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Annual Awards for 2011
A great night was held in
the Clubrooms on Friday 3rd February
2012 to mark the achievements of
Clonduff Gaels in the 2011 season. Our
own Christina McConville got proceedings
under way with Amhrán na bhFiann and
Fear an Tí for the evening was new
Senior Football Manager Paul McShane.
Special invited guests were:
Peter
McGrath (Guest of Honour), Seamus
Walsh (Cathaoirleach Coiste Chontae an
Dun), Deirdre McGrath (Cisteoir
Camogaiochta an Dun), Maria Fox (Leas
Runai Cumann Peil na mBan an Dun), Dean
Anthony Davies Uachtaran Cumann Chluain
Daimh), Fr Jarlath Cushenan (Parish
Priest Clonduff), Kathleen Cousins
(Principal St Patrick’s Primary School),
Vincent Devlin Principal St Paul’s
Primary School), Gerard Devlin High
Chief Ranger, INF), Sean McNally (All
Ireland Handball Winner / Chair Down
Handball Association), Fionnuala Carr
and Orla Maginn (Clonduff Soaring Stars,
Camogie), Clonduff Hogan Cup Winners:
Ruairi Lively, Tony McGreevy,  Henry
Brown, Niall Tumilty, Cathal Murray
(Manager).
Following the delightful meal prepared
and served by Mona Killen and her staff
the Presentation of Awards took place
which were as follows:
Camogie
Intermediate Player of
the Year: Andrea McCloskey
Senior Player of the
Year: Orla Maginn
Ladies Football
Senior Player of the
Year: Jolene Brannigan
Hurling
Senior Hurler of the
Year: Paul McCusker
Junior Hurler of the Year: Sean Downey
Football
Minor Footballer of the
Year: Shea Murnin
U21 Footballer of the
Year: Shane McGreevy
3rds Footballer of the
Year: Aaron Sherry
2nds Footballer of the
Year: Gary Haughian
Senior Footballer of the
Year: Paul McConville
Hugh McShane Trophy
- Club Person of the year:
Marie Walls
P J McAlinden
Trophy - Hall of Fame:
Eddie McParland -
Click here to read the citation
for Eddie
Click on the picture above right to view
a slideshow of Jerry Quinn's and
Sheenagh McConville's photos) |
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Annual Awards Night 2010
The Annual Awards night for 2010,
(postponed from 10th December due to the
snow) took place in the Clubrooms on Saturday 22nd January 2011. Special Guest
of Honour was Paddy Doherty the winner of three All Ireland Medal in the 1960s,
who brought his own brand of humour to the proceedings. He was joined on the
night by Representatives of the Down Co Board, the Camogie Board and our own
Mark Copeland who is now the Down Ladies Senior Manager. Other guests included
the Club President, Dean A Davies, the Club Referees, Fr Cushenan, PP, Principals of the local Primary Schools and a
representative from INF.
Clonduff was well represented on the
County, Provincial and All Ireland Stages in Football, Camogie, Handball,
Hurling, Ladies Football, Referees, Scór and other Social events for Club,
County, Schools and Higher Education establishments. Fir an Tí for the night,
Paul McShane highlighted all that was achieved by Clonduff people in 2010.
Click here for more photographs
Individual Awards for 2010 were presented
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Intermediate Camogie Player of the Year
Senior Camogie Player of the Year
Senior Hurler of the Year
Seconds Hurler of the Year
Senior Ladies Footballer of the Year
Minor Footballer of the Year
U21 Footballer of the Year
Thirds Footballer of the Year
Seconds Footballer of the Year
Senior Footballer of the Year
Club Person of the Year
Hall of Fame |
Grace Brown
Lisa McPolin
Andrew Quinn
Jamie Lynch
Elaine (Dot) McCourt
Tony McGreevy
Arthur McConville
Conor Grant
Cathal Maginn
Gary McDonald
Brian McGreevy
Hugh John Harper
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Youth Awards 2010 |
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A very
successful Youth Awards Night was held in
the Club on Friday 29th October. Upwards on 200
children in the age range U8 to U16 in all field
codes as well as Handball and Scór na nÓg were
honoured. Pictured above are Special Guests of Honour
(l to r) Brian McGreevy (Chairperson), Jason
Brown, Rhona Torney, Darren O'Hagan, Fionnuala
Carr and Teresa Carr (Youth Officer). Jason
and Darren are two of the Club's Down All
Ireland Finalists Squad, Fionnuala Carr is Clonduff's latest All Star and
Rhona is a member of the Kay Mills Cup Antrim winning
team.
