2005 Awards Dinner Photos

The team and selectors who celebrated the 25th anniversary of their 1980 County Intermediate Championship win at the 2005 Clonmore Dinner Dance:

Back row (left to right): John Doyle, Tommy Kelly, Mick Byrne, Larry O’Brien, Bobby Connolly (for his brother John).
Middle Row: Jim Doyle, Tom Boland, Mick McGrath, Jim Bolger, Des Kelly, Marita Lawlor (for her brother Pat Coughlan), Mona O’Toole (for her late husband Sean), Mick Doyle, Linda Boland (for her uncle Tom Kehoe), Frances Connolly (for her late father Mick), Tom Purser, Joe Byrne, Mick O’Sullivan, Frank Donnelly.Front Row: Kevin Tallon, Tom Doyle, Declan McCarthy, Jimmy Lawlor, Johnny Strahan, John Tallon.

The Hacketstown Junior Team of Six who celebrated the 25th anniversary of their 1980 Carlow Handball Championship win at the 2005 Clonmore Dinner Dance: (left to right) Nick Byrne, Tom Purser (Captain), Jamie Walsh (representing his uncles Paddy, Jim and Eddie), Joe Foley and Jimmy Lawlor


1980 Selectors: Mona O’Toole (representing her late husband Sean), Tom Doyle and Frances Connolly (for her late father Mick). The other selector with the 1980 team was the late Jack Byrne.

Denis Quigley (Junior Player of Year) and John McGrath (Senior Player of Year),

Colm McGrath (Minor Player of Year) and Pierce Doyle (U-21 Player of Year)

Denis Quigley (Junior Player of Year), Colm McGrath (Minor) John McGrath (Senior), Pierce Doyle (U-21) and Ger Doyle (Clubman of the Year).



The surviving members of the Carlow teams of 1944 (Leinster Champions) and 1954 (National League Finalists) were honoured by Carlow County Board in October 2004 with a function in the Dolmen Hotel. Micheál O’Muircheartaigh was MC of a very enjoyable evening. Clonmore players on the 1954 team were Pakes Connolly RIP, Martin Molloy, Jim Fogarty and Denis Cullen. John J Doyle was a Selector on the team



Clonmore clubmen who attended the 50th  anniversary celebration for the Carlow 1954 team which reached the National League Final. Front: Paul Connolly (representing his late father Pakes), Denis Cullen, Jim Fogarty. Back: Eddie Forde (Organising Committee), John J Doyle (Selector) and Eamonn Molloy (representing his father Martin)