Inside: Allianz Cumann na mBunscol News l Photos/Stories Galore Spring 2014 Volume 18 Number 2 €3.00 www.thegreenandwhite.com Cornmarket Cumann na mBunscol National Awards Publication of the Year “Hard work beats talent that doesn’t work hard” Read the Cian Lynch Interview inside Meet the new managers We talk to T.J. Ryan and John Brudair The County Shield Follow The Green & White around the world! From Lebanon to India and the Everglades to Oz And Lots more... Including interviews with Brian Ryan and Niall Moran and reports on the Sarsfield Cup and Larkin Shield G&W in Lebanon US PL Puzzles, Competitions and more... The Green & White Spring 2014 Spring 2014 Issue Number 53 Spring 2014 Volume 18 Number 2 Follow us on Twitter @LimerickGAAzine The Throw In The last time Limerick started a new season as Munster champions This issue in Minor and Senior hurling was over 70 years ago. So, as we look 2 The Throw In forward to a new season on the playing fields, we know that it will be hard to match the triumphs of 2013. Unless Limerick can manage 3 General News to take the next step and win an All Ireland title. That must be the 4 Cumann na mBunscol News hope for 2014. 5 T.J. Ryan in the Spotlight We have new management teams in both Senior Football and 18 6 Sarsfield Cup Review Senior Hurling. In Donal O Grady’s case, it is a return to the job he 8 John Brudair, Senior Football Manager held in 2011. Incidentally, is Limerick the only county in history to have joint managers for a senior inter-county team? And one of the 9 Meet Cian Lynch joint managers has the same name as the team captain! If Limerick 10 Larkin Shield Feature manage to bring the McCarthy Cup back to Shannonside in 2014, 12 Brian Ryan, Minor Hurling Manager will other counties follow the Limerick template and appoint joint 13 Munster GAA Awards managers? 14 2013 County Football Shield In this issue, we speak to Dónal O Grady’s partner in man- 16 Celtic Image Shield agement, T.J. Ryan and also to John Brudair, who has taken over the Limerick Senior football manager’s bib. It’s a long time since a 18 The Green & White on Holidays Limerick native wore the bainisteoir’s bib for the football team. 20 The Lundon Eye John Brudair has lots of ideas and ambition. We wish him well. 22 East Limerick Schools Niall Moran has decided to bow out after a decade in the Limerick 23 Niall Moran Interview colours. Fittingly, he won his Munster medal after years of close 24 City Schools shaves, near misses, trials and tribulations. As one of the most innovative and thoughtful coaches around, Niall’s thoughts are 26 West Limerick Schools always worth reading. 28 South Limerick Schools On the schools front, we welcome new officers to the Board of 30 Results Limerick City Cumann na mBunscol. The seeds of hurling success are 31 The G&W Shooting Gallery sown in the primary school and, in primary schools throughout the 32 Prize Crossword city and county, the Allianz Cumann na mBunscol season is already 33 Cartoon Corner in full swing. Indoor hurling and camogie are well under way. Mini Sevens have also started. And, for some lucky boys and girls, 34 Fun & Puzzles the road to Croke Park beckons. As every player on the successful 35 In Off the Post Limerick teams of 2013 will tell you, the first steps on the ladder 36 The All Black Door to success were taken in the jersey of their primary school. There’s an overview of the season’s activities in the ‘Dates for your Diary’ section on page 4. You can keep up to date with the progress of the different competitions by logging on to www.thegreenandwhite.com. If you would like to see YOUR school featured in these pages, send in photos, articles etc to us at info@thegreenandwhite. Speaking of schools, history has already been made in 2014 as two Limerick schools, Ard Scoil Ris and Scoil na Trionóide Naofa, Editors:13 Joe Lyons and Ciarán Crowe Doon contested the Harty Cup final. A sure sign of the healthy state Design: ConsidineDesign.com of hurling in the schools of the county. There’s an interview with Printing: Cube Printing winning captain, Cian Lynch on page 9. Sales: 5,200 per issue We wish all our readers a successful season and hope you all Distribution: Gerry Bennis (061) 325077 enjoy playing and watching Gaelic Games. Secretary: Mabel Mullane (061) 355057 Editorial Address: Patrickswell NS, Co. Limerick Luimneach abú, E-mail: [email protected] Twitter: @LimerickGAAzine Ciarán Crowe & Joe Lyons www.thegreenandwhite.com Joint Editors Front cover photo by Tom Russell: [email protected] 2 Spring 2014 The Green & White +++News+++News+++News+++ Limerick enjoying Richie’s All-Star New life ... in Leinster! Award Limerick minor football team Richie McCarthy from the Limerick