Details of our new community based club lotto are announced, two fantastic videos highlighting our under-10s plus another blast from the past. All this and more in this week’s news on the Blues
Volunteers
Our club volunteers once again went above and beyond the call of duty this week to help the vulnerable in our community. We expressly wish to thank co-ordinators Bartley and Marion Ryan for all their work and our army of volunteers who have been shopping for groceries and collecting medicines for those who can’t venture out.
Our volunteers will continue to provide these services for as long as is required and if you need any assistance please contact club coordinator Bartley Ryan on 086 735 8359.
Club Lotto
Nenagh Éire Óg Launches Brand New Community Friendly Lotto
The club are delighted to announce that we are launching our new Community Friendly Lotto in June 2020.
We hope you and your families remain safe and well during these times and we want to thank you for your generous support for the old Éire Óg lotto over the years. Before COVID-19 the jackpot for our lotto was at €2,100 and in order to close down the old model we are donating €1,000 between two very well deserving community charities. We will be announcing our designated Community Charities on next weeks show.
We must adjust and adapt to this new socially distant world that we find ourselves in, with this in mind we are designing a new lotto based mainly around online subscriptions with the hope to meet all our traditional supporters once social restrictions are no longer a part of our lives.
The new Friendly Lotto will operate as follows:
1. Starting jackpot €2,100 and will increase each week it is not won by €100
2. Four numbers will now be drawn each week from numbers 1-32.
3. Draw takes place every Monday night.
4. The week that the Jackpot is not won, €200 is placed into a separate draw fund.
5. Any week the jackpot is won, €200 is not added to the separate draw fund.
6. Ten tickets will be drawn weekly for 10 weeks to enter this separate draw. The prize fund at the end of this 10 weeks will be €2,000
7. A prize fund of €1,500 will be distributed as follows: €500 for 3 lucky winners with the additional €500 to one of our designated local charities.
8. A player may be drawn more than once in a 10 week period to qualify for the €500 draws.
9. The cost of each lotto ticket remains at €2 for one ticket and €5 for three tickets. Online Terms:
o 52 weeks (50 + 2 free)
o 25 weeks
o 10 weeks
o 3 lines in a week for €5
o Minimum play is for €10 – Play for as little as €2 per week (One line for 5 weeks)
Clubforce weblink details on how to apply online will be announce on next weeks show.
The lotto funding is our core day to day financial income for the club and your support is vital if we are to achieve all our goals and ambitions in supporting our local community with our brand of Social Sporting Activities.
We hope you can partake in the fun and while you will be supporting our Senior, Juvenile, Camogie and Handball clubs you will also be contributing to the local charities who are our every day Heroes.
CHARITIES : Local charities are invited to apply by texting our Lotto Co-ordinator on 0858037407.
Club WhatsApp
Our club text system is out of operation at this time. A new members’ WhatsApp group is currently being set up and members will be added by Monday. It will be a ‘no-reply’ service and members will receive club notes, Lotto results and match fixtures when we’re back in action. All new online Lotto players will be added also once it begins.
Juvenile & Camogie News
Coaches from each group will develop a training plan to take our Future Stars through to return of games. Some groups have received their training plans already with remaining groups to receive their plans shortly.
This week the under ten boys and girls provided us with wonderful entertainment through the production of their skills videos. The boys and girls submitted clips of themselves practicing their hurling and football skills over the previous week to their coaches. The coaches did a brilliant job of compiling the clips and adding the infamous Sunday game anthem to the compilation. The finished article was released and proved to be a truly wonderful success, it was thoroughly enjoyed by all. Sincere thanks must go to Niall Cahill for organising the boys and girls videos clips and to Kieran Mularkey for his production of the finished videos. Dreams begin in the back garden, dream big boys and girls.
Additionally, under ten boys were challenged to a football competition this week. The challenge is for the boys to do as many accurate kick passes as they can in thirty seconds to a partner. Each accurate kick and catch earns a point. The partner can return the ball with either a throw or a kick pass. Where a kick pass is used by the partner an extra point is earned. In order to keep the competition even across the group, older boys will start their scores from minus four. To enter the competition boys must submit their thirty second video clip of their kick pass entry to their WhatsApp group. Prizes will be given for best scores and everyone who submits an entry goes into a draw for a separate prize.
Under eight boys are planning to mix it up for the next few weeks by receiving two skills/drills to practice for that coming week. This is a chance for the boys to practice their skills rather than a competition. We anticipate that these skills/drills will give the boys the opportunity to have their hurls in hand as much as possible by playing and practicing the skills for that week. We are very lucky to have the input of our senior players, captain and vice captain Daire Quinn and Tommy Heffernan demonstrating the skills/drills over the next few weeks. Thank you kindly to both senior players for their time and effort in supporting our under eight stars on this initiative. This week Tommy was the star of the show by taking the boys, via video, through the first two drills, thanks Tommy.If any parent or guardian has a questions please drop a note to any one of the coaches.
Videos of senior Tipperary camogie player Grace O’Brien are available on the club social media sites for players to enjoy and incorporate into their routines to assist all juvenile members maintain and develop their skills by completing their own mini training sessions at home until we get back to training and games in the future.
Thank you to all the parents who encourage and support practicing our games at home each day, this is central to the children maintaining and developing skill levels and ultimately the enjoyment of our games. It is so important that the children do some practice at home to help them enjoy group training and blitzes when they eventually return. In addition, it would be fabulous to see the home coaching translate into an increased number of coaches within the club in the future.
We all know you miss the action in the club grounds but we must all remain aware that all club facilities and fields are still closed to everyone. This applies even whether you are maintaining social distancing or not, the grounds are closed to everyone, there are no exceptions. We look forward very much to getting back to action but for now we must remain mindful that you may not enter the club grounds under any circumstances. Please keep up the good work in this regard.
Stay practicing, encourage each other, stay safe, observe the guidelines and mind each other.
Greg Browne Skills Session Two
Greg and Caroline Browne take us through their second skills video above. We will be posting a new skills video from them next week.
Michael Hogan Commemoration Walk
Grangemockler/Ballyneale GAA club in South Tipperary, the home of Tipperary footballer and Bloody Sunday victim Michael Hogan, are organising a Michael Hogan Commemoration Walk on Sunday, 31 May, at 11am in aid of Pieta House and have invited all clubs in the county to take part. Please see their message in the next paragraph.
“We ask you to join us the 31st of May at 11am for our Michael Hogan Commemoration Walk. We will walk/jog/run to remember our Bloody Sunday victims and also support Pieta House. Wear you club or county colours and show your support for a great cause. Take a photo of you/your family taking part & tag #MichaelHoganWalk #Walk4Pieta on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook or Join our club ‘Michael Hogan Walk for Pieta’ on Strava app where you can record you journey & photo.” If anyone has any questions around the event you can contact 086-2560827.
The link to donate will be available on all of their club social media platforms with all proceeds going to Pieta House.
Blast from the Past
Here is another video from the past for you to enjoy. It is the 2013 league clash against Lorrha and Dorrha played in MacDonagh Park on 18 March, 2013 which Nenagh won on a 4-17 to 2-14 scoreline.
MacDonagh Park
Rarely has MacDonagh Park looked so well and not one single ball is being hit in anger. Even the goalmouths are coated in a lovely covering of grass, a sight not seen in many a GAA field for decades. The club wishes to thank Jim Kennedy, Shane Connolly, Cian Connolly, Mel Gleeson and John Tooher for kindly volunteering their time to cut the grass and maintain the grounds during these strange times.
