Clubmucksaround fora‘Savage’event
OVER 200 children and adults put their best foot forward after Christmas by taking part in Glynn Barntown GAA Club’s first annual ‘Muck Savage Saturday’ adventure run.
The brainchild of Ladies Football club chairman Barry Kirwan, the event saw participants taking on a 2.5k and 5k pitchside and woodland adventure courses, with plenty of opportunity to get mucked to the neck! Every senior member of the club took
part in the event, be it by pouring tea in the clubhouse afterwards or stewarding the courses, while the committee was praised for its work on organising the event.
Ladies Football club PRO Meabh Cooney said that the kids began their 2.5k run at 10 a.m. and she was amazed by how quickly most of them completed it: ‘ The first kid home did it in about 13 minutes - they were back in no time.’
The route began at the club grounds and took in the surrounding countryside and Carrigmannon woods and there were prizes for the fastest male and female in three cateogries.
In the U10 category, Ross English and Ciara Laffan were the fastest boy and girl home. In the U14 section, Conor Lyne and Ciara Martin were the two fastest competitors. Finally, Seamie Harding and Annette Moroney were the fastest man and woman home.
Meabh explained that six of the stewards who ran the 2.5k kids’ race subsequently turned around and ran the 5k race themselves. She added that one group of competitors was the newly crowned Minor Premier Camogie champions who became the first underage camogie team to win a Premier title a few weeks earlier.
Meabh remarked: ‘It was a great day that everyone seemed to enjoy and we’d be confident that it will run again next year. A lot of people were sorry that they hadn’t signed up to do it this year. We had a lot of people who weren’t members of the club but who went away saying that they’d come back again to do it.’
Refreshments were provided after the run and a DJ kept the tunes blaring for the duration of the event.