Official move made to form a Hurling Board

IT’S finally official - moves to form a County Hurling Committee are underway.
After months of speculation a motion is to come before the clubs of the county at the Annual Convention in December to set up a County Hurling Committee.
The motion was submitted by the Murroe-Boher GAA club.
The motion seeks for the establishment of a steering committee at Annual Convention with a view towards ratifying the new body at the February County Board meeting.
In recent times representatives of the break-away group met with Limerick GAA chiefs, but the sides reached no agreement on a way forward which has resulted in the motion to come before convention.
A 16-man committee are behind the plans to establish a seperate Hurling Board or Committee for Limerick - with four representatives from the clubs from each of the four divisions.
The break-away group contains a number of high-profile figures within Limerick hurling including past and present high ranking officials, former inter-county hurlers and footballers and former members of inter-county management teams.
There will also be a number of other interesting motions to come before the Annual Convention.
Bruff GAA club are proposing to end the involvement of divisional teams in the county senior hurling championship while the Killeedy club are proposing that all four divisions be represented in the championship proper.
Croagh-Kilfinny are seeking to have the county junior A hurling championship run on an all-county basis with 20 teams to compete with four groups of five teams.
Along similar lines Galtee Gaels want the county junior A football championship run across the county.
But Killeedy want the county intermediate hurling championship to return to the divisions.

Quaid & Carroll
TWO former Limerick hurlers could be about to move into the boardroom of Limerick GAA.
Former inter-county goalkeeper Joe Quaid and former star midfielder Jimmy Carroll are both nominated for positions on the executive of Limerick County Board.
The two-time All Star Quaid played between the posts for Limerick from 1994 to 2002 and was coach of the Limerick under-14 team for the Tony Forristal competition this season.
Carroll played with Limerick for a ten-year spell from the late 70’s until 1988 and for the last three years has managed the Emmets divisional team.
The duo could find themselves at the top table of Limerick GAA after the 2010 Annual Convention which will take place at a south venue on Monday, December 6.
Joe Quaid is nominated for the position of Coaching Officer - a position that is been vacated by Gerry Philips as he has competed his five-year term. Quaid will face opposition from out-going vice-chairman Mickey O’Sullivan.
O’Sullivan has to step down from his vice-chairman role as he has completed his term and will be replaced by Oliver Mann who is the only candidate nominated for the position.
O’Sullivan is also nominated for the position of Munster Council delegate.
There are a total of six individuals nominated for the two positions to the provincial council - Jimmy Carroll, Denis Holmes, Oliver Mann, John Galvin, Eddie Wade and Mickey O’Sullivan.

Maurice Horan
Maurice Horan has finally been rubber-stamped as Limerick’s new senior football manager.
At this week’s October monthly meeting of the County Board in Claughaun the successor to Mickey Ned O’Sullivan was ratified by delegates.
The former Mayo and Limerick footballer will be joined by Eiphe Fitzgerald as trainer-selector and Joe Lee as selector.
Ephie Fitzgerald managed Nemo Rangers to a four-in-a-row of Cork SFC titles as well as two Munster titles.
As a player with Nemo he won four All-Ireland medals and five Munster club medals.
He also won two under-21 All-Irelands with Cork along with a Munster senior title.
Horan was also ratified as Limerick under-21 manager with selectors Micheal Reidy (Dromcollogher-Broadford), Oola’s John Ryan and Adare’s Niall Crowley.
Elsewhere, former Limerick senior hurling coach Ger Cunningham (Knockainey) has been appointed as a selector with the Limerick minor hurling team for 2011.
Cunnigham replaces Adare’s Joe Hannon as a selector as Hannon is to take up the role of Liaison Officer with Donal O’Grady’s senior hurlers.
Adare’s Shane Fitzgibbon is Limerick minor manager for next season along with Mike Galligan (Claughaun), Frankie Carroll (Garryspillane), George Lee (Ahane) and now Cunningham.
The position of county under-21 hurling manager remains vacant.
Limerick GAA chairman Liam Lenihan told this week’s meeting that it would be after the International Rules Test before attention would be turned to the appointment.

Championship draw
Limerick have received a bye into the semi-finals of both codes in the 2011 Munster senior championships - Donal O’Grady’s hurlers were drawn against Munster champions Waterford in their semi-final of the provincial hurling championship.
The clash against the Davy Fitzgerald managed Decies is likely to take place in Semple Stadium Thurles.
On the other side of the draw All-Ireland champions Tipperary play Cork in the quarter-final with the winners to play Clare in the semi-final.
Meanwhile in the football draw Limerick received a bye in the semi-final. They await the winners of the quarter-final meeting of Kerry and Tipperary.
Limerick will have home advantage in the Gaelic Grounds, regardless of the opposition.
In the other side of the championship All-Ireland champions Cork play Clare with the winners to face Waterford.

Jerome O’Connell