Inside: Allianz Cumann na mBunscol News l Photos/Stories Galore Winter 2015 Volume 20 Number 1 €3.00 Cornmarket Cumann na mBunscol www.thegreenandwhite.com National Awards Publication of the Year Gaelic Games 2015 in Limerick Primary Schools All Ireland Featuring Pallaskenry NS, Patrickswell NS, Milford NS Success! & lots more We celebrate with Limerick’s Magnificent U-21 hurlers Meet the Stars We talk to Diarmaid Byrnes, Barry Nash & many more... US PL Puzzles, Competitions and more... The Green & White Winter 2015 Winter 2015 Issue Number 58 Winter 2015 Volume 20 Number 1 Follow us on Twitter @LimerickGAAzine The Throw In At the start of the year, supporters of every This issue county team in Ireland dream of success. Success may be 2 The Throw In promotion… or avoiding relegation. For some, success may 3 News mean winning a first round game. For others, anything other than an All-Ireland title is regarded as failure. In Limerick, we 4 Cumann na mBunscol News do not belong to the latter group. After all, Limerick has won 5 Meet Diarmaid Byrnes just one All Ireland senior hurling title since 1940. However, 6 INTO Mini Sevens 18 Limerick teams have contested All-Ireland finals, Munster 8 Success for Limerick Under 21 Hurlers finals and featured regularly in Croke Park. Better than most, 10 Back to School for Patrickswell’s All Ireland stars Limerick followers have learnt an indisputable truth - nothing 12 The Green & White Shield beats success. Silverware….. that’s what all supporters want 13 The Primary Game and dream of. For Limerick, the dream came true in 2015 14 as Diarmaid Byrnes led Limerick to a fifth All Ireland Under East Limerick Schools 21 hurling title on a never-to-be forgotten night in Semple 16 South Limerick Schools Stadium. Months of hard work paid off as John Kiely’s 18 The Leader Cup charges brushed aside the challenge of a highly-rated 20 West Limerick Schools Wexford team to bring home the Cross of Cashel trophy. 22 Limerick City Schools Victories over Tipperary, Clare and Galway saw Limerick 24 The Lundon Eye progress to an All-Ireland final. Each game was a test of skill 26 Pallaskenry N.S. and character. At times in these games, Limerick looked to be 27 2015 Mayor’s Cup facing daunting odds but the boys in green and white faced every challenge with resolve and determination. 28 The Green & White on Holidays! A few short years ago, all the players featuring on the 30 Results Page Limerick panel appeared on the pages of The Green and 31 G&W Gallery White in the colours of their school team, or starring in the 32 Prize Crossword No. 58 Mackey Cup. The first Limerick jersey these boys earned was 33 Cartoon Corner in the Primary Game. Cian and Ronan Lynch, Tom Morrissey, 34 Fun & Puzzles Peter Casey…..the list is endless. All played together in the 35 In Off the Post Primary Game or Mackey Cup. Shrewd observers saw their 36 The Back Door potential. And now potential has become success. Which of the boys and girls in this issue will taste All-Ireland glory in the Limerick colours? There is no shortage of candidates. Doon CBS won the 2015 Limerick Leader Cup, defeating a talented Monaleen NS team. The Limerick minor teams of 2019 and 2020 will make interesting reading as the class of 2015 stakes its claim for glory. We predict a bright future for the girls of Milford NS who added the Green and White Shield to the Celtic Image Shield. They just couldn’t stop winning! Sixty-six boys and 28 girls wore the Limerick colours in the Primary Game in Ennis, Editors: Joe Lyons and Ciarán Crowe Design: ConsidineDesign.com Semple Stadium and the Gaelic Grounds. The conveyor belt Printing: Cube Printing of talent is as strong as ever. Don’t forget the boys and girls Sales: 5,200 per issue who played in front of huge attendances in Croke Park on Distribution: Gerry Bennis the biggest days in the GAA calendar. All thanks to the INTO and Noel Hartigan 087 958 1568 Secretary: Mabel Mullane (061) 355057 Cumann na mBunscol GAA Respect Exhibition Games. It could be your turn next year! Editorial Address: Patrickswell NS, Co. Limerick E-mail: [email protected] Luimneach abú, Twitter: @LimerickGAAzine www.thegreenandwhite.com Ciarán Crowe & Joe Lyons Front cover photo by Conor Wyse. www.conorwyse.ie Joint Editors 2 The Green & White Winter 2015 +++News+++News+++News+++ Dan Hickey…. A Friend News Snippets Seamus Hickey has taken over from Donal Óg Cusack at the to the Green and White head of the GPA (Gaelic Players Association). David Breen, a key member of Leinster Rugby’s backroom team, is