MCNAMEE AWARDS
The Cahir history – Memories & Achievements 124 years of the GAA in Cahir - has been honoured with the McNamee award for the best History publication in 2009. We congratulate Colm O’Flaherty and Matty Hussey on their excellent work. The book has received much praise since its publication and the receipt of the prestigious McNamee award is well deserved. The presentation ceremony will take place in Croke Park on Saturday next.
Copies of the book are available at Sampsons, Lar Na Pairce, Colm O'Flaherty and Eddie Lonergan.
The official announcement is as follows:
2009 McNamee Awards
The winners of the 2009 McNamee Awards have been confirmed by the GAA. These Awards, the GAA National Communication and Media Awards named after the late Pádraig McNamee, former President of the GAA, Chairman of the GAA Commission (1969-1971) and member of RTÉ authority. They are presented annually in recognition of outstanding contributions made by individuals and Association units in the area of media and communications.
The awards will be presented by Uachtarán Cumann Lúthchleas Gael, Criostóir Ó Cuana, at a function in Croke Park on Saturday next, July 24.
Best GAA History Publication
‘Memory and Achievements: 124 Years of the GAA in Cahir’
The winner of the 2010 McNamee Award is ‘Memory and Achievements: 124 Years of the GAA in Cahir’ which was compiled by Colm O’Flaherty and Mattie Hussey. This outstanding publication is no mere history of a GAA Club. It is much more than that. Perhaps the greatest strength of the book is the diversity of its contributors. As well as the men who wrote the background of the story of the presence of the GAA in Cahir, most recent decades were illuminated by the contributions of successive generations of players and officials. From the lovely piece written by John O’Meara (who was born in 1936), to the brilliant, funny, gossipy contribution on the 2003 Tipperary senior football winning team, there is a wonderful chorus of opinions
'it's what you gave your whole life to'