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Tipperary Club Focus – Rockwell Rovers 28/07/2021

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Tipperary Club Focus – Rockwell Rovers 28/07/2021

Brief History of Club  

Rockwell Rovers was founded on October 20th, 1887, and the scroll prescribing this is displayed to this day in Rockwell College. We had to wait until 1939 until we won our first West title – Junior Hurling Championship. The Juvenile team of 1955 really got Rockwell Rovers noticed when they were the only team to ever win the County football & hurling titles in the same year. 1987 was a momentous year for the club as they won the County intermediate football title and the county U21B football title. In 1988, on the back of the great achievement of the previous year, a club committee was formed to purchase and develop a pitch of their own. Since then, over the years, we have had the addition of Lights, Hurling Wall, Pitch side Fencing and scoreboard. More recently we have added Astro-turf goalmouths, gymnasium, an all-weather pitch, walkway and carpark, all to cater for the needs of our community.  Last year in 2020 the club won the County Intermediate Football title to take our place among the Senior clubs of Tipperary.

 

The Rockwell Rover’s Family 

Rockwell rovers GAA club is made up of the senior and juvenile clubs plus the camogie and ladies’ football clubs to give it a real family and parish inclusivity appeal. One club, one parish, one big family!!

 

Senior Club

Rockwell Rovers is a senior football club and a junior A hurling club catering for over 50 adult players from the age of 18 to almost 50! The club takes our place in the community very seriously. Therefore, we have invested in a walkway to cater for the health of our older citizens. Not just physical health but also mental health. Now that the lockdown is lifting, many of our parishioners are coming to the field to walk and staying for the chat. The club has invested in a gymnasium which will be a great benefit to the community. The club invests in and co-operates with the local Tidy Towns committee most notably with the Halloween Spookfest and Christmas lights. The senior club is the umbrella organisation and is responsible for the new developments which consist of 60 X 40 astro-turf all-weather pitch, astro-turf goals, community walkway, gymnasium and carpark. All the clubs’ benefit from these new facilities along with the original facilities of full-size pitch, juvenile pitch, lights, hurling wall, electronic scoreboard etc.

 

To read further on the article, visit https://tipperary.gaa.ie/tipperary-club-focus-rockwell-rovers/

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