*Lawrence Healy. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill.
EX CLARE footballer Lawrence Healy will be leading the line in TUS’ Moylish campus as Ennistymon bid for provincial honours.
Healy is well known in sporting circles in North Clare. A busy playing member with Ennistymon GAA, the former county player devotes a lot of time to coaching young footballers.
A member of the teaching staff at what is now Ennistymon Community school, he is the joint manager with Tara Rynne of the school’s senior football side which is one step away from bringing what would be a first ever Munster senior title to the newly formed educational establishment.
A past pupil of Ennistymon CBS, now part of the Community school, he won Munster under 16 1/2 honours with the school as a player.
“Sport is massive in the school. It presents a great opportunity for students to play with members from other clubs and it creates a great atmosphere between students and teachers. This is my first time involved with a senior team in the school and I am really enjoying it”, he told The Clare Echo this week.
Now in his fourth year as a member of the teaching staff at the school, the former Clare senior full back said “the fact that this is the first time for the new school to be contesting a Munster final, adds an extra element to it. There is a great spread of clubs represented and this is great while the support from the clubs is excellent”
Players from Ennistymon, Inagh/Kilnamona, St Joseph’s Miltown, Corofin, St. Breckan’s, St Joseph’s Doora/Barefield and Kilmaley, are part of the panel which hopes to make history on Friday be becoming the first team to bring a Munster senior title to Ennistymon Community school.
Whatever the outcome, there is no doubt but that the coaching and training being done by teachers like Lawrence will be of enormous benefit to clubs and county teams.
