Another early start for our Caman Let’s Hurl participants as they were treated to a top class session this morning with club legend himself Noel O’Sullivan🤩. Skill points were the prize this morning, well done to all the boys and girls on getting out of bed early ! 2 more weeks to go !! And we have the Primary School Hurling / Camogie Blitz to look forward to on Friday June 13th! More details to follow !!!
❎✅Camogie Association - Special Congress Great news from the Camogie Special Congress last night that players will be given the choice of skorts or shorts to wear. With a vote of 98% of 133 delegates , it was great to see our own club and Kildare Camogie supporting choice for players.👏👏
🗓️Around the Clubhouse
🔢Lotto We had no winner of our jackpot last week, congratulations to Martin Murphy & Ross Kelly on winning the €50 lucky dips. 💸
⏰Clubhouse Opening Hours Normal clubhouse hours this week, opening at 5pm today and Saturday , opens Sunday 12.30pm.
🎈🪩Parties & Events
Just a reminder that our lounge is available to rent for parties and events, so if you are looking for a venue for your next occasion contact Martin 085 787 6610 or email secretary.ardclough.kildare@gaa.ie
Not heading to the games this weekend – we have GAA+ in the bar for all the action this weekend.
On Saturday its 🏐 Louth v Monaghan at 4.45pm (GAA+), and 🏐 Donegal v Tyrone throws in at 7pm (GAA+) .
Then on Sunday it’s all hurling 🏑 Dublin v Galway at 2pm (RTE 2) and 🏑 Offaly v Antrim at 2pm (GAA+) and then 🏑 Cork v Waterford at 4pm (RTE 2).
And don't forget to tune into the Sunday Game... you just never know who they'll end up mentioning, just like last Sunday ! 🖤❤️💛
📝Club Executive Meeting The Club Executive Committee Meeting took place on Monday evening, with unexpected extra time in our U14 hurling semi-final slightly delaying proceedings 😅 Our executive committee meet monthly and have a standing agenda covering a range of areas from correspondence, finances, development plan , facilities and games reports.
Under correspondence this month we reviewed the changes coming to the player injury fund and insurance for clubs. These communications will be issued to all club members in the next week. The Leinster GAA Grant scheme has also opened for applications and we will look at what expenditure we can apply for. And a big piece of work for our Children's Officer Sharon was submitted this month for our Risk Assessment and Child Safeguarding.
Always a large part of the meeting, under finances we reviewed our day to day club accounts, lotto income , membership numbers and income. Fundraising is a particularly key piece of our finances at the moment with an update on our Punchestown Race Night from the committee and an update on our pitch side advertising as we continue to engage with sponsors over the next few weeks . We look forward also to our Annual Golf Day⛳ - Friday October 17th in the K-Club.
Our new field development plans are now underway with a further meeting held this week to discuss next steps.
Our games committees, as we see each week, are very busy with training and matches. We have over 30 teams competing each week from U12 up, plus our Go Games and nursery. Thanks to our secretaries Rosie, Brendan, Brian, Avril, Bill and Brendan O'Donoghue who provide updates to the executive for our meetings each month ,with details of how each team are progressing and activities that are going on around the club such as blitz, trips away etc.
Under Facilites, we have exciting news in the next week or two as we welcome a new business to the club🤐
We also discussed the management of facilities and remind members and coaches of the note issued Ardclough | Facilites - Notice and to please not litter or damage club property.
A busy meeting with lots happening around the club.
👨👩👧👦 Safeguarding 1 Face to Face course Thank you to our attendees and facilitator Pat Payne who ran our Safeguarding course on Tuesday in the club. We are very grateful to all who give up their evenings and we hope you enjoyed the course.
👿Hell and Back – Forest Frenzy 5km Wow ! What a day ! It’s safe to say the +100 kids had an absolutely fantastic day down in Kilruddery Estate last Saturday. 🎉
Huge , huge thanks to Dee Harmon for thinking of the idea and organising us all. 👏👏
Will we do it again next year ??? Let us know ! Will we do a poll on Instagram ? Make sure you follow us there – ardcloughgaaofficial !!
💓Dillon Quirke Screening - Wednesday, 11th June 2025
Huge thanks to the K-Club for making rooms available for the screening.
🏐Tom Cross Junior Championship Draw
The draw for the football championship takes place tonight, Friday May 23rd at 6pm. The draws will be broadcast live on Kfm Radio, with local media representatives in attendance on the evening. Our captain Joe Aherne will represent Ardclough at the draw.
🏑Hurling Championship Draw
The UPMC Senior, Senior B, Intermediate and Junior Hurling Championships will take place on Friday, 30th May at 6:00pm at UPMC, Clane (W91 W535). The draws will be broadcast live on Kfm Radio, with local media representatives in attendance on the evening.