Following recent Garda advice in line with the latest GAA statement and guidelines, we wish to remind our players, members and general public that our fields and facilities remain closed with no exceptions. We ask all to please respect the GAA and HSE protocols and keep all members of our community safe from Covid-19.
Tipperary GAA County Board Draw
The Tipperary GAA Clubs Draw which was due to begin this month has been rescheduled to Friday September 18th. We are confident there will be a full resumption of games activity well in advance of this date to allow clubs promote the draw. Lár na Pairce office personnel have already prepared the New Draw material and this is ready for collection for any individual clubs who wish to make an immediate start. The final receipts for the 2019/20 Draw will not be posted out until August 1st which is just about six weeks before the first draw. Enclosed with the receipt will be details of an easy system for paying the new draw subscription on-line if preferred and thus avoiding promoters calling to members houses during the current pandemic.
Our volunteers continue to help the vulnerable while we have the latest juvenile and camogie news. All this and more in this week’s news on the Blues
Club Volunteers
Our club volunteers once again went above and beyond the call of duty this week to help the vulnerable in our community. We expressly wish to thank co-ordinators Bartley and Marion Ryan for all their work and our army of volunteers who have been shopping for groceries and collecting medicines for those who can’t venture out.
Our volunteers will continue to provide these services for as long as is required and if you need any assistance please contact club coordinator Bartley Ryan on 086 735 8359.
Tipperary GAA County Board Draw
The Tipperary GAA Clubs Draw which was due to begin this month has been rescheduled to Friday September 18th. We are confident there will be a full resumption of games activity well in advance of this date to allow clubs promote the draw. Lár na Pairce office personnel have already prepared the New Draw material and this is ready for collection for any individual clubs who wish to make an immediate start. The final receipts for the 2019/20 Draw will not be posted out until August 1st which is just about six weeks before the first draw. Enclosed with the receipt will be details of an easy system for paying the new draw subscription on-line if preferred and thus avoiding promoters calling to members houses during the current pandemic.
Greg Browne Skills Sessions
Coach Greg Browne has been sending videos to his players to help them keep their skills sharp and we are, thanks to Greg’s generosity, making one available every week for all our players to use. In this session Greg is ably assisted by his daughter Caroline and we hope as many of you as possible make use of it.
Juvenile and Camogie News
Coaches from each group will develop a training plan to take our Future Stars through to return of games. These plans will be communicated to the various groups with some groups being out in front having received their training plans already.
Under ten girls and boys are continuing with their ‘Two Hundred Touch’ challenge this week. The aim of this challenge is to help the children maintain and develop their skills over these two weeks. To guide the children, Challenge Cards outlining the specific skills to be practiced in camogie, hurling and football were forwarded to the under ten groups and we would encourage parents to guide and support the children in practicing these skills each day where possible.
In addition this week the under-10 children are making a skills video demonstrating some of the skills they practiced over the fifty day skills challenges. The children will pick any of the strength & conditioning, hurling, football or family fun games which we did during the daily challenges recently and make a video of themselves practicing the chosen challenge then send the video into the group text where the video will be uploaded to the clubs social media platforms for us all to enjoy.
Under-16 management will be sending out to the group details of hurling drills to be completed at home over the next few weeks. The drills will consist of six individual drills for five minutes each making up a daily thirty minute session for the children.
Thank you to all the parents who encourage and support practicing our games at home each day, this is central to the children maintaining and developing skill levels and ultimately the enjoyment of our games. It would be fabulous to see this translate into an increased number of coaches within the club in the future.
We all know you miss the action in the club grounds but we must all remain aware that all club facilities and fields are still closed to everyone. This applies even whether you are maintaining social distancing or not, the grounds are closed to everyone, there are no exceptions. We look forward very much to getting back to action but for now we must remain mindful that you may not enter the club grounds under any circumstances. Please keep up the good work in this regard.
Stay practicing, encourage each other, stay safe, observe the guidelines and mind each other.
Congratulations to former player Catríona O’Connor who was recently selected at full forward on the Liverpool Wolfe Tones’ team of the decade, 2010-2020. Catríona played camogie with us for many years before relocating in Liverpool. Well done Catríona.
Celebrating & Supporting our Officers – A Wellbeing Webinar
Colin Regan, GAA Community & Health Manager, Alan Kerins, former Galway star, Social Entrepreneur & Executive Coach & Tom Parsons, Mayo star and Chartered Engineer with Jacobs Engineering present a live discussion aimed at Club & County Officers personal wellbeing during Covid-19.
MacDonagh Park
Rarely has MacDonagh Park looked so well and not one single ball is being hit in anger. Even the goalmouths are coated in a lovely covering of grass, a sight not seen in many a GAA field for decades. The club wishes to thank Jim Kennedy, Shane Connolly, Cian Connolly, Mel Gleeson and John Tooher for kindly volunteering their time to cut the grass and maintain the grounds during these strange times.
Following recent Garda advice in line with the latest GAA statement and guidelines, we wish to remind our players, members and general public that our fields and facilities remain closed with no exceptions. We ask all to please respect the GAA and HSE protocols and keep all members of our community safe from Covid-19.
Paul Henry finally announces his arrival in Newtown
Michael Hogan Commemoration Walk
Grangemockler/Ballyneale GAA club in South Tipperary, the home of Tipperary footballer and Bloody Sunday victim Michael Hogan, are organising a Michael Hogan Commemoration Walk on Sunday, 31 May, at 11am in aid of Pieta House and have invited all clubs in the county to take part. Please see their message in the next paragraph.
“We ask you to join us the 31st of May at 11am for our Michael Hogan Commemoration Walk. We will walk/jog/run to remember our Bloody Sunday victims and also support Pieta House. Wear you club or county colours and show your support for a great cause. Take a photo of you/your family taking part & tag #MichaelHoganWalk #Walk4Pieta on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook or Join our club ‘Michael Hogan Walk for Pieta’ on Strava app where you can record you journey & photo.” If anyone has any questions around the event you can contact 086-2560827.
The link to donate will be available on all of their club social media platforms with all proceeds going to Pieta House.
Blast from the Past
Here is another video from deep in the vaults, the 2013 under-16 championship clash with neighbours Kiladangan which Nenagh won on a 2-15 to 0-11 scoreline. We hope you are enjoying these videos and there are loads more to enjoy on our YouTube channel, simply search for “Nenagh Eire Og” on YouTube.
Club Lotto
During the current Covid-19 crises our club lotto has been suspended however, you can still play online by clicking here.
Our volunteers help over 75 vulnerable people in the parish, beautiful wild flowers take over MacDonagh Park while the under-12 camógs enjoy a puck around. All this and more in this week’s news on the Blues
Club Volunteers go above and beyond the call of duty once again
Once again our team of volunteers have gone above and beyond the call of duty this week with over 75 deliveries of food, groceries and medical supplies being made to the most vulnerable in our parish. Some grateful people have even been receiving the Catholic church’s parish newsletter from our volunteers.
Their selfless acts have ensured that vulnerable people have been able to cocoon safely over the last number of weeks as Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc on across the globe.It is during times of crises that we really see the benefit of a tight and caring community and the people of Nenagh and indeed our club, have been more than willing to put the shoulder to the wheel to help those in need.
Our volunteers will continue to provide these services for as long as is required and if you need any assistance please contact club coordinator Bartley Ryan on 086 735 8359.
Juvenile and Camogie News
Éire Óg Juvenile club and Camogie club took break from daily challenges this week after the fifty days of challenges completed since lock down commenced. Coaches from each group will develop a training plan to take our Future Stars through to return of games. These plans will be communicated shortly to the various groups.
