Sligo GAA host sponsors night at the Southern

Sligo GAA announced their 2018 sponsors at a press night in the Southern Hotel last week where they were joined by representatives from many of their sponsors and members of the county executive.

Peter Greene opened proceedings by introducing Joe Taaffe, county board chairman, who addressed those in attendance. Joe opened by welcoming all the sponsors and thanking them for their ongoing support to the county and wished them all well in their own businesses in the coming year.

Joe went on to thank all the various team mentors for their work during the year and thanked Peter Greene, county board treasurer, in particular for his work over the past number of years in garnering and developing new Sponsors for the County Board.

Peter Greene then went on to introduce each of the sponsors and outlined the various sponsorships they supported.

Peter thanked ABBVIE for their ongoing support for the county senior, U20 and Junior teams now in their third year sponsoring Sligo. He paid a particular word of thanks to Joe Kumor, site manager of the Ballytivnan site who was very supportive of this sponsorship since its inception.

Peter went on to thank all in IT Sligo for their ongoing support as an associate sponsor to all county teams. Again, he paid particular thanks to current president Brendan McCormack and Niall McEvoy, head of innovation.

He then referred to the sterling support provided to our U16 and U17 (minor) teams through Richard Kennedy and Devenish Nutrition. Devenish who are also the Meath senior football team sponsors have been supporting Sligo minor teams for the past number of years.

The next sponsor was Ronan Watters of Shoot the Crows and Peter wished him and the team well for their forthcoming Lory Meagher All Ireland Final. Peter hoped that at least one Sligo team would enjoy All-Ireland glory for their sponsor.

AURIVO have been one of Sligo’s sponsors for a number of years and Peter commented on how their support assisted the county board in delivering at county level.

 

And finally, from a team perspective, Peter acknowledged the valued support provided by EJ Menswear for the county development squads. Eamon Cunningham and his team are always willing and supportive in the development of our young stars of the future.

Peter then moved on to competition sponsors and started by thanking the county’s longest sponsors – the Quinn family who sponsor the Belfry Senior Football Championship, the Kennedy’s Intermediate football Championship and the Lola Montez Junior football Championships.

Another local business family were next in line as Fureys Coaches were acknowledged for their ongoing support for all the senior football leagues. Peter also commented that the Furey name is now synonymous with providing transport for the senior football team also.

Keeping to the local business theme, Peter thanked Expert Electrical Sligo for their ongoing support of all the underage competitions in the county.

A new departure this year was the sponsorship of a number of the coaching activities held across the county.

Peter pointed to the annual jersey day where almost 3000 children participated, and this event was sponsored for the first time by Seamus Preston and his team at the Radisson Blu Hotel & Spa, Sligo.

The nine Easter coaching camps held across the county were also sponsored for the first time by Kevin McGlynn and his team at the Sligo Southern Hotel. Kevin also sponsored a gilet jacket for each of the club coaching officers in the county in recognition of their hard work with each of the clubs.

Peter concluded by thanking a number of support sponsors, namely Niall and Karen Gallogly of Gallogly Catering, Ross Palmer of Fastcom for their telecommunications support, and finally VW Connolly Motors for sponsoring the senior football team kit van.

Listen back to Peter Greene speak with Ocean FM’s Darragh Cox on the night here: