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Kearney - Mitchels Player of the Year - 26/11/2004

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Taken from Down Democrat

GAA: Kevin Kearney is Mitchels Player of the Year

Kevin Kearney was voted the Newry Mitchels’ Player of the Year at the recent presentation evening at the Carrickdale Hotel.

Manager Collie Bell handed over the award to the hard-working Kearney.

Meanwhile Brendan McParland, who captained the Abbey Corn na nOg and McMahon Cup teams, and has been involved with Mitchels all his life (as a treasurer and manager to both senior and minor teams) won the 2004 Hall of Fame award for his dedicated services to the club.

Other awards went to: Brendan Murphy as the Minor Player of the Year, and Aaron Grant as the Most Improved Minor.

Eamon Pollack was voted the Most Improved Senior player, Collie McKeown won the Reserve Player of the Year award while Myles Cole won the Gerry Brown Endeavour award - presented to him by the club chairman Harry Cooney.

And at the end of the presentations, Mitchels’ midfielder Shane Cooney, on behalf of his father’s C.T.S. Express firm, handed over a framed shirt as a token of the firm’s sponsorship of the club strip.