West Tipperary Senior Hurling Final Match Programme 1986 Cluichi Tiobraid Ceannais A.rann lomana· Thiar Pilirc Ciocaim, Dlindroma-27 Iliil1986 , EIRE Sinsear: GABHAILIN/ v. CILL FIACAIL DG Tosnll: 3.00 Reiteoir: Seoirse 0 Riain lomaint Idirmheanach: FAICHE RO v. FANAITHE NA nGAILTI elm- Outgunl Tosnu, 1.30 .2j 6 ~ Luach 50p Reiteoir: Aengu5 0 Riain Runai. O'DWYER STEEL CO. LTD. are Structural Steel Designers, Fabricators, ~~f-i: Suppliers and Erectors of all types of Farm and Industrial Buildings We are registered to enable you to qualify for new ~ f) grants and obtain a refund of your V.A. T. Fully insured for site work. For your next building contact us .... O'DWYER STEEL CO. LTD. DUNDRUM .. co. TIPPERARY Telephone: (062) 71102 (10 lines) I • 't.;a .. 1 Eire 09 Selectors Connie Walsh. O. J. Gleeson, Austin O'Brien, 2 FAILTE Cuirim failte, mar chathaoirleach an seois!e thiar, roimh aT each don dUlehe ceannais iomanaiochta inniu. It 's my pleasant duty as Chairman of the West Board to welcome everyone 10 our hurling showpiece in Dundrum. I congratulate both Eire 09 and Golden/Kilfeacle on reaching today's decider. Both clubs have proud hurling tradition5 which I'm sure will be upheld today. Regardless of who wins both sides have our best wishes when they represent the Division in the county quarter finals later. Our thanks to the Kickham club for preparing this popular venue for the occasion Mi chael Maguidhir, Cathaoirleach , eoisle Thiobraid Arann Thiar. SSSS'S'S'S S'S"S SS'SS'S""'i'S'SSSSS"" ! Address of Club C hairman On behalf of the Knockavilla/Donaskeigh Kickham club I extend a warm welcome to finalists and spectators alike to this great occasion for the West Di vision. I have no doubt both sides will prove worthy of the occasion and both have our best wishes in their endeavour to bring a divisional title to their parishes. Our thanks are due to all who have helped in preparing our venue for today'sfina1. 1t is my wish and thewishof myclubthat it will be an enjoyable occasion with a game wo rthy of the event. Peadar O'h.Aili, Cathaoirleach , Cumann Baire Ciocaim. ' SSSSSS'S'SSSSSSSSSS'S'S'S'SSSSSSSSSS"iii This match programme has been compiled and edited on behalf of the Kickham club by J. J. Kennedy, West Board PRO. Jerry Ring supplied many of the photographs. C.over iIIus~ration shows the prize for today's winners, the O'Dwyer Memorial Cup, with the rival captains, Tom Gleeson, Eire Og on the left and Golden's Liam O'Sulliva n on the right. 3 WHEN LAST THEY WON ..... GOLDEN/ KILF EACl E, WEST CHAMPIONS 1972 Back Vr;· John Curriva n (R.I.P.), Sean Barrgary, Joe Foga rty, Tom Ryan, liam O'Sulliva n, liam Walsh, Ned O'Donnell, Michael Ryan, Tommy Horan, Mi chael Ryan (P), Thos. Moloney, Michael Lonergan, Michael Fogarty, John Ryan (P), Jimmy O'Donnell. Front Vr:--Jo hn CurrivM , Jnr, Con Cash, Jack Walsh, liam Horan, Jimmy O'Do nnell, John S tapleto n , C hris ty Ry;!." {PI, Willie Blake, Denis 'Toddy' Ryan, J ohn Luby. YoungsteHltanding:-Liam Blake, Denis McSweeneyand Uam O'Dwyer EIRE OG 1981 WEST S.H. CHAMPIONS Back Vr:-Michael Ryan, Billy Breen, Seamul Hanly, Bill Burke, Thomas Carew, Matthew Ryan, Conor Ryan, Ailbe Buckley, Tom Gleeson, Tom O'Dwyer. Front Vr.-John Quinn, Ke vin Fo". liam White, Vinny Ryan, ~;!ImU5 Fo". John Breen, Gerry O'Dwyer, Tom O'Rourke, Pat Fox, Thomas Fox, Niall Breen, Patsy Furlong 4 EIRE OG, ANACARTY Although they didn't take the Eire 09 name until entering Senior ranksa! the start of the 19405 the parish of Anacartvl Donohili had clubs formed fo r many years before thai. Canon Fogarty states that clubs were formed in both Anacarly and Donohil1 in 1886. For the follOwing year, 1887. he lists an Anacarly learn, coached by Jerry Crosse 'and Jim Dwyer of Lacken, which, however, did not take part in the championships due 10 a dispute with the County Board. Football seems to have been the parish's main game in those years, for in 1888 the famed Bohercrowe side en roule to a Munster Championship "barely escaped defeat at the hands of Anacarly in Golden" in the County semi·final. Thereare few enough mentions of the parish in subsequent years and of those Donohi!l. in fact,seems to figure more prominently. When we come up tol1930and the founding of the west DiviSion, Anacarty were represented at the inaugral meeting by Charlie McCarthy, W.F. Quinlan and T. Ryan while Donohill, then joined with Cappawhite, were represented by George Furlong. Denis Touhy was a late arrival at the same meeting. DonohilV Cappawhite, in fact, won the first West J .H. Championship. The thirties