Shamrocks News

More teams for Queensland League

18 January 2003 - Brisbane�s Shamrocks Gaelic football club is expecting to play in a far bigger Queensland competition this year with new clubs emerging across south east Queensland.

Two new clubs and four new teams, including Ipswich, raise the Queensland Gaelic Football League to eight clubs and 20 teams if the expected expansion goes ahead.

The Shamrocks club � drawing players from across Brisbane�s western suburbs including The Gap, Bardon, Toowong, St Lucia, Indooroopilly, Kenmore, Chapel Hill, Brookfield, Jindalee, Forest Lake and elsewhere � was a founding club of the Queensland Gaelic football association in 1984.

Shamrocks are recruiting new players for all mens and womens teams now.

Positions are ready now for anyone aged 15 to 50 years. Those interested should call David Duguid on 0421 787 720 or click here to register your interest on-line.

Marshall the treasurer after a decade of hollering

21 December 2002 - Shamrocks Gaelic Football Club are celebrating the start of a new year after promoting one of its longest serving members to the executive for the first time, at its annual general meeting at Irish O�Hanlon�s this month.

Kenmore�s James Marshall, a member of the western suburbs club since joining as a 15-year-old in 1992, was elected to the executive position of treasurer after serving as club registrar for the last two years.

Marshall, 25, a manufacturing engineer with Lockwood at Sherwood, has played continuously with Shamrocks for the past decade, and has represented Queensland minors at the Australasian Games.

In other election news, David Duguid is president for a second year, and Matt Walsh was voted both vice-president and secretary.

Kate McNicol has been elected to the general committee for the first time, while long-standing members Kirsten Geary and Nicholas Carpenter continue in their role.

In player transfer news, a two-time senior mens best and fairest award winner and Queensland representative, David Shakovskoy, will not play for Shamrocks for at least the coming season after accepting a position in Dubai. Another loss will be former Australasian minor champion and club award winner, David Gall, who has accepted a position in Canberra.

The club is searching for new players for the 2003 season now, for training that starts on March 4. Call David Duguid on 0421 787 720 or click here to register your interest on-line.

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