Hall of Fame

IT’S 58 years since a young Billy Doolan played his first game for Kilcummin’s senior team and it’s fair to say and evident to anyone that knows him that he still retains the love and enthusiasm for a club that he believes epitomises all that is good in his native parish.

A senior player from 1962 to 1981 with Kilcummin he won a senior county championship medal with East Kerry in 1965, but winning an O Donoghue Cup medal in 1973 with his club is closest to his heart.

During that period he doubled as club secretary in ’63,’64, and ’65 and club chairman in 1972 and 1973 already showing evidence of his desire to improve the workings and structure of the club for current players and future generations.

After his football days were over he turned his energies to developing a fledgling juvenile organisation that was to reap great benefits in later years. Between 1981 and 1985 he was a major driving force in the development of facilities, upgrading the senior pitch, acquiring a juvenile field and building dressing rooms and sports hall.

Indeed the development and maintenance of playing facilities became very much a passion for Billy and remains so to this day believing that playable pitches are a clubs greatest asset. This is particularly true in Kilcummin with its ever increasing population and membership and Billy even only last year oversaw the completion of further playing surfaces to address this necessity.

Billy has been an invaluable member of the clubs executive until two years ago where his guidance and expertise was invaluable and welcomed. He served as club PRO for a period of 10 years up to 2013 his aim being to present his club and the