MANORHAMILTON

NEW GAA STORY

A fabulous enlarged new edition of the Glencar/Manorhamilton GAA Story has just been printed and is now on sale in Manorhamilton.

This is a general and social history of the GAA locally, including Ladies’ Football, from 1903 to 2020 covering the Manorhamilton, Glencar, Lurganboy, and Mullies which is the current Glencar Manorhamilton Club catchment area.

The first edition of the Glencar Manorhamilton GAA Story which was launched on August 3, 2019, by Tommy Moran in the Glens Centre, Manorhamilton coincided with the Glencar Manorhamilton GAA Club’s Golden Jubilee.

The new enlarged edition covers an additional two years, which includes the golden jubilee year celebrations, the official opening of the new Boggaun pitch and facilities, the winning of the Senior Championship for the seventh time and the Ladies Senior team’s winning the championship for the first time in 2020.

The book has new stories and is populated with many photographs capturing the sporting achievements, plus the enjoyment and participation of the community over the years.

Hurling was the first Gaelic sport played in the area when a team called Manorhamilton

Shamrocks was formed in December 1903.

They won the senior County Championship in 1906 but this cannot be verified. Over the next 30 years there are only a few records of hurling been played. From the mid to late 1930s and the 1950s there was a very good Manorhamilton hurling team.

Hurling petered out after this and it was in the early 2000s before hurling was re-established and has gone from strength to strength. It was the Manorhamilton Shamrocks Hurling Club that proposed the forming of a Gaelic football club in May 1905, called the O’Rourke’s Gaelic Football Club. The first reported Gaelic football game was played under the Shamrocks Club name in January 1908 against Ballintogher in the Bee Park. The new enlarged Glencar/Manor GAA Story is available in MacManus Pharmacy, Caz Cards, Gurn’s Milestone Lounge, McCormack’s Mace, Killasnett Co-Op, and Mullin’s Petrol Station Shop.

NW STOP GROWS FAST

North West STOP chairperson Tom O’Reilly,in his address to the organisation’s recent annual general meeting, which was held via Zoom, stated he was ‘delighted North West STOP had grown rapidly in the past two years.

‘We had wondered if we could survive two years ago and look at where we are now. This is due to our counsellors on the ground. I thank Dermot Lahiff (the Counsellors Coordinator) for his work day in day out, week in week out.’.

North West STOP Officers: chairperson Tom O’Reilly, vice-chairperson Nicola O’Connor, secretary Annie Cull, assistant secretary: Deirdre O’Hagan, treasurer Tina McSharry, assistant treasurer Colin Gilligan, communications officer (Facebook, Twitter/Instagram) Róisín Murphy, assistant communications officer Michelle McNama, PRO PJ Leddy; committee Delma Cull, Kathleen O’Hagan, Joanna McWeeney, Aoife Keaney, Dermot Lahiff.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

A happy and successful new year is wished to all readers and thanks is extended to everyone who submitted items to be included in the Sligo Champion Manorhamilton District News in the past year.

DISTRICT NEWS

Please email all items for next week’s (Tuesday, January 5) Sligo Champion Manorhamilton District News to PJ Leddy pjleddy@yahoo.com by 8 a.m. at the latest on this Thursday morning, December 31.