Cream rises to the top at the county senior Scór final

THE cream of Kerry’s talent was very much on display at the Estuary Print and Trophies sponsored County Senior Scór Finals in Mhuire Gan Small NS, Castleisland last Saturday where another wonderful evening of entertainment was thoroughly enjoyed by the good sized attendance who showed their appreciation of all clubs.

Bean a’ Tí was Suzanne Ni Laoire, Secretary of Coiste Scór Chiarrai who kept everything running smoothly. There was a good spread of winners from the District Boards involved; from the Tralee / St Brendans Board there was success for both

Austin Stacks in Set Dancing and Ballymacelligott in Ballad Group, East Kerry Board did likewise with Fossa in Instrumental Music and Glenflesk in Figure Dancing. Not to be outdone Crotta O’Neills from the North Kerry Hurling Board with Sonny Egan at the helm who went through in both Solo Singing and Recitation.

The remaining discipline, Leiriu, was won by Asdee from the North Kerry Football Board. It was an extra special occasion at the end of the competition for the Crotta O’Neills club when they were awarded the overall club of the night, which was presented to their club cultural officer, Thomas Breen.

Prior to the main event Churchill were successful in the quiz by a one point margin after a ding dong struggle over last year’s All Ireland finalists Rathmore and due to a change in this category the County final winners will go directly through to the All Ireland final.

All those winners who were presented with their medals by Christy Kileen, Oifigeach Cultura Chiarraí go through to the Munster Finals which will be staged in the Community Centre, Cappamore, County Limerick on Saturday March 10 at 6pm.

The winners were:

Figure Dancing

Glenflesk: Aoife Cronin, Áine O’Sullivan, Mary O’Sullivan, Rose Kelliher, Orla Kelliher, Aoife Kelliher, Katelynn O’Keeffe, Juliet O’Shea (substitute - Kate Logan)

Solo Singing

Sonny Egan (Crotta O’Neills)

Recitation

Sonny Egan (Crotta O’Neills)

Ballad Group

Ballymacelligott: John Scanlon, Lei Zhang, Ciara Moriar ty, Amanda Mannix, Anna Maria Brosnan Leiriu

Asdee: Kathleen Carmody, Mairead Doyle, Ann Maria Tydings, Barry Francis, Gerdie O’Carroll, Jack Hennessy

Instrumental Music

Fossa: Amy Moriarty, Mary Kelliher, Sean Kelliher, Cian O’Sullivan, Mike Kelliher

Set Dancing

Austin Stacks: John Flynn, Bernie Mannix, Eamon O’Reilly, Tracey Williams, Mike Hurley, Helen Enright, Tadhg Meehan, Joan Casey

Quiz

Churchill: Michael Gaynor, Paul Culloty, John Flaher ty, Alex O’Donnell