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Shamrocks
win more awards before facing the world
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September 2000 - Just
days before flying out with the Australasian team to play in Gaelic
football’s International Tournament in Ireland, Angie Doyle continued
an extraordinary year by winning the best and fairest award for the
progressive Shamrocks club over the weekend.
Doyle
has also won Queensland’s best and fairest award in this only her
second year of Gaelic football.
Two
other Shamrocks are in the Australasian ladies team going to Ireland
this week – Louise O’Neill, and Jacqueline Peacock, who after
captaining Queensland to the Australasian Games last year preceded
Doyle by also winning the Queensland and Shamrocks best and fairest
double.
It
was also a spectacular season for Dan Fraser, who represented
Queensland against the touring Allied Irish Bank club, and over the
weekend winning the Shamrocks senior mens best and fairest award also
in only his second year of Gaelic football.
Michael
Joyce won the Shamrocks reserves mens best and fairest award for the
second time.
John
Carpenter, 15, won the best and fairest minor award, following in the
footsteps of his brother Glenn who won the award five years ago.
All
the winners of annual awards for the Brisbane western suburbs club were
announced over the weekend, with celebrations continuing for Shamrocks
winning the senior Queensland Championship for only the second time.
Annual
Shamrocks award winners:
Senior
Mens –
Best
& Fairest – Dan Fraser
Most
Consistent – Scott Ingram
Best
First Year Player – Adrian Darbellay
 Most
Improved Player – Luke Devitt
Reserve
Mens –
Best
& Fairest – Michael Joyce
Most
Consistent – Craig Johnston
Best
First Year Player – Andrew Stevens
Most
Improved Player – Robbie White
Minors
–
Best
& Fairest – John Carpenter
Ladies
–
Best
& Fairest – Angie Doyle
Most
Consistent – Jacqueline Peacock
Best
First Year Player – Natalie Mollison
Most
Improved Player – Hannah Humphrys
See
these webpages:
Previous
Shamrocks awards winners
Player
profiles
International
Tournament
Shamrocks
win an historic Queensland Championship
28
August 2000 - Shamrocks won the Queensland Gaelic Football
Championship for only the second time over the weekend.
 Brisbane’s
western suburbs club comprehensively beat Souths by 8 points at Gaelic
Park, Willawong, to secure only their second senior Championship in the
20-year history of the club.
Shamrocks
won 3-14 to 2-9 after leading by just one point at half time.
The
scoring was led by the Mulligan brothers, Stephen and Eion (pictured
left), from County
Tyrone in Ireland. They combined for a championship-winning 2 goals 10
points – enough to have won the game on their own.
Eoin
Mulligan’s 8 points equalled the club single-game point scoring
record. See the Club Statistical Records
Shamrocks’
defence was the launch pad for the historic win. All of the defence
played superbly, led by County Galway’s Alan Colleran who withstood
constant pressure at centre back. Team captain Dan Fraser was constantly
driving the ball into attack from midfield.
 In
addition to the talented Mulligan brothers, Steve Talbot (pictured
right) at centre
forward was a constant danger with 1 goal 2 points.
Shamrocks
may have won more trophies than any other Gaelic Football club in
Queensland over the last 20 years, but Championship wins have been
rare.
The
Senior victory over the weekend adds to the Senior title won in 1995,
the Reserves success in 1999, and the Under 18 championship of 1993. See Queensland Title winners
Shamrocks have their annual awards presentation
this Friday 1st September, and are immediately searching for
new players in the mens, ladies and junior divisions for 2001.
See Championship
Final scores
Shamrocks
shine at Queensland Awards
28
August 2000 - Angie Doyle of Shamrocks was named Queensland Ladies
Gaelic Football’s best and fairest player over the weekend, just
weeks before representing Australasia in the World Gaelic Football
Tournament in Ireland.
Doyle’s
award was richly deserved on a night on which Brisbane’s western
suburbs club Shamrocks dominated by winning seven of the 16 annual
awards on offer.
The
ladies Best and Fairest award was the second consecutive year it had
gone to Shamrocks, with the 1999 winner Jacqueline Peacock this year
winning the Most Consistent award.
It
was also two straight for Shamrocks in the ladies Best First Year
Player award, with Natalie Mollison a deserving winner.
Shamrocks
maintained their recruiting prowess in the Queensland mens competition
by winning their third-consecutive Best New Player award.
Adrian
Darbellay (pictured) won after being a key player in the
Shamrocks’ historic Championship win. He totalled 61 points in an
injury-shortened season to be Shamrocks’ second leading scorer.
Luke
Devitt was named the Most Improved in the reserves competition, and big
John Carpenter was Most Improved in the under 18 division. Renee
Moynihan won the inaugural Under 18 Ladies best and fairest award.
The Shamrocks Club annual awards are presented this Friday night, 1st
September. Everyone is invited. See the Calendar
for details.
Queensland
awards won by Shamrocks:
 Senior
Mens
Best
New Player –
Adrian Darbellay
Senior
Ladies
Best
& Fairest –
Angie Doyle
Most
Consistent – Jacqueline
Peacock
Best
New Player –-
Natalie Mollison
Reserve
Mens
Most
Improved –
Luke Devitt
Under
18 Mens
Most
Improved –
John Carpenter
Under
18 Ladies
Best
& Fairest - Renee Moynihan
Shamrocks
qualify for Queensland Championship final
21
August 2000 - Shamrocks
this weekend play their first senior mens Queensland Gaelic Football
Championship final since the club’s historic inaugural Championship
win five years ago.
Shamrocks
on Sunday qualified for the final by beating John Mitchels – the side
they beat to win the title back in 1995.
They now
play Souths in rhe grand final at Willawong this Sunday.
Brisbane’s
western suburbs club won the semi final against John Mitchels – the
1997-1998 championship winners – by 7 points, 2-10 (16) to 1-6 (9),
after establishing a match-winning six point break by half time.
Oxley’s
Stephen Mulligan from County Tyrone played well across the ground to
score 4 points, while his brother Eoin led with 1 goal 4 points.
Big Dan
Fraser from Eagleby was exceptionally strong in the midfield, while
Alan Colloran of the City and Windsor’s’ Scott Ingram were very
solid in defence.
Shamrocks
lost the ladies semi final to Souths. A question over player
eligibility has been raised and is expected to be addressed at a state
committee this week.
Shamrocks
will not get the chance to defend their reserve mens Championship crown
after losing to Sarsfields in their semi final.
Mulligan scores his second
hat-trick
7 August 2000 - Stephen Mulligan's second
hat-trick in three weeks gave Shamrocks their fourth
straight win and perfect form for Queensland Gaelic
Football's coveted Championship event starting this week.
Brisbane's western suburbs club move straight into the
semi final round in a fortnight, chasing the trophy that the
senior mens team has won only once before.
Shamrocks handed league winners Souths only their second
loss of the season over the weekend thanks to Mulligan's 3
goals 1 point. Two weeks earlier, Stephen and his brother
Eoin - both from Oxley via County Tyrone in Ireland - both
scored a hat-trick to become the first brothers in club
history to do so in the same game.
The news was not all good for Shamrocks over the weekend.
Brookfield's Harold Peacock suffered two broken ribs and is
expected to miss the entire Championship, while in the
ladies game Michelle Bullion-Healey of Murrarie was also
hospitalised.
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