seem to have been a time of building for Anacarty's hurlers and Minor success near the end of the decade was followed by the entry of their Senior hurlers for the West Championship in 1940 under the Eire Og banner.They did'nt have success that year but they did for the next four, crowning their quartet of Divisional titles with a famous County Senior crown in 1943-the only west side since Clonoulty in 1888 to achieve the distinction. After those heady days of the early forties the club hit Jeaner times and dropped from Senior ranks in the 1950s. They had in fact to wai t until 1961 when they joined with Cappawhite they again tasted West senior Hurling success-that had followed a Junior win for Eire Og in 1960. Since then they've taken Senior Divisional titles in 1964, '67, and '81. For a relatively sparsely populated rural parish they've remained remarkably prominent in G.A.A. affairs. Today they seek their eight Divisional title, their last being in 1981. EIRE OG'S CHAMPIONSHIP RECORD. West S.H. Championships-I941, 1942. 1943, 1944, 1964, 1967, 1981. Also as 51. Vincent's in combination with Cappawhite in 1961. Co. S.H. in 1943. West J.H. No.1 C'ships-1937, 1960, 1962, 1976, 1977. Al so Co. title in 1977. West J.H. No.2 C'ships-I966. 1972. West M.H. Championships-1937 and 1938 with Cappa (Brian Borus), also with Cappawhite in 1957, 1962, 1977 and 1978. West U/ 21 H.C. Championships-I962(with Cappa), 1972and 1973(with Clonoulty), 1978 and 1980 (with Cappawhite). Also Co. U/ 21 H. with Cappa in 1977. West J.F. Championships-I962, 1964, 1974, 1983. Co. J.F. titles in 1974 and 1983. West u/21 F.C. Championship-1981 (with Cappa). C lub Officers:-Chairman, Kevin Fox; secretary, Ray Kennedy; Treasurer, Paddy Quinn; Asst. Secretary, John O'Dwyer. Team Mentors:-Austie O'Brien, Connie Walsh and D.J . Gleeson. Tom O'Rourke is the team trainer. CLOUGHLEIGH PITS COLDEN-Suppliers of Graded Gravel, Screened Washed Sand, Trunkin g, Graded Washed Chippings, Crushed Stone, Mill Waste Phone: EDDIE DALTON (062) 72180 5 THE BILL , " t I surely have relished this meeting of his native Goldel\"K and his &Iopted Eire (}g, Anac.arty. Would he back Ihe native sod where he first learned the hurliog craft that ranked him among the greatest of his time or the club whose colours he wore to County honours in 1943? The last and only previous time these clubs met in the Di visional final, Bill took his place on II Golden side that lost by a tantalising point. Shortly afterwards he transferred to Eire ()g, the parish to which his employment as a teacher took him. That lost final waslo 1941 and two years later it WIIS Bill who sparked and Eire 09 surge that swiped II County Championship from Moycarkey's grasp. 1lle 'Star' report pinpoints Bill's role; "Four points ahelld with eight minutes to go, Moycarkey looked all set to take another county tille, but then like /I flash, BiD O'Oonnell !>ecured possession in II sharp Eire Og attack and from twenty yards sent in II bullet·like shot that gave Jim Keeffe no chance. This was the turning point in a game that had abounded in thrills. Eire Og infused with new life and hope tore down the field agllin for Tom Joy torush through another goal to be followed a minute later by Eire Og's fourth with Joy "gIIin the marksman. [t was all over ...... " For people outside the Division in former decades Bill O'Donnell made Golden a familiar name in a way, perhaps, that Christy Ring put Cloyne on the map. His inter·county career with Tipperaryspanned a decade from 1934 to 1944. The 1937 All Ireland triumph down in Killarney climaKed that involvement with Tipperary. However the famous Munsterfinal of 1941 is ranked as one of Bill'sgreatest displays. That was the "foot and mouth" year when Cork were nominated to represent Munster and then lat er faced Tipp to decide provincial honours. The former T aoiseach, Jack Lynch whom Bill O'Donnell marked on thaI occasion had this to say about the Golden man's performance when he wrote in a Sunday Independent supplement for Centenary Year. "Ill neverforgel the '4 1 match in Umerickas the Late Bill O'DonneD ran rings around me". If ver!atility is a feature of greatness then Bill was truly one of the greats. His four Railway Cup medals indicate this <I~ality quite astonishingly; in 1938 he played at right corner forward for Munster; two years later in 1940 he had transferred the length of the field to left corner back- the tOlally opposite position; in 1942 he captained Munster to success from full forward; and finally in 1943 he partnered Jack Lynch al midfield.