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BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE
en years have now passed since Blackhall Gaels won their one and only senior football championship title, but the club have implemented a structure in all grades to ensure that they wait for their second Keegan Cup success is not that far away. The Nestor family is one of the many families that backbone this rural club, Nigel, Paul and Alan have all represented Meath with distinction at various levels and All-Ireland medals adorn their homestead. However, eldest brother Vincent is part of a backroom team that are working incredibly hard to safe guard the future of the club and indeed trying to bring more success to the Batterstown/Kilcloon club.
For this year’s edition of the Royal County Yearbook, we speak to Vincent about his role in the club and what they are doing that has sparked new life into this ever burgeoning outfit. The stats for this year’s SFC campaign will read that Blackhall Gaels won two games and lost three. On first look, it would be fair to say that this was a disappointing return for a club of its stature, but Vincent pointed out that there were many positives to take from the season. Vincent was a selector with the club’s senior team this year, while he was also manager of the junior ‘C’ team that reached the county final only to be beaten by Navan O’Mahony’s in the decider. Alongside senior manager Liam Keane and selector Mark Crampton, they set out their stall early
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in the year to improve the structure of the club. In his job as Supply Chain Manager with Dutch headquartered Schneider Electric, Vincent has spent time in many countries and indeed it would be unsurprising if he held a record for playing Gaelic football in the most countries around the world. He can list England, Holland, France, Belgium, Germany, South Africa and Dubai as places where he has played football. “I went to England when I was 18 and it was there that I played the St Brendan’s club. When I got the job with Schneider Electric, I was travelling a lot, but no matter where in the world I was, I always got involved with the local GAA clubs,” said Vincent. “I met many friends that way and from a social point of view, it was a great