Under-ten girls and boys have received a ‘Two Hundred Touch’ challenge to help them maintain and develop their skills over the next two weeks. Challenge cards outlining the specific skills of camogie, hurling and football have been forwarded to the under ten groups and we would encourage parents to support the children in practicing these skills each day where possible. Additionally, this coming week the children will be asked to design a skills video demonstrating some of the skills they practiced over the fifty day skills challenges. The children can pick any of the strength & conditioning, hurling, football or family fun games which we did during the daily challenges recently and make a video of themselves practicing the chosen challenge then send the video into the group text where the video will be uploaded to the clubs social media platforms.
Our juvenile players continue to go to great efforts to display their appreciation of the work being done by the front line workers. This week we saw beautiful art work from Naoise and Bronagh Kelly who paid special thanks to their hard working aunt. Keep sending in your pictures and videos, we love to see them all and no doubt these messages are providing much positivity to the hardworking front line workers.
Some of Nenagh Éire Óg’s Camogie under-12s entertained us all with a video of their virtual puck around. It was a fabulous idea and we all loved seeing everyone out with their hurleys. Thanks to Caitriona Fahy for the video which can be enjoyed on the clubs social media sites and below.
Thank you to all the parents who encourage and support practicing our games at home each day, this is central to the children maintaining and developing skill levels and ultimately the enjoyment of our games. It would be fabulous to see this translate into an increased number of coaches within the club in the future.
We all know you miss the action in the club grounds but we must all remain aware that all club facilities and fields are still closed to everyone. This applies whether you are maintaining social distancing or not, the grounds are closed to everyone, there are no exceptions. We look forward very much to getting back to action but for now we must remain mindful that you may not enter the club grounds under any circumstances. Please keep up the good work in this regard.
Stay practicing, encourage each other, stay safe, observe the guidelines and mind each other.
MacDonagh Park
Following recent Garda advice in line with the latest GAA statement and guidelines, our fields and facilities remain closed with no exceptions. All are asked to respect GAA and HSE protocols. John Tooher, Senior Chairman.
Statement from Tipperary County Board
Following the announcement of the Governments Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business last weekend, plus Croke Parks statement welcoming the proposals, Tipperary Co. Board have issued the following update to their members and clubs on a few areas arising from the continuing Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.
Club Games/Training & Pitches
Following on from Croke Parks statement we are instructing our clubs to continue to refrain from organising on-field activity so therefore our GAA facilities must remain closed until July 20th as part of efforts to prevent gatherings which breach the restrictions.
The GAA will issue detailed advice before any return to play, outlining the steps we have to take to facilitate the re-commencement of our training and games, both in terms of physical engagement and around the use of our facilities.
Tipperary Co Board is confident that we will still be able to play club competitions this year, subject of course to public health guidance. There will be a phased resumption of training at club level to allow players to prepare appropriately for playing games.We can confirm however that no inter-county games are expected to take place before October.
The protection of all the people who play and attend our games is of paramount importance and must come before any on-field activities. Getting our championships and leagues finalised in their present format will probably be impossible so over the coming weeks the County Management Committee and Co CCC will draw up possible scenarios based on the potential time frames available. Naturally these will only be recommendations and will have to be approved by Co Committee before seeking a derogation from Croke Park to change our championship structures agreed at the 2019 Co Committee meeting.
Old Betsey has cut her final blade of grass as exciting new lotto is in the pipeline
In recent days we have received the news that Old Betsy, our mower of many years, has cut her last blade of grass and is on her way to the GAA fields in the sky.
That has meant that the club have to seek a New Betsy to carry on maintaining our playing fields in pristine condition which is going to place a huge financial strain on the club. A suitable new mower is going to require a five-figure sum and with that in mind we have an exciting new club lotto in the pipeline.
Using Zoom, our club executive has met in recent days to formulate a plan going forward for this new style lotto, details of which will be revealed in the coming weeks.
In the meantime club chairman, John Tooher along with Jim Kennedy have been cutting the grass using the mower pictured above which does the job required however, it is impractical in the long term. If you would like to volunteer to cut the grass please contact John and he will be delighted to hear from you.
Team Tipperary
Team Tipperary, a combination of the Tipperary senior hurlers, camógs and LGFA sides as well as the County Board produced a video this week to encourage the people of our county to keep their spirits up and to continue to follow all the advice in relation to Covid 19. It features Seamus Callanan, Conor Sweeney and Aisling McCarthy among other superstars of Tipperary GAA.
You can watch the video here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeZ2Ih6-CCM&t=3s
Jake Morris chats to Jonathan Delaney
In a revealing interview Jake Morris chats to Jonathan Delaney and gives an insight into his mentality and how he ignored tonsillitis and glandular fever to score a cracker against Crumlin in the FAI under-17 cup semi-final. He also reflects on his hurling career to-date and reveals why he choose the small ball over soccer. Click on the link below to watch this brilliant interview. Well done to both Jake and Jonathan. Jonathan also did another fantastic interview with Barry Coffey which can also be viewed on his Vimeo channel.
https://vimeo.com/user113798121?fbclid=IwAR3DPJLuR7AOt1JADMoK4jQ3MulAtfEuS74wLISTb3428YHx3qP7CsguhMA
Scott O’Brien
The Golf Coaches Association of America has released the 2020 NJCAA Division II All-Freshman Team and our own Scott O’Brien is one of only five US student-athletes, nation-wide, to receive the honour.
A student at Parkland College, O’Brien recorded a 73.6 stroke average over ten rounds and was ranked the 16th best player in the US last season. Congratulations Scott from everyone back home. For more information please click the link: https://athletics.parkland.edu/news/2020/5/8/mens-golf-o-brien-selected-to-2020-njcaa-all-freshman-team.aspx?fbclid=IwAR3XBgkCqY_k5z8UFv-Il7VdFrpM1hHZv3RPKMq0_AHEbnXDWCxkSt5fOHc
Wild Flowers in MacDonagh Park
In recent weeks wild flowers have grown in various parts of our grounds providing vital nectar and pollen for our endangered insects and bees as well as food for our birds. The terrace behind the clubhouse end goals is a sight to behold with the beautiful colours that nature’s artists have painted.
Blast from the Past
In 2013 Nenagh Éire Óg met Silvermines in Cloughjordan in the county senior hurling championship. Aided by a Michael Heffernan goal, Nenagh emerged victorious against that year’s North championship runners-up and advanced to the county quarter-final.
Tipperary GAA Clubs Draw 2020/21
The Tipperary GAA Clubs Draw which was due to commence this month has been rescheduled to commence on Friday September 18th. We are confident there will be a full resumption of games activity well in advance of this date to allow clubs promote the draw. Lár na Pairce office personnel have already prepared the New Draw material and this is ready for collection for any individual clubs who wish to make an immediate start. The Final receipts for the 2019/20 Draw will not be posted out until August 1st which is just about six weeks before the first draw. Enclosed with the receipt will be details of an easy system for paying the new draw subscription on-line if preferred and thus avoiding promoters calling to members houses during the current pandemic.
