Stephen Mulligan
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Division 6 Men's Hurling league match vs Fingallians

After our Senior Men’s Hurlers won last night, it was the turn of the Junior As this morning. Another good win in the end of an exciting game where the lads were down by four at the break. Some pics below from our PRO Team.

Climate X Change Event

We had a huge turnout in the club for our first Climate X Change Event this evening with around 120 people in attendance to listen to our six great speakers. The assembled audience then split into groups to come up with suggestions for what we can do to help with Biodiversity, Solar, Soil, Water, you name it, it was discussed! Thanks to all the organisers, speakers and participants for a great evening of discussion and plenty of action planned!

A few snaps below courtesy of our PRO Team.

Red White and Blue Parkrun

Great to see so many smiling faces out this morning in red, white and blue in St Anne's for the Parkrun 5km. Thanks to Pat Walsh for the great photos and the Healthy Club Team for organising.

Every Step Counts is back for '24 - let's get stepping!

The Every Step Counts Challenge is back and starts on Mon 8th January and runs until 12th February. We need to get lots of people signed up and recording their KMs to have a chance to compete as well as we did last year when we finished first in Leinster!

Signing up is really simple - just follow these easy steps:
📱 Download the Irish Life MyLife app either from the Google Play Store (Android Phones) or the Apple App Store (iphones)

💬 Register or log in (if you have an account already)
💪 Select your challenge (Social▶️Challenges▶️Leinster▶️Clontarf GAA❤️🤍)
🚶‍♀️🚶 Track your walks or runs from 8th Jan until 12th Feb!

**Important Step!!**
Connecting your phone's step counter/activity tracker is really important or we won't get the benefit of all your walking! In the MyLife App, go to ‘Track’ then ‘Trackers’ then select your device (e.g. Fitbit, Apple Watch, SmartWatch, etc.). The easiest way being to simply add your phone’s health app. If you don’t do this, we won’t get your steps!
Remember - Every Step Counts!

The challenge lasts for just over a month and it's a great excuse to get yourself and the family out for a much needed bit of air. There is some good banter back and forth between the clubs on Twitter too, so keep an eye on @clontarfgaaclub to follow all the craic!

Stay safe, stay well, and if you see anyone out in their club colours, wave or stop and say hi! There is also lots more information on our website around what the healthy club are doing (clontarfgaa.com/healthy-club) and some more specific information on physical activities to think about to stay well throughout the year (clontarfgaa.com/physical-activity)

Adult Players' Awards Night

The Adult Player of the Year Awards were held on Friday night in a packed clubhouse! A great night was had, with lots of trophies and medals handed out to our championship winners, topped off by some great entertainment from our own Neil Shanahan. Here is a list of all the deserving winners and some snaps of some of them receiving their awards.

SENIOR WOMEN’S FOOTBALL

Joint Player of the Year         Carrie O’Connor

Joint Player of the Year  Ciara Dunlea

JUNIOR A WOMEN’S FOOTBALL

Player of the Year           Edel Nyland

Young Player of the Year       Grace O’Donnell

JUNIOR B WOMEN’S FOOTBALL

Player of the Year             Eva O’Connor

JUNIOR C WOMEN’S FOOTBALL

Player of the Year             Louise Doyle

ADULT CAMOGIE

Player of the Year                  Eimear Mangan

Young Player of the Year      Grace Meikle

Most Improved Player         Faye Crumlish

u21 Men’s FOOTBALL

Player of the Tournament Cian Goode

u21 men’s Hurling

Player of the Tournament Mikey Devine

senior MEN'S FOOTBALL

Player of the Year          Liam Howley

Young Player of the Year        Ben Bolger

Intermediate MEN'S FOOTBALL

Joint Player of the Year          Ciaran Giles

Joint Player of the Year          Sean O’Grady

Junior Men’s FOOTBALL

Joint Player of the Year          Eoghan Stanley

Joint Player of the Year          Fintan Birch

Senior hurling

Player of the Year         Tommy O’Brien

Young Player of the Year        Paddy McKeon

junior a HURLING

Player of the Year         Conor Caulfield

Young Player of the Year         Robin McGill

junior b HURLING

Player of the Year         Kenneth Hayes

For Dedication and Commitment to Clontarf Hurling  Noel Wardick

The Second Annual Nora Arthur Memorial Tournament

On Friday 29th December we held the second Annual Nora Arthur Memorial Tournament at the club in which twelve teams of adult players, mentors and parents competed over the course of the afternoon for the memorial trophy named in honour of Nora.

The eponymous trophy was presented to the winning captain Mattias Mac Donncha (Tiz) on behalf of the winning Team 5 by Nora’s Dad, Neil.

The teams

THE FINAL AND THE OVERALL WINNERS

After 18 high-intensity and dramatic “group-stage” matches and two high-stakes semi finals, a tense and exciting final ensued between Team 12 and Team 5. Team 5 would eventually win the day by 4-0 with a second title in a row for young Cian O’Connor and a goal to boot! A worthy final for a brilliant day of sport and craic.

Not only that, but a whopping €2,900 (and still rising!) was raised for the very worthy cause of Oscar’s Kids. Well done to all involved. If you’d still like to donate, click here.

With apologies for the mediocre quality (!), some snaps from the day below.

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