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All-Ireland Title For Churchill Team

President of the GAA, Liam O'Neill presents the Churchill Quiz Team with their All-Ireland title. From left: Paul Culloty, Micheal Gaynor, Alex O'Donnell and John Flaherty.
President of the GAA, Liam O’Neill presents the Churchill Quiz Team with their All-Ireland title. From left: Paul Culloty, Micheal Gaynor, Alex O’Donnell and John Flaherty.

IT’S been a fantastic weekend for Churchill as their quiz team brought home an All-Ireland title.

The Churchill GAA Scor Quiz team travelled to G.M.I.T centre in Castlebar in Mayo for the finals.

This was only the second time the club contested the All-Ireland, the first being in 1971. The team were captain consisted of captain Micheal Gaynor, John O’Flaherty, Alex O’Donnell and Paul Culloty.

After three rounds they were five marks down and lying in joint third place, but by the round eight they had drew level.

In round nine they got nine marks and they got 10 marks in round 10 to make sure of victory.

The Cork team they beat by five marks were Millstreet, who have won it twice.

The club are very grateful to John Joe O’Donnell, a member of the 1971 team, for all the time he put in to coaching the team.

There was a huge Kerry cheer in the Royal Theatre when the President Liam O’Neill presented Micheal Gaynor with the cup.