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Core Business: the LCC 2018 Tyrone GAA Club Championships Draw

Core Business: the LCC 2018 Tyrone GAA Club Championships Draw

Príomhghnó…Core Business: 7 u Meitheamh 2018… The LCC 2018 Tyrone GAA Club Championships Draw

The LCC 2018 Tír Eoghain Craobh Peile Sinsear The LCC 2018 Tír Eoghain Craobh Peile Idirmheanach v v The v v v v v v 2018 Tyrone GAA Club v v v v Championships…Cluiche v v v v Ceannais Thír Eoghain 2018 The LCC 2018 Tír Eoghain Craobh Peile Soisearach v v Failte Romhat/Welcome!

v Tonight is a very special night in the Tyrone GAA calendar, the This is also a landmark event for us as we welcome our new Club night when we find out our various ‘Championship roads’ for 2018. Championship sponsors, LCC Group. LCC Group are a business and v The Club Championships lie at the heart of the GAA and remain the community inspiration to us all, having built something very special core currency for evaluating the worth of players and teams. It’s very here in the heart of Mid-Ulster. It is, simply, very good for us in Tyrone v proper that we should celebrate our Championships as we are doing GAA to be associated with such a brand. We are truly grateful for tonight, by putting our Clubs and their players, present and past, their support. v centre-stage.

v Michael Kerr Eunan Lindsay Eugene McConnell v Tyrone County Chair Tyrone CCC Chair Tyrone PRO

A Gaelic Tyrone Triad from 1968… Paddy Cullen presents The O’Neill Cup to Patsy Forbes Clár

• Welcome and introductions • Our new Sponsor: LCC Group • What it was like in 1968 • What it’s going to be like in 2018: The LCC Group 2018 Tyrone GAA Club Championship Draws

LCC Group is an independent family-owned company, established in 1980. Based proudly in its home Parish of , Lissan Coal Company was initially set up to supply domestic coal to local LCC: homes. It now provides a range of services spanning various energy sectors ranging across the world. The Group includes LCC Coal, LCC Oil, Go Power and Go Forecourt, with a business reach Our that goes far beyond to Belgium, Columbia, Europe, Russian Federation, Spain, South Africa, Delight & South America and the UK. It is Tyrone GAA’s delight and honour to be associated with LCC Group. We look Bunchlocha…Key-Stones: Honour forward to a long and happy relationship The Gaelic Clubs of Tyrone with one of Ireland’s best businesses. www.gortreaghprinting.co.uk 028 8676 3377 The Pat Darcy Cup The Tyrone Junior Championship dates from 1905 and, until the Intermediate Grade was Na Captaein na bhFoirne…Team Captains 2018 introduced in 1962, was the title sought by all Clubs not competing at Senior level. It’s a highly-contested crown and since last year the Championship Cup has been named In the GAA being Captain Senior Stewartstown Harps: Macauley Quinn in honour of ’s Pat Darcy. A past County Chair, among his many other of the team is a role of Aghyaran St. Davog’s: Ronan McNamee Sigersons: Danny McBride achievements Pat oversaw the planning and development of , all the while honour, trust, leadership and O’Donovan Rossa: David Mulgrew Tattyreagh St. Patrick’s: Niall Keys working his way to the very top of the Nursing profession in these islands. community standing. St. Colmcille’s: Johnny Munroe Urney St. Columba’s: Fergal McNulty O’Rahilly’s: PJ Lavery The men entrusted with those Na Fianna: Stephen McNally Junior The Cup roles by the Clubs of Tyrone in Derrylaughan Kevin Barrys: Feargal Red Knights: Damian Meenagh Tyrone’s first Senior Hurling Championship was played in 1905 (and was won by Strabane 2018 are: McAliskey Owen Roes: Rian McHugh Lamh Dhearg) but then effectively disappeared until the late 1940s. Since then it’s been Donaghmore St. Patrick’s: Damian McCaul Emmets: Mel McMahon dominated by Carrickmore Éire Óg and Eoghan Ruadh but others to win the Dromore St. Dympna’s: Ronan McNabb Clann na nGael: Paul Conwell crown have included Benburb, Cappagh/, Dromore, Dunananagh and . Edendork St. Malachy’s: Donal Maneely Éire Óg: Mark Bogue The Benburb Cup itself dates from 1949 (the year Benburb Priory opened) when it began Errigal Ciarán: Cathal MacRory St. Eugene’s: Sean Harper life as a Schools Choir trophy in the East Tyrone Feis, but by the end of the 1950s it had Galbally Pearses: Fergal McGarrity Dregish Pearse Og: Niall O’Kane become Tyrone’s hurling blue riband, the prize for our Senior Hurling Championship. Killyclogher St. Mary’s: Emmett McFadden Wolfe Tones: Frankie McAlynn Moy Tír Na nÓg: Sean Cavanagh Drumragh Sarsfields: Gareth Haughey Omagh St. Enda’s: Joe McMahon Errigal Ciarán III: Dara Tierney Pomeroy Plunkett’s: Hugh Pat McGeary Emmetts: Joe McCarroll St. Macartan’s: Matty Donnelly Pearses: Paul Martin Cad é a Tharla Anuraidh…What Happened last Year Glenelly St. Joseph’s: Ronan O’Kane Intermediate Killeeshil St. Mary’s: Shane Mallon Omagh St Endas’ ninth O’Neill Cup success came after wins over Tattyreagh St Patricks’ maiden Tyrone Junior crown came in their Aghaloo O’Neill’s: Michael Muldoon St. Mary’s: Ryan McKenna Ardboe (following an historic game in Armagh’s Athletic Grounds), Centenary Year via a Final win by 2-11 to 2-4 over Clogher, following St. Macartan’s: Finbarr McQuaid St. Eugene’s: Damian Greencastle, Trillick and Errigal Ciaran (by 0-10 to 0-8 in the Final). earlier victories over Beragh, and Owen Roes. Collie Team Captain was the legendary Joe McMahon. Harkin lifted the Cup at the end of a year when the losses of Pat Fr. Rock’s: Ryan Pickering Coyle Darcy and Dominic Early had shaken the Club to its core. Derrytresk Fir an Chnoic: Niall Gavin Rock St. Patrick’s: Niall Mullan Moy Tír na nÓgs won a second-ever Intermediate title with wins over Dungannon Thomas Clarke’s: Sean Molloy Augher, Cookstown, and Derrylaughan (2-5 to 1-7) – all those Clubs which, over their histories, have won all three Tyrone St. Patrick’s: Emmet McKenna Clubs were previous winners of the title themselves. Moy, Captained Championships include Ardboe, Augher, Coalisland, Cookstown, Hurling by Eunan Deeney, would crown it all by going on to lift the Ulster and Derrylaughan, Donaghmore, Dungannon, Eglish, Fintona, Moortown Gortin St. Patrick’s: Brian McGarvey Carrickmore Éire Óg: Conor Grugan All-Ireland titles as well. and Moy. Greencastle St Patrick’s: Mark Conway Dungannon Eoghan Ruadh: Damian Casey Wolfe Tones: Philip Lennon Killyclogher: Conor O’Neill St. Teresa’s: Stephen Naomh Colmcille: Mike O’Gorman Donaghy Omagh St Enda’s: Kevin Cunningham Moortown St. Malachy’s: Brian McLernon Strabane Shamrocks: Gary McGettigan Owen Roe O’Neill’s: Brendan Boggs

