Tipperary County award will help GAA club to provide new facilities

Above: The presentation to St Mary’s Hurling Club members Hughie Meehan, Eimear Cooney, Barbara Doran and Brendan Cagney was made at the Texaco Service Station in Clonmel. Pictured with them were Texaco dealers, John and Andrew Dillon (second left and centre) and Valero Area Sales Manager, DJ Fleming (third right).

St. Mary’s Hurling Club has been chosen as winners of the Tipperary County award in this year’s Texaco Support for Sport initiative. 

€5,000 has been presented to the club to help fund new playing facilities at its sports ground.

A thriving club at the heart of a sports-loving community in Clonmel, St Mary’s takes its energy from the ever-growing juvenile ranks, with an emphasis on inclusion and fostering a love of sport at all ages.

Recently it completed the second year of its sports programme for children between the ages of 3 and 6 with additional needs.

Now in its fourth year, the Texaco Support for Sport initiative – organised by Valero Energy (Ireland) Limited, the company that markets fuel in Ireland under the Texaco brand – sees a fund of €130,000 set aside annually for allocation in equal amounts of €5,000 to successful applicants chosen on a county-by-county basis.

Previous Tipperary winners were Cullen Lattin AFC (2021), Cloughjordan Football Club (2022) and Nenagh Hockey Club (2023).