Round Tower GAA Club is immensely proud of Jim Gavin’s accomplishment in managing the Dublin Senior Footballers to an All Ireland Football Final. To mark this excellent and unique achievement, the club website will run a series of features in the build-up to Sunday’s clash v Mayo. Today club chairman Tony Delaney and juvenile chair Catherine Moran speak of the club’s pride in Jim’s management of the Dublin team and extend their best wishes to Jim and the Dublin team on behalf of club members. Every day this week we will run a new feature to commemorate this unique occasion in our 129 year old club history.
“On behalf of Round Tower GAA Club, I’m delighted to take this opportunity to wish Jim Gavin and the Dublin team the very best this coming Sunday. Round Tower GAA Club Members, supporters and the wider Clondalkin community are immensely proud of Jim’s superb achievement in guiding this Dublin team to an All-Ireland Final. Jim’s success in managing the Dublin senior footballers to their first league title in 20 years and Under 21 All-Ireland wins have brought great pride to this 129 year old GAA Club and the hundreds of club members who are playing Gaelic Games, coaching or supporting the sports we play.
There is great excitement in Clondalkin ahead of the Final, with young and old alike united in wishing Jim and the Dublin team the very best. A local man and club member managing our county footballers is a source of great excitement in particular for younger members and has nurtured the pride they have in representing their local club and community. Club members speak very proudly of Jim and with great praise for him. He is a gentleman and has been an excellent ambassador for the club both on and off the field.
Jim is a very dedicated, intelligent, very honest and hard-working performer. People who played with him in the past and coached him speak glowingly of such attributes.
We are very proud of the exciting brand of football Jim has brought to the team and the immense contribution this is making towards promoting our national Games.
It is also important to recognise the role of Frank Roebuck, past player and manager of Round Tower, in the Dublin team’s success and we are very proud of his involvement with the panel.
I wish Jim and the Dublin team the very best this coming Sunday and hope to see this local hero return to the proud GAA town of Clondalkin with Sam Maguire in tow,” Antoín Ó Dubhslaine, Cathoirleach
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“I am very proud to extend best wishes to Jim Gavin and the Dublin team as chair of Round Tower GAA Club Juvenile Section. The children, teenagers and mentors look up to Jim and see him as a role model. It is fantastic to see someone who wore the green and white manage the Dublin team to an All Ireland Football Final.
The kids watching the game see the Dublin footballers as heroes and the excitement and skill of Jim’s Dublin team is generating increased great enthusiasm for the game and this is replicated in training and matches.
This rubs off on mentors and parents and there is a real buzz around the club at present given Jim’s status within the game and the excellence of the playing facilities Round Tower GAA Club now has to offer. Frank Roebuck has made an immense contribution towards the fostering and development of GAA skills amongst young people in Clondalkin and we are extremely grateful for his invaluable contribution.
We’ll all be excitedly cheering on the Dubs this weekend and we hope it proves very memorable. Best of luck Jim from all within the Juvenille section of Round Tower GAA Club!”, Catherine Moran, Chair Round Tower GAA Club Juvenile Section