Following
the food, prepared by Alistair McGilligan, Club
Youth Officer introduced the guests and then
gave a very professional presentation on the
2010 year for the youth of Clonduff. She had a
special mention for the 70 plus young people who
helped their educational establishments to
various successes in 2010.
In each of
their addresses the four guests addressed the
young people telling them to work hard at their
skills and give it their full commitment and to
have respect for themselves as well as their
mentors, their club and their team mates - the
message was the same from everyone!
The teams
that achieved success received their team awards
first - U12 Footballers - League Runners Up; U14
Footballers - South Down and County Championship
Shields; U15 Óg Spoirt County Sevens; U14
Hurling League; U16 Hurling League
Teresa
explained that there was a change for the
individual awards and that three players from
each team would be awarded having displayed
certain attributes such as commitment,
dedication, attitude, respect and playing to the
best of their abilities. She reminded all the
recipients that when playing a team sport that
it is never about individuals but every single
player.
Recipients
of awards were as follows:
U8
Football - Laurence Brannigan, Padraig Clancy,
Dara McAlinden
U10
Football - Jamie O'Hagan, James Keenan, Ryan
Woods
U11
Football - Lyndon Brown, Ross Carr, Ben
McConville (presented following the U11 Final in
Burren on Sunday 31st October)
U12B
Camogie - Elle Fitzpatrick, Emma Gallagher,
Kiera O'Reilly
U12 A
Camogie - Rachel Harper, Hannah McAteer, Sinead
McPolin
U12
Football - Brendan O'Hagan, Conor Woods, Ryan
McGreevy
U14
Football - Caolan McAvoy, Stephen McConville,
Thomas Murnin
U14
Hurling - Patrick Grant, Lorcan Brannigan,
Declan Rooney
U14
Camogie - Jenna Boden, Ciara Tumilty, Cassie
Fitzpatrick
U16
Football - Conor Brown, Eamon Grant, Liam
McGreevy
U16
Camogie - Roisin Mulholland, Laura Grant, Niamh
McGreevy
U16
Hurling - Sean Downey, Rian Branagan, Jamie
Curran
Handball -
U14 Shane Milligan; U15 Rory McQuaid; U16 Conor
Brown
In
bringing the proceedings to a conclusion, Teresa
thanked all the mentors and helpers and those
involved in the Awards Evening. Club Chairman
Brian McGreevy responded and thanked Teresa for
her very professional handling of the evening.
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Noreen Tumilty) |
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Clubman of the Year 2009 (as well as Chairman)
Brian McGreevy pictured with the
Hughie McShane Memorial Trophy in the
company of Mrs Annie McShane and daughters
Anna McShane (left) and Goretta Cairns
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Senior
Awards 5th December 2009 |
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Clonduff Gaels celebrated the end of a
very successful year in Ceannarás Chluain
Daimh on Saturday 5th December 2009. This
is an experimental date - the event
usually takes place in March of the
following year - some people in the Club
felt it should take place at the end of
the season and by all accounts it was a
very wise decision.
Before the evening began Nickey Brennan
took the opportunity to visit Club
Secretary Anita Brannigan and then called
into Fintan and Margaret Mussen, all of
whom were unable to attend.
Fir an tí for the evening was Francis
Quinn and in true 'Frankie Style' he put
on a great show.
Guests in attendance:
Nickey Brennan
Head of IT &
Communications in Croke Park
Sean Rooney
Leas Rúnai Coiste
Chontae an Dun
Jenny Cultra
Cathaoirleach
Camogaiochta an Dun
Frank
McMullan
Cathaoirleach Cumann Peil na mBan an Dun
Dean Anthony Davies
Uachtarán Cumann Chluain Daimh
Rev Fr Jarlath Cushenan
Parish Priest of Clonduff
Guinevra McGilligan
Cathaoirleach Cumann Camogaiochta Chluain Daimh
Kathleen Cousins
Vice-Principal St Patrick’s PS
Vincent Devlin
Principal St Paul’s PS
Paddy Morgan
I N F
Lisa McPolin
College All-Star Winner
Fionnuala Carr
University Camogie All-Star Winner
Ryan McShane
University All-Star Winner
Réiteoiri na gClub
Paula Cairns
Click on image below to view a
slideshow of photos by
John Francis Murray
Jerry Quinn and Sheenagh
McConville
Ciarán Branagan
Ben Brennan
Eddie Clancy
Individual Award winners were as follows:
Camogie:
Intermediate player - Onagh Gribben
Senior Player - Joint Award - Lorraine
Maginn and Ciara Havern.
