Club Notes: 19th December 2016
Club Lotto
Last week’s winning lotto numbers were 2-10-24-26, and there was no winner. €20 winners were Liam Casey, Anthony & Siobhan Walsh, John Luke McGrath, Eddie Leahy, and Oliver Flanagan. Next week’s jackpot will be a massive €19,200.
Christmas Lotto Draw.
This week’s special Christmas draw will be held on Friday instead of Saturday which is Christmas Eve, and along with the super jackpot of €19,200, there will be extra draws for biscuits and chocolates as well as other goodies. So if you’re not in you can’t win…..
Annual General Meeting.
Last Friday the AGM of the Shamrocks Club took place in Knockanore. Treasurer Johnny Baldwin, giving his 47th successive report informed the meeting that although the club was in a good position financially, our expenditure outweighed our income, so the club was running at a loss. This is an issue that will have to be addressed urgently. Secretary Ann O’Keeffe and Chairman Liam Ahearne both gave a rundown of the club’s activities during 2016. The election of officers took place next. The officers elected were Chairman Liam Ahearne, vice chairman James Tobin, Secretary Ann O’Keeffe, assistant secretary Padraig Tobin, Treasurer Eamonn Lonergan, assistant treasurer Thomas Baldwin, PRO & Health and Wellbeing officer Frank Roche, Insurance Officer Padraig Tobin, Membership Officer Mark Baldwin. The committee members were elected en bloc with two additions, Cathal Herlihy and Tommy O’Donovan. The special committee set up to pick a new management team for both the hurling and football teams recommended Paul Connery, and his selectors chosen are Tim Lenehan, Padraig Tobin, Mike Leahy, and Sean Murphy for Intermediate hurling, and Declan Butler, Padraig Tobin, and Tim Lenehan for the football team. Joe Ahearne, Martin O’Keeffe, and Peter Morrisson for the Junior Hurling team. The meeting ratified the new management team after a lively discussion. After a few odds and ends were tidied up the meeting was adjourned. The one disappointing feature of this AGM was the amount of players who were conspicuous by their absence. It was one of the most poorly attended AGMs I’ve ever witnessed. Do our players not realize it’s their club’s future we are discussing?? We wish the new management team the best of luck in the coming year.
Johnny Baldwin.
Johnny Baldwin was appointed Treasurer of the Shamrocks for the first time on the 12th of January 1970. The accounts for that year came to £16 /10shillings in the red. Over the next 46 years he steered the club through good years and not so good, while the accounts rose to the tune of over €100,000 handled every year. This would be quite a task for a trained accountant let alone someone doing it in his spare time while running his own business at the same time. I could safely say there was rarely a penny went missing or unaccounted for in those 46 years. He also oversaw the setting up of the lotto draw and was an ever present at each draw every saturday night. By any stretch of the imagination that’s an impressive achievement. Shamrocks owe Johnny a huge debt of gratitude for his outstanding service to the club that stretches over 50 years as an officer, as he served 3 years as Secretary before he took on the financial job. I don’t know if that’s a record in the GAA but it deserves mention. We wish Johnny well in his future endeavours, and I know he has already stepped up to another role in the parish. Eamonn Lonergan is the man with the unenviable task of filling his shoes, but I’m sure he’s more than capable. Thank you Johnny, from all in the club.
Changing of the guard! – Johnny Baldwin handing over the reins to new Treasurer Eamonn Lonergan.
Margaret Geary RIP
post of the death of Margaret Geary nearly two weeks ago was recieved with shock in the parishes despite her health problems in recent times. Margaret and Paddy were ever present at all Shamrock matches, they rarely missed one. We offer our sympathies to Paddy and all Margaret’s friends and relations. As dheis De go raibh a anam.
Seasons Greetings.
To all our players, officers, committee, ticket promotors, and supporters, we wish you all a Happy and Peaceful Christmas, and lots of success and health in the New Year.