April’s GAA Newsletter
The latest newsletter from the GAA is now available to read and features about Green GAA Clubs to your mental health. To read please click on the link below.
https://www.gaa.ie/api/pdfs/image/upload/nnjrxm30loi2kcmnmdrj.pdf
Sympathies
We wish to extend our sympathies to the family, relatives and friends of Declan Flynn, late of Knockalton, Nenagh and Carrigadrohid, Cork. To his wife Patricia, children Ian, Colin and Laoise, brothers John, Jim, Murt and Frank, sisters Ann, Helen, Mary and Eilish, mother-in-law Margaret Burns, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews, grandnieces, grandnephews, relatives, neighbours and the wonderful community in Shandangan and Canovee, his work colleagues in Irish Pioneer Works and Declans large circle of friends in both Cork and Tipperary we offer our sincerest condolences.
We also offer our condolences to the Hynes family on the recent passing of Philip Hynes. To his wife Lily and cherished family Philip, Deirdre and Catherine, sister Nora O’Brien, brothers Pat, Eddie and Michael, grandchildren David, Kate, Aoife, Ian, Jason, Clara and Leah, great-grandchildren, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, brother-in-law and sisters-in-law, nephews, nieces, cousins, kind neighbours, relatives and friends we extend our sympathies.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a n-anamacha.
Nenagh Celtic F.C.
Nenagh Celtic F.C. have asked us to advertise a very generous offer by their club to any vulnerable person in the parish. If any vulnerable person requires bottled water they are asked to contact the club through their social media channels or alternatively, you can contact Nenagh Éire Óg by email, eireognenagh@gmail.com or through any of our social media channels and we will be happy to put you in touch.
The water is bottled in Borrisoleigh using 100% recycled plastic.
Club Lotto
During the current Covid-19 crises our club lotto has been suspended however, you can still play online by clicking here.
In recent days we have received the news that Old Betsy, our mower of many years, has cut her last blade of grass and is on her way to the GAA fields in the sky.
That has meant that the club have to seek a New Betsy to carry on maintaining our playing fields in pristine condition which is going to place a huge financial strain on the club. A suitable new mower is going to require a five-figure sum and with that in mind we have an exciting new club lotto in the pipeline.
Using Zoom, our club executive has met in recent days to formulate a plan going forward for this new style lotto, details of which will be revealed in the coming weeks.
In the meantime club chairman, John Tooher along with Jim Kennedy have been cutting the grass using the mower pictured above which does the job required however, it is impractical in the long term. If you would like to volunteer to cut the grass please contact John and he will be delighted to hear from you.
Day fifty of the juvenile challenge, the winner of Barry Heffernan’s jersey is revealed while the camogie club battle to win nicest jersey in Tipperary. All this and more in this week’s news on the Blues
Helping the Vulnerable
Once again we wish to thank our army of selfless volunteers who have been busy purchasing groceries, fuel, delivering prescriptions and generally helping the vulnerable and over-70s in our community throughout the last three weeks.
It is during times of crises that we really see the benefit of a tight and caring community and the people of Nenagh and indeed our club, have been more than willing to put the shoulder to the wheel to help those in need.
Our volunteers will continue to provide these services for as long as is required and if you need any assistance please contact club coordinator Bartley Ryan on 086 735 8359.
Thank You Niall
Since the current lockdown began one man in our club has gone above and beyond the call of duty to ensure our juvenile boys and girls were kept entertained while maintaining their GAA skills. Everyday, for fifty days, Niall Cahill has organised a daily skills challenge for players and families which has been extremely well received by all. Niall’s initiative and drive in bringing sport and positivity to all in the club and out into the community at a time when it was badly needed and we had no end date in sight is appreciated by all sections of our club.
We also wish to thank all the adult players for kindly setting these challenges and not one person refused when asked by Niall which shows the brilliant and selfless community spirit in Nenagh Éire Óg. We also want to thank Barry Heffernan for donating one of his jerseys as a prize for the juveniles.
We will take a short break now for a week to ten days and when we return, engaging with the different groups will fall back to the respective management groups. We will continue to follow HSE and GAA protocol and that will decide when and how we can return safely to field training.
Winner of Barry Heffernan’s Jersey Revealed
Since the outbreak of the pandemic, thanks to the trojan efforts of Niall Cahill, we have been running daily challenges for our juvenile players which they have been enthusiastically participating in. Tipperary All-Ireland medal winner Barry Heffernan offered one of his championship jerseys from last year’s campaign to one of the juveniles and the winner was Robbie O’Brien from the under-10 team. Robbie will be presented with his jersey by Barry when training eventually resumes.
Barry has a message for Robbie and all of our juveniles.
Community Collaborations Across Nenagh Municipal District
North Tipperary Development Company are delighted to collaborate with several local organisations to help distribute the list of services flyer currently available. Pictured are several organisations that have collaborated to distribute the NTDC CoVid 19 Response Flyer throughout Nenagh Municipal District. Pictured – Joanne McCarthy – NTDC, Denise Kennedy & Jason Fitzpatrick – Nenagh Irish Red Cross, Damian O Donoghue – Nenagh Community Response Tipp North, Mary Jo O Reilly – Nenagh Éire Óg, Tracey Thompson – Tipperary County Council, Member of An Garda Siochana- Nenagh Branch , Philomena Keyes, Seamus O Sullivan, John Bonfield and David Kyne – Tús / Rural Social Scheme.
These flyers are currently being distributed and if you would like to get a copy you can download one here: https://www.ntdc.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Nenagh-Local-Flyer.pdf
Thank You to our Front Line Heroes
There’s no doubt that during these troubled times the country have a lot of heroes from the delivery drivers to the shop assistants to the HSE staff and this week we have shown just some of our appreciation to them for their bravery in keeping the country running and helping our sick while putting themselves at risk. Above are David, Isobel and Anna Mullarkey showing their thanks.
If you want to show your thanks to our front line heroes please email your picture to eireognenagh@gmail.com or send a private message to any of our social media channels.
Handstand Challenge
Last weekend we had some great laughs as our adult players responded to a handstand challenge where they had to put on an Éire Óg top while doing a handstand however, three of our younger players also took part.
This first video is from five-year-old Shane Ryan. Absolutely brilliant Shane. Well done.
While the Coonan sisters, Amy and Lucy also took part.
Check out eight-year-old Julian Zilioniene’s fantastic effort. Well done to everyone who took part.
Juvenile and Camogie News
Éire Óg Juvenile club and Camogie club skills challenge continued each day this week having completed 7 weeks to date. We are taking a short break after day fifty which fell on last Saturday, May second. After the break the coaches from each group will develop a training plan to take our Future Stars through to return of games. We would like to sincerely thank everyone who contributed to and supported this project. Each person who was involved and supported the project should feel very proud to have made it the outstanding success that it has turned out to be. A special thank you must go to Niall Cahill who was so quick out of the blocks at the start of lock-down with this project. Through his initiative and drive on this project Niall has brought engagement, a sense of connection and positivity to the young members of our club and their families during a time when it was most needed and appreciated.
This weeks challenges began with the juvenile members setting a challenge for the adult players, the challenge set was to put on a jersey while in handstand position against a wall. The challenge was duly accepted by many adult members and participation videos can be seen on the clubs Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Focus reverted back to the juvenile players for the rest of the week with challenges around skills development, strength and conditioning and more family fun. Setting the skills development challenge was under eight boys coach, all Ireland champion and world champion handballer Brian O’Brien, mile buiochas B.O.B, A big thank you to the Coonan, Brett and Ryan families for bringing some great family fun to the week. The Finn brothers, Marcus, Alexander and Pierce led the charge with a skills challenge in the sunshine, thanks boys, great job. There was a great response to the family challenges with large numbers of families submitting scores. Our youngest leader to date set a strength and conditioning challenge, under eight Star Ruaidhri O’Brien, he made the challenge look easy and he did it with serious street cred thrown in. Recordings of all challenges can be found on the club Facebook page should anyone like to try the challenges again or take a look back.
