The last of a great Kanturk team passes on

THE death of Denis Singleton, Blarney and formerly of Watergate Place, Kanturk, removes the last link with the Kanturk Junior hurling team which took the Duhallow title in 1949 and lost out to Bandon in the county final.

Denis was goalkeeper on that Kanturk side. He also won a Novice football championship with Kanturk in 1952 and was a member of the first Kanturk team to win the Duhallow Junior Football Championship in 1954.

The late Denis also won a Cork Senior Football Championship medal in 1955 with Lees and was corner back on that team with the renowned ‘Big’ Donal O’Sullivan from Beara who later went on the be chairman of Cork GAA Board.

U21 HURLERS BACK IN CHAMPIONSHIP ACTION:

THE long wait since July for Kanturk U21 hurlers’ return to championship action comes to an end when they line out against Dromtarriffe on this Sunday, 16th December, at Kanturk’s Freemount Road pitch with a 2.15pm start.

Kanturk lost to Newmarket last time out but have been preparing quietly over the past number of weeks for this test and hope to put in a much stronger performance this time out.

AGM:

Kanturk GAA Club annual general meeting took place on Friday, 30th November at the GAA clubrooms and resulted in the following officers being elected:

Chairman Tom O’Callaghan, Vice Chairperson Elizabeth Ahern, Runai John Healy, Treasurer Edmund Barrett, PRO Francis Kenneally, Development Officer Joe Kearns, Childrens Officer Pat Bradley.

The positions of coaching officer and cultural officer are to be filled in the New Year.

Committee elected are: Jackie Carroll, Jim O’Connor, Sean Mc Loughlin, Henry O’Keeffe, Tom Walsh, Gerarda Mullane, Eddie Walsh with Frank Healy, John Kerrigan and Kieran Fitzgerald to be co-opted.