Ladies Football:
Junior player -Lisa Gribben
Senior player INF Trophy Kelly Carville.
Hurling
Senior player - James Matthews Trophy -
Niall Quinn
Football
Minor team player – Brown Bros Trophy –
Patrick Mathews
U20 team Player Pat Brown Trophy - Darren
O’Hagan and Neill Trainor.
Thirds team player – Horseshoe Bar trophy
- Kevin McShane
Seconds team player - Bradley Family
Trophy - Noel McPolin
Senior Team Player- Peter McGinn Trophy -
Conor óg O’Hagan
Club Personality – Brian McGreevy -
presented by Noleen cairns
A special presentation of a bouquet of
flowers was presented to Brian's Personal
Assistant - his wife Mary - for all her
hard work behind the scenes.
Hall Of Fame - Eddie Gribben -
trophy presented by Bronagh McAlinden -
Jerry Quinn introduced the award
In
his address Nickey Brennan spoke
about the importance of the club, citing
his proudest day during his presidential
reign as the day he presented the All
Ireland Junior Club Hurling trophy to his
own club. In commending Clonduff he
praised the amount of Gaelic activity on
offer, their model of integration, their
success in the Club Maíth Scheme and administrative structures in general, the
importance of communication and the value
of the Club website.
A novel part of the evening was the
Birthday celebrations - in trawling the
Internet, the Clonduff folk discovered
that Nickey's birthday had been on
Thursday and organised a cake for him. It
then transpired that a number of other
attendees also had a birthday in the past
week and they were gathered together for a
group photograph but the shy boy on the
night was the Senior Hurling manager Gerry
Coughlin who failed to admit that it was
also his birthday. So Happy Birthday
Nickey, Gerry, Francis, Ciara, Jenny and
Mick! |
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South Down
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Congratulations to Club President Dean A
Davies (centre, front) on receiving his second award in two
weeks - on Friday 27th November he received a
special South Down Award for Services to GAA following the County Award the previous
week for Services to Camogie
(above photo courtesy of Paula Magee South Down
PRO)
Flanking Dean
Davis is some of the other members of the
Clonduff Committee who attended the function - Cathy McPolin and Mary McGreevy.
Back row: Tommy Kelly, Johnny McPolin and
Brian McGreevy. The Dean is pictured below (left) with Johnny McConville (South Down Secretary)
and at back William Smith (South Down
Chairperson) and Sean Fitzpatrick (South Down
Treasurer).
A special
Award was made to Clonduff GAC for their great achievement in
collecting Kilmacud Sevens Double - Camogie and
Football titles during the 2009 season.
Below (right) Brian and Tommy with
the Club Award pictured with William Smith
and Michael McArdle (South
Down Board)
(photos below courtesy of Louis McNally) |
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Juvenile Awards 2009 |
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Above the Platform Party at the Youth Awards in
Clonduff Clubrooms on Friday 20th November 2009
- (l to r) Brian McGreevy (Club Chairman), Karen
Tinnelly (Down Camogie), Martin Clarke, Teresa
Carr (Youth Officer), Kieran Donaghy and Ursula
Quinn (Click
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Awards - There was great excitement in Clonduff
Clubrooms on Friday 20th November at the
Juvenile Awards. Guests of honour were Kieran 'Star' Donaghy the Kerry full
forward, recently returned Aussie Rules player
Martin Clarke and Down Camogie
Star Karen Tinnelly. Upwards on
200 youngsters aged U10 -U16, their mentors,
parents and family members packed into the club
for the annual awards. Everyone was treated to
an 'indoor barbecue' with Alistair and Guinevra
McGilligan slaving over the grill and a great
army of parents and mentors helping serve the
food. The night was co-ordinated by newly
elected Youth Officer Teresa Carr and ably
assisted by members of the Youth Sub-committee
and other club members. A huge thank you to Sean
and Marie Milligan and Ciarán McGreevy for
setting up the clubrooms and to Alistair and
Guinevra for the cooking (apologies for not
thanking them on the evening).
