Summer 2012 Volume 16, Number 3 €3.00 www.thegreenandwhite.com Neville Cup Goes West cation ubli ty P inner oun ard W Best C l Aw tiona 7-Time Na Slick City Win how good Mackey Cup am i REALLY? Hurling is Find out in Setanta Going Global page 33 Plus all your Favourite Features The Green & White Summer 2012 Summer 2012 Issue Number 48 Summer 2012 Volume 16 Number 3 The Throw In When the first issue of The Green and White appeared on This issue bookshelves and in classrooms way back in the last century (well okay, 1996) it was a 16-page booklet in black and white. 2 The Throw In Today, you’re holding a much larger 36-page, full-colour, glossy 3 General News magazine. Yet, the biggest problem facing the Editorial team 4 Cumann na mBunscol of the magazine nowadays is not what to include but what to 5 Star Interviews leave out! Are there busier areas in the known world than the playing fields, handball courts and indoor venues of Limerick 6 Meet the GDA’s city and county? Maybe Tiananmen Square at rush hour might 7 Meet the Limerick Goalies 6 come close but judging by the volume of activity we report on, 8 Primary Game 2012 Launch it’s surprising there is a blade of grass left in any GAA field in 10 Mackey Cup Limerick! 12 Focus on Handball Have a look at the contents of this issue: Mackey Cup, Eithne Neville Shield, INTO Mini Sevens, Indoor hurling and 14 Neville Cup camogie, handball... and then there are the various competi- 16 Mini Sevens 11 tions, leagues and blitzes going on in the City, East,West and 17 GAA Goes Global South of the county. And did I mention the 66 boys and girls 18 County Stars who played for Limerick in the Primary Game in 2012? 20 City Schools As usual, we met up with some of the finest adult and 22 South Schools young players and put them on the spot. Declan Hannon is a ‘legend’ already and Anthony Maher of Kerry will surely see 24 East Schools plenty of Croke Park action this summer–just like the boys and 26 West Schools girls playing in the Mini Sevens on All-Ireland Day. 28 The Lundon Eye The G in GAA stands for Gaelic but it would be a 30 Results Page mistake to think that Gaelic games are confined to these shores. 31 G&W Gallery We’ve tracked down football leagues in Brittany and hurling in Dubai as well as other far-flung spots. Read all about it in on 32 Prize Crossword Page 17. 33 Cartoon Corner And of course, there are puzzles, cartoons and the 34 Fun & Puzzles Prize Crossword. As if that’s not enough, why not make use 35 In Off the Post of the broadband in all our schools and check out the blog on 36 The Back Door www.thegreenandwhite.com. Even better, ask your múinteoir to turn on the interactive whiteboard and try the Maths Trail and Quiz (all answers are to be found in this issue). Doing the Crossword as a group activity is also very enjoyable—all you need is a dry-wipe marker and the crossword frame projected onto a whiteboard. Go on, give it a go! Our next issue will be out in Autumn 2012. Wouldn’t it be great to be looking back on a long hot summer culminating 18 in a scramble for All-Ireland tickets to see Limerick in an Editors: Joe Lyons and Ciarán Crowe All-Ireland final! Design: ConsidineDesign.com Printing: Cube Printing Ltd. Sales: 5,200 per issue Luimneach abú, Distribution: Gerry Bennis (061) 325077 Secretary: Mabel Mullane (061) 355057 Ciarán Crowe & Joe Lyons Editorial Address: Joint Editors Patrickswell NS, Co. Limerick E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 061 355057 www.thegreenandwhite.com Front cover photograph by Aidan Ryan shows Dylan O’Connor (Murroe-Boher) trying to escape the attention of Padraig Heaney (Na Piarsaigh) in this year’s Féile na nGael semi-final 2 Summer 2012 The Green & White News+++News+++News+++ Keep in Touch with all Mind Your Teeth! The 2012 GAA congress the latest GAA News decided to make the wear- ing of gumshields manda- tory. This rule change takes effect from 2013 for all underage levels up to minor level. For all other levels it will come into effect from 2014. The main function of a gumshield is to reduce the impact of a collision so that it is not focused on one Watch the GAA ad on You Tube: tooth. There are two kinds www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGKfBMX7SmE of gumshield available: Link to buy GAA tickets: 1. Mouth Adapted “boil www.gaa.ie/tickets-and-merchandise/tickets/ and bite” Gumshield. These Ireland has one of the can be purchased in most highest rates of sports- GAA on Twitter: sports stores related oral injuries in the http://twitter.com/#!