St Patrick’s Lisburn partied through the night as they looked back at 2019, celebrating the progress the club has made both on and off the pitch and the awarding of medals and awards from the past season.
Naomh Padraig’s Chairman Peter Burns compèred the event and welcomed Antrim Chairman Ciarán McCavana, South West Antrim Chairman Jim McGrath and Kerry All-Ireland winner Sean O Sullivan to the showpiece event at the Beechlawn Hotel.
The event highlighted how the club has developed with more and more people in Lisburn now playing football through a number of different junior and senior teams, and the even the onset of hurling in the city. The Antrim Chairman paid tribute to the work of everyone involved at the club, stating that the dinner dance signified how the St Pats gaelic community had progressed in the last number of years, with people now proud to wear their Naomh Padraig shirts in Lisburn.
After the dinner, medals were presented to the Men’s Senior Team for winning the Antrim Junior Championship and the McCormick Cup.
The annual awards were also handed out, with the following winners:
Senior Men
Top Scorer Francis McMeel
Player of the Year Thomas Burns
Players’ Player of the Year Thomas Burns
Senior Ladies
Player of the Year Emma Marsden
Players’ Player of the Year Stephanie Ní Néill
Most Improved Romi Phillips
South Antrim Men
Clubman of the Year Dan Fay
Most Improved Player Stephen Sandals
Player of the Year Peter Ferris
President’s Cup Benjamin McMullan
Roni Phillips Most Improved Ladies Footballer with Martin Stockton Ladies Manager and Guest of Honour Sean O’Sullivan. 
Players Player of the Year Stephanie Ní Neíll with Sean O’Sullivan and Martin Stockton 
Dan Fay Clubman of the Year 
Dan Fay Clubman of the Year 
Francis McMeel received the Senior Football Top Scorer Award 
Player of the Year and Players Player of the Year Thomas Burns 
Mickey Lynch Club President and club Chairman Peter Burns with guest of honour Sean O’Sullivan 
Club president Mickey Lynch presents the President’s Cup to Benjamin McMullan 
Jim McGrath present the McCormick Cup to team captain Benjamin McMullan 
McCormick Cup winning team with South West Chairman Jim McGrath 
Ciaran McCavan Junior Championship team captain Benjamin McMullan 
Ciaran McCavana presents the Antrim Junior Football Championship Cup to the St Patrick’s team
Martin Stockton Ladies manager address the crowd 
Former Kerry star Sean O’Sullivan 
Sean O’Sullivan with club President Mickey Lynch, South West Antrim chairman Jim McGrath (left) and county chairman Ciaran McCavana 
Ladies football team with their management team at the St Patrick’s GAC Lisburn dinner in the Beechlawn Hotel. 
St Patrick’s Lisburn president Micky Lynch and the club committee 
Club chairman Peter Burns and his family with Sean O’Sullivan 
Lynch family 
Jim McGrath 
Jim McGrath present the McCormick Cup to team captain Benjamin McMullan 
County chairman Ciaran McCavana addresses the guests at the St Patrick’s Lisburn dinner in the Beechlawn Hotel.