THE wedding took place on Thursday of Liam Crowley of Kilvemnon and Majella Power of Clonmel.
Liam is the eldest son of the late Michael Crowley and the late Mary Crowley. Liam’s lovely bride is the daughter of Noel and Phyllis Power.

It was a lovely day and even the weather played its part. The wedding took place in St Michael’s Church in Mullinahone. The ceremony was performed by Fr John McGrath.
The bride was given by her father. Her bridesmaids were Maria Power and Teresa Power.
Liam’s best man was his younger brother Michéal Crowley and his groomsman was his cousin Michael Crowley. The bridal party was completed by Dale Crowley who was page boy and Caia Crowley who was a flower girl. The readers at the Mass were the groom’s aunt, Sister Agnes Crowley and Breda O’Donohue.

The prayers of the faithful were recited by Sister Maria Crowley, Michéal Crowley, Declan Power, Marcus Power, Adam Power and Rena Kelly. The gifts were brought to the altar by Phyllis Power (mother of the groom) and Jerry Kelly. The floral arrangements were prepared by Rose Byrne. Valerie Costello (vocalist) and Mary Noonan (organist) provided beautiful music on the day.

The reception took place in the Newpark Hotel in Kilkenny. The reception continued until late into the night and was thoroughly enjoyed by all. The newly weds spent their honeymoon touring. The couple will reside in Kilvemnon.

Golf – The next outing of Mullinahone Golf Society will take place on Saturday. This time the venue is Tipperary Town Golf Club. If you want to play golf in the shade of the Galtees you will have to be up and about early as tee off times are 9am to 10am. For further details please contact Richie Needham.

U-12 hurling – Mullinahone will be the venue on September 17 for an intercounty under-12 hurling tournament. Four teams are set to represent their counties. Tipperary will be represented by the home team Mullinahone. Galway will be represented by Cappataggle. Quin will represent Clare while our neighbours John Lockes, Callan will carry the Kilkenny standard. To add colour and glamour to the day each team will play in its county colours. The day is set to get underway mid-morning and will continue until mid-afternoon.
It is envisaged that the tournament will be played as a round robin so every team will play every other team with the two top teams competing in the final.

It promises to be a real festival of hurling with a minimum of seven games. Our own under-12’s had a pretty good year losing the South Tipp semi-final by a point to the eventual winners, Fethard.

Junior hurlers – Our junior hurlers were in action against Killenaule in Ballingarry on Saturday. Off the back on a defeat against Ballylooby they were hoping to improve their record. In the last couple of years they had been on a par with Killenaule at junior level but this year the juniors seem to have disimproved. The team scored 2-10 on Saturday but Killenaule struck 2-22 to run out as easy winners. The biggest problem appears to be an inability to score. Most of their points came from frees from Joseph Maher.

The panel appeared to lack players and the only substitute appeared to be Terry O’Brien. The team didn’t get into Saturday night’s game and were always playing catch up.

Goalkeeper Bill Tobin couldn’t be blamed for either of the shots that beat him. Former All-Star Paul Shelly caused a lot of problems for the Mullinahone full back line. Here Niall Doheny at corner back defended well for Mullinahone. Midfield and the half back line were under a lot of pressure despite the efforts of James Maher. This problem was remedied somewhat when Joey Maher was transferred back to the area. In fact Joey is the only player on the team that seems to have senior potential.

Up front the team lacked point scoring ability despite the best efforts of Seán O’Meara. The half time score was 1-11 to 1-4 and the second half was more or less a replica of the first with Killenaule scoring 1-11 to Mullinahone’s 1-6. Mullinahone’s goal came in the last minute.

Mullinahone: Bill Tobin, John Murphy, Martin Costello, Niall Doheny, Richie Neary, Jackie Bolger, Aidan Hall, James Maher, Kieran Kennedy, Joey Maher, Edwin O’Meara, Seán O’Meara, John Luttrell, Declan McNamara, Micheál Cahill. Sub: Terry O’Brien.
Killenaule seem to have a lot more strength in depth at junior level than Mullinahone at the present time or maybe their senior squad has not needed the addition of so many junior players.

Community games – Good luck to Matthew Brennan of Gurteen who will represent Mullinahone and Tipperary in Mosney on Sunday in the under-14 art competition. Thanks to all the committee for their hard work during the year. Anyone interested in helping out next year please contact Tina at 052-53513 or Una at 052-53343.

Lotto – On Monday the winning numbers were 3, 14, 19 and 23. There was no jackpot winner. Six people matched 3 of the numbers and shared e150. Congratulations to Micky Russell, Bee Cahill, Ger Costello, Breda Tobin, Michael Walsh and Eileen Healy. The jackpot next Monday will be in excess of e3,300.

1945 football – Research into our 1945 senior football team which won the South championship and reached the county final, has revealed the South Tipp draw that year. In their first game Mullinahone defeated the newly formed St Patrick’s (Drangan/Cloneen). Next day out. They also defeated Fethard and in the final they overcame Ardfinnan. Has anyone got details of any of those games of 60 years ago?

U-16 hurling – August 29, Mullinahone v Kilsheelan. Mullinahone’s game against Ballingarry on August 15 was postponed because of Ballingarry’s involvement in the county under-16 football final which they won.

Moment of truth – Our senior hurling season faces its moment of truth in Semple Stadium on Sunday when they line out against Toomevara in a last clash in the county championship. If the team wins they will advance to the quarter-finals. A mighty effort will be required from all if they are to repeat the result of 2002. Good luck to all the lads and hopefully there will be plenty of support in Semple Stadium.

Teagasc – An 80-hour course in farm management has been taking place in the Teagasc Centre in Clonmel since August 18. The course will conclude on September 2. For details phone (052) 21300 or (062) 51844.