Day fifty of the skills challenges concluded with the draw for Barry Heffernan’s Tipperary jersey from last years All Ireland campaign. The draw was open to all juvenile players who registered a participation in the challenges at any stage during the fifty days. Altogether one hundred and fifteen names were in the draw and the lucky winner drawn was Robbie O’Brien from the under ten hurlers. Robbie is a huge fan of Barry’s and was absolutely thrilled to hear the great news that he had won Barry’s Tipperary jersey. Thank you Barry for the very kind gesture of donating your jersey to the skills project and for your support during the project also. We can say with certainty that we all very much look forward to reciprocating that support which you have shown towards our young Stars once you get back to match action.
Community spirit was very much alive and well this week with our young Stars doing us proud by entertaining their neighbors while observing social distance. Brian and Alex Ley featured on RTE radio one because of the efforts they were going to in order to lift the spirits of their elderly neighbors in their estate, well done boys, not all heroes wear capes as the saying goes and this is certainly true of these boys.
Our juvenile players have gone to great efforts this week to display their appreciation of the work being done by the front line workers. The Mullarkey children, David, Anna and Isobel came up with a very novel way of expressing their gratitude by spelling out their thanks using training equipment and hurls and not least themselves to complete their message of support. We had beautiful artwork of appreciation from a number of our young Stars including Evie Hogan, Ben and Jack McCormack, The Coonans and Jackie Hayes Sheedy with her daughters Hannah and Rebecca showing their support. Great work and Im sure those messages are providing much positivity to the hardworking front line workers.
Thank you to all the parents who encourage and support practicing our games at home each day, this is central to the children maintaining and developing skill levels and ultimately the enjoyment of our games. It would be fabulous to see this translate into an increased number of coaches within the club in the future.
Stay practicing, encourage each other, stay safe, observe the guidelines and mind each other.
Blast from the Past
Here is a blast from the past, the North Tipperary senior hurling semi-final from 19th August 1981 when Kilruane MacDonagh’s played Borris-Ileigh in MacDonagh Park. Donie Nealon was the man in the middle.
The game is interesting as it gives us a picture into how our club grounds have evolved over 39 years as well as how the game itself has changed with a much greater emphasis being placed on first time hurling.
The scoreboard brings back memories of having to collect the board with the participating clubs’ name on it from the late Paddy O’Donoghue from what is now the store room by the outer wall of the grounds and carry them all the way to the far end of the pitch and back up again afterwards. There’s also a flock of sheep behind the goals at that same end keeping the grass cut. Indeed, numerous clubs up and down the country used to borrow sheep to keep the grass down and it wasn’t uncommon to see jerseys covered in sheep droppings following a game.
The game was uploaded by the Borris-Ileigh club to their YouTube channel.
They have also uploaded a video from their county final win over Roscrea.
Nenagh Players Entertain Cudville
Alex Ley and his brother Brian have been entertaining their neighbours in Cudville recently and caught the attention of RTÉ reporter Cian McCormack. The talented musicians have been performing on the green in recent weeks, honing their musical talents while keeping the neighbours happy.
You can check out Cian’s RTÉ report here: https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/0428/1135400-tipperary-brothers-music/?fbclid=IwAR21W4L9qdosNCRd5eJ3AH7jg3lhLidnFPOqM-BswVyFjLE_FYV9oDilZ8A
Tipperary Footballers’ Charity Fundraiser
The Tipperary senior footballers and backroom team have been busy shaving their hair, growing moustaches or colouring their hair all in aid of North Tipperary Hospice, South Tipperary General Hospital and Community Suicide Awareness Workers. If you would like to donate to these worthy causes you can donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/tipp-tooball-fundraise
North Tipperary Best Jersey Vote
The Nenagh Guardian ran a vote over the last few weeks to determine who had the nicest jersey in North Tipperary and unfortunately we were defeated by eventual champions Newport in the semi-final. A big thank you to every who voted and well done to the purple and gold men from Newport.
Redemption
However we have a shot at redemption as the Guardian are now having a vote for the best camogie jersey in the county and in the preliminary round we are up against Gortnahoe Glengoole so click on the link below and vote early and vote often! Voting ends tomorrow afternoon.
1991 County Minor A Football Final
In 1991 Nenagh Éire Óg reached the county minor A football final as the reigning county champions and were looking to retain their crown when they faced Arravale Rovers. Unfortunately the West men won this encounter but were made fight all the way by the North men. Check out the video below which we uploaded to our YouTube channel this week. Our YouTube channel features numerous matches from over the years which is bound to keep you entertained during the current lockdown.
Willie Bolger shows he has retained his love for the ancient craft despite living in the land down under. Willie keeps a regular eye on our website and social media accounts to stay up-to-date with all the happenings in Nenagh Éire Óg.
Club Lotto
During the current Covid-19 crises our club lotto has been suspended however, you can still play online by clicking here.
Our online club couch quiz is a massive success, the adults show the juveniles they can dress themselves while Donnacha Ryan and Barry Coffey return to their GAA roots. All this and more in this week’s news on the Blues
Online Club Couch Quiz
Last night we held our very first online couch quiz with the wonders of technology bringing quizmaster Michael Cleary into our homes as he posed the questions using Zoom and participants sent in their answers using WhatsApp.
The evening began with Tipperary stars Grace O’Brien, Barry Heffernan and Jake Morris answering questions submitted by viewers before the first four rounds of the quiz.
Then we had anther Q&A, this time with Racing 92 rugby star and former Éire Óg hurler Donnacha Ryan. We were surprised to learn that the 2.01 meters tall and 115kg man used to drive a Fiat Cinquecento with the driver’s seat pushed forward but also thrilled to discover that himself and Michael Cleary promised to return to junior hurling for one more shot at glory. We look forward to the two of them lining out in the full-forward line in the near future.
The club wishes to thank the organisers Shane Hennessy, James Mackey and Donnacha Quinn who put in trojan work to ensure the evening’s success. We also wish to thank the correctors Mikey Hallinan and Dáire Quinn.
We especially wish to thank our generous sponsors Anna Kelly, Joe Mulqueen (Andy Flynn’s), Costello’s Oil, Cleary’s Daybreak, Mattie Lillis and Sheedy’s Centra. Without their generosity the night would not have been the success it was and we remind all our players, supporters and members to please support our sponsors during these difficult times. We also wish to thank the two Barrys, Heffernan and Coffey for kindly donating jerseys for the raffle.
Congratulations go to Niall “Mousey’ Madden and his Google assistant Clodagh Cleary for winning the quiz with Helen O’Dwyer and Caoimhe Cannon finishing in second and third place.
Helping the Vulnerable
Once again we wish to thank our army of selfless volunteers who have been busy purchasing groceries, fuel, delivering prescriptions and generally helping the vulnerable and over-70s in our community throughout the last three weeks.
It is during times of crises that we really see the benefit of a tight and caring community and the people of Nenagh and indeed our club, have been more than willing to put the shoulder to the wheel to help those in need.
Our volunteers will continue to provide these services for as long as is required and if you need any assistance please contact club coordinator Bartley Ryan on 086 735 8359.
Celtic FC Star Challenges our Juveniles
Celtic FC soccer star Barry Coffey challenged our juvenile players on day 41 with an exercise about spacial awareness and knowing what is going on around the player in possession. Barry, wearing his Éire Óg top and Republic of Ireland shorts, demonstrated his exceptional soccer skills while easily fulfilling the task he posed. Thanks to Barry for taking time out of his busy schedule to help our younger players improve themselves.
In the video below you can see Barry score a goal in his last ever game for the club, the North Tipperary under-16 final against Roscrea in 2015 at six minutes, 40 seconds. Barry came on as a second-half substitute and helped secure the win with his vital finish. Juveniles please note Barry’s exceptional fist pumping abilities which are what first attracted Brendan Rodgers’ attention to the rising star.
Juveniles Challenge our Senior Stars
Our juveniles have been challenged by our senior stars in recent weeks to complete a daily skills task and they have risen to any challenge put to them however, now the tables have turned with the juveniles putting the challenges to our adult players and they have started with a real mean test.
They have demanded our senior players put on a GAA jersey. The challenge sounds simple until you realise that the player must be in a handstand position. Not one to flinch, Pearse Morris has succeeded in this devilish challenge as can be seen in the video above. Numerous other videos of members completing the tasks have been published to our Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts.
Well done to everyone who participated and provided us all with a good laugh. The club’s officers have all committed to completing the task as well but strangely some have yet to send in their video. Once they do, it will be published!
Juvenile and Camogie News
Éire Óg Juvenile club and Camogie club skills challenge continues each day having completed six weeks to date. We plan to continue these daily challenges as long as possible to facilitate all underage players that wish to take part involved in club activity on a daily basis.
The daily skills challenges have proven to be a great success with our younger members and their families. In order to monitor and improve this project a short survey was made available for completion. Fifty two families responded with seventy seven children represented and results can be found in the following link: https://forms.office.com/Pages/AnalysisPage.aspx?id=9d0Z_OZymkWQ5NkVBTNaHh4ZVrGYWIlBv4HqwrrLk-FUMFdTMlpNV0dGMzM1UVAyRUtRRkhNM0VFUi4u&AnalyzerToken=kAqKbnDFcop0tSS3VhUSZMMHdNOM3MeH
hank you to those who participated in the survey and gave great feedback. The results will guide us as to how this project will be improved to make it more worthwhile and enjoyable for our Future Stars. .
Watch this space as an exciting new One Club Family Project is in the planning stages and will be announced shortly. Thank you to those involved in bringing this project to fruition.
This weeks challenges were around skills development, spacial awareness and good old family fun. A big thank you to our former juvenile star, current Glasgow Celtic and ROI U19 star Barry Coffey for leading our juvenile boys and girls in the spacial awareness challenge. Barry has had an outstanding few years since he moved to Scotland. We’re all very proud of him, we follow his career and wish the very best for him in the future. Demonstrating the family fun challenge on Saturday evening was the Corrigan clan, their challenge generated lots of family enjoyment and strategising. Much fun was had in the beautiful sunshine completing the challenges this week and on Saturday evening in particular.
It is heartwarming to see so many families doing the challenges together and registering their scores each day. It is never too late for individuals or families to begin participating or just dip in and out of the challenges as it suits, just send your score or participation thumbs up into the group text on the day, all entries are very welcome.
Reminder, any child that regularly takes part in the challenge will have their name entered into a draw by their coach once we return to training to win a great prize kindly given by Barry Heffernan of his Tipperary jersey from last years All Ireland campaign. Barry will present the jersey to the winning child at a training session.
A big thank you to all of the families in the juvenile club who supported the Nenagh Éire Óg table quiz on Saturday night. Our juvenile members posed questions to our club stars on the night, the stars were Grace O’Brien, Barry Heffernan, Jake Morris and Donnacha Ryan. Indeed Jake may be busy building some bridges this week as he was put on the spot with a rather tricky question from one of our U8 boys Ruaidhri O’Brien who asked Jake who his best friend was?…Jake had to think fast!
We are so proud of our adult players in the club who support the challenges on a daily basis and are never found wanting and last week was no different. Our juvenile club look forward to reciprocating the support when we get back to cheering on our senior stars on the other side of these strange times. Senior players will henceforth be known both by name and the specific skill challenge which they championed in support of this project.
Thank you also to all the parents who encourage and support participation at home each day, this is central to the children maintaining and developing skill levels and to the success of the challenges. There is a huge amount of coaching taking place each day by parents and this will no doubt lead to an increased number of coaches within the club in the future.
Stay practicing, encourage each other, stay safe, stay home and mind each other.
Sympathies
The club wishes to express its sympathies to the family and friends of Colette O’Riordan, Roscommon who passed away recently. Ms O’Riordan’s son-in-law David Peters is heavily involved with our juveniles with her grandchildren playing for the club.
We also extend our sympathies to the family and friends of Paddy Whelan, Waterford. Mr Whelan’s daughter Nodlaig and grandchildren are also involved in the club.
We also wish to sympathise with the family and friends of Margaret Peggy Kennedy, Roscrea. Ms Kennedy’s husband Dan is a former chairman of the North Tipperary board and is currently on the County Hearings Committee.
We also wish to sympathise with the family and friends of Monica (Monnie) Hogan, Ballinderry. Ms Hogan was a great supporter of Shannon Rovers and rarely missed a match.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a n-anamacha
Supporting our Teammates
Below is a brilliant image from Mid Tipp Coiste Ná nÓg with suggestions as to how we can help our teammates during the current pandemic.
1993 North Final
Below is a Tweet from Phil Hennessy which features a photograph of a number of legendary club supporters, some of which are no long with us. It was taken after the 1993 North Tipperary senior hurling final when we overcame the challenge of Moneygall in Cloughjordan.
The full match plus a highlights video can be viewed below.
Barry Heffernan
The GAA published the above picture of Barry Heffernan during the week for people to colour in.
Stewards Required
A chairde,
We have been informed that Covid 19 testing may commence in Semple Stadium during the next few days. The HSE have requested voluntary stewards to supervise the movement and parking of cars. This may suit clubs or individuals in close proximity to Thurles. Any names received will be forwarded to the HSE who will set up a rota system. Names to be returned to the undersigned.
Is mise,
Tadhg De Flóid Rúnaí Choiste Chontae Tiobráid Árann 087-2591747secretary.tipperary@gaa.ie
Club Lotto
During the current Covid-19 crises our club lotto has been suspended however, you can still play online by clicking here.
An exciting club quiz in aid of Nenagh Day Care Centre, our volunteers continue to aid the vulnerable in our community and an important survey for our juvenile section. All this and more in this week’s news on the Blues
Exciting Club Quiz for Nenagh Day Care Centre
Nenagh Éire Óg are holding an Online Family Table Quiz at 7:30pm on Saturday the 25th of April – the first of its kind within the county! What better way to spend a Saturday night in lockdown?
Registration is €10 per family and there will be a raffle on the night with some great prizes in store including a Q&A session at half time with Irish Rugby Star Donnacha Ryan.
The quiz will be streamed via Zoom and promises to be a night of great fun! To register or for any queries text/Whatsapp 0879492471, 0876693645 or 0851120299. Proceeds will be shared with Nenagh Day Care Centre and the quiz is open to all, not just club members.
Helping the Vulnerable
Once again we wish to thank our army of selfless volunteers who have been busy purchasing groceries, fuel, delivering prescriptions and generally helping the vulnerable and over-70s in our community throughout the last three weeks. It is during times of crises that we really see the benefit of a tight and caring community and the people of Nenagh and indeed our club, have been more than willing to put the shoulder to the wheel to help those in need.
Thank you to our senior players
Photographed in 2012 are Barry Heffernan, Dermot McTiernan, Shane Hennessy and Killian Gleeson. The two boys on the left and Ben and Niall Connolly. This photograph was taken soon after Killian and Barry won the All-Ireland minor hurling title.
