The 10th CLUB Limerick Draw 2020 will take place on Saturday 30th January 2021 with the Exclusive Star Prize being €500 Cash Prize.
1st Prize €10,000
2nd Prize €3,000
3rd Prize €2,000
26 Additional Cash Prizes of €500 €250 & €100.
This is the final draw in the 2020 CLUB Limerick Draw – Best of Luck!
Winter Hurling Academy
Our Club’s underage Winter Hurling Academy finished up last Sunday for the Christmas period. The last six weeks of the academy have been a great success. The boys have really enjoyed it and the coaches have also taken great satisfaction from seeing the boys develop and improve. Coaching & Games Officer Ger Hickey would like to pay special thanks to the sixteen coaches for their hard work and dedication every Sunday.
The academy will recommence at 10am on Sunday Jan 17th in South Liberties. A huge thanks to all coaches including Adrian Harte, Chris Mulqueen, Cian Kennedy, Donnacha Ryan, Ger Browne, Ger Darcy, Ger Hickey, Liam Hartnett, Niall Conway, Paul O’Mahony and Sean O’Donovan.
Thanks also to the guest coaches Cathal O’Neill, John Power, Maria Power, Paddy O’Neill and Tim Egan.
Annual General Meeting
The club AGM took place on Wednesday last 9th December over Zoom. Chairman Pat Byrnes welcomed all and thanked them for their commitment to the club during this challenging year. Some great maintenance work was completed at the pitch and all the dedication and commitment shown in training throughout the year in both codes was very much appreciated. He also thanked club officials, committee members and the club executive for their work throughout the year to ensure the club continues to flourish and prosper.
Reports were delivered from Bórd na nÓg secretary Tom O’Keeffe, club secretary Pat Quirke, club treasurer John Browne and club chairman Pat Byrnes. Club executives vacated their positions and life president Gerry Moloney took proposers and seconders for the club executive. The top table were re-elected and accepted their positions again for another year. Club officers were then proposed and seconded and the full list of officers can be viewed on our website.
The meeting was then opened up to the floor and there was good engagement with the attendees acknowledging the great work done throughout the year with the highlight being our junior footballers and under 21 hurlers claiming county titles and the launch of our Club Facility Development Plan.
Club Membership
You can now pay your annual club membership of €40 online via KlubFunder. This year there is an early bird rate of €40 if you pay before 1st March and this increases to €55 thereafter. https://www.klubfunder.com/Clubs/Crecora%20Manister%20GAA/Membership#MembershipOptions
Club Limerick Draw
The 8th and 9th Club Limerick Draws took place on Saturday morning last the 12th December. Congratulations to all the winners but unfortunately Crecora-Manister did not have any winners on this occasion.
Club Facility Development Plan – Grant Funding Approval
We received some great news this week regarding funding with the announcement of funding approval of 75% Leader grant funding from West Limerick Resources, totalling €36,295.59, towards the Community Walking Track.
Fundraising efforts continue in order to deliver this project, which is the first phase in the proposed development works which will benefit GAA and Camogie players across all ages at Crecora Manister GAA pitch, in addition to the local community.
A reminder that contributions are already starting to come in to the stand alone fund account being operated jointly between the GAA Club and Camogie Clubs, and we thank those early donors for their support.
Phase 2 will see an application for Sports Capital Funding hopefully in early 2021 to progress pitch improvements and developments, and own funding of approximately €45,000 will be needed to complete all items, in conjunction with grant aid.
Please help us by contributing now to our fundraising efforts either by lodging directly to our:
Development Fund Account with Bank of Ireland:
IBAN: IE26 BOFI 9044 9947 4969 71, or you can do so online at:
https://www.klubfunder.com/Clubs/Crecora_Manister_Development_Fund
Limerick Hurlers
A huge congratulations to the Limerick Senior Hurlers and Management who claimed the county’s 9th All-Ireland title with a 0-30 to 0-19 win over Waterford in last Sunday’s All Ireland Final. Remaining unbeaten in the year of 2020 winning the four Munster League, National League, Munster and All-Ireland titles. They have put a smile on all our faces after a difficult year and are fantastic ambassadors for our county. Comhghairdeas leo.
Limerick Minors and Under 20s
Well done to Sam Riordan and the Limerick Minor Footballers who beat Waterford by 2-12 to 1-5 to progress to a Munster semi final this Wednesday 16th December v Clare in the Gaelic Grounds at 7pm. Best of luck to Sam and his teammates.
Well done also to the Limerick Minor Hurlers who beat Cork 2-19 to 0-13 in the Munster semi final.
Hard luck to Cathal O’Neill and the Limerick Under 20 Hurlers who lost out to Cork in the Munster semi final after extra time 2-29 to 0-21. Well done to Cathal who contributed five fine points from play on the night.
