Limerick U-21 Hurlers Are 2017 All-Ireland Champions
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Inside: Allianz Cumann na mBunscol News l Photos/Stories Galore Limerick GAA Youth Magazine Winter 2017 Volume 22 Number 1 €3.00 Limerick U-21 Hurlers are 2017 All-Ireland Champions Killinure N.S. Cornmarket are Having a Ball! Cumann na mBunscol National Awards Publication of the Crecora N.S Year & Doon C.B.S. 2017 are County Champions www.thegreenandwhite.com US PL PUZZLES, COMPETITIONS AND MORE... The Green & White Winter 2017 Winter 2017 Issue Number 64 Winter 2017 Volume 22 Number 1 Follow us on Twitter @LimerickGAAzine This issue The Throw In 2 The Throw In 3 News Another school year is well under way and This issue 4 Cumann na mBunscol News Allianz Cumann na mBunscol competitions are in full flight 2 The Throw In 5 Q&A with Donal O Sullivan throughout Limerick city and county. This issue, the first of this 3 News 6 Meet Billy Lee school year, looks back at the hurling and camogie 4 8 INTO Mini 7s competitions that were run in all four Divisions. Doon CBS Cumann na mBunscol News 5 10 Neville Cup 2017 achieved a historic sequence of three Limerick Leader Cup Pat Donnelly Interview 6 11 Dara Ó Cinnéide on Limerick victories in a row. Crecora NS won the Green and White Limerick Camogie: Munster Champions 18 7 12 National Award for G&W Shield, a long overdue victory for a school with a great Billy Leenane commitment to camogie. Limerick boys and girls lined out in 8 13 A conversation with Derek McGrath Leader Cup the INTO Mini Sevens in August and September, playing in 10 Having a Ball in Killinure NS! 14 Change, Change, Change front of packed houses in Croke Park on the biggest days in 11 The G&W Shield 16 City Schools the GAA calendar. In each Division of Limerick, boys and 12 18 Mackey Cup girls achieved victories in their school colours that will live Mini 7s 13 20 East Limerick forever in their memories. Limerick U-21s: Primary School Days 14 22 South Limerick Limerick’s victory in the 2017 All-Ireland Under 21 hurling Primary Game 2017 16 23 Five All Irelands in 18 Days! final in Semple Stadium provided a beacon of hope in a City Schools disappointing year for Limerick inter-county teams. Pat 18 24 West Limerick Limerick U-21s: All Ireland Champions Donnelly’s charges did it the hard way, defeating Clare, 20 25 Launch of Primary Game 2017 The Lundon Eye Tipperary and Cork to regain the Munster title before taking 22 East Limerick Schools 26 G&W on Hols the scalps of Galway and Kilkenny in the All Ireland series. 24 West Schools 28 Around the Grounds With two All-Ireland titles in this grade in three years, what 26 29 The G&W Gallery will it take to see Limerick convert underage success to South Schools 28 30 The Lundon Eye silverware at senior level? The Quest for Limerick’s Greatest Player 29 32 Prize Crossword In this issue, we salute the Limerick Under 21 hurlers G&W Gallery 30 33 Cartoon Corner who lit up our summer. We look back to their formative days Look Who’s Reading The G&W! in primary school. The significance of the role of Allianz 31 34 Puzzle Page The G&W on Holidays Cumann na mBunscol was seen clearly in the Under 21 32 35 In Off the Post Prize Crossword success. All of the players in the squad had come through 33 Cartoon Corner 36 The Back Door the primary schools system, with most going on to play in 34 Puzzle Page the Mackey Cup and Primary Game. What greater incentive could our young readers need to play Gaelic Games with 35 In Off the Post their school teams? 36 The Back Door As ever, issue no. 64 of The Green and White is packed with all your favourite features, photos, interviews, cartoons and news. This is your magazine too. We value your contribution. We are grateful to all the people who supply us with photos, results and all kinds of interesting information. Finally, we would like to thank Bord Gais for photos relating to the Limerick Under 21 victory. 