⏰Clubhouse Opening Hours The clubhouse opens at 5pm today and Saturday , opens Sunday 12.30pm. Don’t forget GAA+ is available in the bar for all the action this weekend.
On Saturday , big day for 🏑 Wexford as they travel to Galway, 3.15 pm throw in (RTE), 🏑 Antrim v Dublin is at 4pm (GAA+), 🏐 Armagh v Donegal at 5.25pm (RTE) , another big one at 6pm as 🏑 Tipperary play Clare (GAA+). Then on Sunday 🏐 Westmeath v Antrim at 2pm (GAA+) and at 4.15pm there’s some final or something on with 🏐 Meath v Louth (RTE) but we’ll just ignore that and move on (Up the Dubs💙🩵! I mean the Lilliwhites of course 🤍🤍)
The 🏑 Carlow v Kildare game at 2pm is on Clubber on Saturday for those not travelling.
🏟️New Pitch
There was great news on the planning front this week as the Executive Committee received a decision from Kildare County Council on our planning permission. We are delighted that planning has been granted for our new playing pitch and car park at our new site opposite the school.
A huge amount of work went into the planning submission and subsequent requests for information from the County Council. Thank you to Paul, Chris and all involved in getting this across the line. As we know space to train and play matches is at a premium, and we look forward to having this additional pitch available for our growing club members.
With our Sports Capital Grant approval in place we will have a further update in the next few weeks.
⛳Annual Golf Day for Development Squads
Kildare GAA are hosting their Annual Golf Day if anyone would like to support by entering a team or sponsoring a tee. We have 18 players from the club taking part in County Panels this year💪👏👏
☀️Summer Camps 2025 We have 3 weeks of the summer covered ! Cul Camp booking link below –
🎾🏸🏀 5th August – Sportzone – see details below , contact Jason to book
👿Hell and Back
Only a week to go until 107 boys and girls from Ardclough GAA 🫨 head to Junior Hell and Back on Saturday 17th May – we hope Hell and Back are ready ! We're not ! Thanks Dee for organising us 👏
🎄Charlotte’s Christmas Gathering
During the week we posted about this lovely event this Christimas in memory of our cherished member Charlotte. All details are in attached:
💓Dillon Quirke Screening - Wednesday, 11th June 2025
We are delighted that we have received a date for heart screening for the club for our young players through the Dillon Quirke Foundation. We will send out more details shortly as we work with the charity. Screening for Straffan Camogie, Straffard LGFA & Ardclough Camogie was completed in June 2024 and we are delighted to now offer this to the hurling and football teams in the club.
🪜🏐🏑🎈Mini Little Devils Huge well done to Louise and all the boys and girls from Jo's Playschool who visited the club last Friday to play some games and have fun 🎈
🏐🏑On the pitch It might have been a bank holiday but there’s no break for GAA thankfully with a day off an opportunity for some extra puc or kick arounds. Most of our leagues are reaching semi final stages with Go Games due to continue until end of June.
We had tough finish to last Friday with our U14 hurlers away to Naas , and our two U12 Edward’s teams away to Monasterevan and Suncroft all coming away with losses. No matter we go again and the teams showed great skills and never gave up 👏
On Saturday our U8 footballers hosted Leixlip and our U10 footballers travelled to Rathcoffey. Our Senior Footballers were at home with a tough game against Castlemitchell, hard luck to the lads. The league splits after round 6 this evening , with us having a bye, with the top 4 teams and bottom 3 teams put together for the remaining games.
On Sunday there was a good start for Edwards U14s in D8 with a 7-10 to 4-7 win against Naas. Then it was all hurling with our U7s away in Milltown
The U9s hosted Leixlip and Naas at home and the U11 hurlers headed to Round Towers , always a good spot on a Sunday with Kildare Village close by😝
Our Senior Camogie team played their final league game on Sunday afternoon with a tough game against Leixlip, hard luck to the team.