The 8th & 9th CLUB Limerick Draws took place on Staturday morning 12th December, this time round Crecora Manister GAA Club did not have any winners in the 8th & 9th CLUB Limerick Draws.
Here is a message from the CLUB Limerick Draw team in Limerick GAA:
We are delighted to announce the results for the 8th & 9th CLUB Limerick Draw for 2020. Firstly, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all our CLUB Limerick Draw Coordinators, Promoters/Sellers & Clubs for their continued hard work and support of the draw during these difficult times. Thank you to our CLUB Limerick Draw Committee & County Board and we would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy & peaceful Christmas & best wishes for 2021. Best wishes to our Senior Hurlers & John Kiely with his management team in the All -Ireland Final tomorrow.
Congratulationsto all our Winners & thank you to all who support our draw.
Prize Winners 8th Draw
The winner of 1st Prize €10,000 is Michael O Donnell of Bruff GAA Club
The winner of our Exclusive Star Prize is Michael Byrnes of Granagh Ballingarry GAA Club, which is
€100 Voucher Timmy Macs Bistro, €100 Voucher Limerick Greyhound Stadium, €150 Voucher Scanlans Menswear, €100 Voucher Marie Keating Photographer, Complimentary Membership for two people to 2021 CLUB Limerick Draw.
Prize Winners 9th Draw
The winner of 1st Prize €10,000 is Phyllis Heelan of Caherline GAA Club
The winner of our Exclusive Star Prize is Joe Hannon of Adare GAA Club, which is
€100 Voucher Elverys, €100 Voucher Off the Bone Gastro Pub, €100 Kenneally Jewellery Store, €100 Voucher Irish County Hotels, Complimentary Membership for two people to 2021 CLUB Limerick Draw.
See the full list of Winners here:
8th CLUB Limrerick Draw Results
9th CLUB Limerick Draw Results
The official launch of our Facility Development Plan was scheduled to take place at Crecora GAA pitch on Sunday 25th October, but following the announcement by the Government of the move to Level 5 at mid-night on the 21st October, it looked like our planned launch would have to be postponed.
However, at very late notice the Mayor of the City and County of Limerick, Councillor Michael Collins Mayor agreed to do the launch on Wednesday afternoon, 21st October at Crecora Manister GAA pitch for which both clubs are extremely appreciative and grateful.
Welcoming the launch of the Facility Development Plan, the Mayor commended both clubs for their proactive approach in working together to produce a Development Plan that would not only benefit both the GAA and Camogie Club in terms of improved sports facilities, but also the wider community.
He noted that the first phase of the development was the provision of a 750 metre Walking Track around the grounds of the GAA site, which would be available for use by all in the wider community in the Crecora and Manister areas. This would be a resource for all in the community to exercise outdoors, with the associated health benefits, which was also especially important in these current Covid times.
The Mayor also referred to both clubs sporting successes in recent times and wished both clubs every success in their endeavours both on and off the field of play in the coming years.
Pat Byrnes, Chairperson, Crecora Manister GAA and Ronan MacMahon, Chairperson Crecora Camogie welcomed all attendees and expressed their appreciation to the Mayor for facilitating the Launch at such short notice.
They also noted the fact that other representatives of both Clubs, who had played significant roles in the clubs development, should ideally also have attended at the launch but that unfortunately, Covid guidelines on the numbers allowed to attend had curtailed that possibility
They said that it was a very important day for the wider community of Crecora & Manister and explained how a joint committee was established in early 2019 between Crecora Camogie Club and Crecora Manister GAA Club with the task of reviewing facilities at the pitch and suggesting improvements to facilities.
This Launch was the culmination of that work with a Facility Development Plan now in place to invest €160k into:
• Walking Track with lighting;
• Upgrade of the surface, along with fencing and lighting around the hurling wall:
• Drainage and improvements to the training pitch;
• Provision of gym;
• Provision of dugouts.
They outlined how the GAA and Camogie Clubs saw themselves as being very much Community based clubs. In addition to providing hurling, football and camogie for all ages from under 6 up to adult level, the Clubs also promoted the Irish language and culture, including Scόr, and have co-ordinated Team Limerick Clean-up and the Goal Mile for a number of years.
The construction of a Walking Track will, they said, be of major benefit to the wider community especially at this time with Covid 19. The intention is that the Walking Track will be the first phase of the development and will be constructed in 2021 and will be available to use by all in the community.
Both Chairpersons stressed the importance of fund raising in order to deliver all elements of the Development Plan. They appealed to all local businesses and individuals to support these developments. If anyone is in a position to donate funds to assist with the €160k development costs, please contact Pat, Ronan or any member of Crecora Manister GAA or Crecora Camogie Clubs.
Photographs from the launch:
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Facility Development Plan:
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