{"id":788,"date":"2023-08-31T04:34:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T03:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youngmunster.com\/?p=788"},"modified":"2023-08-31T04:34:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T03:34:30","slug":"president-young-munster-rfc-2023-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youngmunster.com\/?p=788","title":{"rendered":"PRESIDENT YOUNG MUNSTER RFC 2023\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President\u2019s Welcome Season 2023\/24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is my absolute honour &amp; privilege to be elected as President of Young Munster RFC for this season 2023\/24.This great Club has been in my DNA since I first joined it as an Underage Player c.50yrs ago before graduating to the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Team &amp; then becoming a Supporter, Committee Member &amp; now the greatest accolade, to be chosen as Club President.<\/p>\n<p>Young Munster was founded in 1895 (128years ago) &amp; its ability to grow &amp; thrive has been driven by its never wavering core philosophies of Community Spirit, Open Door Policy, Pride in the Jersey &amp; 100% Commitment both on &amp; off the pitch. Our sense of togetherness is built on a long standing vibrant Underage Division catering for c.200boys &amp; girls whose spirit is infectious &amp; has helped build a unique culture in this great Club.<\/p>\n<p>These qualities have resulted in many successes over the years across all age grades &amp; our 1<sup>st<\/sup> Team are the current holders of the Munster Senior Challenge Cup having won it last year for the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> time in a row which was an outstanding achievement. We also play our Rugby in Division 1A of the AIL, a \u00a0highly competitive league which we last won in 1993 but one we remain very focussed on as we commence this season.<\/p>\n<p>I want to wish all our coaches (Underage &amp; Adult) every success &amp; in particular I want to extend best wishes to Head Coach Ger Slattery, 1<sup>st<\/sup> Team Captain Alan Kennedy &amp; acknowledge the huge effort by all players\/coaches\/management in all our teams to be\u201d the best that they can be\u201d every occasion they wear the \u201cBlack &amp; Amber\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Our off the pitch activities are effectively underpinning everything we do as a Club, therefore a massive Thank You to all our Volunteers, Coaches, Officers, Members, Supporters &amp; last but not least our Sponsors who as a collective contribute hugely to the ongoing success of the Club. It would be remiss of me not to mention our lead sponsor Pat Burke (PBC Ltd) for their long standing &amp; continuing support &amp; also take the opportunity to welcome Mike O\u2019Riordan (STL) on board this year.<\/p>\n<p>Finally \u201cCead Mile Failte\u201d to all our visiting Teams, Officials, Supporters &amp; Referees\u2026I know you will all enjoy the unique Match Day experience of Tom Clifford Park .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mick Moore President<\/p>\n<p>Young Munster RFC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President\u2019s Welcome Season 2023\/24 It is my absolute honour &amp; privilege to be elected as President of Young Munster RFC for this season 2023\/24.This great Club has been in my DNA since I first joined it as an Underage Player c.50yrs ago before graduating to the 1st Team &amp; then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youngmunster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youngmunster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youngmunster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youngmunster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youngmunster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.youngmunster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"http:\/\/www.youngmunster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youngmunster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youngmunster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youngmunster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}