Cahir GAA Club members Colm O'Flaherty and Mattie Hussey have received an award from the GAA for the history book they have written about their beloved club.
The two authors of "Memory and Achievements - 124 years of the GAA in Cahir" were presented with the McNamee Award for best history publication in 2009 at a ceremony in Croke Park last Saturday night.
The award was presented to Mr O'Flaherty and Mr
Hussey by GAA President Christy Cooney.
This was a magnificent achievement for the club as in 2009 the association celebrated its 125th anniversary and a huge amount of club histories were published.
The citation for the McNamee Award described the book as an outstanding publication and noted that its greatest strength was the diversity of its contributors.
"As well as the men who wrote the background of the story of the presence of the GAA in Cahir, most recent decades were illuminated by the contributions of successive generations of players and officials," said the citation.
"From the lovely piece written by John O'Meara (who was born in 1936), to the brilliant, funny, gossipy contribution on the 2003 Tipperary senior football winning team, there is a wonderful chorus of opinions," it concluded.
Copies of "Memory and Achievements - 124 years of the GAA in Cahir" are still available from Sampsons, Dolan's Super Valu, Lar na Pairce (Thurles), Colm O'Flaherty, Jim Cantwell and Eddie Lonergan.
