Milltown GAA Club celebrates the completion of 50 years in the Galway Senior Football Championship at a gala banquet tomorrow evening in the McWilliam Park Hotel in Claremorris.
Milltown won county senior titles in 1971 and 1981 and the club first qualified for the senior ranks in January 1962 when they beat Clonbur in the 1961 County Junior Football Championship final.
The “Scans” as they are known in north Galway beat Clonbur 0-9 to 0-1 in that final and it was the first Gaelic Games result announced on the newly-launched RTE television station.
The only club with a longer unbroken run in the top flight of Galway football is the illustrious and famed Tuam Stars.
GAA president Christy Cooney will be the guest of honour on Friday night which will also feature the launch of a book entitled Milltown 50 that features photographs of county championship winning captains Sean Brennan (’71 ) and John Hehir (’81 ) on the front cover. The book also includes the history of the club from its foundation in 1953 to the junior championship victory in 1962. Each of the 133 senior championship match reports and team lists over the course of the past 50 years to the end of the 2011 championship is recorded.
The book which runs to 96 pages retails at €10.
