For the last number of years, the team that has put in the biggest effort has won the Meath senior hurling championship and that team for the past two years has been Kildalkey.

The 'Village' as they are known have emerged as the best team in the county and their pride and passion in the jersey exudes every time they take to the field.
With only one senior hurling championship title to their credit before the 2009 campaign, Kildalkey had always being regarded as the nearly men of Meath hurling, but they have well and truly shook off that tag as they are now the team to beat.
Not only are the players some of the most committed and dedicated hurlers that you could come across, but their supporters deserve great credit also.
Regardless of it being a challenge match or championship encounter, the Village will always be well supported and winning last year's title ended years of heartache for many of them. The win over Dunboyne in 2009 brought about a sense of relief in the community, but this year's victory over old rivals Kilmessan proved that they were no flash in the pan and meant so much to everyone involved.
Kildalkey is a tight knit community and everyone sticks together from the kids in the school to the elderly in the area, all follow the local GAA club with pride.
During the days of the Celtic Tiger, Kildalkey like so many villages around the country saw a housing boom that introduced a number of new families & businesses into the area and all received a hearty welcome.
One such family business was the Tyrrell's, who moved their company to Carnisle, Kildalkey that they have run for the past 18 years.
Paul Tyrell is a Dublin native and the managing director of CRS Mobile Cold Storage, which specialises in manufacturing portable cold storage units.
For the past few years, this specialised company has been located at Carnisle and the family run business has a customer base that reaches the four corners of the earth.
Paul's son Patrick is production & service manager of the business and he speaks to the Royal County Yearbook about the success of the business and how they have become immersed in Kildalkey GAA.
"We were delighted to see them winning the title this year. Since we moved down here, we have become well aware of just what the hurling means to them and to win two championships has been a huge boost for the whole community," said Patrick.
"My mother is originally from Ballyfallon, Athboy, so growing up we would have spent many Sundays in the area and when we decided to move the business out of the city, we had a fair idea of where we wanted to go."
CRS has been involved in sponsorship with Kildalkey's underage teams in the past few years and they help out the club financially when called upon.
"For a small population they have had great success and speaking to people in the area, you just know how passionate they are about hurling. We have helped out in the past. It is not easy raising money, but they have a hard working committee there that must be commended for all their efforts.
"It was great to win the championship for a second year in a row as it really proved to everyone that they just weren't one hit wonders. They really epitomise what the GAA is all about."
Despite being born and breed in the capital, Patrick admits that the family would support both counties, although the Dubs take preference when the counties meet.
"We would have allegiance with both counties. I would have played a bit of underage hurling with the St Brigid's club in Blanchardstown when I was younger. My brother John, who is our UK & Ireland sales manager and I, still live in Dublin, but through our mother Ann Faulkner, we would have a soft spot for Meath as well.
"The GAA is a great organisation and the social aspect that it brings is what many people love about it. We would often have customers over from the UK and we would bring them to Croke Park, where they would be very impressed by the whole occasion and even more so when they are told that it is an amateur organisation."
CRS was established in 1992 by Paul, who had worked in Dublin Port for a number of years beforehand. The aim of the company was to provide mobile cold storage units to businesses operating in the industry.
"Basically what we do here in Carnisle is buy in containers and remanufacture them as cold storage units that are suited to our customers own requirements".
"We would do work for a number of multi national companies especially in the pharmaceutical industry. We have done business as far away as Australia, but Most of our work is between Ireland and the UK. In fact, the UK would take the biggest portion of our business now, but it was the other way around a few years ago." Last year we won a contract from the (NHS) National Health Service in the UK for the storage of swine flue vaccine this was a very prestigious contract for us to win.
CRS would have eight people employed full time at their premise in Kildalkey, but they would have a further 12 field agents that would be based in the UK , as well as Dublin, Cork and Belfast ports.
"Every container that leaves a port must undergo a pre-trip inspection and CRS has lads in each of the ports servicing the containers and doing what ever maintenance work is necessary.
"In addition, CRS Refrigeration have diversified into a number of different markets including, all forms of commercial refrigeration, refrigerated ISO containers, & temperature monitoring solutions.
We are also very dependent on the Local Community where we supply and install and service all types of air conditioning units, cold rooms, ice machines, and refrigerated catering equipment where we provide sales, service and repair. We are very grateful for the local support we receive
We are also involved in a Charitable project to build in Kildalkey a fully functional operating theatre, once built we will ship this theatre to MUA in MALAWI. According to Doctor Valerie Donnelly of Woman of Malawi charity "this theatre is much needed project & will save many lives"
Brian O'Connell from O'Connell Mahon Architects and Patrick Tyrrell recently carried out a site survey in MUA where the estimated cost is thought to be in the region of €900,000. We need more people to help us fund raise for this project for more information please look up www.muahospitalappeal.ie Tweet

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