November Award for Kilmessan

The Kilmessan hurling team have been nominated as the Meath Chronicle / Cusack Hotels Sports Personality of the Month award winners for November. Following their success in the Meath SHC where they won the Jubilee Cup, they embarked on a Leinster IHC campaign and defeated top Kilkenny side Erin"s Own in the Nowlan park decider last month. The overall winner will be selected from the 12 monthly winners and any of the outstanding achievement recipients. There will also be a number of additional awards including a "young sports personality-of-the-year" and a Hall of Fame. Monthly winners receive a specially commissioned award from local Meath artist Seamus Cassidy and there will also be a one-off trophy for the overall winner. The invitation-only second annual banquet will be a black tie affair at Knightsbrook where the monthly winners and guests will join representatives of some of the major sporting organisations in Meath, local dignitaries and sponsors for what will be a major sporting celebration. 2008 nominees January - Kieran Kelly (athletics); February - Paul Carberry (horseracing); March - Nina Carberry (horseracing); April - Damien McGrane (golf) and Navan RFC (joint winners); May - Denis Hurley (rugby); June - Johnny Murtagh (horseracing); July - Pat Coyle (GAA). August - Darren Sutherland (boxing); September - Rachel Eagleton. (Transplant Games); October - Sean Boylan (International Rules); November - Kilmessan (hurling).