For the past decade and more White’s Cross GAA Club has marshalled both adult and juvenile affairs by means of the one club committee.  However after considerable negotiation, it was decided that a separate committee needed to be put in place to steer under-age matters, to ensure that proper attention is given to the increasing numbers of teams participating with White’s Cross at juvenile level.

Consequently at a recent meeting officers and selectors were chosen for the 2011 season for the under-age club.  Officers of the adult club presided over the election process, and the following is a list of the members chosen for office:

Chairperson: Mike O Flynn

Secretary: Sean Coughlan

Treasurer: Rupert Aitken

Communications Officer: Ciarán Allen

School Liaison Officer: Imelda O Connell

Registrars: Geraldine O Driscoll & Joan Twomey

Child Protection Officer: Elaine Ryan

General Committee: Peter Docherty, Marion Delaney, Conor Kelleher, Michelle Whooley, Ger Hayes, Teresa Quain, Richard Kelleher.

The chairperson of the adult club, Pat O Callaghan congratulated the officers, and assured them of the full support of the adult committee.  In his opening address, the incoming chairperson Mike O Flynn commended the work that had been done with the under-age club in the previous number of years.  He paid particular praise to Paul O Donovan who had been instrumental in revitalising the under-age structures for a number of years, before he headed to London with work.  Mike expressed the wish that the committee would ensure that the club’s under-age coaches could concentrate on coaching matters, without being side-tracked with off-field matters. 

The new secretary Sean Coughlan proposed that under-age training for those 10 years and younger commence back formally from the last weekend of February, with the under 15s and under 13s already back in action.  A number of the newly selected coaches enrolled in an official GAA Coaching Programme being held on the third weekend of the month.

Well done to the seven players from White’s Cross who were selected onto the division’s representative side Seandún, for this year’s Cork County Senior Football Championship.  Murt Kelleher, Paddy O Brien, Edwin Buckley, Denis O Regan and Conor Buckley have been involved with this squad for the past few seasons. 

Additionally the good form of Eoin Murnane and Paul O Sullivan meant they caught the eye of the Seandún selectors and they were drafted into the squad.  Unfortunately on the night of the championship encounter with Avondhu played at the Mallow GAA complex, O Regan, O Brien and Murnane were all ruled out with injuries. 

Kelleher started at centre-field, Edwin Buckley at centre-forward and Conor Buckley on the wing.  Seandún proved no match for the north Cork men and lost out 2-16 to 2-6.