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26 March 2012
It was a tremendous showing once again from Clooney/Quin at the Scór na bPáistí Co. Finals in Cois na hAbhna on Sunday last. We had entries in 6 of the 8 categories, winning 3 of these to gain the accolade of the most successful club!
First out of the blocks were our Figure Dancing group of Aoife Guilfoyle, Eoin Guilfoyle, Karen O’Sullivan and Joanna O’Sullivan. They were fantastic! And the adjudicators agreed by awarding them gold medals. This made it a hat trick of titles for their coach, Marie Guilfoyle, following successes in 2010 and 2011.
There was an obvious sense of pride on the face of our Senior Club Chairman, Seán Earls, when Anthony O’Donnell, with guitar accompaniment, belted out our club anthem, ‘Spancilhill’ in the Solo Singing competition. Well Done Anthony!
We are very grateful to Ms. Crea Philips in Scoil na Mainistreach who prepared our two music groups. They both gave a fine account of themselves in a very competitive category. The ‘Green’ team members were: Oisin Egan, Michelle Meere, Hannah Conneally, Ulick O’Sullivan and Leah O’Neill. The ‘Red’ team comprised of Brianna Fennel, Colin Liddy, Paul Hogan, Aishling McMahon and Anthony O’Donnell.
Our next stage performance came from our Novelty Act. The story of ‘An Important Visitor’ was acted out on stage in expert fashion by a cast comprising of Cathal Browne, Leah O’Neill, Ulick O’Sullivan and Paul Hogan. They beat off stiff opposition to take our second set of gold medals. In so doing, they brought this title back to the club for the 2nd time in 3 years.
We were delighted to have our first ever entry in the Set Dancing competition. We were thrilled with the performance! And we were overjoyed with the result! Our first time entrants took the gold medals in a very high class field. Congratulations to Hannah Conneally, Cadhla O’Keeffe, Muireann Griffin, Seoda O’Keeffe, Pierce Griffin, Conal Egan, Donagh O’Sullivan and Cormac Egan.
Our two quiz teams put up a sterling performance but were pipped for the title. Well Done to the ‘Green’ team of Ulick O’Sullivan, Oisin Egan and Anthony O’Donnell and the ‘Red’ team of Paul Hogan, Cathal Browne and Eoghan O’Brien.
Finally, a big ‘Thank You’ to the parents who made a big effort to get the girls and boys to Cois na hAbhna in what was a fairly hectic weekend of activities for many of them. You have done Clooney/Quin proud!