Congratulations to all the winners and good luck
to all next year.
Team achievement were highlighted with the
presentation of team medals. The successful
exploits of the U8 and U10 Footballers and
Camogs in the various tournaments were
acknowledged. The U9½ Footballers won their
sixth in a row County Community Games title; U11
Football League is still ongoing, with Clonduff
in pole position - individual awards will be
presented at the end of the campaign. At U12 the
Camogs won both Championship and League; the
Hurlers won their League and the Footballers won
Moy Tournament and Burren Charity Shield. At U14
level the Footballers (boys) were runners up in
Championship (after replay and extra time) and
League, the Camogs won County Féile Shield and
the Ladies were Championship runners up (after
extra time). The Hurlers took the plaudits at
U16 having won the League and Championship
Shield whilst the Ladies Footballers were
runners up in both Championship and League.
Handball achievements were also acknowledged
with Shane Milligan winning the County U13
title;
Rory
McQuaid at U-14 singles, Packie O’ Hagan/Liam
McGreevy at U-14 Doubles and Eamon Grant/Conall
Brown at U-15 Doubles were narrowly defeated in
their respective County Finals.
Individual awards were presented as follows:
Ladies Football
U14 Player
of the Year 2009 - Roisin Mulholland, Runner Up 2009
- Leona
Killen, Most Dedicated Player 2009 - Leanne
McAleavey
U16 Player
of the Year 2009 - Tanya
McAleenan, Runner-up 2009 - Ally
Britton, 2nd Runner-up 2009 -
Orla Gribben
Hurling
U12 Player
of the Year 2009 - Rhys Ward, Runner-up
2009 - Lorcan
Branagan, 2nd Runner-up 2009 - Conor
Woods
U14 Player
of the Year 2009 - David
Quinn, Runner-up 2009 - Paddy
Grant, 2nd Runner-up 2009 - Martin
Rooney
U16 Player
of the Year 2009 - Shay
Murnin, Runner-up 2009 - Shea
McPolin, 2nd
Runner-up 2009 - Barry
O’Hagan
Football (Boys)
U10 Player
of the Year 2009 - Aaron
Devlin, Joint Runners-up 2009 - Lyndon
Brown, John Boden, 2nd
Runner-up 2009 - Daniel
McGivern
U11 Joint Player of the Year 2009 - Lorcan
McAteer, Ryan McGreevy, Runner up: Colm Fearon,
2nd Runner up Brendan O'Hagan
U12 Player
of the Year 2009 - Darragh
O’Hanlon, Runner-up 2009 - Conor
Murray, Joint 2nd Runners-up 2009
- Niall
O’Hagan, Conor Keenan
U14 Player
of the Year 2009 - Rory
McQuaid, Runner-up 2009 - Patrick
O’Hagan, 2nd
Runner-up 2009 - Declan
Gribben
U16 Joint
Players of the Year 2009 - Rory Lively,
Conor Grant, Most Improved Player of the Year 2009 - Conor
McShane
Camogie
U12 Joint
Players of the Year 2009 -
Clare McGilligan, Elizabeth Wilson,
Runner-up
2009 - Petrina Lively, 2nd
Runner-up 2009 - Noelle
McAlinden
U14 Joint
Players of the Year 2009 - Laura Grant,
Roisin Mulholland, Runner-up 2009 - Shannon
O’Hagan, 2nd Runner-up 2009 - Niamh
McGreevy
U16 Player of the Year 2009 - Aoife
Brown, Joint Runners-up 2009 - Orla
Gribben, Ally Britton, 2nd
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Awards for 2008
Clonduff held their Annual Awards (for 2008) in the
Clubrooms on Saturday 7th February 2009. The Club was
packed to capacity - the special guest speakers were Enda McGinley (Tyrone Midfielder and 2008 All Star
recipient), Maria Fox (Secretary Down Ladies Football
Board) and Jenny Cultra the Down Camogie
Chairperson. Hosts for the night were Fionnbharr Murphy
and Orla Maginn - new emerging talent on the
entertainment scene having already proved themselves on
the Hurling (and Football) and Camogie fields as
evidenced by their being presented with Senior Hurler
and Senior Camogie Player of the Year respectively.
