* The club
held it's re-convened AGM on
Sunday evening in the Parish
Community Centre. One of the
largest turnouts of members in
recent years witnessed the
ushering in of a new look
committee for 2007.
Former
player and dedicated clubman
Ollie Forsythe has taken over
the Chairman role from Micheal
Rodgers. Micheal held the post
for the past four years and in
that time he has worked
extremely hard to ensure that
all aspects of the club were
not found wanting. During his
time in office he has overseen
and directed many changes
within the club and his time
and effort with the role has
been very much appreciated by
each and every member.
Ollie will
be assisted by Vice-Chairman
Paul Byrne who has held this
role for the past three years.
With four former chairmen in
the committee, namely Eddie
Campbell, Seamus Walsh, Liam
McKibben and Micheal Rodgers,
both Ollie and Paul will be
very ably supported in their
new positions.
Current
Senior team player John
McKibben has taken over the
Secretary's job from the
outgoing Peter McVerry. Peter
was new to the club last year
and he completed his term as
Secretary with great efficency.
His work in 2006 was greatly
valued. Incidentally, John
becomes the second youngest
ever Secretary in the club.
Back in the mid 80's Patrick
Kielty held the position at
the age of sixteen. John, who
is now twenty, brings a more
youthful look to the
administration setup.
John
will have another newcomer to
the committee arena, Colm
Magee, as his
Assistant-Secretary. Colm, who
is the club's referee, has
previous experience on the
Dundrum Village Committee.
Kieran
McKibben was elected unapposed
as Treasurer as was Gerry
McMullan who takes up the
Assistant-Treasurer post. For
the second year running Eamon
Hogg was elected Youth Officer
while Marcas MacSiomoin was
appointed PRO for the fourth
year in a row. Martin Coughlan
has taken up the Cultural
Officer's position. Martin
hopes to revive Dundrum's
participation in Scor
activities which has waned in
previous years. Club stalwart
Kieran McKibben filled the
remaining two posts namely
Safety Officer and County
Delegate.
Apart
from the club officer
positions there are an
additional fifteen members of
the committee. These include
Senior team manager John
McShane, Senior team players
Kieran Walsh and Conor
McKibbin, Reserve team members
David Campbell, Martin Walsh,
Paddy Doran and Barry
Walsh, former chairmen Micheal
Rodgers, Liam McKibben and
Seamus Walsh, former Secretary
Peter McVerry, Gerry Morgan
and Phelim Shields. The two
remaining additional members
are the returning Eddie
Campbell and newcomer Martin
McVeigh. Eddie was heavily
involved with the club in the
early 90's and Martin is new
to the village. Both are very
welcome to the new setup.
These
additional fifteen members
will be co-opted on to the new
sub-committees that will be
devised at the first committee
meeting of the year. A date
for this meeting will appear
in next week's club notes.
* The
U-21's took on East Down 'A'
champions and All-County
runners-up Kilcoo in a
challenge game at Annsborough
on Sunday. Despite being
beaten, this game proved to be
a very useful learning curve
for those involved. It showed
the Naomh Seosamh lads the
step-up in class that is
required for when they take on
An Riocht in the All-County
'B' Final that is set to take
place on Sunday the 28th
(provisional).
All
involved with Naomh Seosamh
would like to thank Gabriel
Tumelty (Bright) for
refereeing the game and Kilcoo
for particpating in the
fixture despite their U-21
campaign finishing three weeks
ago. The Kilcoo players were a
credit to their club and their
style of play was a joy to
watch. Also, a thanks goes to
Kilcoo manager Gerry Laverty
for his words of advice and
encouragement after the game.
There will
be three training sessions for
the U-21's this week. They
will take place in Ballykinlar
at 7.30pm on Wednesday and
Friday and at 11am on Sunday.
The following panel of 25
players is requested to attend
in preparation for the Final:
Aughlisnafin: B.Quinn,
S.Willoughby
Ballykinlar: M.Smith,
B.Mageean, G.Grant, H.Robb,
A.Robb, M.Robb, J.Hanna
Dundrum: C.King,
K.McShane, M.Rooney,
N.McComiskey, A.Doyle,
J.McKibben, M.Melville,
M.Fitzsimons, D.Murphy,
P.Rooney, R.Fitzsimons,
P.McComiskey, M.Cunningham,
C.Hogg, D.Kavanagh, C.McShane
* The
Senior team setup would like
to welcome Eddie Campbell in
to the fold. Eddie has been
installed as Pre-Season
fitness trainer. He was last
involved with club's Senior
setup during the early 90's
when they were flying high at
the top of Division 2. Martin
Coughlan is the only remaining
player in this year's team
that played in the Division 2
campaign of that era.
* Paul
McComiskey was once again
involved with Queens in the
McKenna Cup at the weekend. He
came on twenty minutes from
the end in the Uni's two point
defeat to Cavan in Breffni
Park.
* Declan
Kavanagh was involved in St
Colman's, Newry, victory over
St Michael's, Enniskillen, in
a friendly game on Saturday