Last year Kilmeen & Kilbree GAA club didn’t have enough players to field teams at U-17, U-19 or U-21, so they pooled their resources with two neighbouring clubs
Kilmeen & Kilbree is a dynamic, resourceful club: Marie Dorgan, the club PRO, reckons that the population of the parish is no more than about 800 people, but 515 of them are paid-up members of the clubBoth rural and urban GAA clubs face increasing challenges as demographics in Ireland change. This isIn Kilmeen & Kilbree GAA club, 35 miles west of Cork City, they don’t sweat the numbers, they take them as they come.
Last year they didn’t have enough players to field teams at U-17, U-19 or U-21, so they pooled their resources with two neighbouring clubs to compete under the banner of Owen Gaels. In a situation like this the GAA’s rule book makes an important distinction. Rather than operating as an amalgamated club Owen Gaels conducted its business as an “independent team”.
The word play might seem like an exercise in semantics but in the GAA’s rules on club sovereignty it makes a world of difference. By playing for an “independent team” all of the players were still registered to their original clubs, available to play for their adult teams if they were old enough to do so. Owen Gaels was a coalition of convenience.In its own right, Kilmeen & Kilbree is a dynamic, resourceful club, wrapped up in its place.
It is essentially a farming community revolving around the villages of Rossmore and Ballygurteen, neither of which boasts a shop. According to Kevin O’Donovan, the CEO of the Cork County Board and a native of the parish, five new houses might have been built in each village in the last 10 years.
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