Club Dinner Dance

The annual dinner dance was held in the Lavey Termoneeny Centre on Saturday 2nd February.  Thanks to special guests on the night, Jim McKeever and Fr Baker, and also to the Terrace Hotel for providing a beautiful meal.

A special presentation was held to honor the victorious 1962 All County Hurling Champions on the 50th anniversary of the event.  Joe McGurk provided an entertaining rendition of what life was like in 1962, as well as reading out match reports from the county final of that year, before each team member/representative was presented with a memento of the occasion.

Ollie Collins and Henry Downey were presented with individual awards to celebrate the fact that they were named on the Ulster GAA Writters’ Jubilee hurling and football teams respectively.  Downey was named in his customary centre-back position while Ollie Collins was selected at centre-forward and was the only Derry player to be selected on the Silver Jubilee Hurling team.  Lavey GAC were the only dual club to have members selected in each team!  Henry Downey also received a special award to celebrate his selection in the Fitzgibbon Team of the Century, where he was named in a forward line alongside Henry Shefflin, Joe Canning and Nicholas English!

 

Ollie Collins and Henry Downey were presented with individual awards to celebrate the fact that they were named on the Ulster GAA Writters’ Jubilee hurling and football teams respectively.

Henry Downey was named in the Fitzgibbon team of the century.

Special awards were also presented to Lavey GAC camogs; Teresa McElroy and Attracta McPeake, who won All-Ireland medals playing for their county in September 2012, helping Derry gain promotion to Division 1 camogie.  Attracta later went on to win the Lavey GAC player of the year award.

Other award winners on the night were:

Senior Footballer of the Year:    Joe Duggan
Reserve Footballer of the Year:  Cailean McGurk
Minor Footballer of the Year:     Kevin Toner
Senior Hurler of the Year:           John Darragh
Reserve Hurler of the Year:        Sean Toner
Minor Hurler of the Year:            Jarlath Shaw
Senior Camog of the Year:        Attracta McPeake
Club Person of the Year:           Edelle Henry

 

Lavey Camogs; Teresa McElroy (left) and Attracta McPeake (right) were presented with an award to celebrate their All Ireland success while Attracta was also presented with the Camogie Player of the Year award. Edelle Henry (centre) was presented with Club Person of the Year.

 

Joe Duggan (left) was presented with the Senior Footballer of the Year award, while Caelin McGurk was presented with Reserve Player of the Year

 

John Darragh (left)was presented with the Senior Hurler of the Year award for the second year in a row while Sean Toner was presented with the Intermediate Hurler of the Year award.

 

Fergal McNally presentes Kevin Toner with the Minor Footballer of the Year award