Johnny McEvoy Archive’s

In the last two weeks the Trim Gaa Club PRO John Andrews received a very welcome surprise, Lisa McEvoy-Rispin the daughter of former club Chairman Johnny McEvoy enquired would I like to have a look at the collection of old VHS Tapes that her father filmed and collected over the years. I was delighted to take up this offer. I went to look at the collection and was amazed and astounded by what I seen, it was a treasure throve of Trim Gaa matches that spanned across four decades. It covered Football, Camogie and Hurling matches from our adult teams but also had underage matches from the eighties. A huge historical archive of film from Trim Gaa matches witch is so valuable to the history of our Club. The club are so grateful to Mona McEvoy who kept the tapes in pristine condition for the last 30/40 years and we thank Mona and her family for making this truly remarkable Trim Gaa historical archive available to the Trim GAA Club.

Johnny McEvoy had a long and distinguished career as a player and an administrator with Trim Gaa Club, Johnny won a minor hurling championship medal with Trim when he was part of the team that beat Ratoath in the 1953 final. Johnny’s children John , Keith and Lisa all played with distinction for the Trim club and were part of many successful championship winning teams. Keith is the proud holder of seven senior hurling championship medals all won in the same position of left half back. Johnny had a long and successful association with Trim Gaa Club, Johnny filled many position as an administrator for the Club. He also served on the Juvenile committee for over fifteen years and was Secretary and Assistant Treasure during this time. He also was on the club executive for many years and had the great honour of taking the Chair from 1992 TO 1995 and was also Vice chairperson for seven years. He was a long serving member of the clubs executive committee. Johnny ran the Bingo for many years with his great friends Paddy Bird, Ted Murtagh & Kevin Murray. Johnny was in the club Chair when the weekly lotto draw was born and he was to the forefront to its launch, the weekly Lotto remains to this day and is a very important fund raiser for the daily upkeep and running of the club. Johnny McEvoy was before his time and was always thinking outside the box when new gadgets came available, had a great interest in filming and recording matches, in fact he was the first around county Meath to have the equipment required to do this work. He had the foresight to realise that someday that these matches would be invaluable to the club and thankfully now is that time. The Archive stretches back to the late seventies right up to the the noughties. Johnny’s family have kindly given the complete archive to Trim Gaa Club to process and restore this huge historic film collection and the Trim Gaa club are very grateful for this very generous donation. All of the matches are filmed on VHS Tape and will be converted into MP4 file format. Over the coming weeks and months the Trim Club will be uploading these matches on our YouTube Channel called simply (Trim Gaa Club) To view these old matches simply go to Trim Gaa Club on YOUTUBE and subscribe for FREE. The matches filmed by Johnny and carefully minded by Mona for all these years will for now and for ever known now as

“Johnny McEvoy Archives”

Thanks for the memories Johnny !!!!!!

Séan McAindriú

Oifigeach Caidrimh Phoiblí

C.L.G. Baile Átha Troim.