Na Duaiseanna: What We’re All Playing For Caoga mBliana ó Shin: The Men of 1968 Tonight we also celebrate our three Champion Captains, teams and Clubs The O’Neill Cup from fifty years ago. They all made their own bits of Club and County history. The ultimate prize in Tyrone Club football, the O’Neill Cup (proper title is ‘The O’Neills County Cup’) is in its 91st year having first been played for in 1927 and won by Donaghmore Éire Ógs who beat Ardboe in the Final played at Dungannon a week before Christmas. The Cup was bought in 1926 from Hopkins and Hopkins in (who a year later would craft the Sam Maguire Cup) for the then significant cost of £20.4s.0p and it took a cash-strapped Tyrone GAA more than two years to pay the bill. Since then it’s been Patsy Forbes, Ardboe Anthony Gallagher, Gary McGahan, won by 19 different Tyrone Clubs, the serial winners including Carrickmore (15), Omagh (9), O’Donovan Rossa Donaghmore St Patrick’s Killyman St. Mary’s Clonoe and Dungannon (8 each) and Ardboe, Errigal Ciaran and Trillick (7 each). The Cup has been rededicated to Paddy O’Neill, Tyrone County Secretary for 27 years over the Ardboe O’Donovan Rossa had never won Anthony ‘Doonan’ Gallagher was part of the Gary Captained the St Mary’s from mid-field to the Tyrone Senior Championship before 1968 Tyrone ‘Minor and Vocational Breakthrough’ of this, their first-ever, Tyrone Championship title. 1950s, 60s and 70s. but victories over Dromore, Stewartstown, 1967 and would play in goals for Ulster in the Killyman’s 2-6 to 1-4 win over Killyclogher at Derrylaughan and then Coalisland saw them Railway Cup whilst barely out of his teens. Later O’Neill Park, Dungannon would be followed The Paddy Cullen Cup delightedly take their place at Tyrone’s top table. a key figure in developing Tyrone’s coaching up with further titles in 1989 and 2010, with Paddy Cullen came to Cookstown from Leitrim via Strawberry Hill in London as a teacher Captain of that breakthrough team was the revolution, his 1968 Donaghmore team won Intermediate crowns added in 1973 and 2007. remarkable Patsy Forbes, Tyrone Minor and Senior the Club’s second Intermediate title with a Final During 1968 Gary would also be part (along with in the 1940s. By 1949 he was Secretary of the East Tyrone Board, Chair in 1950 and then player over many years, core member of the win over Moortown (having earlier defeated Anthony ‘Doonan’ Gallagher) of Tyrone’s historic County Chair in 1951, a post he would hold continuously, apart from 1960, until 1969. Ardboe three-in-a-row side of 1971-73, leading Mountjoy and Brackaville), completing a League All-Ireland Junior Championship side. After that he became Tyrone’s Central Council delegate. The Cookstown edge athlete, entrepreneur and businessman and Championship double. Donaghmore (the He was also part of Killyman’s 1973 Intermediate extraordinaire and a driving force within Club original winners of the O’Neill Cup) have won the success and is a life-time dairy, Fr Rock’s grounds are also named after this modest but tireless and totally-focused man Tyrone for over twenty years. Intermediate title four times, playing in three Finals and now beef, farmer. who oversaw some of Tyrone GAA’s most significant advances. between 1965 and 1968, winning two. ‘Doonan’ meanwhile has spent many years in Australia.

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