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Is your club/organisation planning to submit an application for Lotto funding in 2009? If you are then you should attend a workshop on Monday November 10 at 8pm in the Mayo Education Centre which will guide you through the ins and outs of filling out an application form for this scheme. Joe Butler from the Mayo Football League will guide participants through the process.

Frobel College and Carlow star Marion Doyle has been named among the recipients of the 2009 Camogie bursary grants that were announced at a presentation in Croke Park this week.

“It has been all go, madness really.” Welcome to the life and times of Kenny Egan. Silver medalist at the Beijing Olympics, a laudable spell as the Irish Boxing team captain, but finding the correct balance since the summer has been tricky.

Something very unusual took place last Sunday at the Gaelic grounds in Limerick. A Munster final without the Cork or Kerry club champions’ involvement. I cannot ever recall a Munster club final taking place without at least one of the big guns from either county being involved. As I drove to Dublin last Monday evening I listened to the footballers and management team from two rural villages give their own account of the historic victory that they pulled off the previous day over the Clare champions Kilmurry-Ibrickane. But then the achievements of the people of Dromcollogher/Broadford are many: the Organic Horticultural College and special needs residence built on land donated by the community, the renovation of the local church, the local history book produced by the local FETAC training group, the deep links between the local schoolchildren, farmers and the Bóthar project. The community was primarily responsible for bringing a factory to the town to create further employment and keep young people in the area. All of these highlight the tremendous sense of community and activism that permeates throughout these two rural villages. Such community triumphs prove that unified voluntary efforts can achieve much in towns where salvation is needed.

On Monday night last, Kilkenny Recreation and Sports Partnership in conjunction with the Kilkenny Drugs Awareness Committee launched the Elite Athlete Support Programme in Langton’s Hotel.

Over the past few weeks and right up to the middle of January 2009 county boards and clubs will be holding their AGMs and releasing their accounts for the club delegates and club members to study. Some of the figures that are in the public domain already make for scary bedtime reading for those charged with raising the revenue to keep the wheels greased and turning. For example, the Waterford hurling board spent nearly €2 million in preparing their teams in 2008. The Galway hurlers cost over €1 million to keep on the road last season and they didn’t even reach the last four. How much would it have cost if they got to the final?

Interested in leadership training? Complete an Active Leader Award on Friday March 27 from 7pm to 10pm and on Saturday March 28 from 9.30am to 4pm in the Balla Resource Centre.

On Monday night last, Kilkenny Recreation and Sports Partnership in conjunction with the Kilkenny Drugs Awareness Committee launched the Elite Athlete Support Programme in Langton’s Hotel.

Camogie president Joan O’Flynn has announced the establishment of the association’s first Player Welfare Committee. The committee, headed up by Stellah Sinnott, manager of the 2007 senior All-Ireland winning Wexford team, will comprise eight current inter-county players and Paula Rankin, Head of Sports Science in Carlow Institute of Technology.

Over the past few weeks and right up to the middle of January 2009 county boards and clubs will be holding their AGMs and releasing their accounts for the club delegates and club members to study. Some of the figures that are in the public domain already make for scary bed-time reading for those charged with raising the revenue to keep the wheels greased and turning. For example - the Waterford hurling board spent nearly €2 million in preparing their teams in 2008. The Galway hurlers cost over €1 million to keep on the road last season and they didn’t even reach the last four. How much would it have cost if they had got to the final?