🏑Leinster Hurling Final – June 8th
The Juvenile Hurling Committee are organising the annual “Trip to Croker” for the Leinster Senior Hurling Final on June 8th. It has potential to be a memorable day for Kildare as they are on track to qualify for the Joe Mc Final !!! Keep an eye out for details next week to book tickets and bus. Last year over 150 kids and adults travelled to Croke Park !! And home !!!
Trip to Croker 2024
🎓Exams !
Best of luck to all our young members in secondary school who are in the middle of or just starting their 1st , 2nd and 5th year exams , we know our 3rd and 6th years have a little more to go!
⛪Communion in St Anne's National School Wishing all those boys and girls in 2nd class in St Anne's a lovely day on Saturday for their 1st Holy Communion , the bouncy castles are flying around Ardclough and we are hoping the weather holds until after Saturday 🤞🤞
🏐🏑On the pitch this week Great start to last Friday for our U8 Footballers and Hurlers who were presented with their prize for raising the most amount as a team for the Walkathon. Huge thanks to Simon van Lonkhuyzen and TEC Industrial for sponsoring the boot bags for them all 🤩 Don't forget to write your names on them 🙈 The fixture for our U12 D2 St Edwards team against Round Towers didn't go ahead as Towers were unable to field. At home our U14 D2 hurlers played Maynooth in a challenge game followed by our Senior Footballers who played Kildangan with just a goal between them at the end – 0-14 to 1-14 it finished, hard luck to the team.
Saturday football was postponed for Hell and Back. Sunday was all hurling and camogie with our U7s travelling to Clane for 2 great games 💫
Our U9 hurlers hosted Coill Dubh , great skills on show⭐ Also at home, our U10 Camogs had a great morning playing Sarsfields, Round Towers and Maynooth. Great to see Noel Burke watching on as Anna played
Our U11 hurlers also travelled to Clane for 2 great games 👏👏
It was a google maps job for our U13 D2 hurlers as they travelled to Abbeyleix for their game, with a great win they sit top of their group with 2 games to play.👏👏
Final game of the day on Sunday, our U15's camogs played amazing and were unlucky to lose to Naas in their D2 shield final.
Monday saw our U14 D2 hurlers play their semi final against Broadford. We’re not sure we have words yet to describe it ! For a neutral it was a cracking match, it finished all square at full time, and having gone 5 pts down, they came back and it was level at half time of extra time … and then leading by 2 pts near the end of 2nd half of extra time and Broadford got a goal to win by a point. We go again ! Well done to the team and management on getting to the semi final and while it didn’t go our way on the night it was a great game of hurling.
Tom keeping an eye on things👀 🟩⬜
Tuesday saw the break in the weather and some coaches 👀 thought the rain had passed and it would be a fantastic idea to train ! Fair play to the U13 & U11/ U10/ U9 camogs, the U12 hurlers and U10 footballers who played Cappagh 👏– we hope you’ve all dried out ! ☔☔☔
Our senior hurlers played their last game in D2 with a win at home against Kilcock 10-33 to 4-8. With the final fixtures played last night, we are through to the league final. 🎉🎉🎉
Wednesday was full football with training and our Edwards teams playing in Ardclough. Our U8 footballers were full of skills on the all-weather🤩
Our U9s were getting their weekend match in early against neighbours Rathcoffey - great game of football 👏👏
Our St Edwards D3 team played Newtown Gaels and the win secured a semi final place. And our D8 team played Celbridge winning 2-13 to 4-5 leaving them 5th in their group.
St Edwards U14 v Celbridge
Thursday saw our U8s welcome Dublin neighbours Commercials to the club for a challenge match – well done to all our players. 👏👏
🗓️ Coming up this weekend
Please check the fixture page on Clubzap App for full details in case of changes to venues / throw in times.
Best of luck to our two U12 hurling teams who play in semi finals this evening – D1 away to Maynooth and D4 at home to St Cocas. 🍀🍀🍀
Saturday sees our U7s footballer play Rathcoffey at home at 2.30pm with our U9s having played Rathcoffey during the week and our U11s game v Cappagh moved to Thursday May 29th at 7pm. Our U10 hurlers also host St Vincents at 10.30am.
On Sunday our U8 hurlers are in action again and travel to Celbridge and our U10s are home to Naas. Our U11 camogs travel to Leixlip for a blitz while our U13 camogs play Naas in D1 semi final on Sunday – best of luck. 🍀🍀
Our U14 D4 hurlers play their final on Monday night and we are waiting for venues and times.
Brian Dowling and his management team have named the Kildare Senior Hurling Panel for the final round of the Joe McDonagh Cup, taking place this Saturday, 24th May at 2pm in Cedral St. Conleth’s Park, where they’ll face Down.
A victory will see Kildare make history by reaching the Joe McDonagh Cup Final for the very first time.
Kildare GAA are calling on all clubs to come out and be the 16th person in the stands and help the players get over the line.
