AIB GAA Football All Ireland Junior Club Championship Semi Final: Unfortunately Sunday ended in heartbreak for us all, the club would like to take this opportunity to thank the players and management team for all their hard work and commitment all year. Despite Sunday’s disappointment we can look back at 2013 as a successful year for the club. Finally the club would like to thank the many supporters who made the trip to Longford in appalling weather.

Emyvale Team: G McCaffrey, M Brown, G McQuaid, J Flannery, K McQuaid, J Bellew, C Donnelly, M Flannery, C Hughes, D McAllister 0-3, R McAnespie 0-1, D Bellew, D McMahon 1-1 (0-1f), D Colton, M McAree 1-1 (0-1f). Subs: S McMeel for D Bellew, P J McKenna for M Brown.

GAA National Club Draw: Central Council is running a draw for clubs. Books of ten tickets are available and the club will retain the proceeds of the tickets sold by the club. Prizes provided by the Ard Comhairle include a trip to the 2014 International Rules in Australia, All-Ireland packages, Corporate box concert tickets, a travel voucher and other great prizes. Books of 10 tickets are currently being distributed.

Membership: Membership is now due for renewal this will cost €25 for 2014

Mouth guards: Gaelic footballers at all grades must wear mouth guards from Jan 1st 2014. It is the responsibility of each individual player to use a mouth guard.

Bingo: Tonight Thursday in the Emyvale Leisure Centre at 9.00pm. Jackpot €1,000 on 45 calls or less and Mini Jackpot € 500 on 51 calls. Cleaning Rota: Barry mc Carron & Alice mc Carron

Emylott: Nos. drawn 26^th Jan.:- 1, 5, 13, 27.  Two ‘Match 3’ winners (€75 each):- Barry McGuirk, Emyvale;  Jim McAlister, Aughaloughan (yearly).   Promoter’s Prize:- Hugh Bogue & Enda McQuillan.  Yearly Promoter’s prize:-  Enda McQuillan  & John Finn.  Next week’s Jackpot:- €4,900.   ‘All or Nothing’ Draw:- 1, 3, 4, 6, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28:- No winner.   Emylott Rota for February:- Mickey & Frances McAree;  Sean & Angela McQuillan.

Coaching Courses: Monaghan GAA are running a series of Coaching Courses over the next 3 months and if you would like to complete either a Foundation or Level One award please contact Patrick McCarron (0860675516) ASAP

Ulster GAA Coaching Conference: The O’Neill’s Ulster GAA Coaching Conference 2014 will be held in the Hilton Hotel, Templepatrick, Co. Antrim on Saturday 1st February 2014. The theme for 2014 is ’20/20 Vision for 2020 Clubs’ and will have a particular resonance with those coaches working within schools, clubs, academies and county squads in urban settings. Guest speaker will be Brian Mullins, former Dublin Manager. Anybody interested please contact Patrick Mc Carron.

Centenary Year: Emyvale GAA Club celebrates the centenary of its formation this year so we have decided to publish some snippets of the history of the club over the coming weeks. Emyvale is very fortunate to have club member & historian Seamus Mc Cluskey who has written “Emyvale GAA Club, A History” which covers the period from the founding of the club up until the 1980’s. Since then he has kept scrap books of all the newspapers cuttings for each year & these are stored in the clubhouse in Tully so the history of the club will always be recorded. There were no records in those early years but Seamus states in his book that it was Master Flood of Innisdevlin who taught in Edenmore National School that got the young lads of the district together in a field near the Blue Bridge in 1914 and here the  Emyvale GAA club was born. They played teams from Bragan, Tydavnet, Middletown & Clogher. Some of those who played on that early team were: Paddy Mohan, Derilla; Johnnie Mc Carron, Knockronaghan;  John (Paddy Brian) Treanor, Golan;  James Mc Quillan, Tonneyfinnegan; Frank Treanor (Phil Sheamuis); Owenie (Briney) Treanor; James Mc Kenna, Killacorn; Jemmie (Pheadar) Mc Kenna, Tamlet; Mc Carrons & Mc Kennas.  Paddy Mohan, Derilla recalled some great memories of this team & could remember playing games at Innishdevlin, Derrykinnighbeg, Drumberrin, Tydavnet & Edenmore.  Indeed Paddy was the first man from the parish to play for the Monaghan County Senior Team when he came on as a sub in 1915 & scored 1 – 5 to help Monaghan to victory against Leitrim & following this brilliant performance he was referred to “The Skipper”.  The earliest official record is a minute in the report of the Ulster Council meeting in 1918 where Emyvale put in a request for the use of two players, Francis Treanor & Peter Gorman from Aghaloo to play for Emyvale & this request was granted.

Ideas: As mentioned already the club will be celebrating its 100th year in existence in 2014. We hope to mark the occasion in a special way. We would welcome any ideas on what would be appropriate for the occasion. A small sub – committee will be set up shortly to oversee the project.

Notes: If you want to have something included in the notes in 2014 can you please contact 087-4103569 or email pro.emyvale.monaghan@gaa.ie