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Stars shining bright at awards night
16 Oct 2005 - Cameron Carney and Trish Brown completed stellar years by grabbing the pinnacle best and fairest player awards at the Shamrocks Annual Awards announced at Indooroopilly last night.
Carney became the first player ever to win the Shamrocks under-18 and senior best and fairest awards in consecutive seasons, when he was presented the 2005 senior Shamrocks award.
Last week he was named in the senior Australasian All-star team for the first time, after winning consecutive minors Australasian best and fairest awards the previous two seasons.
Brown won her first Shamrocks ladies best and fairest award, having last week been named in the Australasian All-star team for the second time.
A fortnight ago she was in Ireland with the Australasian team as it won the World Cup for the third consecutive time. Last year she won the Australasian best and fairest award.
Queensland under-18 representative Laurie Bere won the Stuart Clement Trophy for best and fairest minor player, having finished the season for Shamrocks as a starting player in the Queensland Championship senior final.
The three best and fairest winners of Carney, Brown and Bere are pictured above.
Robin Arman remarkably won the mens B-team’s best and fairest award in his first season of Gaelic football.
Other awards included James Marshall becoming the first player to win awards in both the senior and reserve divisions in the same year, giving him four individual awards in eleven seasons.
New scoring records acknowledged include Reanna Browne’s single-game score of 6-8 (26) that broke Renee Moynihan’s record set in 1999, and Paul Daly’s 52-points in a season eclipsing the mark set by Kerry’s Denis Cronin also way back in 1999.
In the sports memorabilia raffle, Mick Joyce won the Queensland Roar jersey signed by the entire inaugural 2005 squad.
The full list of 2005 awards winners is now enshrined in Shamrocks history for ever:
Ladies
Best & Fairest - Trish Brown
Most Consistent - Jacinta Kelly
Most Improved - Bronwyn Bassett
Best First Year - Kylah Johnston
Senior Mens-A
Best & Fairest - Cameron Carney
Most Consistent - David McNeilly
Most Improved - James Marshall, Justin Mosch
Best First Year - Justin Rees
Minor Mens
Best & Fairest – Laurie Bere
Senior Mens-B
Best & Fairest - Robin Arman
Most Consistent - James Marshall
Most Improved - Peter Berry, Sam Eastwood
Best First Year - Dale Hicks
Inaugural Media awards
Best local newspaper - The Satellite (Springfield)
Best national newspaper – The Irish Echo (Sydney-based)
Related links:
2005 Individual scoring totals
Previous award winners
Scoring records
International Rules a certain winner
14 Oct 2005 - Shamrocks are certain to celebrate the upcoming International Rules series, after the 26-man Australian squad named this week includes Shamrocks supporter Lindsay Gilbee.
And in the 27-man Ireland squad is Eoin Mulligan - hero of the Brisbane club’s 2000 Queensland Championship win.
With a representative on both sides, the Shamrocks club will have something to cheer about regardless of the series outcome.
Gilbee met with Shamrocks officials in Brisbane earlier this year (pictured above) for tips about the round ball game. And now those tips have paid off.
"To go out and represent my country is something I've always wanted at the end of the year and it's something I'm really going to cherish, that's for sure," Gilbee told the national media this week.
Gilbee is one of the best users of the ball in the AFL, and is looking forward to the challenge of adapting to the round ball for the two Tests.
The Perth venue is already sold-out for the October 21 clash with the second Test to be played in Melbourne on October 28.
"It's obviously a bit different to kick. The aerodynamics when you kick it up in the air it does a lot more different stuff compared to what the normal ball does. I've learned it pretty quickly but obviously I've got a little bit to go as well."
Lindsay learned it quickly with a gaelic football from the Shamrocks.
Related links:
Porter attracts western stars
Ireland names International squad
Tyrone lead All Star nominations
13 Oct 2005 - Ireland’s GAA All Star nominations have been announced and All-Ireland winners Tyrone head the tally with 11 nominations, including Shamrocks’ 2000 Queensland Championship hero Eoin Mulligan.
Mulligan, who at corner forward with Tyrone won the 2003 and 2005 All-Ireland Championships, was previously named the GAA All Star Player of the Month for August – a month that included a sensational 1-7 tally in the Championship quarter final against Dublin
Joining Mulligan in the All Star nomination is midfielder Sean Cavanagh, a Tyrone teammate in both the 2003 and 2005 Championship wins.
