What a weekend ! We’ve just about recovered 😮💨- from double U12 hurling league winners , U13 Straffard league winners, our Croke Park Trip, the Joe McDonagh Cup win and we’re ready to go again this week !
Our exam students and parents are nearly there as we’re at the half way point for some in their exams and our primary school and playschool members are on a serious countdown !! Hope everyone has the Cul Camp and Sportszone camps booked - see details below !!
🗓️Around the Clubhouse
🔢Lotto We had no winner of our jackpot last week, congratulations to Lisa O'Hare and Eoin Burkett on winning the €50 lucky dips. 💸
⏰Clubhouse Opening Hours The Clubhouse opens at 5pm today and Saturday, opens Sunday 12.30pm.
All this weekends LGFA games will be broadcast on TG4 / TG4 Youtube – starting with the 🏐 Kildare v Meath game at 12.45pm. On GAA+ at 13.45pm 🏑 Laois v Tipperary, 🏐 Roscommon v Cork throws in at 16.15pm (GAA+) followed at 18.30pm by 🏐 Dublin v Derry and Galway v Armagh (GAA+).
Both 🏑 Kildare v Dublin at 4pm and 🏐 Kildare v Offaly at 18.30pm are not being televised.
On Sunday it’s all football as we start with 🏐Wicklow v Westmeath at 13.15pm (GAA+), 🏐Monaghan v Down at 2pm on RTÉ . 🏐Limerick v Wexford at 15.45pm (GAA+) and 🏐Donegal v Mayo at 4pm at RTÉ.
🎈🪩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
💓Dillon Quirke Screening We had an amazing day on Wednesday 11th as we welcomed ASM screening to the K- Club. Huge thanks to Niall and all at the staff at the K-Club for looking after us all so well. 45 young members received cardiac screening on Wednesday.
Tomorrow we welcome the 3rd & 4th class students from St Anne’s Ardclough , Scoil Mochua and Scoil na Mainstreach to the club. Games start 10.30 am, we hope you all have a great day
🎉🏐U11 Festival of Football – June 14th – POSTPONED Unfortunately with bad weather forecast and the Kildare games scheduled for Saturday the Festival of Football has been postponed until September. We will let you know a new date as soon as it’s booked in.
🏝️Summer Camps
It’s 2 weeks 🫨 until summer holidays - make sure you have your spot booked for our Cúl Camps in July and August. There are discounts when booking 2 camps at the same time and the gear looks good too this year !
We’re also delighted to welcome Sportzone back to Ardclough GAA on 5th August – it was a very popular camp last year so get in touch with Jason Carey if you would like to book. Again places fill up fast.
🏐🏑On the pitch this week We didn’t get any pics of our amazing Little Devils last week with the weather impacting training ! But we will catch them this evening hopefully 🤞
Our U7 footballers started the day on Saturday travelling to Ballyteague 👏 And our U9 footballers headed to St Kevin’s for a great game 👏
With a number of our senior footballers unavailable last Saturday and as Ballykelly were unable to play any night this week, we had to concede our last league game. After making good progress over the last 4 months, our management did not want to end this term on a low so we had a challenge game v Manor Kilbride on Monday night. 23 players togged out and they secured their first win on a scoreline 5-12 to 0-10. The team are preparing now for the championship which will get underway in the next few weeks.💪💪
Over in Clane the first of our two hurling games got underway with our div 4 team playing Maynooth – super skills from all our players on show – leading at half time, the boys won 4-7 to 3-3.🏆👏👏 Then over on the main pitch the div 1 game v Naas got underway , leading at half time by 1-6 to 0-4, we were in for a nervous 2nd half and a fantastic display of grit and determination from the team who never gave up winning by 2 points - 2-8 to 1-9.👏🏆👏
The support our club gave to these teams was amazing🤩. The hill on the main pitch in Clane was packed with Ardclough supporters and it was great to see them all back at the club for some big celebrations and a penalty shoot out in the Munster Final saw a late night for some !
