1985

Officers for 1985

President- Fr. Edward Rhatigan P.P. 

Vice President- Bro. Bernadine Cunniffe, Johnny Costigan, Fran Dollard, Mick Dunphy, Pat Mullaney

Chairperson- Denis Wall

Vice Chairperson- Seán O' Sullivan, Mick Peters

Secretary- Jack Bergin

Treasurer- Seán Mullaney

Committee- P.J. Mullaney, Kieran Dunphy, Billy Doocey, Oliver Dollard, Paddy Cuddy, Johnny Cuddy 

Members 1985;

Lar Delaney, Denis Wall, Seamus O' Brien, Billy Doocey, Mick Peters, Dan Phelan, Mick O' Sullivan, Gerry Gaughan, Pat Phelan, Christy Phelan, Tom Finlay, Paddy Cuddy, Fint Cuddy, Tom Ferns, Jack Bergin, Seán Mullaney, Ger Mullaney, P.J. Mullaney, Billy Byrne, Mick Boyhan, John Phelan (Gash), Con Wall, John Costigan, Percy Phelan  

Secretary's Report 1985

It gives me great pleasure to present this, my fourth report as Secretary, at Castletown GAA Club's 12th Annual General Meeting and to welcome you all here tonight. 

Although I have not the privilege of congratulating any of our teams on winning any championships in 1985, I would like to congratulate our Senior Hurling Team on winning the Mountrath Tournament, our only success in 1985. I would also like to congratulate our Junior Footballers on reaching the semi final of the championship, only to be beaten by Rosenallis by a couple of points. Let's hope we can go one better this year. 

As for the Senior Championship, Junior, U21 and Minor, it was a disastrous year altogether and we can ask ourselves what was the cause of this. 

You can lay the blame to each member of the club, officials and players alike it seems. As far as the players are concerned, you don't need to train. You go out on a Sunday and play the game. If we win it's great, we have a few more games to play, if we lose it does not seem to matter we will survive for something else to come along. That is the attitude of some of our players in this club. 

Well, I have said it before on many occasions that attitude will not win anything for the club or any other club. You must have the will to win, be dedicated to training, discipline d on the field of play, and loyal to one another. With that instilled in players and officials minds we can achieve success. 

Juvenile: 

Once again it was left to our Juveniles to bring honour and victory to our club. I would like to congratulate then on winning the U12 Rural and County Championships and Slieve Bloom Tournament and the Schools Championship - it was a worthy achievement. I would like to congratulate their Chairman, trainers, selectors and all their mentors on a wonderful years success. With these people, and the way they look after young players, there is hope for the future in our club. I wish them every success in 1986.

I would like to thank  Seán Brophy for supplying hurleys throughout the year. I would like to thank Seán Mullaney for his help during the year, our Chairman Denis Wall, selectors, committee members and players for their help during the year and to all members who helped. 

We had one very great loss reaching the end of the year when we lost one of our great players and clubmen Kieran Dunphy. He loved the game of hurling, he loved Castletown Club, and I would say his only regret was that Castletown had not won a Senior Championship so far. May he Rest in Peace. 

In conclusion, I hope that everybody will make a special effort seeing as we are gone back to Intermediate grade. We will make a new beginning and to make our club proud again. 

I wish members a happy and successful 1986.  

Go raibh mile maith agaibh

            Seán Ó h- Aimhirgin

                    Runai

Other Events during 1985

At the AGM for 1985, on Friday 25th January, Chairman Denis Wall welcomed Fr. Rhatigan to the meeting and introduced him as the first priest in the parish in his time to take an interest in the welfare of the Castletown Club.  

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Castletown won the Mountrath S.H Tournament and the U12 Rural and County Championships. 

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Castletown were relegated from Senior to Intermediate. 

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For Match Reports from 1985 please click here

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