Cavanagh may emulate Mulligan and come to Brisbane, as the Tyrone star confirmed this week that he is on the verge accepting an AFL offer from the Brisbane Lions and has until the end of the International Rules series to make up his mind.
"There is a contract on the table and I have to make my decision before the end of the International Rules series," the player told media outlets.
Both Mulligan and Cavanagh are members of the Ireland team to play Australia in the International Rules series starting in Perth next Friday.
The GAA All Star team will be announced on November 23.
Memorabilia winners this Saturday
12 Oct 2005 - Historic sporting memorabilia plus over 30 trophies will be presented at the Club’s Annual Awards at Indooroopilly’s Pig ‘n’ Whistle in Shamrocks western suburbs heartland this Saturday night.
The unique collectors item of a signed 2005 Queensland Roar jersey (pictured) from the A-League’s inaugural season, is the gala prize for the Annual Awards raffle.
Australian Wallabys supporters gear, courtesy of Suncorp, will also be given away as door prizes, with a bumper crowd of supporters and past and present players expected.
Over 60 players medals, and more than 30 player awards will also be presented, including best and fairest perpetual trophies for all senior teams, and the Stuart Clement Trophy for best and fairest Shamrocks minor.
The Stuart Clement Trophy has been awarded since 1984, and is the oldest continuing gaelic football trophy in Queensland.
Festivities start at 7pm in the Cambridge Room, and you are strongly advised to get there early to secure a good seat.
The Pig 'n' Whistle is on the corner of Musgrave and Station Roads, Indooroopilly Shopping Town, Indooroopilly.
Related links:
Annual Awards previous winners
Carney makes Australasian team
10 Oct 2005 - Cameron Carney (pictured) has continued his stellar rise to be among seven Shamrocks to win All-star selection at the Australasian Gaelic Football Championships in Brisbane last night.
The western suburbs Shamrocks star, who won back-to-back Australasian under-18 best and fairest awards in 2003-2004, was named in the senior 2005 Australasian all-star team as Queensland made the semi finals of the annual tournament.
Carney was an automatic selection for Shamrocks in the midfield this season, as the team won the senior Queensland League for the first time in seven years.
He was selected in the Australasian team at wingback.
Selected at fullback was Shamrocks captain and Queensland teammate David O’Malley, for his first Australasian selection.
Only one other Queenslander received all-star selection.
In the under-18 division, three Shamrocks young stars were named in the Australasian team – Dean Mosch, Jack Dixon, and Nick Black – after Queensland made the semi final stage. Again, only one other Queenslander received selection.
The selection of Dean Mosch emulates that of his older brother and club teammate Justin Mosch, who represented Queensland in the senior competition at the weekend having received Australasian under-18 selection last year.
Dean Mosch is well remembered this season for a superlative play-off match in goals to help Shamrocks clinch the League title.
In the ladies competition, Shamrocks captain Renee Moynihan and teammate Trish Brown were both named in the Australasian all-star team for the second time.
Brown’s selection in midfield continues a busy month – just one week ago she was in Ireland with the Australasian team that won the World Cup for the third consecutive time.
Queensland was beaten by Western Australia in the ladies final.
Shamrocks coach Jacqueline Peacock, who did not coach Queensland this time, last year became the first Queensland ladies coach to guide a team through the tournament undefeated, and so claim the Australasian title. This year she became the first female in the world to be appointed coach of a senior mens gaelic football team.
The Shamrocks club will celebrate the players’ success at the 2005 annual awards at the Pig ‘n’ Whistle at Indooroopilly this Saturday night 7pm.
Related links:
Shamrocks at the Australasian Championships
Ireland names International squad
4 Oct 2005 - The 27-man Ireland squad for this month's International Rules series against Australia, was named yesterday, and Tyrone’s Eoin Mulligan is a notable inclusion.
The squad includes ten debutants, including Mulligan who was man-of-the-match for Tyrone in winning the senior All-Ireland Championship final recently.
He has won the senior All-Ireland Championship in 2003 and 2005, and won the senior Queensland Championship with Shamrocks in 2000.
Not included in the Ireland squad is Sydney Swan Tadhg Kennelly. He has an ankle injury and the Swans have opted to pull the Kerryman out of the series in favour of keyhole surgery.
Galway's Padraig Joyce will captain the team as Ireland bid to retain the Cormac McAnallen Cup. The first Test takes place in Perth on October 21, with the second, a week later, in Melbourne's Telstra stadium.
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