tak- Limerick GAA lost one of its greatest servants when Dan Hickey ing a year out from playing with Limerick. Stephen Walsh passed to his eternal reward on July 31st. 2015. Dan’s name has announced his retirement from the inter-county hurling was synonymous with Na Piarsaigh GAA club. During the course scene. Joe Quaid, who guided Limerick to win an All Ireland of over four decades, Dan served the club in a variety of roles, Intermediate Camogie title in 2014 has taken over as manager including Chairman and Secretary, and was extremely effective of the Kildare hurling team. Ciarán Carey, whose Patrickswell and committed in all of them. Dan was a native of Cappawhite, team contested the 2015 Limerick SH county final, has taken Co.Tipperary but his contribution to Limerick sport, and hurl- over the reins with the Kerry hurling team. Four Limerick foot- ing in particular, was immense. At County Board level Dan was ballers and seven hurlers were selected on the Munster panels 18 an innovative Oifigeach na Gaeilge as well as acting as selec- for the 2015 interprovincial championships. John Tuohy, tor for Limerick teams in all grades of hurling. However, it was Principal of St. Paul’s NS, has been appointed as manager of as Chairman of the Limerick Development Committee that Dan the Limerick senior camogie team. really made his mark. ‘The Green and White’ is now in its 20th. year, but back in the summer of 1996, it was Dan’s vision and enthusiasm that gave the magazine the kickstart it needed. When the editors approached him with the genesis of the idea of a publication for young followers of Gaelic Games, Dan pledged that the Limerick Development Committee would fund the very first issue. The Committee provided the sum of seven hundred pounds (£700) to cover the cost of an initial print run of 5,000 copies of a 16- page magazine, with all pages in black and white. The first issue was launched in Na Piarsaigh clubhouse by the then Limerick hurling manager Tom Ryan. The rest, as they say, is his- tory. Limerick Development Committee has consistently supported ‘The Green and White’ since then and the magazine has gone from strength to strength. Twenty years on, the faith Dan Hickey showed in the idea of a magazine for young followers of Gaelic Games has been rewarded. Under Dan Hickey’s stewardship, the Limerick Development Committee consistently supported the work of Cumann na mBunscol and invested in the young boys and girls The 8 Limerick Under 21 hurlers who play our native games. who were named Limerick GAA has lost a great friend. Ar dheis Dé go raibh sé. on Team of Year 8 Limerick Players on 2015 Bord Gáis Energy Team of the Year! 1. David McCarthy (Limerick) 2. Liam Ryan (Wexford) 3. Richie English (Limerick) BGE player of the year 4. Mikey Breen (Tipperary) 5. Diarmaid Byrnes (Limerick) 6. Barry O’Connell (Limerick) 7. Jack O’Connor (Wexford) 8. Darragh O’Donovan (Limerick) 9. Pat Ryan (Limerick) 10. Bobby Duggan (Clare) 11. Cian Lynch (Limerick) 12. Ian Galvin (Clare) Dan Hickey, flanked by the editors of the G&W, with Gerry Bennis 13. Brian Molloy (Galway) at the launch of the first issue of the magazine in Na Piarsaigh GAA Club, in 1996 14. Conor Mc Donald (Wexford) 15. Tom Morrissey (Limerick) 3 The Green & White Winter 2015 Cumann na mBunscol News Cumann na mBunscol Primary Game Notes Certificates For the of Merit Record At the recent AGM of Allianz Cumann Allianz Cumann na na mBunscol - Luimnigh. mBunscol Contae Luimnigh, Joe Lyons, Chairman Football Fixtures. of Cumann na Thursday 12th November mBunscol Luimnigh 2015. presented Certificates of Merit (Venue to be decided) to Monaleen N.S., Patrickswell 11.30.a.m. Larkin Shield N.S. and St. Paul’s N.S., Ruairi Walsh and John Tuohy accept a Certicate of Merit (Girls) City V South. Dooradoyle. on behalf of St Paul’s NS 12.30.p.m. Larkin Shield (Girls) East V West. 1.30.p.m. Sarsfield Cup (Boys) City V South. 2.30.p.m. Sarsfield Cup (Boys) East V West. Final: Tuesday 17th November at the Gaelic Grounds. Larkin Shield Final (Girls) at 6.30.p.m. Sarsfield Cup Final (Boys) Matt Flanagan accepts a Certicate of Merit on at 7.30.p.m. Ciaran Crowe accepts behalf of Monaleen NS a Certicate of Merit on Friday 20th November behalf of Patrickswell NS 2015. (Venue to be decided.) 11.30.a.m. Celtic Image Shield (Girls) West V East. Milford N.S. were very 12.30.p.m. Celtic Image active (and successful!) Shield (Girls) South V City. in the Allianz Cumann 1.30.p.m. County Football na mBunscol leagues Shield (Boys) East V South. 2.30.p.m. County Football in 2015.