Buttevant’s proud spirit rewarded in silver success

Manpower limits didn’t prove a hindrance to Buttevant’s underage GAA club last year – they turned a lack of numbers to their advantage.

In the five age-grades from U13 to minor, a total of only 58 players featured, but club PRO Derry O’Gorman believes that helped them to an historic year, where a total of nine trophies were won. It was difficult to deny their claims as the winners of the monthly Rebel Óg award for February.

“We had a promising U14 team,” he says, “and earlier in the year they qualified for the Féile quarter-final, St Finbarr’s beat them, which was quite an achievement for an A team to be taking on a Premier 1 team. That started the momentum, they won the A county final in July and then there was a new competition, the county U15 hurling and football. There were a lot of the U14s playing. They brought the momentum with them and won that.