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Loughmore Castleiney Club History

CLUB OFFICERS FOR 2007 ARE

Chairman:

Eamon Sweeney V/Chairman:

Dick Egan, Dan Egan Secretary:

John Treacy Ass. Secretary: Jimmy Hennessy Treasurer:

Tom McGrath P.R.O.:

Pat Healy

JUVENILE CLUB

Chairman:

Pat O Connell Secretary:

Jimmy Hennessy Treasurer:

Bernie McGrath RR.O.

Pat Healy

Loughmorc's Evan Sweeney gets his shot dcsprtc the bcst cfforts of Ncnagh Śirc ógs Ritchie Flanncry and Paul Brennan following through.

Club Development: The

achievements of the parishes of Loughmore and Castleiney on the playing fields has been well docu-mented down the years with almost every title coming to the club.

While winning is the main target of every club and county. playing facilities must also be a huge part of the structure. Back in 1978 our present playing field in Cuiguilla, Castleiney. was pur-chased and developed with a new building including two dressing rooms, referees room and toilets. This was a major breakthrough at the time from players having to tog out at the ditch or later in cars etc.

Present day trends show that our present facilities are no longer sufficient to cater for underage teams in partic-ular which now have many girls playing the gamę. This year under the guidance of club chairman Eamon Sweeney a major fund raiser in conjunction with the Irish Guide Dogs was set up. A hard working committee and a huge team of volunteers set out over the August Bank Holiday weekend through the towns and villages ofTip-perary and further beyond including Limerick, Cork. Waterford. Wexford, Kil-kenny and Dublin. This involved a carpet push spon-sored by Hanafin Furniturre and Carpets, Stradavoher, Thurles.

This proved a huge success despite the inclement weath-er that prevailed at the time.

Plans are drawn up for our proposed new building of extra dressing rooms, meet-ing room, referees room, extra toilets etc. As this stage it is hoped that every-thing will be in place for go ahead in 2008.

The venture is looked upon to facilitate the youth of the parishes of Lough-more/Castleiney, where the amount of young people coming to the play the games are thankfully increasing all the time. The success of our teams both at juvenile and adult level prove that the club is in a very strong State and will continue to do so. The development at Cuiguilla when completed will no doubt add a new dimension to facilities, but a lot of fund raising lies ahead and the hard grafting must continue to achieve this aim. Victory today would certainly make it all worth while.

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