Entertainment on the evening was provided by the Clara All-Ireland Scór winning ballad group. Presentations were made to all living Officers and former Officers of Offaly County Board. Also each club in the county was presented with a plaque in recognition of their contribution to GAA in the county.
In addressing the gathering County Board Chairperson Pat Teehan said that the occasion was about Offaly GAA paying a symbolic recognition of the celebration of 125 years of Cumann Luthcleas Gael.
He went on to add that those accepting the certificates were doing so not only on their own behalf but on behalf of the many Officers who have passed to their eternal reward. He acknowledged recipients were just a very small representative sample of the greater body of people, the volunteers who week in week out keep our Association alive and vibrant, saying that there were many volunteers out there that would be very much worthy of individual acknowledgement. However, he stressed that the people present have and in many cases still continue to serve the Association in a voluntary capacity every day of the week and thanked them most sincerely for that. He asked that those accepting certificates would do so not just on their own behalf but as a representative of the many thousands of volunteers past and present who have contributed to the affairs of GAA in this county.
Similarly he reminder clubs that their presentation was merely a recognition of the role the club has played in GAA in this county, and he urged each club to display their plaque in a prominent place at their club grounds thereby acknowledging the role the club and their volunteers have played in enabling the GAA become the greatest amateur sporting organisation in the world.
Padraig Boland acted as M.C. for the night and the club plaques were presented by County Chairperson Pat Teehan and Coiste na nÓg Chairperson Joe Higgins, while Pat Teehan and Offaly GAA President Brendan Ward presented the certificates.
The full list of those honoured is
Noel Kelly
Coaching Officer 2004 -05
Aidan Burke
Coaching Officer 2003
Eamonn Cusack
Coaching Officer 2006 to 07 Youth Officer 2008-09
Pat Leogue
Football Officer 1987 to 92
Christy Hand
Football Officer 1993 to 97 Coaching Officer 2001 – 02
Mary Dunne
Coaching Officer 2008 to 09
Ronnie Bryant
Irish Officer 1991 – Hurling Officer 1992 to 94
Damien Fox
Hurling Officer 1995
Declan Hanniffy
Hurling Officer 1985 to 88
Gerry Kirwan
Hurling Officer 1984
Brian Lyons
Hurling Officer 1982-83 Development Officer 1985
Mick
Hurling Officer 1979 to 1981
Kevin Corrigan
Officer of Irish Language & Culture 2004
Jim Buckley
Officer of Irish Language & Culture 1992 to 03
Assistant Sec 2003
Tony Mulvin
Officer of Irish Language & Culture 1987
Gerry Hickey
Officer of Irish Language & Culture 1982 to 86
Stephen Darby
Officer of Irish Language & Culture 1979 to 81
Youth Officer 1978
Paddy Scales
Officer of Irish Language & Culture 2005 to 09
Ger Fogarty
Youth Officer 1979 to 81
Tony Cassidy
Youth Officer 1982 to 90 and 2002 too 2003
Coiste na nÓg Chairperson 1991-92, 95 to 99 and 2003 to 04
Laz Molloy
Youth Officer 2004 to 07
Ger Reidy
Development Officer 1984
Finbarr
Development Officer 1986 to 88
Michael N Byrne
Development Officer 1989 to 2007
P.R.O. 1987
Maureen Kincaid
Development Officer 2008 to 2009
Br Denis
Chairperson Coiste na nÓg 1974 to 82
Pat Horan
Chairperson Coiste na nÓg 1993 to 94
Hurling Officer 1996 to 97
Fergal McKeown
Chairperson Coiste na nÓg 2005 to 08
Martin Heffernan
Coiste na nÓg Rep 2002
Joe Higgins
Chairperson Coiste na nÓg 2009
Mick
Central Council Delegate 1981 to 84 and 1988 to 2006
Joe O’Brien
Central Council Delegate 2009
Eugene Mulligan
P.R.O. 1981 to 82 and
Christy Horan
P.R.O. 1983 and Youth Officer 1976 to 77
Seamus Kenny
P.R.O. 1984
Padraig Moran
P.R.O. 1989 to 90
Sean Farrell
Assistant P.R.O. 1986
Evelyn Currams
Assistant P.R.O. 1984 to 85
Brendan Minnock
P.R.O. 2008 to 09
Jimmy Hanlon
Assistant Secretary 1975 to 1977
Vice Chairperson 1974
Tony Murphy
Assistant Secretary 1978 to 88 and 1992 to 01
Michael Nestor
Assistant Secretary 1991
Martin Minnock
Assistant Secretary 1991 to 2002
Eamonn Flynn
Tom Doolan
Vice Chairperson 1975 to 81
Noel McCann
Vice Chairperson 1982 to 84 and 1989 to 91
P.R.O. 1985 to 86 and 1988 to 91
Jimmy Daly
Vice Chairperson 1985 to 2002
Brendan Byrne
Vice Chairperson 1992 to 2001
Mick Murphy
Vice Chairperson 2002 to 04
Padraig Boland
Vice Chairperson 2008 to 09
P.R.O. 2005 to 07
Michael Sheridan
Treasurer 1981 to 92
Jimmy Hogan
Treasurer 1985 to 2009
Andy Gallagher
Treasurer 1993 to 2009
Assistant Sec 1974
Br Sylvester
Secretary 1988 to 90
Assistant Sec 1978 to 87
Youth Officer 1991 to 2001
Christy Todd
Secretary 1991 to 07
Assistant Sec 1988 to 90
Football Officer 1984 to 86
Central Council Delegate 2007 to 08
Martin Boland
Assistant Sec 2003 to 07
Secretary 2008 to 09
Alo Kelly
Chairperson 1974
Monsignor Sean Heaney
Chairperson 1975 to 84
Paudge Mulhare
Chairperson 1985 to 88
Vice Chairperson 1982 to 84
Brendan Ward
Chairperson 1989 to 2002
Vice Chairperson 1985 to 88
Tommy Byrne
Chairperson 2003 to 04
Assistant Sec 2002 and 2008 to 09
Ollie Daly
Chairperson 2005 to 07
Vice Chairperson 2003 to 04
Pat Teehan
Chairperson 2008 to 09
Vice Chairperson 2005 to 07
Chairperson Coiste na nÓg 2000 to 02
P.R.O. 1992 to 2004
