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Posted: January 5th, 2009
Nostaligia was very much in the air in the clubhouse on Saturday, December 27th at the 25th year reunion of the club's first ever championship winning team.
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Club chairman Jim Lane makes a special presentation to Thomas Clynch (centre) with, from left - Duncan Byrne, Paul McCabe and Alan Kavanagh who was the team captain in 1983. |
A special presentation was made to the team manager Thomas Clynch - who was a driving force behind the underage successes of the eighties - as members of the side that claimed the Meath Under 12 FC title in 1983 gathered to reminisce about the the club's first major title success.
With four survivors - Philip Traynor, Alan Kavanagh, Owen Connolly and Conor Clynch - from the 1982 team that lost in the decider to Dunboyne, Simonstown gained revenge on the same side in a replayed final.
Corner forward Duncan Byrne, marked by future All-Ireland MFC and SFC winning star Enda McManus, scored the all important goal in the 1-7 to 0-7 triumph.
Three members of the team - Traynor, Michael Byrne and Graham Cooke - played in the club’s breakthrough JFC success of 1990 and the latter two were still aboard when IFC honours were collected five years later.
The Simonstown panel - Damien Cahill; David Johnson, Adrian Shanley, Damien Carolan (RIP); Brendan Keelan, Philip Traynor, Owen Connolly; Alan Kavanagh, Michael Byrne; Conor Clynch, Graham Cooke, Garett Conachy; Duncan Byrne, Paul Craig, Paul McCabe. Subs - Derek Johnson, Brendan Brady, Shane Nolan, Adrian Masterson, Paul Cromwell, Danny O’Neill, Alan Clarke, Declan McKeown, Richard Gillick, Nigel Moran.
Click on this link to see the Meath Chronicle report of the game. More...
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