5 Editors: Joe Lyons and Ciarán Crowe Design: ConsidineDesign.com Printing: Cube Printing Luimneach abú, Sales: 5,200 per issue Ciarán Crowe & Joe Lyons Distribution: Noel Hartigan 087 958 1568 Joint Editors Secretary: Mabel Mullane (061) 355057 Editorial Address: Patrickswell NS, Co. Limerick E-mail: [email protected] Twitter: @LimerickGAAzine Website: www.thegreenandwhite.com Front cover photograph by Conor Wyse 2 The Green & White Winter 2017 +++News+++News+++News+++ 18 Limerick players on the Under 21 Hurling Team of the Year James and Gavin Call Time on their Intercounty Limerick GAA App Careers Limerick GAA and Kirby Group (official When Limerick hurlers take the field for the 2018 season, the sponsor) have launched a fantastic new names of James Ryan and Gavin O Mahony will be absent from Limerick GAA App. the teamsheet for the first time in a dozen years. Their careers A spokesman for Kirby stated, “We have much in common. James and Gavin were earmarked for hope sponsorship of the app will assist greatness from the days when they played for South Limerick in Limerick GAA supporters near and far the Mackey Cup. They were key figures in the Limerick team that to keep up to date with club and county reached the 2005 All-Ireland minor hurling final. Eight years news”. The new app also has links to later, they played starring roles in Limerick’s Munster Final The Green and White Magazine web- success of 2013. Both James and Gavin have worked as site and archive. There is also a link coaches in Limerick schools. Indeed, James coached South to the Limerick Cumann na mBunscol Limerick to Mackey Cup success in 2016 and 2017. They have Blog. Everybody who loves Limerick retired from intercounty hurling with their heads held high, having GAA will love this app! worn the green and white with honour. No doubt, they will The Limerick GAA App is available continue to contribute to Limerick hurling in years to come to download from your play store NOW! Niamh Mulcahy’s Spanish Sojourn LIMERICK camogie star Niamh Mulcahy received a call-up to the inaugural Liberty Insurance Camogie All-Stars Tour in November 2017. The Ahane sharpshooter, who is a teacher in Caherline NS, captained Limerick in 2017 when they won the Munster Championship for the first time ever and was an All Star nominee for the past two seasons. The Liberty Insurance Camogie All-Stars played an exhibition match in Universidad Complutense de Madrid on Thursday November 30. 3 The Green & White Winter 2017 CUMANN NA MBUNSCOL Cumann na mBunscol News Cumann na mBunscol Cumann na mBunscol Cornmarket Annual INTO Gaa Mini-Sevens Awards 2018 2017-2018 • Age limits for Boys or Girls Now is the time to promote and showcase the • Total enrolment of Boys only or Girls only: great work your school and/or coiste are doing (3rd to 6th class inclusive) to promote Gaelic Games. Great prizes to be won! Enrolment Children born on or after: Promotion of Gaelic Games & Culture – Schools 200 pupils 1st January 2006 1st Prize (see below) 2nd Prize €600 3rd Prize €500 170 - 199 pupils 1st December 2005. Schools are asked to show their work in promoting Gaelic 140 - 169 pupils 1st November 2005. Games and Culture. This can target a single area or a 110 - 139 1st October 2005. number of areas – including football, hurling, camogie, 80 - 109 1st September 2005. handball, rounders, Respect Initiative, Go Games, Table Quizzes, Club School Links, Coaching Initiatives and 50 - 79 1st August 2005. Gaelic Culture. 30 - 49 1st July 2005. 0 - 29 1st June 2005. • Submission in this category can only be via a digital submission in one of the following formats; Powerpoint or Short Movie (Compatible with Quicktime) of no more than 5 minutes in duration. This should be posted on a memory stick to the committee member (details below). School of the Year Schools that promote Gaelic games in their schools are asked to submit entries to this section. Your work should show how you promote and participate in Gaelic games in your school. The work can be presented through articles /photographs and children’s work. Each school that submits a project to this Category will receive a Certificate of participation. There are 2 Categories as follows: School of the Year: Schools with a roll of 150 pupils or less Alan Kelly makes a presentation to Diarmuid O’Connor to mark his School of the Year: retirement as Chairman of Cumann Schools with 151 or more pupils. na mBunscol in West Limerick Winning Schools • Will be invited to Croke Park for a day where their award will be presented. • Stadium and Museum Tour for 30 pupils per school • €500 to each school towards bus transport • Lunch for 30 pupils and 3 staff Entry forms available at: www.cnmbnaisiunta.com Closing Date for all Entries: Weds 10th January 2018 Please post entries to: Joe Lyons, Ballybrown NS, Clarina, Co Limerick John English making a presentation from the South Schools Board to Mike Barron to mark his retirement from Scoil Mocheallóg. 4 The Green & White Winter 2017 Cumann na mBunscol News G&WFile Pat Donnelly by Keith Begley, Catherine McAuley School Keith: Did you play hurling when you were young? Pat: Yes, I played from under 10 up. Keith: When did you start managing teams? Pat: I started with South Liberties under age and I was lucky to train county teams at under 14 and under 16 level.