/officialgaa 2. A custom made mouth- EU, with one third of all GAA on Facebook: guard made by your adult dental injuries being www.facebook.com/officialgaa dentist. An impression of sports-related, according your mouth is taken by your to IDA figures. The IDA Limerick GAA Website: dentist, not just your teeth believes parents and coaches http://www.limerickgaa.ie/ but also your jaw bone. The in particular will have a key mouthguard is then made in role to play in ensuring a the lab to fit your teeth and safer playing experience for jaw bone exactly. young GAA players. Welcome Rebel Óg! Meeting & Greeting! Citing the Green & White Munster GAA deserves a lot out with pre-match entertain- Magazine as a big influ- of praise for its latest initia- ment activities, including ence, brothers Brian and tive to improve the customer FREE face painting! Quicker Paddy Kelly have launched experience at 2012 Munster than you could say the words a new GAA Youth Championship matches. green and white, an arrange- Magazine for Cork. It’s Munster Guides dressed in ment was made for the called Rebel Óg and it’s distinctive pink Munster GAA boys and girls on Limerick’s sure to be a big hit with jerseys have been appointed Primary Game teams to be followers of Gaelic games to welcome patrons, direct painted up in their county the length and breadth of the lads will have the inside them to their seats and act as colours. War-paint applied, Ireland’s biggest county. track on all the breaking a point of contact for queries. they were ready to face Brian and Paddy are pri- GAA news in the Rebel We met some of the happy- the (friendly) fire of their mary school teachers (just County. On behalf of all shiny-guide-people in Semple Tipperary equivalents and like the editors of this mag- our readers, we send our Stadium before last month’s give an exhibition of all that’s azine). The fact that Paddy best wishes to all associated Limerick v Tipperary thriller good about Limerick hurling is a star on the Cork senior with this exciting new pub- and they told us they also help and camogie. football team means that lication. Rebel Óg abú! 3 The Green & White Summer 2012 Cumann na mBunscol News Seven Limerick Pupils to Play in Croke Park, this Summer The following children will represent Limerick in the mini sevens games in Croke Park during the All-Ireland Semi- finals and finals this year. Camogie: Dearbhla Egan Crecora N.S. Sophie O’Callaghan, Shountrade N.S. Hurling; Ronan Connolly, Shountrade N.S. Jack Ryan, Doon C.B.S. Girls Football: Brid Flanagan, Broadford N.S. Ciara Neville, Monaleen N.S. Boys Football. Louis Dee, St. Nessan’s N.S., Mungret. Conor Nicholas, Monaleen NS, captained the City to victory in this year’s Mackey Cup. He also starred on the Limerick Primary Game hurling team (v Tipperary). Here he is seen writing The Cumann na mBunscol a few notes for readers of The Green & SPIRIT! Takes more than a White. To find out what he wrote, turn to Page 11. broken hand to stop Sean Deignan enjoying the Mackey Cup Dates for Your Diary Limerick Leader Cup Semi-finals: Monday, June 18th Venues: (1) U.L. (2) tbc Final: Wednesday, June 20th Venue: The Gaelic Grounds Shaking hands with members of the The Green & White Shield other team after a match is one way Semi-finals: Monday, June 18th of giving respect and getting respect. Venue: (1) U.L. (2) tbc Final: Wednesday, June 20th Venue: The Gaelic Grounds Check out our Blog on Dara O Donovan, a past pupil www.thegreenandwhite.com of Oola NS is a member of the The Mayor’s Cup Final: Week of June 11-15th (tbc) Limerick minor hurling & football Venue: The Gaelic Grounds for more photos and news panels, following in the footsteps of his dad, Jim 4 Summer 2012 The Green & White Players in Profile Kerry midfielder Anthony Maher Introducing enjoys the Green and Rachael Considine White Rachael Meet Anthony Maher Considine of Salesian Girls School in Anthony Maher is a tall, dark-haired, athletic, high- Limerick city fielding midfielder who was nominated for an All-Star award in 2011. Does this description remind you of anybody? It could describe John Galvin of Limerick who just happens to be Anthony’s cousin. Anthony established himself in Kerry’s midfield last year after a few years as a fringe player. With Bryan Sheehan, he starred as the Kingdom made their way to the 2011 All-Ireland final only to be denied victory by Stephen Cluxton’s last–minute free kick.