Scór na nÓg Success 

 

Scór na nÓg began Thursday evening with the Mullingar Shamrocks first round competitors on stage at Gaelscoil an Mhuilinn. 

 

Thanks to the efforts of our Cultural Officer Emma McCabe Byrne we had two competitors in the Solo Singing, Dylan Hanley and reigning champion Darragh McCabe; Finn McCabe represented us in the Recitation competition and in the Instrumental Music category Orla & Eilís Nohilly and Darragh McCabe came together. 

 

The instrumental trio and Darragh McCabe qualified for the semi-finals of the Scór Iarmhí competitions. 

 

All our representatives performer with distinction. 

 

 

There was a historical appropriateness (if such a concept exists) to our participation in the Scór Iarmhí Instrumental Music competition. 

This week, 75 years ago, at a meeting in Thomas Street, Dublin, it was decided to establish a national organisation ‘to cater for all Irish traditional musicians' and to attempt to form branches throughout the country. 

 

Eamon Ó Mhuimhneacháin (Eamon Moynihan) proposed that the new organisation be called Cumann Ceoltóirí na hÉireann (CCE). His wife, Caitlin Bean Uí Mhuimhneacháin was elected President of the new organisation. 

 

At a subsequent meeting, held in Mullingar on 13 January 1952, the organisation was retitled Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann. 

 

The rest is history. 

 

No doubt, Eamon and Caitlin Bean Uí Mhuimhneacháin would approve of the playing of their great granddaughters Orla and Eilis in the Scór na nÓg competitions - playing instruments that had virtually disappeared prior to the formation of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann .