With regard to the article last week on
football in St. Patrick’s N.S and the response to it we would like to
add a little more information. Pat Mc Carthy is correct in stating that
the school leagues, as we know them, were begun or should we say
revived by Master Timmy Hourihan in 1954.
It is wrong to say, however,
that leagues were not run by Jack Young. Indeed they were run even
before Jack’s time as there is a record of a school league being run in
1922 by a Brother Theodorus of the La Salle Brothers who ran the school
in the early 20th century. When Jack Young became principal
in the 1920’s he ran leagues on a regular basis but perhaps not as
regularly as the present league. He also entered the school in the West
Cork School Shields competition which was for boys under 15 still going
to national school. St Patricks won the title in 1930 and 1933 and it
is believed they went on to win the County in 1933.
The school league teams under Jack Young carried such noble names
as Sam Maguires, Tadgh A Duna, Randal Og, the Fenians, Eamonn an Cnoic,
the United Irishmen, Sarsfields, the Great Easterns, the Croppy Boys
and the Kickhams. In 1939 the three teams taking part were Sam
Maguires, Tadgh a Duna and Randal Og with Maguires defeatingTtadgh a
Duna in the final which took 3 games to resolve. An M. Kearney, was it
Micky Kearney, captained the Maguires team. On the Tadgh a Duna team
was Florrie Deasy while James Daly, Frankie O’ Brien and Denis Collins
were on the Randal Og team. In the 1942 league the teams were the
Great Easterns captained by John O Regan, the Croppy Boys captained by
Con Fuller, and White Boys captained by J(?) Collins. The teams
included well known footballers like Jerry Bernard, Seanie Keane, Paddy
Collins and Chris Corcoran, to mention just a few.
These leagues lapsed in the middle of the 1940’s and were revived
by Timmy Hourihan in 1954. R.N. Butler, Chemist, Market Square,
presented a cup for the winning captain which was replaced in 1975 by
Corn na Muinteoiri, presented by Michael O’ Sullivan.
The following is a list of winning captains;
1954 – Pat Mc Carthy 1955 – John
Burke 1956 – Vincent
Hurley 1957 – John Burke
1958 – Michael O’ Rourke
1959 – Anthony Mc Carthy
1960 - Donal Mc Carthy 1961 – Donal Hurley
1962 - Tommy Lyons 1963 – Donal Crowley
1964 – Michael Healy 1965 – Vincent O’ Sullivan
1966 – Seamus O’ Sullivan 1967 - Denis Crowley
1968 – Jerome Crowley 1969 – Gerard Galvin
1970 – Michael O Donovan 1971 – James Lordan
1972 – Sean Hayes 1973 – Billy Lordan
1974 – Conor Coakley 1975 – Niall Duggan
1976 – Kevin Sheehan 1977 – Martin Walsh
1978 – Chris O’ Mahony 1979 – Jerry Keohane
1980 – David Lordan 1981 – Sean Coakley
1982 – Denis Carroll 1983 – Dominic O’ Mahony
1984 – John Galvin 1985 – Denis Mc Carthy
!986 – Brendan Farr
These names should bring memories flooding back and bring to mind some good stories. Why not share them with us.
Hopefully we will bring the list up to date at a later time.