Official opening of Shannonbridge GAA pitch - Sat May 1st

[Hocker]

Shannonbridge GAA will host the Official opening of its playing grounds on Saturday May 1st 2010 with all proceeds in aid of Aware – the depression support group.
GAA President Christy Cooney will officially open Pairc Chiaran Naofa, and we will be joined by dignitaries from all over the spectrum including TV Sports personality Darragh Maloney (who originally hails from Shannonbridge parish) among others.
As part of the festivities which begins at 5.00pm there will be underage games and the main event of the day will see a Senior Inter-County Football Challenge match between Offaly & Longford with a 6.00pm throw-in, in which promises to be a good competitive game just 3 weeks before our championship opener against Meath. This game will be refereed by top ref. Pat McEneaney.

All support on the day will be most welcome, and as mentioned before there will be no entry fee on the day and any donation towards AWARE will be greatly appreciated.
Shannonbridge area like many others throughout the country has been devasted in recent years having lost players and parishioners alike through suicide and AWARE is a more than worthy cause to help prevent suicide and raises awareness among others of people with depression.

Thank you and looking forward to seeing you all there on the day.

[TheManFromFerbane]

Why is the pitch getting opened now Hocker?? Was there development done?

[Hocker]

Howya ..... No there was never actually an opening of the grounds so we decided that we'd couple a fundraiser for AWARE with the official opening and kill two birds with one stone.

It promises to be a good day out for all and for a very good cause so we'd be hoping for a good turn out particularly from neighbouring clubs as well as those from afar.

It'll laso be a good workout for the Offaly team before the start of the Championship.

[black and red exile]

Excellent cause Hocker, I'll definetly be there for sure.

[Hocker]

Both Tom Cribbin & Glen Ryan have promised to field their strongest teams, It'll definitely be a worthwhile exercise and probably the last challenge games before their respective championship openers so it should be a good competitive game.

So spread the word people, it'd be greatly appreciated.

[TheManFromFerbane]

Best of luck with it lads. A worthy cause alright.

[azoffaly]

Well done Shannonbridge (God I hate saying that ). Great idea, and a great cause that has touched our part of Offaly too often in the past few years. Hope ye make a fortune for AWARE.

[Hocker]

Hoping to see you all there on the big day folks.........
We've given it plenty of publicity and we're hoping for a good big turn out!!

[Bord na Mona man]

I hope to be there.
Its looks a good setup down at the bridge.
A very worthy cause too.