Mid-Tipperary Senior Hurling Final Match Programme 1986 MOYCARKEY - BORRIS G.A.A. CLUB , ,- CLUICHI CEANNAIS IOMANA TIOBRAID ARANN LAIR AT LI'ITLETON ON SUNDAY, 17th AUGUST, 1986 SOUVENIR PROGRAMME SENIOR HURLING FINAL: 3.30 p.m. HOLYCROSS-BALLYCAHILL v LOUGHMORE CASTLEINEY REFEREE: DONAL O'GORMAN (THURlES SARSFIELOS) Preceded at 2 p.m. by U/ 21 HURLING FINAL BOHERLAHAN-DUALLA v DROM-INCH REFEREE : WILLIAM O'GRADY (MOYNE-TEMPlETUOHY) LUACH SOp Printtd by Ktnntdy Print Ltd., Bonto/ Gou, Clonmel. (0.52) 23268 TEACHTAIREACHT ON- CATHAOIRLEACH Is e mo phibhleid ar son Cumann Luthchleas Roinn Thiobrad Arann Meanach failte a cur riomh gach einne Ita ansea inniu. Is dO Itom go mbeidh sar cluiche ceannais sinsir idir Mainister nl Craise agus luach Ma~ - Caislea;n Aoibhne agus fe 21 idir Druim-Inse agus Bothair Leathan. In extending a welcome to everyone attending our Mid Tipperary hurling finals in Littleton it is only right to congratulate all the teams playing in games tooday on their achievements in reaching this stage of the competitions and to extend to the county qualifiers our best wishes for county honours. Also wishing the referees and their officials trouble free and sporting matches, In the U/21 final we have Drom-Inch and 8oherlahan-Dualla, both clubs have been fairly successful at under age level in recent years and we can look forward to a keenly contested game. In the senior final we have Holycross-Ballycahill. steeped in hurling tradition and Lou\tlmore-Castleiney more renowned for their football ability. Holycross ~re defending champions and are most peoples fancy to win the title for the second time in a row, having defeated Drom-Inch and Moycarkey-8orris on their way to the final. Loughmore-CastJeiney on the other hand lost their first round match to Thodes ~rsfields but in the loser's group defeated Drom-Irteh and Boherlahan and in the semi-final defeated Moyne-Templetuohy. They will be hoping to capture their second title to-day. With the present low standard of hurling in the county it is up to the teams remaining in the race for county honours to raise the standard of play and the morale of our supporters. I am confident that to-day's final will be a good start in that regard. I know than the Moycarkey-Borris club will have everything in top class shape for to-day's finals. Gurim Rath De ar ar cluichi go leir. Pat Cullen (Chairman). Congratulations and Best Wishes to the Mid Tipperary G.A.A. Board on the 1986 Senior Hurling Final --_._ .... ----~ Looking fonvard to a great game between I/olycross and Loughmore which may hearld a new era for Tipperary Hurling When in Clonmel call to Gerard Chawk e. 3 Upper Gladstone Street Select Lounge for Best Drinks and Personal Attention Best Wishes to Mid Board for Senior Hurling Final Tommy Long Wheel ~ ~ Best Drinks Served and Personal Attention Assu red After the Game 0111 to Have a Bite BENNY QUINN'S BAR Before and After the Game at Littleton ROADRUNNER Take Away Main St., Littleton Proprietors. Noel & Janet Purcell r -~o>--, I FAIL TE GO BAILE DAITH Ar son Cumann Luthchleas Gael Mogh Coirce - Buirgeos faiftim gach einne go Baile Daith or 10 cluichi ceannain sinsear agus fef21. To sui! ogam go mbeidh cluichi brea sportuil againn ogus go mbainfidh goch einne taitneamh as an la. As chairman of the Moycarkey-Borris G.A.A. club it gives me great pleasure to welcome all to the division's showpiece of} 986. A specilll welcome to the finolistJ Holycross-Ballycohill and Loughmore-Cast/einey on their fint meetillK in a senior decider and to the UI2}'s ofBoherlohan-f)uQlIo and Dram . Inch. four club!> steeped in Mid Tipperary gaeJdom. I hope the gomes will be played in the sporting and thrilling monner that befits the ocCtlsion and that both players. officl4ls and you the spectators will take away many happy memories of this 1986 Mid double decker in Littleton. In conclusion I wish to t/wnk all associated with (D-day's promotion and may the best teams win. Beir beannacht ogus blUl. Einri 0 Riain (Cathaoirleach) BUIOCHAS This programme is produced by Moycarkey-Borris C.L.C.G. and distributed by members of our under age teams. We wish to thank our advertisers and ask our patrons to support them. Sincere thanks too to our contributors and the four participating clubs for their excellent co-operation. also Mid Board secretary. Mr. Tom O'Hara for his invaluable support. I hope that the four teams, officials and spe<:taton will enjoy their short visit to Littleton and that players will emerge from to-day's deciders to lead their club onto county honours and provide the leadership from the Mid division