A few years ago Clonduff deviated from the norm within
many Clubs by awarding the Hall of Fame to a female
(Rosemary Carr) and again they continued this trend by
awarding the Hall of Fame to the three ladies who
brought the first All Ireland Scór title to the Club in
1977 - Ann Donnelly (nee Quinn) Mary Grant (nee McGinn)
and Eileen Hamill. This was a landmark decision on
the part of Clonduff in
this the 40th Anniversary of the founding of the Scór
competitions.
The Club also honoured Michaela Downey only the Club's
second ever recipient of an All Star Award for services
to the Down, Ulster and International Ladies' Football
scene. (Click on the image above left to view a
slideshow of the event)
Recipients of Awards on the night were:
Camogie Intermediate Player of the Year: Aisling
Hynes
Camogie Senior Player of the Year: Orla Maginn
Ladies Football Junior Player of the Year:
Pauline Trainor and Shauna McParlan
Ladies Football Senior Player of the Year: Leann
McParlan
Hurling Minor Player of the Year: Shane Murray
Hurling Senior Player of the Year - James Matthews
Memorial Trophy: Fionnbharr Murphy (presented by
Pat Matthews)
Men's Football
Minor Player of the Year - Brown Bros Trophy -
Arthur McConville & James Killen (Presented by Niall
Brown)
U20 Player of the Year - Pat Brown Trophy -
Darren O'Hagan & James Killen (presented by Arty Noel
McConville)
Thirds Player of the Year - Horse Shoe Bar Trophy -
Liam McGivern (presented by Enda McGinley)
Seconds Player of the Year -Bradley Trophy -Patrick
McGreevy (presented by Aidan Carr)
Senior Player of the Year - Peter McGinn Trophy -
Paul McConville (presented by Peter McGinn)
Club Person of the Year -Hugh McShane memorial trophy :
Sheenagh McConville (presented by Paula Cairns)
Hall of Fame - P J McAlinden
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Anne Donnelly, Mary Grant and Eileen Hamill (presented
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Juvenile Awards 2008 - The annual Juvenile
Awards brought in excess of two hundred young
people under the age of sixteen years to the
Clonduff Clubrooms on Friday 14th November. The
performances of the boys and girls who have been
active in the playing of Football, Hurling,
Camogie, Ladies Football or participated in Scór
na nÓg were recognised.
Special guests at the Awards Night were club
members who, themselves, not so long ago were
receiving juvenile awards - county senior
footballers John Fegan and Aidan Carr who were
joined by Aisling Hynes, captain of the winning
Junior Camogie Championship team. Awards
presented were:
U12B Camogie - Elizabeth Wilson, Mary Catherine
Murray, Emma McAlinden
U12A Camogie - Jenna Boden, Ciara Tumilty/Elaine
Murphy
U14 Camogie - Shannon O'Hagan
U16 Camogie - Grace Brown
U12 Hurling - Patrick Grant, Declan Rooney Rhys
Ward
U14 Hurling - Jamie Lowry, Conor McShane, Conor
Pio Gribben
U12 Ladies Football - Jenna Boden, Petrina
Lively, Elizabeth Wilson
U16 Ladies Football - Grace Brown, Hannah
O'Reilly, Tanya McAleenan
U10 Football - Michael Mulholland, Conor
Keenan/Shane McGarry, Lorcan McAteer
U11 Football - Darragh O'Hanlon, Charlie Carr,
Conor Murray
U12 Football - Conor Murray/Ryan Ward, Darragh
O'Hanlon, Mark Devlin
U14 Football - Conall brown, Darren Harper,
Shaun Murnin
U16 Football - Tony McGreevy, Conor Grant,
Patrick Matthews/Sean Hughes
The Clonduff representatives on both the St
Colman's Rannafast and Corn na nÓg winning teams
were acknowledged. They were: Rannafast - Ché
Curran, Darragh Sherry, Shane McGreevy, Tony
McGreevy, Rory Lively, Karl O'Hagan, Rory
McGreevy, Paul Lively; Corn na nÓg - Eamon
Grant, Conor Brown, John Brown, Conor Gribben,
Shay Murnin
Seven young boys from the club, who achieved
their 'Young Whistlers' awards were also
recognised. They were: Henry Brown, Rory
McGreevy, Paul Lively, Darragh Sherry, Ché
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Awards and Dinner Dance 2007
(Click on
the picture of the 'Rose among the Thorns' (right) to view a
slideshow)
A great night was had by
all at the Annual Awards night in the Balmoral
Hotel on Friday 14th March. Guest of Honour was Jarlath
Burns and with aspiring Fír an Tí, Francis Quinn taking
charge of proceedings it was certainly a night of great
entertainment - Jerry Quinn was also to hand - or was it
the other way round?. Other guests included Maureen O'Higgins
and Deirdre McGrath (Down Camogie Board), Brian McEvoy (Down
Co Board Vice Chairman and former Hurling Chairman) and Maria
Fox (Ladies Co Secretary).
