Drumcliffe/Rosses Point GAA Club Notes

The club’s AGM for 2017 took place on Sunday evening in the Old School, Rathcormac. The majority of outgoing officers were re-elected for 2018:

Chairman:  Shane Campbell
Vice-Chair: Pauric O’Grady

Secretary: Seán Reynolds

Assistant Secretary: Fergal McGrath
Men’s Registrar: Jimmy O”Brien

Ladies Registrar: Jacinta Monaghan

PRO: Austin O’Callaghan

Coaching Officer: Declan Carroll

Insurance Officer: Geraldine Gibbons

Ladies Co Board Delegate: Jacinta Monaghan

Men’s Co Board Delegate: Pauric O’Grady

Schools Liaison Officer (Rathcormac): Mary Power
Schools Liaison Officer (Rosses Point): TBC

Development Officer: Austin O’Callaghan
Pitch Committee: Phil Galllagher, Pat Davey, Pauric o’Grady, Damien Kerrigan, Jimmy O’Brien.

The club wishes to acknowledge the contribution of Mick Hedigan who is stepping down from the role of Child Protection Officer. His successor – and the appointments of Club Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, and Healthy Club Officer have been deferred until the January club meeting.

A big thank-you to everyone who attended our Zero2Hero event in the Radisson Hotel last Thursday night. Our GAA panel which featured special guests Jack McCarron (Monaghan), Sarah Tierney (Mayo ladies football captain), Neil Ewing, Eamonn O’Hara and Brian McEniff, provided insightful and entertaining discussion and debate. That was followed by a spectacular fundraising auction, led in style by Niall Canning (ably assisted by Niall Collery) whose auctioneering expertise and turn-of-phrase kept the audience enthralled – and helped raise valuable funds for the club. Thanks to all the senior players who helped organise all the prizes. The club is also very grateful to our event sponsors: Clifford Electrical, Bank of Ireland, Dean Hall Tree Services and AVA systems for their support of the event.

We were delighted to host the Carrickmacross Emmets U14 footballers last Saturday in Oxfield for a special challenge match for the Denis Connolly Memorial Cup. Denis was a native of Teesan here in Drumcliffe, and also had a deep involvement with the Carrickmacross club in Monaghan over the years. An enjoyable and competitive match saw Carrick Emmets run out five-point winners. Our thanks to the Connolly family, Phil Gallagher, Mary Power and all those who helped with the organisation of the day.

The club’s End-of-Year adult awards evening has been provisionally fixed for Friday, December 29th in Davis’s Restaurant. More details soon.

Our Annual Juvenile Awards night for 2017 will take place in January. Date and venue will be confirmed in the coming weeks.