Throughout the last number of weeks the senior hurlers, footballers and camógs have been making short videos with skills challenges for our juvenile players. The generosity of spirit has been heartening to see and we all wish to thank the players for putting so much effort into this.
We also wish to thank Niall Cahill and Catherine McTiernan for all their help with this initiative and of course without the enthusiasm of the families and players it would not be the massive success it is. And remember Barry Heffernan’s 2019 championship jersey is up for grabs for one of the lucky participants.
Having watched Killian Gleeson’s skills video during the week, Richie, Noel and John have confirmed that the senior hurlers will be training with blindfolds on in future to develop their kinesthetic awareness abilities. You can see Killian’s video here:
Condolences
The club would like to extend its deepest sympathy to the wife and family of the late Matt O Meara, Toomevara. Matt was a stalwart of Toomevara serving in a number of capacities including as a player, secretary and mentor with many teams.
To his wife Norah, daughter Ciara, sons Shane and Aidan, son-in-law Aidan, daughters-in-law Andrea and Violeta, grandchildren Donncha, Aoileann, Aodhan, Lily-Anne and Sean, as well as his many cousins and friends we offer our condolences
https://rip.ie/death-notice/matt-o-meara-toomevara-tipperary/420526
We also extend our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of John O’Shea, Patrickswell, Limerick. John’s son-in-law, Darragh Droog, has been involved with our senior hurling team for a number of years now.
To his wife Eileen, daughters Donna and Suzanne, brother Denis, sisters Maureen (O’Shea), Evelyn (Stoneham), Ann (Hartnett) and Joan (Murphy) and his many relatives and friends we extend our deepest sympathies.
https://rip.ie/death-notice/john-o-shea-patrickswell-limerick/420624
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a n-anamacha
YouTube
We have been making a number of past matches available to view on our YouTube channel over the last few weeks and this has proved to be very popular. Here is another game for you to enjoy. The 2013 clash with Moneygall in Cloughjordan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oef-WKjgqdU
Best Jersey in North Tipperary
Now we all know that our jersey is the nicest jersey not just in North Tipperary but the whole of the GAA universe and now we have a chance to officially confirm our status as the Nenagh Guardian are currently running a poll on Twitter to decide the best jersey in the division.
In the first round we went head to head against Ballina and came out on top and for the next round we need your help. So please keep an eye on the Guardian’s Twitter account for the quarter final competition and vote early and often for Nenagh Éire Óg.
Nenagh Eire Og are the first club through to the best club jersey in North Tipp competition by edging out Ballina 55.2% to 44.8%@NenaghGuardian @BallinaGAA https://t.co/jXks9P69L3 pic.twitter.com/Uo9felx5E8
— NenaghGuardian (@NenaghGuardian) April 19, 2020
The Guardian’s Team of the Decade
In last week’s edition of the Guardian Shane Brophy, Liam Hogan and James Hayden picked their North Tipperary club team of the decade and we were delighted to get two players, Michael Heffernan and Hugh Maloney, onto the starting fifteen with Barry Heffernan settling for a place on the bench.
You can see the team in the photograph above and remember please support local businesses during these difficult times and buy the local paper on Wednesday.
1960 Silver Street, Street League
Here is a photograph of the Silver Street, street league team from 1960 coloured in by Rob Toohey. Rob has a superb collection of local characters from times past on his Facebook page and for a wonderful trip down Nostalgia Lane, his page is well worth checking out.
Can anyone name any of the people in the photograph? If yes please email us on eireognenagh@gmail.com or contact any of our social media channels.
If you have any Nenagh GAA related photographs please email them to eireognenagh@gmail.com or private message any of our social media channels and we would be thrilled to publish them.
Juvenile & Camogie News
Éire Óg Juvenile club and Camogie club skills challenge continues each day having completed five weeks to date. We plan to continue these daily challenges as long as possible to facilitate all underage players that wish to take part involved in club activity on a daily basis.
The daily skills challenges have proven to be a great success with our younger members and their families. In order to monitor and improve this project can you please complete the below survey which is completely anonymous. The results will guide us as to how this project could be improved to make it more worthwhile and enjoyable for our Future Stars.
Survey
The survey can be accessed here.
Watch this space as an exciting new One Club Family Project is in the planning stages and will be announced shortly. Thank you to those involved in bringing this project to fruition.
This weeks challenges were around skills development and fun which involved striking on the run and blindfolded catching. Parents and children alike participated by entering either a participation thumbs up or a score to their respective group text. Much family fun was had in the beautiful sunshine completing the challenges this week.
It is heartwarming to see so many families doing the challenges together and registering their scores each day. It is never too late for individuals or families to begin participating or just dip in and out of the challenges as it suits, just send your score or participation thumbs up into the group text on the day, all entries are very welcome.
Reminder, any child that regularly takes part in the challenge will have their name entered into a draw by their coach once we return to training to win a great prize kindly given by Barry Heffernan of his Tipperary jersey from last years All Ireland campaign. Barry will present the jersey to the winning child at a training session.
We are so proud of our adult players in the club who support the challenges on a daily basis and are never found wanting. Our juvenile club look forward to reciprocating the support when get back to cheering on our senior stars on the other side of these strange times. Senior players will henceforth be known both by name and the specific skill challenge which they championed in support of this project.
Thank you also to all the parents who encourage and support participation at home each day, this is central to the children maintaining and developing skill levels and to the success of the challenges. There is a huge amount of coaching taking place each day by parents and this will no doubt lead to an increased number of coaches within the club in the future.
Stay practicing, encourage each other, stay safe, stay home and mind each other.
Rody Boland’s
On the link below is an interesting article about our main club sponsor, Rody Boland’s, and how the interior and exterior of the pub made its way from Mitchel Street to Rathmines. The interior was more or less perfectly preserved from when the pub in Nenagh closed down in the 1930s to when it was moved to its new home in Dublin.
From Nenagh to Rathmines. How a long forgotten Tipp pub was moved to Dublin.
1977 County Minor Champions
Back Row L:R Michael McGrath, Chris O’Halloran, Pat Lee, Gerry O’Brien, Roger Coffey, Brian Heffernan, Conor Ryan, Joe Ryan, Philip Kennedy, Eugene Hackett, Michael Kennedy, Michael Griffin. Front Row L:R Jim O’Sullivan, Denis Finnerty, Sean Minogue, Ger Grace, Johnny O’Gorman, Jim Ryan, Denis Griffin, John Griffin, Charlie Cavanagh, Seamus Kennedy.
We posted the above photograph on our social media channels and once again it attracted a lot of attention. It is of the 1977 minor hurlers which captured the club’s second county title at that age group, the first coming in 1969. The beat Silvermines in the North final and Loughmore Castliney in the county decider. The match programme from this game can be accessed here.
If you have any photographs from the past that you would like published please email eireognenagh@gmail.com or contact any of our social media channels.
The following are reports from the Guardian from both the North and county finals with Brian Heffernan also receiving the Player of the Week accolade following his performance against Silvermines in the North final.
All-Ireland Finals Online – Free to Watch
The GAA, in conjunction with the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, have launched the GAA Digital Archive at Croke Park providing free access to past GAA matches to internet users around the world.
113 All-Ireland finals since 1961 are included in the archive and provincial finals from 1961 also feature. The new archive also includes All-Ireland club finals since 1989.
In all, over 500 football and hurling matches were retrieved from broadcasters and information such as date, result, venue, referee, scorers and teams and substitutions was added.
