Just when you think there's no more excitement Dublin hurling only go and pull off a weekend for the hurling history books beating Limerick in the All Ireland Quarter Final AND our U12 St Edwards D2 team brought home another trophy… John is already drawing up plans for an extension to the trophy cabinet 📏! What an amazing first half of the year🤩
In primary school this week it was a week of tears😢 and joy 🥳 for our members the class of 2025 with 6th class graduation on in all our members schools this week. As one adventure ends another begins as you all head of to post primary school we wish you all the best and a great summer. We know its all changing with everyone heading to different schools but the one constant is your club, we will always be here for you and we’ll see you all in your summer leagues and around the club for a kick about and puc around over the summer . And special mention to our leaving cert students who finally, finally all finished on Tuesday – you did it 👏👏
Final wrap of club news this week as we head into summer break and an extend out of office period 🏖️ but we all know there's no break from GAA 😉
🗓️Around the Clubhouse
🔢Lotto We had no winner of our jackpot last week, congratulations to Ciaran Dowling and Owen Burkett on winning the €50 lucky dips. 💸
Our jackpot this week is €1,800. You can purchase tickets under the link below:
https://ardcloughgaa.clubzap.com/draws ⏰Clubhouse Opening Hours The Clubhouse opens at 5pm today and Saturday, opens Sunday 12.30pm.
We’re at the business end of the GAA Championship with an all football weekend –
On Saturday both quarter finals are on GAA+ - Monaghan v Donegal throwing in at 4pm and Dublin v Tyrone at 6.15pm
On Sunday, Meath v Galway is on RTÉ at 1.45pm and Armagh v Kerry at 4pm
📽️Club Update from John Last Friday John gave a mid year update and plans for the rest of 2025. Some hard hitting questions from our new roving reporter Simon🎤 missed his calling , #newcareer
Some exciting things coming later in the year including our Golf Day and a family day in September🥳
Video is available on our Instagram account at the link below
As Go Games finish this weekend we want to say a massive thank you to our Go Games Referees. There were over 90 games played home and away in the spring Go Games leagues across camogie, LGFA, football and hurling plus challenge games and blitz. None of these can take place without our referees and we were delighted to see some new faces this year as well as some rock solid refs in their 3rd or 4th years. It’s great experience and is open to anyone 15+ to do an online course and then a face to face course. Email secretary.ardclough.kildare@gaa.ie for more information.
Thanks to Emma , Matthew, Robyn , Grace, Sean, Grace Dunne, Grace Finneran, Harry, Lila , and Eoin 👏👏👏 Hope we have everyone
🏝️Summer Camps
Get ready for a summer of fun, friendship, and Gaelic Games – Kellogg’s GAA Cúl Camps are back for Summer 2025! These action-packed camps are the perfect way to keep kids active, healthy, and smiling all summer long.
With top-quality coaching in a fun and safe environment, it's a brilliant way for children to learn the skills of Gaelic football, hurling, and camogie – while making new friends along the way!
Dont' forget Jason is running his Sportszone camp also on 5th August - contact details below
🏐🏑On the pitch this week
Our younger members are on the wind down for summer with Go Games finishing last weekend or this weekend. For our older members its summer league, great to have everyone out playing games just for fun and to meet up with friends and for our Senior Players its championship time 🏆
Last Friday was a great night at training for our young hurlers as Sean and Darragh brough the division 2 and 3 trophies to training. Loads of questions for our captains and lots of trophies on head photos ! Thanks to Sean and Darragh for coming down and inspiring the next generation.
Saturday was a glorious day as our two St Edward’s teams headed to Clane for their division 7 and division 2 finals. Our div 7 team were up first on the main pitch against Confey and in a very tight game with a point or two in it during the whole game, the team lost by 2 points in the end on a score of 2-12 to 6-2. They played amazing and gave it their all, we are very proud of all our players. Over on the back pitch the division 2 game got underway against Monasterevan, great game, another very tight match until the 2nd half when we scored 3 goals to finish 3-9 to 0-15 .
Huge well done and it was another well spent evening celebrating in the clubhouse. We are really looking forward to championship with 3 teams entered more games for everyone.
It was a great treat to have our triumphant😉 Straffard Mothers and Others team back from their blitz in Bray Emmets with the prosecco iced and ready for them.👏👏🍾🥂
On Sunday our U8 hurlers travelled to Leixlip with amazing skills on show, official photo below !
And our U10s travelled to neighbours Éire Óg Corra Choill for their final Go Games fixture.
Monday saw our U13 hurling team travel to Laois for their semi-final against Barrow Gaels , a tight game and after extra time the score 2-14 to 4-10. Hard luck to the team. You represented your club in a different county so well, finishing top of your division and reaching a semifinal, we are very proud of you all. 👏👏👏
It was a week of parties as our groups finished up training for a break for a few weeks. Our U11 Straffard girls got treats from coaches Brendan, Rob, Scott, Paddy and Fiona on Monday for their last night.👏👏
On Tuesday our camógs had an amazing party thanks to our fab parents who baked and brought drinks and treats, enough for the team and our U13 camógs and the boys !
On Wednesday our U14 St Edwards team played in Straffan against Raheens, great game of football.👏👏 Over in Ardclough ....the treat of all treats – an ice cream🍦🍦🍦 van for our amazing young footballers. Little Kickers getting 1st go ! 🥺
Football Chairman Dermot and Little Kickers coach Siobhan on hand to do quality checks on the ice-cream 😉🍦
Then back to hurling for our U14s who play on Wednesday against Coill Dubh at home and Maynooth away.
And then Thursday the Junior Hurling Championship Group B gets underway at home v Round Towers at 19:45pm, best of luck to the team
💙❤️🤍 Straffard
Club Notes from Straffard :
🏳️🏳️🏳️County Teams
Senior Footballers
We’re calling on every club in Kildare to get behind our Senior Footballers as they prepare for the Tailteann Cup Final on Saturday, July 12th
Send your messages of support and encouragement to Lorraine Woulfe:
WhatsApp: 087-6622945
Email: communications.kildare@gaa.ie
Let’s get behind the team and give them the support they deserve!
📃Club Notes If you would like an item included in our Club Notes please email secretary.ardclough.kildare@gaa.ie and we will include it.
While there will be no club notes for a few weeks the action and the work continues (there's no holidays for the GAA! or committee members) so keep an eye on our Instagram , Facebook , X (Twitter) and Clubzap for all the news.
Club notes hopefully has given our club members an update on all the hard work behind the scenes in our fantastic club. Thank you to everyone who has sent in photos and content. We have had a really busy first half of the year😮💨
Each team picture shows our amazing players, but behind it are the coaches who give up their evenings and weekends to attend coaching courses, do team sheets, wash jerseys, plan training, co ordinate with other clubs. The list is endless. And our parents who plan their life around a GAA calendar making sure everyone gets to where they need to be.
From our lotto committee, to our sports committees, to Martin and Ann Marie in the bar, our referees, our fundraising committee, and our Executive - we are team off the pitch and on.
We hope everyone has a great summer break and we'll see you all on a side-line over the next few weeks ! And definitely on Saturday for the hurling championship !
