It is a huge honour for our club that the team of 2000, winners of the Mayo Intermediate Football Championship, will be introduced as the half-time jubilee team at this year’s Mayo IFC Final on Saturday, October 18. The exact time of the game is to be confirmed. Last year, the final took place at 2.30pm; perhaps that is a guide. More anon.
Twenty-five years on, we recall with pride the feats of a special group of players, mentors and officers who brought the Sweeney Cup to Ballinrobe. We have won three intermediate titles (1979, 2000 and 2002) in our history and many of these players also featured in 2002.
To mark the occasion, we’ve begun collecting newspaper cuttings and memories from the 2000 campaign (see below), with more to follow in the build-up to, and following, the October 18 event. This is a fitting tribute to a team that excelled in that final win over Ballaghaderreen.
2000 final starting team and panel: Paul Tiernan; Colm Jennings, Paul Finnerty, Donal Costello; Ruairi Keane, Fergal Costello, Harry Murphy; Sean Grimes, Fergal O’Loughlin; Aidan Golden (RIP), Tony Walkin (captain), Adrian Flannery; Keith McTigue, Maurice Horan, Micheal Keane.
Subs: Pat Malone, Pat Kennedy, Alan Flannery, Peter Walkin, Anthony O’Toole, Sean McCaughey, Colm Killeen, Kieran Sheridan, Liam Butler, Declan Costello, Jim Staunton, Tom Sweeney.
Management: Peter Ford (Manager), Martin Walsh, Billy Burke, Sean Fahy, Dick Langan (Selectors)
Club Officers 2000: Martin Murphy (Chairperson), Katherine Butler, now O’Loughlin (Secretary), Seamus Macken (Treasurer)
A special word for the late Aidan Golden, who will be represented on the day. We miss him dearly.
Browse through the various cuttings HERE. It is set to public access so if it’s not working for you might need to try on a different phone – or get an eight-year-old to figure it out for you:)
We will be adding to these in the build-up to October 18.