to restore Tipperary to its rightful place on the hurting fields. Jimmy Fogarty Programme editor. - MEMORIES OF LITTLETON Littleton, 85 we first knew it was just 8 plain ordinary field the sort of think the rural clubs availed of; rented father than owned; fenced with stakes and barbed wire; chosen for central parish location more than for being more level In terrain than a hundred other fields around it. Some sideline seating was provided for the bigger matches but mostely people stood behind the wire. Good weather was a bonus - and it wasn't always good, My own first attempt to see a game in littleton got no further than the cross of Pautdine, where II few of us were deposited for shelter in the shed behind Shine's shop. where the Moycarkey Band used to practice - the adults cycled 00 to the game. That, I think, was a Sarsfields V. Bohllrlahan one of the early 40's when hurling was quite intense, and hardy too As youngSlers we did most of our hurling in townsland, local fields with stones for goaloposts but eventually qraduated to the main pdrish practice centre, I can clearly recall the atmosphere and the iay-oYt - the rou~ and unpredictably worn "Square" off which the boonee of the ball Win hard to judge; the bushes behind the goal, into which a ball could disappear and take some finding, the sunken ground nearer to the road, where the cars are parked today - it was a WIlderness, repository of all sorts of rubbish, often partely flooded. The late 20's, apparently, saw the field take over from Ballyerk as the established training and playing venue, though for a few years It was replac.d by a field at the Jockey. The return to James F. Meagher's premises - he lives now in Dublin­ meant the the fine champion MOtp'C8rkey-Borris teams of the 3D', trained there, and It has ever sinee been the parish's hurling headquarters and venue for quite a few important club games - I recall seeing Slrsfields play Moyne-Templetouhy there in the mid--40's, the Thurles team led by John Maher and Moyne by Jimmy Travers. A later game of some not was in the mid-50's, when Sarsfields' powerful team go a great run from the home side in which the then minors Pat and Donal Ryan took a leading part. In earlier times there was one notably rugged affair between Sarsfields and Bohertahan, with which the names of Lanigan and Leahy were associated. Sports meetings of the N.A.C.A. were another Littleton feature­ the youngJonn Joe Barry won titles here, not far from his own Ballineurry. The modern story began in the late SO's when the field was finally bougnt. Th, vendOf then was Joe Murphy, successor in ownership to Jimmy Meagher. PossessIon was a proud feeling for the club, but entailed debt to be repaid; the Killenaule A.I.B. manager, Tom Ryan, had been the man to show confidence in our capacity. Prime source of revenue was the series of successful Sales of Work. timed for the pra..christmltS spending period and responded to by eager collectors and willing donon, with the late Rodge Ca!lanan 8 vital influence on the big day itself. Vesting in the G.A.A. was the next step - it put the club in line fOf the v.rious granu towards purchase and development. Well does one recall the POise of volunteers on I sunny winter day as the foundations were dog for the wall - and how touching to picture Father Bob and Gus working May with the RICHARD LOOBY EAMONN RYAN TY RE SERVICE Horsey & Jockey, Thurles CAR SALES Phone (0504) 4411 5 Ballymoreen, Littleton New & Remould Car 'Phone 44340 & Truck Tyres & Tubes For your next New or Jet Petrols & Oils Second-Hand Car J.L. Johnston ltd. Supermarket Thurles Fresh Food Specialists Congratulations to both (eams on reaching the Final LYONS TYRE & BATTERY SUPER VALUE IN TYRES AND BA TIERiES FAST, FRIENDLY, REUABLE & EFFICIENT SERVICE All leading brands stocked - car , commercial , agricultunland earthmover. Wh~1 balancing and fast puncture repair service. SLIEVENAMON ROAD, THURLES. PHONE ' (0504) 21233 CRADDOCK & TROY MOTOR FACTORS TURTULLA,THURLES Phone: 21950 Borg and Beck Clutches Dagenite Batteries Specialists in Glasurit Paints MuolOils Range of Tractor parts & Car accessories rest. The dressing·rooms, dedicated to the Late Fr. Harkin, followed in logical order, with improved terracing on the village side, bringing the premises to today's position, as it hosts the Mid Division's game of the year. We hope the deplorable summer of '86 finds one of its drier and sunnier days for the occasion. John O'Grady ("Culbaire") LITTLETON SPORTSFIELO To-day's venue has been the main hurling arena in the Moycarkey-Borris parish for half a century.