National PRO of the Year award for Bríd

CLARE camogie public relations officer, Bríd McNamara has been selected as the national association’s PRO of the Year. She will be honoured at a function in Croke Park at the beginning of March.

Recently elected to the new position of programmes officer for the Munster Camogie Council, Bríd was unanimously re-appointed as the Clare board’s public relations officer at the recent county convention at the Auburn Lodge Hotel.

Posts filled
AT the February meeting of Clare Camogie last week, a number of vacant positions on the executive were filled.
Joe Robbins from Sixmilebridge is the new vice-chairman, while Mary McMahon from Éire Óg will serve as a delegate to the Munster Council.
Transfers for the 2012 season were ratified at the meeting as follows:
Megan Flanagan from Parteen to Truagh (U-16); Aoife O’Riordan from Parteen to Truagh (U-16); Brenda O’Donohue from Corofin to Ruan, (junior); Linda McMahon from Corofin to Kildare; Sarah Doyle from Broadford to Clooney/Quin (senior); Marie Fawl from Kilkishen to Feakle (junior); Antoinette Keane from Kilkishen to Sixmilebridge (U-18); Danielle Sheedy from Broadford to Scariff; Rebecca O’Donoghue from Éire Óg to Ruan (junior); Natasha Hynes from Éire Óg to Ruan (junior); Nicola O’Donoghue from Corofin to Ruan; Vivien Kearney from Corofin to Ballyea (junior) and Emily Moloney from Tulla to Clooney-Quin.
The following were re-graded from senior to junior: Kilmaley: Siobhán White, Kathleen O’Keeffe, Emma Culligan, Marie Hehir and Laoise Talty; Kilkishen: Claire McGrath, Sarah Donnellan, Clare Baker, Elaine Hannon and Sorcha Loughnane; Sixmilebridge: Orla Fitzgerald, Jessica Finnan, Cait Early, Sinéad Fitzgerald and Bernadette Crowe; Wolfe Tones: Dawn Ryan, Michelle Roughan, Siobhán Kelly, Áine McCormack and Lorraine Carr.
Re-graded from intermediate to junior were Truagh-Clonlara: Sarah Koyce, Tara Kirwan, Teresa Nihill, Caroline Moloney and Josephine Clancy.
Delegates were given the news that Scariff and Ogonnelloe disbanded their respective clubs on January 23 due to a lack of numbers for two separate clubs and set up a new club, Scariff-Ogonnelloe on January 29.

Coaching courses
A MUNSTER GAA Coaching Course will be held on Friday at Mallow from 6.45pm to 8.30pm, which is aimed at county underage development squad coaches and is also open to club coaches.
Next Wednesday, there will be a drills galore workshop, given by Mary O’Connor, aimed at 14 to 17-year-olds.
On Thursday, March 8, St Joseph’s Secondary School will be the venue for a nursery coaching workshop aimed at those coaching six to 10-year-olds. The course is limited to 25 people and bookings should be made through Mary Hogan at 086 3731931.

Ashbourne Cup
FOLLOWING on from the success of hosting the 2011 Fitzgibbon Cup, Waterford Institute of Technology will host the Ashbourne and Purcell Cups next weekend.
Several Clare senior players have been in action for their respective colleges over the last number of weeks as they battled to reach the Ashbourne finals. All semi-finals will be played on Saturday, with the finals on Sunday.
Mary Immaculate, Limerick will take on Carlow IT on Saturday in the Fr Meachair Cup semi-final, while the other semi-final will see TCD take on St Pat’s. In the Purcell Cup semi-finals, DCU will take on NUIM, while Queen’s University will do battle with DIT. Carlow IT will go head-to-head with Athlone IT in the Purcell Shield final.
The Ashbourne Cup semi-finals sees University College Cork take on University of Limerick and Waterford IT take on University College Dublin. This year, Waterford IT are going for an unprecedented four-in-a-row Ashbourne titles.
In the Ashbourne shield final on Sunday, Clare senior colleagues Chloe Morey and Aimee McInerney will be in opposition as UUJ (McInerney) take on NUIG (Morey). Morey missed the early part of the championship through injury, while McInerney has been showing good form for the Ulster side.
Clare senior manager John Carmody will be keeping a close eye on the weekend’s activities and will hope that players come through injury free, with the National League commencing for Clare on March 11.