Captains on the day Patrick Corcoran of the D4 team and joint captains Ronan Fitzpatrick and Ged Lawlor from the D1 team.
Then as the U12s got stuck into their celebratory pizza , down the road the U13 girls were playing their div 1 final against neighbours Celbridge. An amazingly strong performance from this very talented group of footballers, well done🏆🎉 Great to have another celebration in the clubhouse that night and more pizza !! Well done to the team and coaches 👏👏
Sunday was an early start for our U10s who got their game v Maynooth in at 9am !! It was time for the annual picture before setting off on our buses to Croke Park🤩 In years to come we’ll wonder why Tony isn’t in any of the pics but was always there !
Our annual Croke Park trip is always a fantastic day in the club calendar but what an extra special day to see Kildare lift the Joe McDonagh Cup for the 1st time.
And even better to see our own Tim Ryan and Richie Hoban when they came over to the Ardclough crew in the Hogan stand !! Extra curry chips and treats for the Kilkenny v Galway game and then back to the club for more celebrations for the Kilkenny fans amongst us 🎉 Cill Dara Abú!
Monday saw our U13 hurlers on the road again down to Ballinakill Ballypickas for their last league game in Laois. The win sees them finish 2nd in division 2. We await the semi final dates , well done 👏👏
On Wednesday our U11 camogs were delighted to welcome Coill Dubh for a great match and treats for everyone at the end. 👏👏
Finally a huge well done to the U17 Straffard girls winning their league last night🏆👏👏👏
It's another massive weekend for the club as our fixtures from the spring leagues finish up ahead of the summer leagues commencing next week !
Today our two U12 St Edwards teams play their semi-finals with our D7 team away to Suncroft at 6.30pm and our D2 team away to Kilcock at 6.15pm – best of luck to both teams.
Later this evening our Senior Hurlers take on Naas in the division 2 league final in Hawkfield at 19.45pm. Then on Sunday at 5pm our Senior Hurlers play St Laurence’s in the Division 3 final. 💪💪💪
Best of luck to both teams, amazing to have both of our teams in league finals and we wish the players and management team the best of luck. 🍀
The ticket link is below for both games – we are asking all club members and supports to get down to Hawkfield on Friday and Sunday and show the teams your support 💪💪👏👏
Normal hurling Go Games are on Sunday with our U7s welcoming Maynooth, our U9s away to Maynooth and Western Gaels and our U11s are home to Maynooth.
Our U8 hurlers are also hosting a mini blitz with teams from Western Gaels, Kill, Sarsfields and Coill Dubh coming over for some great hurling and treats
U15s In what we hope is a repeat of last weeks result ! Kildare U15 hurlers take on Laois in the Hibernia Cup semi-final this Saturday in Abbotstown. Best of luck to our own Elwood McGreal and all the Kildare lads🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🏳️🏳️🏳️County Teams
We have an amazing weekend for county teams:
🏑Camogie & 🏐 LGFA – Manguard Hawkfield
Senior Championship LGFA – Kildare v Meath at 12.45pm
Intermediate Camogie Championship – Kildare v Carlow at 2.30pm
🏑Hurling & 🏐 Football – Cedral St. Conleth’s Park
Hurling Championship Preliminary Quarter Final- Kildare v Dublin at 4pm
Tailteann Cup Quarter Final – Kildare v Offaly at 6.30pm
📃Club Notes
Huge thanks to everyone who sends in content for the weekly club notes. There would be no notes without the work going on around the club and the coaches and club members and supporters who send in photos and news.
If you would like an item included in our Club Notes please email secretary.ardclough.kildare@gaa.ie and we will include it.
We loved looking back at that photo from 2016 of the first trip to Croke Park (not 1996 , some very bad maths there for those who saw an early version of club notes😵💫) so flash back this week thanks to Victoria Dowling one of our amazing U8 hurling mentors who found this photo of our current U14 hurlers, we think when they were U8 !
