Club Notes: 29th March 2021

Post date: Apr 05, 2021 10:38:1 PM

Notaí CLG Tulach an Iarainn sponsored by Goalpost Ireland Tallow

Committee Meeting: We are having a committee meeting on Wednesday at 7.30 pm . It's going on through Zoom technology. Committee members can contact 087-7578829 to participate.

Tallow GAA Lotto Supported by Kearney's Catering.

29/3/2021 Jackpot €15,900 No Winner Number: 1,9,13,26

Consolation Prizes €25: James Clancy, Aidan Murphy, Anne Prendergast, Marian Slattery (online)

Promoter: Corner House

Next Draw 5/04/2021 9pm Jackpot €16,000

1952 Picture: Nowadays clubs are run like a businesses. They incorporate lotto's , county draws, regular fundraising etc.. Without such regular income clubs won't survive. You add in the cost of registering teams , insurance . equipment and trainers and your looking at thousands of euro. So what was it like before? I have heard yarns of annual AGM's being held and the accounts being written out on the back of a packet of cigarettes.

Rod Stewart once sang that 'Every Picture Tells a Story Don't it". So what story does the picture below tell?.The fifties were very challenging time for everyone. There was very little in the way of employment and droves left the country to America and England never to return. The club was in a very impoverished state if you'd even call it a club. With the betting scandal of the late forties depriving men to play at adult level , the club had a youth wing only going by the name of Bride Valley Rovers.

The picture is from St Patrick's night at the Regal cinema in 1952.

Included in the picture in the back row are Pad Fitzgerald , Tom Cunningham, Rogie Ryan, Sonny O'Brien, Mick Tobin and Jimmy O'Brien.

Front Row has Paddy Henley and Annraoi O'Liatháin who was president of the Gaelic League. Tallow GAA at the time had Tommy Sheehan as chairman, Paddy Henley secretary and Tom Cunningham was the Treasurer. The picture is the second time that year that year that Tallow held a ceilí. Tom Cunningham did the till on St. Patrick's night. Frank O'Brien of Fermoy took the picture. A bald small man Fahey from the revenue commissars turned up. That time when anyone was looking to run anything you had to go to the Post Office to get stamps which had government duty on them. Fahey walked up to the counter and questioned Tom and took a head count . He said there is a dance tonight and there was no stamp duty on the tickets and that Tallow owed the government. He also stated that one was held in February with the same circumstances and that the club owed seven pounds, fourteen pence and six shillings. The following week a meeting was held in Tommy Sheehan's workshop . Paddy Henley was absent but Tommy wrote that 7 pounds , 14 shillings was scatched from us....