Special Olympics success acknowledged by award
The Minister for Arts, Sport & Tourism, Mr John O’Donoghue, will make the presentation at a gala dinner in Kilshane House, Tipperary.
The awards are to honour sports persons who have excelled over the past 12 months, and the annual celebration has grown to achieve a unique national status.
The success of the venture is due to the generous sponsorship of Coolmore, Kelly & Co. Ltd, Dan Dooley Ford Centre, O’Dwyer Tarmac, T & T Fitness and Kilshane House.
Following are the award short lists:
Local Award: Alan Crowe (Bansha), current amateur champion jockey; Keith Hadnett (Limerick Junction) won on Rockholm Boy in the Galway Plate, awarded National Conditional Jockeys title; David Morrissey (Bansha), outstanding season in football and hurling for Galtee Rovers, and Tipperary with whom he has won three All-Ireland minor hurling titles; John O’Donoghue (Tipperary) former Inter-County hurler, shone in all four provincial seniors’ championships and selected for Ireland’s Seniors team.
County: Ray Clarke (Clonmel), bronze medal at the B World Cycling Championships, selected on the Olympic team for next Summer in Athens; Alan Quinlan (Ballykisteen), outstanding year with Ireland’s International rugby team; the TS & DL soccer team who brought the Oscar Traynor Trophy back to Tipperary for the first time since 1971.
National Award: Brian Cody, manager of Kilkenny who won the All-Ireland senior hurling championship again, has seen his team lose just two championship matches since his appointment in 1999; Longford Town FC, who earned their place in the history books by winning the FAI Cup for the first time in the club’s history; Eimear McDonnell (Burgess), was again a star in the Tipperary team that has won four of the last five All-Ireland championships and crowned their All-Ireland final win with a stunning goal.
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