Park Development Draw 2006. 

Pictured at the launch of Cloone GAA Development draw on Saturday December 3rd were back row Sean McGovern, Seamus Tiernan, Alan Canning, Peter O'Donnell and Timmy Beirne. Front row Dermot Tiernan (treasurer), Enda Tiernan (chairman) and Louie Brennan (secretary).

 

On Saturday night last in Cunniffe's Bar in Cloone, Cloone GAA launched their Park Development Draw, which is being run to help complete the current development work going on in St Mary’s Park in Cloone. The Cloone club is currently going through a significant re-development of their grounds with over €300,000 in works to be completed in the coming two years. Already in 2005 over €130,000 has been spent and work on phase one is due for completion before the end of the current year.
The major part of the project to date will be the floodlighting of the grounds in compliance with the current standards used for playing nighttime games. This is a huge undertaking and Cloone will be the first club in Co. Leitrim to have in place such facilities and one of only a handful in the province. This is a very positive development for the GAA community not just in Cloone but for all GAA fans in Co. Leitrim. Night time fixtures are currently being embraced all over the country and offer a very practical solution to fixture congestion problems currently being experienced. Counties like Leitrim with a lot of players based outside the county could benefit greatly from such an initiative. In order to deliver these projects the Cloone club is currently starting a major fundraising drive that they intend will put in place the necessary finance to allow them to deliver this project.
Despite receiving a significant allocation of funding under the Sports Capital Programme the club still has to meet the shortfall, which is quite substantial giving the scale of the project being undertaken. To meet this shortfall a fundraising draw has been organised with €10,000 in prize money to be won. The draw is limited to 400 entries and has a total of ten cash prizes on offer. Tickets for the draw cost €100 and are available from officials or club members in Cloone or from club secretary Louie Brennan on 086-2628618. This is the first fundraising draw Cloone has run in over ten years and the club are hopeful they can count on the support of Leitrim GAA supporters for their efforts.