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THE recently held AGM of the Clare Camogie Board reinstated the en- tire out-going committee of Maura Sheedy (Chairperson), Mary Hogan (Secretary) and Michael Maher (Treasurer). Orla Hayes again takes the position of Registrar, Bridie O’Looney will continue as Munster Delegate and Orla Considine who acted as Assistant PRO takes over as PRO.
All assistant positions are also now filled with Kevin Halpin (Newmar- ket-on-Fergus) taking Vice-Chair, Mike Griffen (Clarecastle) as Assist- ant ‘Treasurer and in the bid to grow the coverage of camogie, Kathleen McMahon and Marie McDonald will
assist as PROs.
In a positive move, Patricia O’Grady has taken over as Integration Officer which will be important to camogie as it attempts to build links across the codes to ensure the full availabil- ity of all girls at all stages of each campaign. Bridie O’Looney also ac- cepted the office of Child Welfare and in a new position Kate Lynch of Kilkishen will take the position of Youth Officer, a role which will ex- press the views of young players in the county and 1s specifically aimed at those under the age of 18.
The role of Irish Officer was not filled as Anne-Marie Arthur who was nominated for the position was not present and therefore was not permitted to take the role. This posi-
tion was left over to the next meeting as Chairperson Maura Sheedy stated that it would be nice to have some- one who would be able to address the board meetings in Irish.
Fr Murray of Whitegate was again elected to the position of president in his absence to the meeting due to cir- cumstances in the parish of White- ee
The contest for Chairperson in which Bernie Ryan of Clarecastle had expressed an interest did not materialise as due to circumstances he was unable to attend the meeting. He had, however, sent a letter to the county board expressing his interest in the position and wishing that his name go forward. This was not per- mitted by the meeting though as it
was stated that to be elected you had to be present.
The Clarecastle delegates stated that they had checked this with Ard Comhairle and that it was permitted that you could run for a position in your absence. This was not permitted but Mr Ryan had not been informed of such on receipt of his letter by the County Board.
The meeting also elected a Fixtures Committee, Discipline Committee, Finance Committee and Field & De- velopment Committee. Again there were nominees for these committees who were not able to attend on the night and these were not permitted to be elected to the committees.
The fear with this is that people who are interested in helping out and
getting involved might not wish to do so in the future as in the past officers and committee members have been elected without being present at the eVGA E
The meeting went on to discuss the motions for the AGM these were some 59 in number but not all were dealt with on the night as the meet- ing was adjourned after |!lpm with- out having the matters of the meeting finished.
The meeting was also to attend to the matter of team management for 2008 which the meeting was in- formed would come up under AOB. As the meeting did not get this far, the issue was not dealt with and will now have to wait until the reconvened meeting in January.