Winnings teams - Senior Ladies -
Championship and League, Senior
Camogs - Championship and League, Seconds and Minor Footballer
Champions were presented
with their medals;
Special Presentations to Danny Nugent and
Arthur McConville who were acknowledged as members of the
All Ireland Hurling Minor C title; Karen Gribben,
Fionnuala Carr and Jackie Gilmore acknowledged as
University Camogie All Stars and Paula Gribben and Sara
Louise Carr as Schools Camogie All Stars! Clonduff
representatives on the Ulster Camogie team that won their
first Interprovincial title in 40 years - Moya Maginn, Karen
Gribben, Fionnuala and Sara Louise Carr.
Individual Award winners:
Senior Footballer of the Year - John Fegan
Intermediate Camogie Player of the Year - Clare Haughian
Senior Hurler of the Year - Kieran Smith
Minor Footballer of the the Year - Patrick McGreevy
Senior Ladies Player of the Year -
Michaela Downey
Minor Hurler of the Year
- Danny Nugent
Senior Camogie Player of the Year - Fionnuala Carr
U20/21 Player of the Year - Conor óg O'Hagan
Seconds Football Player of the Year - Kieran Trainor
Minor Camogie Player of the Year -
Lisa McPolin
Hall of Fame - Dean A Davies
Club Personality of the Year - Anita Brannigan
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Over 200 youngsters were
entertained with a meal and disco in Clonduff Clubrooms at the
annual Juvenile presentation awards for 2007. Guests of Honour
were Barney McAleenan (former Head of PE at St Mark's High
School); Gareth 'Magic' Johnston (Down Hurling) and Fionnuala
Carr (Clonduff dual player and national Camogie Star). The
evening was co-ordinated by the Youth sub-committee and
co-ordinated by Paul Shields (Youth Officer) and Alistair
McGilligan (Assistant YO) who was Fír an Tí on the night. |
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Clonduff held their Annual Awards and Dinner Dance
for 2006 in The Golf Inn, Newry on Friday 16th
March. Upwards on 200 patrons attended to recognise the
success of the Club on the field
of Play.
Fear an Tí Jerry Quinn introduced the proceedings and
the special guests. Club President Dean A Davies and
Club Chairman Brian McGreevy both addressed the patrons
with short speeches.
First up were the triple winning Minor Camogs - League
and Championship double and Feis 7s. Maureen
O'Higgins (Down County Camogie Chairperson was the Guest
of Honour). Awards were: Senior Player of the Year
Fionnuala Carr; Intermediate Player of the Year Sheenagh McConville: joint Minor Players of the
Year Sarah Farnon and Naoimh Hynes. Special
Club presentations were made to Kitty Fegan joint Manager Down Minor All
Ireland winning team and the Clonduff representatives on
it - Sarah Farnon, Paula Gribben, Sara Louise Carr, Lisa
McPolin and Ursula Walls. Sarah Farnon also made a
presentation to Kitty on behalf of the Clonduff Minors
whom she also managed. Third Level Education winners
(Purcell Shield) - Karen Gribben, Orla Maginn and Mary
McPolin were also acknowledged - Karen's All Star was also
acknowledged as was Fionnuala Carr's Ashbourne All Star
and her two Long Puck titles (Ashbourne and Kilmacud).
