61 We welcome all participating teams to Kilbeacanty on Thursday and Friday and wish them the very best in the International Hurling tournament. Other Kilbeacanty Hurling Club Facts • Kilbeacanty Hurling Club Club celebrated its 125 year anniversary in 2010. • Kilbeacanty man Larry Corless was named on the London team of the Century. • Kilbeacanty man Pat Kearney is current Galway County Hurling Board Secretary. • Frank Fahey served in Government and held the office of Minister for the Marine. • Bernard Gillane’s horse Cloone River won the renowned Galway Hurdle in 2004. • McCarthys Bar and Lounge is Kilbeacanty GAA Club’s Main Sponsor. Rahoon-Newcastle HC is a club that takes in an area stretching from Barna to Corcullen (townland on Moycullen-Rahoon parish border) and all the way to Shantalla in County Galway, Ireland. The club was founded in 1889 and is almost exclusively concerned with the game of hurling Liam Mellows HC The Liam Mellows Club was formed in Galway City in 1933. With over 330 members today, ranging in age from eight to eighty, Liam Mellows is a club with a proud and successful history. Liam Mellows have played a pivotal part in the development of Gaelic Games in Galway City and continues to do so up to the present day, nurturing juveniles and supplying players and selectors for numerous county teams. BARNA-Furbo HC Club Iomaíochta Bearna-Na Forbacha is the local hurling club of the parish of Bearna-Na Forbacha. It was founded in 1992 by Tomás Ó Curraoin and has gone from strength to strength since then. We field teams from U14’s, U16’s, Minor, Junior A and C as well as underage camogie which is a recent addition. kilbeacanty HC Kilbeacanty Hurling Club was founded in 1885 and there are close links between Kilbeacanty and the movement which led to the founding of the GAA in 1884 by Michael Cusack who was a teacher in the area at the time. Folklore has it that Cusack was an interested spectator at a match between Kilbeacanty and Beagh in a field at the south end of the parish called “Peggy’s Meadow” in 1870. He followed the game with great pleasure and interest and went on to find the GAA in Thurles some 14 years later. Today our juvenile club which is an amalgamation of Beagh and Kilbeacanty is called Michael Cusack’s and has enjoyed two county final successes since it was founded in 2008. Kilbeacanty GAA club is also renowned for its seven a side gold medal hurling tournament on the June Bank Holiday weekend where teams from Galway and Clare participate in a great days hurling and this year celebrated its 50th anniversary since the tournament was revived in the 60s. The club has had many players down through the years that have won All-Irelands at different levels in the maroon and white of Galway, however one name that stands out is Steve Mahon whose achievements on the hurling field is as impressive a list you will find. His most notable wins include two All-Ireland senior medals in 1980 and 1987 as well as two AllStars in 1981 and 1987 and for the club he was to the fore in winning the 1978 Intermediate County Championship. Today the club is delighted to have Niall Donoghue representing us on the county scene and last year he helped Galway win their first ever Leinster Hurling Championship. For the visitors today from London and New York there is no doubt that you will recognise the names of the Corlesses in London and Eamon Shields New York who are from Kilbeacanty and have played a major role in the hurling scene out there in the past and who continue to support Kilbeacanty Hurling Club today. Host Clubs
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