hospitality and all those who so kindly donated.

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.