The Senior Ladies County Football Champions were next up
- Paul Kelly (Down Ladies Chairman) singled out Paula
Gribben's dual All Ireland successes in Football and
Camogie during 2006 as a feat that will seldom be
repeated. Karen Gribben and Aoibheann Downey
were joint winners of the Senior Player of the Year
award. The Club made a special award to Paula Gribben on
her dual All Ireland success and to Michaela Downey on
her Compromise Rules call up. On behalf of the Senior
team, Karen Gribben made presentations to mentors Paul
McShane, John A Gribben, Austin Ward and Johnny
McAleavey and to the ladies involved Rita Kearney and
Anita Brannigan.
Fear an Tí, in introducing the Hurling awards mentioned
the inclusion of Clonduff players on the Down Senior
team and St Mark's High School Warrenpoint, - ten
Clonduff players on the team when they won the Down
title;
Clonduff was also fielding Hurling teams at U12 to U18
level in the coming season and the special challenges
this would present so that young people would have to
opportunity to play both football and Hurling. Paudie
Matthews presented the James Matthew trophy to Senior
Player of the Year and County Player John Murphy
Pride of Place in the Men's Football scene went to the
Minor team who clinched the B Championship. Individual
awards were as follows: Minor Player of the Year Darren
O'Hagan; U21 Player of the Year Shane O'Hagan, Thirds
Player of the Year (joint) Austin Ward and Liam
McGivern; Seconds Player of the Year (joint) Rory Grant
and Paudi Brown; Senior Player of the Year Paul Shields
(he also won this award in 1999). Special Club awards
were made to Rory Grant (Hogan Cup with Abbey CBS) and
Aidan Carr (Sigerson Cup with QUB).
The County Secretary Seamus Walsh addressed the crowd as
did Nigel McPolin, Chairperson Clonduff Development
committee who gave a rundown on developments to date.
Hugh McShane Memorial Cup - Club Personality of the Year
presented by Gerard McShane to Sean Milligan,
son-in-law of the next recipient.
P J McAlinden Memorial Cup - 'Hall of Fame'
award presented by Club Chairman Brian McGreevy to
John 'Darner' O'Hagan who took great pleasure in the
award and told the gathering that he had made club
history as his father had won the award in 1982. To the
delight of the crowd he told them the jersey he wore was
not yellow but 'Gold'.
In conclusion, Fear an Tí Jerry Quinn congratulated all
the individual winners and on behalf of the Club, wished
Clonduff's new County Football manager Ross Carr every
success in the remainder of the League and the
forthcoming Championship. |
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Senior Award
Winners for 2005! |
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| Tommy Kelly (An Rúnai),
Dean A Davies (President) and Brian McGreevy (Chairman)
with the Football Players of the Year award winners -
Conor óg O'Hagan (U21 - he also shared the Minor award),
Mark McPolin (Seconds), Paudie Matthews (Senior) and
Nigel McPolin (Thirds) |
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| Paddy Morgan
presents the INF trophy to Bridget Kearney for Senior
Ladies Player of the Year. Looking on is Catherine
McConville Down Ladies Board |
Lisa
Matthews presenting the James Matthews trophy to Damian
Farnon for Senior Hurler of the Year |
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four lovelies from Clonduff were involved in
Universities Camogie during 2005-06. Moya Maginn (UUJ),
Karen Gribben (QUB), Fionnuala Carr (UUJ) and Mary
McPolin (QUB). Karen captained the winning Cup team and
Mary was on the team. Moya and Fionnuala were on the
Runner-up Shield team. They are pictured with Helen
McAleavey (Clonduff and Ulster Camogie Secretary),
Eileen Hamill (Chairperson Clonduff Camogie) and Maura
Quinn (Clonduff Camogie) |
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| Gerald McGreevy (Snr)
receives the P J McAlinden 'Hall of Fame' Award
from Bronagh McAlinden. Gerry has been a player and an
administrator (including Chairman) and still takes an
active interest in the Club's activities |
Sean Cairns accepts
the Hugh McShane Trophy for 'Club Person of the Year'
from his wife (and the late Hugh's daughter) Goretti.
Sean is actively involved in Juvenile football and
Senior Hurling |
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Players who were honoured at the Annual Awards for 2005
- Conor óg O'Hagan and Bernard Branagan (Joint Players
of the Year) and Shane O'Hagan (All Ireland Championship
team
2005) |
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The 2003 Club awards took place in March 2004.
History was made when Rosemary Carr became the first female to be
awarded the 'Hall of Fame'. Rosemary is pictured above receiving the
P J McAlinden Memorial Trophy from Bronagh McAlinden. |
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