Perpetual Shield Recovered after 27 Years
Amazing what a house clear-out can uncover! This Barna Community Games perpetual shield lay in a parish home since 1991, until it was returned to one of the original organisers at the weekend!
The named people were the ones who won the most races during the annual parish event. Sadly, two of them have since passed away at a young age.
The 1991 winner has been left blank, we presume that the missing name should be Brian MacDara Geraghty, from Ballyburke, Ballymoneen Road. This may have been the last year that the Barna Medal Races (Community Games) took place.
Winners:
1980 Karen Young
1981 Karen Young
1982 Shirine Young
1983 Shirine Young
1984 Sinead Kavanagh
1985 Orla Colleran
1986 Declan Duffy
1987 Ruth McDonagh
1988 Lisa Canavan
1989 Lorraine Duffy
1990 Colm Harrington
1991 Brian Mac Dara Geraghty ?
Tom Kenny, representing Kenny's Bookshop, presented the same Perpetual Shield to Karen Young in either 1980/1.
The Shield was presented by Kenny’s Bookshop. For more old pictures from the Community Games, visit this previous Bearna Beo post: https://www.bearnabeo.com/news/communitygames