On Monday our U14 D4 team who have a run of fixtures at the moment😮💨 had a great win against Éire Óg👏
Our super star U11 hurlers had a fantastic day up in Ballinteer St John playing them and Na Fianna , Kilcolleron and Cuala. Days like these are what it’s all about – well done to the team for representing your club so well , we are very proud of you. There's a "caption this" moment here in this pic - we reckon there's definitely a promise of an open top bus back to Ardclough from Tony there 🚌😅
Our Minor Hurlers headed to Celbridge for their D1 semi final, hard luck to the team. The game finished 2-20 to 2-6. Roll on the championship !
Last game of the bank holiday with our U14 hurlers hosting Commercials for a challenge game, great game of hurling from both teams , great match.
On Tuesday our U12 & U11 hurlers had a special guest trainer🤩 for their session in advance of their last round of games this Friday. Thanks to Senior Hurler Martin Fitzgerald for putting the players through their paces. 💪
Wednesday was all football and camogie with a tough night for our footballers. Our D8 team unfortunately couldn’t field and our D5 team playing Sarsfields losing 7-2 to 6-12 and our D3 losing to Naas by 5 points with a great match and great potential shown by the team.
D3 v Naas
D3 v Naas
Our U13 and U17 camogie teams played Naas with their U13s too strong on the night and our U17s coming away with a win – well done 👏
On Thursday our U16 hurlers played their semi final against Naas, final score 3-8 to 1-7, hard luck to the team.
U16 Patrick's hurlers pictured here playing a challenge game on April 27th against Commercials
And to finish our round up , well done to our Senior Hurlers in D2 last night with a great win against Naas🎉 - final score 4-21 to 1-13. Next up Moorefield 💪💪💪
🗓️ Coming up this weekend
Please check the fixture page on Clubzap App for full details in case of changes to venues / throw in times.
Our U12 hurlers are both at home tonight, 6.30 pm start for D4 playing Maynooth and 8pm start for Leixlip in D1. Last round for both – best of luck to the teams 🍀
An extra special super Saturday of football ahead – Feile and our U7s U9s and U11s all travelling this weekend 😄– get the google maps out !
Then Sunday our U8 hurlers are home to Naas , and our U10s travel to Clane. And our U11 camogs take the field at 11am as they host Kilcullen, Cappagh and Leixlip.
Our U12 hurlers are travelling to Clonguish for the Andrew Jackson Memorial Tournament – best of luck and enjoy the day , lots of pics please !!
To finish out the weekend our D3 senior hurlers travel to St Laurences for their postponed fixture.
Best of luck to our U13s who play Rathdowney Errill on Monday evening. And big night on Wednesday for our D4 U14 hurlers who play their semi-final against Naas.
🏐Football Feile Best wishes to our U15 footballers playing Saturday and hopefully Sunday. We have 2 teams entered , details below. We're all really proud of you, have a great day and best of luck 🤞
Absolutely fantastic performance from Kildare U16s last weekend defeating Dublin to win the U16 Leinster championship , well done to Lila & Issey👏👏👏 🏑Camogie Well done Alannah 👏👏👏 🏑Hurling Hard luck to the Kildare Minors who lost to Antrim on Saturday 2-12 to 1-21. Well done to Darragh Buggle and Colm Walsh who represented Ardclough on the panel, we are so proud of you. 👏👏
We were absolutely delighted to hear that 8 boys from our U14 hurlers were selected to play with the U14 Development Squad this year. They travelled to Antrim for their first game on Saturday. Huge well done to Louis Dowling, Adam O’Brien, Eoin White, Nathan Kelly, Niall Mayock, Ben Donnelly, Tom Meally and Tom van Lonkhuyzen . They are a credit to their coaches Aidan , Simon, Ger and Brian and a credit to their club. 🎉
🏳️🏳️🏳️County Teams
🏑Hurling – Saturday 10th May at 2pm
Brian Dowling and his management team have named the Kildare Senior Hurling Panel to take on Carlow in the third round of the Joe McDonagh Cup on Saturday, 9th April in Netwatch Cullen Park at 2pm.
Brian Flanagan has announced the Kildare Senior Football team to play Leitrim, in the first round of the Tailteann Cup, in Cedral St. Conleth's Park, tomorrow, Saturday, May 10th at 5pm.
