Community Christmas Party

It was Clontarf GAA’s great privilege to host a wonderful Christmas Party for our local Ukrainian families today. Thanks to everyone who came, we hope you enjoyed it!

Huge thanks are due to all those involved in organising the event, led by Roisin Kelly in our Healthy Club team. That includes everyone who brought gifts and provided the lovely Irish and Ukrainian food and Manning’s Bakery for their seasonal delicacies. Particular thanks to the Sean Treacy Trad group, the Sean Gilligan Performing Arts group and our Ukrainian family singers and musicians for the fantastic entertainment.

Thanks also to our young leaders on the Dermot Earley Youth Leadership Programme who did the face painting and kids games - and of course to our special visitor Santa for taking time out from his busy schedule to join us to help make it such a truly special occasion!

Some great photos and videos are below.

New Hurls and Helmets for our Nursery!

Our nursery boys and girls got their first Hurls and Helmets this week, sponsored by Little Sport Bikes. Ken from Little Sport dropped in this morning to see the lads in action. Some photos below courtesy of the PRO Team.

Sponsor Night 2023

We had a great night down in the club this evening where we welcomed our sponsors and patrons to say a heartfelt THANK YOU for their support. It was great to see representatives from our players and mentors in attendance as well and a very sociable evening was had by all with some delicious food from one of our patrons, Camile Thai Artane.

Our sponsors are:

  • Kish Fish

  • Little Sport

  • Mason Hayes Curran

  • Member First Credit Union

  • Mkn Property Group

  • MSL Motors

  • Karen Mulvaney Property

  • Nolans Of Clontarf

  • Grimes

  • Staffords Funeral Homes

  • Teneo

  • Tyler Owens Architects

  • Valentia Partners

  • Arachas

  • Avolon

  • Bay

  • Beshoff Bros

  • Bright Motor Group

  • Clontarf Orthodontics

  • Ergo

  • Eurooil

  • Gilna Opticians

  • Hamill Estate Agents

  • Hayes Solicitors

  • Insomnia

  • Kinara

Pop Up Gaeltacht Thursday 16th 8:30pm

The next Clontarf GAA Club Pop Up Gaeltacht of 2023 will take place on Thursday 16th November from 8.30 pm in the Cúl Doras (Club Bar). Everyone is welcome with a ‘céad míle fáilte’ and all levels of Irish. Love to see you all there on the night to enjoy the craic and comhrá.

Táimid ar ais le Pop-Up Gaeltacht ar an 16/11/2023 (Déardaoin ag 8.30 i.n.) i gCumann Lúthchleas Gael Chluain Tarbh. Beidh fáilte mhór roimh gach duine agus gach caighdeán don Ghaeilge. Beidh craic agus comhrá agus ba bhreá linn tú féin agus do chairde a bheith ann chun an ócáid a cheiliúradh.

Eólas ó (Info from): Éanna Ó Murchú (endamurf@gmail.com) / administrator.clontarf.dublin@gaa.ie

Senior Men's Footballers are Dublin Champions!

A huge day for the club today as our Senior Men’s Football team became the first club team ever to win a Senior Championship in any code. It was the finest of margins in the end as Conor Rooney’s left boot saw the team pip Fingallians by a single point, but a magnificent team performance in the final quarter brought it all together. Massive congratulations to the whole team, the management group, physios and all the supporters who showed up in numbers to cheer the lads on to eventual victory!

A fantastic gallery of photos below from the amazing Pat Walsh. Thanks again Pat.

And, of course, thanks to the team sponsor Bright Motor Group for their brilliant support this year.

Chair's Night 2023

We had a fantastic night in the clubhouse this evening, with our Famous Five Women’s All Ireland Winners Caoimhe O’Connor, Niamh Hetherton, Mossie Ó Cuinneagáin, Mick Bohan and Willie O’Connor and the legend that is multi-All Ireland winner Jack McCaffrey in a fantastic chat with our own Damien O’Meara. A huge crowd of mentors and club helpers were in attendance to make it a most enjoyable evening.

Kevin also presented Club Person of the Year to Ciaran Doran, Mentor of the Year to Eoghan Hannigan and Club Legend or Laoch Chluain Tarbh to Anne O’Mahony.

A selection of photos from the evening are below with thanks to the PRO Team.

€20,000 Lotto shared between two winners!

Last week, our long overdue lotto win finally came and, like a Dublin Bus, you wait for ages and then two come at once! Huge congratulations to Conall Kehoe and Kevin Daly who were presented with their cheques for €10,000 in the Cúldoras bar last night by Club Chair Kevin Hoy and Jonathan Stafford from Stafford’s Funeral Home, our lotto sponsor. Well done lads and spend it well with all our best wishes!

A win for our Senior Men's Footballers to ensure Division 1 Status for 2024

Our Senior Men’s Footballers had a great win on Sunday morning on P35 over southside rivals Thomas Davis to cement their position in the AFL1 league table and ensure Division 1 status for next year. Well done lads. Some action photos of the game below courtesy of Sean O’Sullivan and the PRO Team.

Healthy Club GOLD Award!

Club Chair Kevin Hoy and Healthy Club Lead Ciaran Doran receiving the Gold Award recently in Croke Park.

We are excited to announce that we have been recognised as a GOLD Healthy Club for 2023-2025! This is the highest award possible under the newly introduced Healthy Club Recognition awards. Clontarf is the only club in Dublin to currently achieve the this level, so we are truly delighted and honoured.

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The Healthy Club programme is all about Clontarf GAA contributing to the wellbeing of the local Community. Here are some of the activities that we run that helped us to achieve Gold Status:

⭐️Clontarf All Stars

⭐️Dermot Earley Youth Leadership development

⭐️The Meitheal group

⭐️Support for local Ukrainian families

⭐️The Irish Life Step Challenge

⭐️SafeTalk suicide awareness training

⭐️One Good coach mental health training for mentors

⭐️Talks for players on mental fittness

⭐️Healthy Eating and nutrition talks

⭐️Talk on staying active for the elderly

⭐️First Aid and CPR Classes

If you want to get involved in any of these programmes or join our Healthy Club project team we would love to hear from you.

Please Contact: healthyclub@clontarfgaa.com or Ciaran Doran at 0872579155

For more information about what the healthy club does, click the link to view our Healthy Club Page.