The Boston Northeast divisional board 2018 AGM was held last
Sunday, February 11, at the Irish Cultural Center, Canton Mass. Aside
from electing the board of officers for the 2018 season, there were a couple of
fairly significant developments.
A motion was passed to restructure the senior hurling
championship with the goal of focusing on resident players and improving the
competition. Each of the 5 Boston area
clubs will field a senior team only, with limits on the number of sanction
(visiting) players that can be registered.
Teams must field a minimum of 7 home based players and each club is
allowed to register a maximum of 10 sanction players with no special
dispensation made for “J1 eligible” sanctions.
Winners will be crowned senior hurling champions, and a junior final
will be played between teams who do not qualify for the senior final.
In addition, a team made of primarily youth program players
will enter the Junior B Football Championship.
The goal is to build a bridge between the adult and youth leagues, and
provide the players who have come through the youth division with an incentive
to continue playing as they enter adulthood.
Thank you to departing officers Gerry Prior, Eddie Feeley
and Brendan O’Donovan for your service, and to 2017 Honorary President, Bernie
Reilly. Congratulations to Tony Burke,
the Honorary President for 2018 and welcome to David Joyce, David Power, and
Greg Lundy who are new to the board. Best
of luck to all for the 2018 season!
Honorary President:
Tony Burke (Westmeath)
Chair: John Farrell
(Meath)
Vice Chair: Ian Murphy (Kildare)
Secretary: David
Joyce (Galway)
Assistant Secretary:
Nessa Oates (Roscommon)
Treasurer: Peter
Murray (Galway)
Assistant Treasurer:
John McDevitt (Donegal)
Registrar: Shane
McKenna (Brighton, Ma.)
PRO: Rory O’Donnell
(Dublin)
Youth Officer: Martin
Kerr (Tyrone)
Trustees: Eileen
Kerin (Clare), David Power (Waterford), Greg Lundy (Galway)
