Miley Byrne

Annacurra GAA club lost a great sevant this week with the passing of Miley Byrne. Miley played for Annacurra in his youth and has been a magnificant supporter to the club. His presence at the wall of the dressing room during Annacurra matches was always assured. It was with great sadness that the club learned of his passing and we would like to express our condolences to his wife Elizabeth, his brothers John, Kevin and Denis, sisters Mary, Maggie, Vera, Ellie and Christina, and to his relatives and friends.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh sé.

Club Notes

There will be a meeting on Friday night 22nd at half 7 with regard to selecting selectors and a trainer for the coming year.
The club would like to send its best wishes to Miley Byrne and Pat O’Neill who are both recently ill.
There was no overall winner or no match three winners of the lotto last week and the numbers drawn were 14,17,18 and 19. This weeks jackpot stands at €10,000
The club would like to send it sympathy to the family and relatives of the late Tom Murphy and Fr.Eugene Clune who both passed away recently.  Ar dheis Dé go raibh siad.

Wicklow’s 125 greatest players.

Annacurra are honoured to have had four great servants of the club selected on Wicklow’s 125 greatest football players.

Tom Carr, a member of the 1955 senior final team represented Annacurra and Wicklow for many years and mainly played in midfield and defence. Tom is the first Annacurra man to appear on this list at 122.

At 108, Donal Kavanagh was one of the best goalkeepers Wicklow has ever produced and hails from Annacurra. He was unlucky to be playing in an era where competition for the Wicklow goalkeeping position was tough.

At number 25 and 12 are John and Joe TImmons. John and Joe both won an All-Ireland title with Dublin and amazingly both never played for Wicklow at the same time. John will be perticularly remembered as scoring a goal that defeated Meath in 1957 and in 1958 both men were on the victorious Dublin All-Ireland team.

Syl Ivors also made his name on the 125 greatest hurlers in Wicklow’s history. Syl comes in at 114 and he played the majority of his hurling with the Avoca club and also with Wicklow but he will be remembered in Annacurra as the captian of the victorious double winning League and Championship hurling team in 1991.

Its a fitting tribute to some of the greatest names of the parish and the club are privileged to have had these players around.