McCarthy Wins NYGAA Chairmanship

The New York GAA will have a new chairman for the upcoming year after Larry McCarthy decisively defeated the incumbent John Riordan in the annual election on Sunday.

After six years as secretary of the association, McCarthy now steps into the top seat following a one-year term by Riordan. With all 62 delegates on hand to vote, the Cork native came away with a 35 to 27 victory, with the advantage that much wider when the fact that Riordan's club Kerry has four votes (two for each team) against McCarthy's club Sligo's two votes taken into account.

After the two vote victory of last season by Riordan over Brendan O'Sullivan the clubs spoke in strong terms, with the odd number accounted for by what is projected as a club split this year. McCarthy now leads what is proclaimed as the largest board outside of Ireland into the New Year, with divisional meetings on December 11 to install the rest of the officers for the new season.

The junior division will get the ball rolling with a 7:30 p.m. meeting on that night, while the senior football division follows the regular meeting with their meeting. Terry Connaughton (junior) and Donie O'Sullivan (senior) are the outgoing chairs. There is some unfinished work, however, with the board for that night's regular meeting also.

The auditors election on Sunday gave the board three officers for the new year, with John Kelly, 55 votes (Galway), John Fitzpatrick, 45 (Rockland) and Frank Molloy, 45 (Donegal) edging out Therese Crowe 38 (Tipperary).

Kelly, who is the former hurling chairman, topped all polls on the day with an impressive total that parlayed into a resounding win after 29 of the 32 clubs gave him their support. Fitzpatrick is a returning officer at that position.

In the battle for the trustee positions, three were available and the closeness of the voting was intense, with Dennis Twomey (Rangers) topping the poll with 42 votes, Tommy Fahey (Galway) was a close second with 41, while Lawrence McGrath 30 (Donegal) and Joe Prunty 30 (Leitrim) were tied for the third slot with a recount taken and still no winner.

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