This might be useful to all GAA fans during this time of isolation!
Éire Óg 1-14 Kilruane 1-13
Nenagh Guardian Match Report –
In group 2, Nenagh Éire Óg overcame Kilruane MacDonaghs by the narrowest of margins on Sunday morning, 1-14 to 1-13.
They had to do so after losing Dáire Quinn early on through injury after James Cleary and Kieran Cahill had given MacDonaghs a two-point advantage. Indeed Cahill had a fine afternoon for Kilruane, finishing with a personal tally of 0-6.
At half-time Kilruane led 0-9 to 0-6 but the home side were quick off the mark scoring 1-2 inside the opening four minutes of the second period; the goal was scored by Adam Healy after good work from Killian Gleeson. Nenagh controlled the second half but had a nervy finish as James Cleary scored a late goal to level the sides but Killian Gleeson quickly restored Nenagh’s lead with what proved to be the match winning point.
Match Events
Team Lineups
Score Progression
A look back at the 1969 county minor winning side, more games released on our YouTube channel and our Facebook page reaches a significant milestone. All this and more in this week’s news on the Blues
Happy Easter
Beannachtaí Féile na Cásca ar chuile dhuine idir óg is aosta sa bhaile is thar lear.
The club wishes all our of members, players, supporters and the wider community a happy Easter. This Easter marks the 104th anniversary of the 1916 Rising when Thomas MacDonagh, the man whom our grounds are named after, and his comrades struck a huge blow for Irish freedom. If you would like to learn a little more about the Cloughjordan native, please see our Easter 2016 newsletter below which contains lots of information about him.
https://www.nenagheireog.com/wp-content/uploads/Easter.pdf
We Are Community
Once again we wish to thank our army of selfless volunteers who have been busy purchasing groceries, fuel, delivering prescriptions and generally helping the vulnerable and over-70s in our community throughout the last three weeks. It is during times of crises that we really see the benefit of a tight and caring community and the people of Nenagh and indeed our club, have been more than willing to put the shoulder to the wheel to help those in need.
Our volunteers will continue to provide these services for as long as is required and if you need any assistance please contact club coordinator Bartley Ryan on 086 735 8359.
Anyone who requires any assistance is asked to contact club coordinator Bartley Ryan on 086 735 8359
MacDonagh Park
Thank You
Once again we wish to thank our senior stars for providing daily fun challenges for our juveniles to help keep their skills sharp. The generosity of adult players in doing this is very much appreciated by the entire club. We also wish to thank Niall Cahill for coordinating all of this and of course Barry Heffernan who kindly donated one of his championship jerseys which will be given to one of the juvenile participants.
Juvenile News
Éire Óg Juvenile club and Camogie club skills challenge continues each day having completed four weeks to date. Our plan initially was to complete a fourteen day challenge programme while schools were closed, the situation has continued however as have our daily challenges and we aim to continue these daily challenges as long as possible to facilitate all underage players that wish to take part involved in club activity on a daily basis.
In addition to challenges which focused on fundamental movement, hurling and football skills this week included some fun activities which made for great fun in the beautiful warm sun.
It is heartwarming to see so many families doing the challenges together and registering their scores each day. It is never too late for individuals or families to begin participating or just dip in and out of the challenges as it suits, just send your score into the group text on the day, all scores are very welcome. If you haven’t already stepped out of your comfort zone and get involved, have a go this week.
Reminder, any child that regularly takes part in the challenge will have their name entered into a draw by their coach once we return to training to win a great prize kindly given by Barry Heffernan of his Tipperary jersey from last years All Ireland campaign. Barry will present the jersey to the winning child at a training session.
A huge amount of thanks must go to all of the adult players in the club who have taken part in the challenge to date. It really is hugely uplifting to see the high level of enthusiasm from them in ensuring the juvenile players skill levels increase throughout this difficult time.
Thank you also to all the parents who encourage and support participation at home each day, this is central to the children maintaining and developing skill levels and to the success of the challenges. There is a huge amount of coaching taking place each day by parents and this will no doubt lead to an increased number of coaches within the club in the future.
Happy Easter to all of our wonderful children and families. Stay practicing, stay safe, stay home and mind each other.
Club App
We would like to remind people that our club app, which was designed by Seán McTiernan, is available to download for those with Android phones. This fantastic communications tool is a brilliant way to stay up to date on all club news and fixtures.
Website
Our website www.nenagheireog.com got a facelift recently and we wish to thank Seán McTiernan for all his hard work in this regard.
1969 County Minor Title
In 1969 our minor hurlers captured the club’s first county minor title after they defeated Moycarkey Borris 8-8 to 1-7 with John Grace scoring 1-7, Denis O’Connor getting 3-0, with Martin Hogan and and Willie Condon scoring 2-0 each while Willie Brennan scored Éire Óg’s other point.
Incidentally we have won county minor hurling titles in the following years: 1969, 1977, 1978, 1991, 1992, 2008, 2012, 2013 while we have won one minor county football title in 1990.
Click on the link to read the Guardian’s match report from November 1st, 1969.
Our club Facebook page reach a significant milestone this week as Emmett Ryan from Clonmel became our 3,000th follower. Thanks to everyone who follows us on all our social media channels. Remember you can follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
YouTube
We have made a number of matches available to view on our YouTube channel recently to help people pass the time. Please visit https://www.youtube.com/c/nenagheireogtipperary to watch these matches. Below is our 2015 county semi final against Drom & Inch which was decided by a last second point by Dáire Quinn, AET.
PJM Fitness
Senior hurler Pearse Morris has set up a brand new Facebook page for his coaching services where he regularly posts updates on positivity, motivation and fitness. You can like his page at the following link: https://www.facebook.com/CoachMorris1/
Lotto
During the current Covid-19 crises our club lotto has been suspended however, you can still play online by clicking here.
This evening Adam Healy and Alanna Morris complete the club’s Q&A session
Adam Healy
Name: Adam Healy
Occupation: Student
Schools/College Attended: Nenagh CBS, LIT
Favourite Position: Full forward
Achievements with club to date: u12 north medal, u14 county medal and u21 north medal
When and where did you first start playing GAA? When I was four years old in my back garden with my brother
Biggest influence on your GAA career: my friends and family
What sporting event would you most like to attend? The Super bowl
To date what is your favourite moment in sport? When Mickey Mac came on against Éire Óg Annacarty with no shorts
What has been your biggest disappointment in sport? 2019 county semi final loss
Favourite Venue: Dolla
Favourite G.A.A. player: Killian Gleeson
What sportsperson would you most like to meet? Ronaldo
What is the hardest part of your sporting life? Organising work and college around training times and matches
Toughest player to mark in training? Bookey (Mark Flannery)
Who is the ‘joker’ on the panel? Philip Hickey
Tell us a joke: why don’t China have a cricket team?
Because they ate the bat
What advice would you give to young players? Enjoy it as much as possible
If you wont the lottery what is the first thing you’d buy? I’d buy a pint for my friend Craig Hilmi
Favourite holiday destination: Boston
Favourite Food: steak tips
Favourite Drink: Coke
Favourite Music: all types could go from rap to country
Favourite Film/TV Show: Friday Night Lights/ One Tree Hill (classics)
Favourite book you’ve read? The Gatsby
In ten-years time I hope to be…..fit and healthy with a few pound in the wallet
One thing you may not know about me……I’m the best FIFA player in the town
One thing you may not know about me…… I hate being out of my comfort zone and can be quite shy.