is playing in the Leinster Blackrock club followed in the Minor football league in footsteps of Pat Hartigan and order to get much–needed Leonard Enright when he was jersey match experience. In the named as full back on the 2013 opening matches of the All Star hurling team. Richie Limerick fans enter 2014 campaign, Limerick defeated was also named as Munster with ambitions of success Carlow and lost to Meath. Hurler of the Year 2013. in football and hurling. Limerick will also be David Breen, contenders for the title of Best Dressed Team. The new Toughest look Limerick jersey, (home Munster Player and away strips), was 27-year-old David Breen launched in January at King of Na Piarsaigh GAA Club John’s Castle. was named as the Toughest An ideal birthday, AIB Munster Club Player Confirmation or graduation for 2013 at a ceremony in present... Croke Park. “It’s a great thing being involved in a club that is lives in Dublin where he Gareth Heagney so successful but one of the works as a physiotherapist in When Portumna from Galway took the field on St drawbacks is that it is a long one of the country’s leading Patrick’s Day and won their fourth All Ireland club season”, says David who sports clinics, title, one of their star performers was a player with strong Limerick connections. Gareth Heagney, holder of three All Ireland winner’s medals, learned his Sam to the Summit hurling in Donoughmore National School and in the Sam to the Galway dual player Alan colours of South Liberties. Gareth won a Mackey Cup Summit, is Kerins who had both the Sam medal in 1996, played in the Primary Game that year a unique Maguire trophy and Malachi and went on to play for Limerick at minor and Under fundraiser O’ Brien’s winner’s medal 21 level. which will from the 1887 football final When Gareth’s family returned to their Galway see the Sam at the launch. (Limerick were roots Gareth switched to the Portumna cause. Maguire Cup and an All winners of the first All Ireland Today, Gareth is Principal of Sixmilebridge National Ireland football medal from football final in 1887.) School… and a big fan of The Green and White. each of the 32 counties reach All money raised by ‘Sam the top of Ireland’s highest to the Summit’ will go to helping mountain, Carrauntoohil. some of the most vulnerable The idea comes from former communities in Zambia. Tommy Cooke and Tony Herbert The oldest surviving All Ireland medal winner passed away in February in his hundredth year. Tommy Cooke from Knockainey was born in 1915 and was a member of the Limerick team that won the All Ireland senior hurling title in 1940. Tommy represented Limerick in both football and hurling. A few short weeks later, the last surviving member of the famed 1940 Limerick hurling team, Tony Herbert from Castleconnell, passed on to his eternal reward. Tony won 9 County Championships with Ahane (5 hurling , 4 football) before moving to Dublin with whom he contested two All Ireland finals. Tony was 94 when he joined his former teammate for the great hurling match in heaven. 3 The Green & White Spring 2014 Cumann na mBunscol News Cumann na mBunscol Fixtures 2014 Indoor Hurling and Camogie Round Robin System Wednesday 26th March at Caherconlish 11.45 am Hurling 1.15 pm Camogie Mini Sevens Football Mabel Mullane, Wednesday 30th April at UL Patrickswell NS, Round Robin System with GAA President, Liam 11.30 am Girls O Neill marking 1.15 pm Boys Mabel’s 17 years of dedicated Limerick delegates Pat Ryan service as Mini Sevens Hurling & Camogie and Ciaran Crowe at the Secretary Wednesday 7th May at UL Allianz Cumann na mBunscol of the G&W Round Robin System National AGM in the Heritage, Magazine 11.30 am Hurling Co. Laois 1.15 pm Camogie Mackey Cup (Hurling) Tuesday 13th May 3.30 pm South V West 4.15 pm East V City 5.15 pm Final Venue: Gaelic Grounds Neville Cup (Camogie) Thursday 8th May 3.30 pm South V City 4.15 pm West V East 5.15 pm Final Venue: Gaelic Grounds The Winners’ Enclosure, INTO Cornmarket National Awards, Leader Cup (Hurling) Croke Park! Uachtaran CLG, Keeping up with all the Liam O Neill celebrates with Thursday 12th June Doon CBS & G&W Magazine latest Allianz Cumann na 1.00 pm West V South 1.45 pm City V East mBunscol news 3.00 pm Final Venue: Gaelic Grounds The Green & White Magazine Website: www.thegreenandwhite.com Green and White Shield Lots of news, links, useful details and on-line editions (Camogie) of recent issues of the magazine Tuesday 17th June 1.00 pm South V City On Twitter: The Green & White Magazine 1.45 pm East V West Twitter ‘handle’: @LimerickGAAzine 870 followers (Target: 1,000 followers by Christmas 3.00 pm Final At the Munster AGM in Ennis, Venue: Gaelic Grounds County Chairman, Joe Lyons 2014).