20 ) CLOG ichumann An Phaire BEEN THERE, DONE THAT AND NOW BACK FOR MORE by Michael Moran ist got involved with Parke GAA club in during pitch construction - going und with the car for raffle on a trailer working people raising funds. g at Clifden Pony Sale at 7 a.m, leaving at 4 in morning - cd, Sligo all come to mind and different stories for each place with a lot of tickets sold each time. | think we were the first club in Mayo to do such a ing, | think, 32,000 tickets @ £1 which was a great achievement. Ever since then Parke club has grown from strength to strength, but it does not come easy, only hard work. think | became Treasurer in 1986 for a few years and worked under different Chairmen - those that come - johnny Howley, Michael McHale, Padraic Reilly, Willie Murphy and Christy Murphy and | did a term myself. Again not easy. But when you have strong Secretaries and Chairpersons things go smoothly, or at least one likes to think so. I remember it v there weren't a lot keep records. But it’s to do now with the times that must say the people of the parish are gre when asked to come to es P always had fun with All-Ireland tickets but when we were at the ket everyone was happy, we hope ~ except f its Parke club is still a young club but with great results. It 40 years old and there have been great achievements espe those people who started it all those years ago, s only | was involved with Management, with different teams and personnel which | enjoyed every moment of. | remember one year with u14 ~ 16 team collecting lads for a match in Breaffy and when | met the Manager Turlough | had a Peugeot 305 van with me and in it were, I think, 17 players sitting 3 high in back of van. We divided out the load and hit off for the match and won Parke U 14s ¢2010 CLCG Fochumann An Phairo Michael joe Connor can tell you much the same storie ‘of making double trips to venues to numbers up for the match. Darren Flynn often mentions to me about the evening we went » play a challenge match that Fr fe And yes Quinn organi 4 for us against a team from Tuam, in the back of a Mercedes van all sitting quietly (on the floor was the team. Those were great days but you couldn't do it now! You will always meet great p GAA. $0 | would say te it”, I've been there, done Hope the club keeps Michael Moran