Membership
Club Shop
Scoil Awards Night
Fundraisers in December
Player Pathway
Juvenile Coaches Night
Easter Camps
2023 Season
Camogie News
Trad Sessions
Club House Bar
Volunteers Needed
Members Corner

Membership

Thank you to everyone that has paid their 2023 membership to date. Your membership fees are vital and go towards the maintenance of the club and grounds.

Membership is now due for 2023 season. Your membership includes your insurance while partaking in training and games and also includes your registration for GAA/LGFA/Camogie. All players need to be registered with the various associations to partake in playing matches.

Tomás O’Connell is in the club grounds on Saturday mornings and you can pay your membership with Tomás, alternatively you can pay online.

Annual Club Membership Subscriptions can be renewed and paid online via this link: Pay Membership — Scoil Uí Chonaill (scoilgaa.com)

Club Shop

The Scoil Club Shop is opened every Saturday morning from 10am – 11.15am with lots of items available.

Pop in to Niamh and Marion and they will be more than happy to assist with your gear requirements.

Scoil Awards Night

Save the Date…. our Scoil Awards Night is back after a 3 year sabbatical and it promises to be bigger than ever.. It is always a great night and a great occasion for the club.

Date: Thursday, 16th March

Venue: Clontarf Castle

Further details to follow very soon…

Fundraisers in December

The Bag Packing in Nolan’s which took place on 23rd December 2022 raised €2897.48. All money raised for our own Scoil Stars.

Thanks to Jackie Geraghty and Padraig Naughton for all the organizing and to everyone that helped out on the day. We know it is a busy time for everyone and all help was very much appreciated.

Our Make a wish coffee and sausage sizzler raised €1750.00 which took place at the beginning of December. Well done to Audrey O Rourke, Nick Mottram and Dave Walley for their work leading up to and on the day itself. A Big Thank You to all of our members that supported our Annual Fundraiser.

A huge thank you to the O’Connell Family and Clean All Over for the sponsorship of the selection boxes for Santa’s visit – they went down a treat with all of our younger members.

Player Pathway

I am sure many of you have seen the new signage on the outside of the dressing rooms – Thomas has put together the Player Pathway for all members.

The Player Pathway outlines the skill level appropriate for each age group. This is also on the website and can be viewed here.

This is a great marker for coaches to ensure that sessions are set to where they should be for the groups that they are coaching.

Juvenile Coaches Night

There was a great turn out of over 40 coaches for an evening hosted by Thomas for all of our Juvenile Coaches last Wednesday, 25th January. Thomas shared key insights and building relationships on the coaching journey.

Huge Thank you to Thomas and to all coaches for their input on the night.

Easter Camps

We are delighted to confirm that the Easter Camps will take place from 11th – 13th April for 4 -12 year old members in the club grounds.

The cost will be €30 per child.

More details will follow in due course.

2023 Season

All of our teams are now back to training preparing for the upcoming year.

Matches will commence in February for the majority of our teams. As always, support for all of our teams is always welcome.

Wishing everyone a great season and hopefully, we will have plenty of silverwear coming to Clontarf Road again in 2023.

Camogie News

The very best of luck to Sinéad McDonnell and our Minor Ladies Camogie team.

We are delighted to have enter a Minor Camogie Team for the first time in many years.

Wishing Sinéad and all the girls the very best of luck for the coming year.

Meet Ciarán Ó Murchú – Scoil’s Child Protection Officer

Meet Ciarán Ó Murchú – Ciarán has taken over the role as Child Protection Officer for the Club from Aideen Lawlor.

Many of us will be know Ciarán from Saturday mornings at the Scoil Hoppers GAA Academy as he coordinates the events on the day.

Should you need to check your Garda Vetting or have any queries for Ciarán, you can contact him at childrensofficer.scoiluichonaill.dublin@gaa.ie or on 087 2333720

Trad Sessions

Junior Trad Session (First Friday of each month)

The Junior Trad Session will take place on Friday, 3rd February. The Trad session will take place in the Clubhouse from 7pm to 8pm.

All are welcome to come and join in with our Junior Trad Musicians.

Adult Trad Session (First Thursday of each month)

The Adult Trad Session will take place on Thursday, 2nd February. The Trad session will take place in the Clubhouse from 9.15pm.

All musician are most welcome to come along and join in.

Club House Bar

Our Club House Bar is opened every Thursday evening from 9pm – all are welcome.

Our Club House Bar is also available to book for Private Events.

Please contact Neil Mc Dermott at scoilclg@gmail.com for further information

Volunteers Needed…

With our Juvenile section growing from strength to strength, we are looking for volunteers to help.

As always, if you are in a position to help with any of the teams or indeed with the Scoil Hoppers GAA Academy, we would be delighted to hear from you. Children from ages 3 are welcome at our Academy.

We are looking for coaches/volunteers for all areas – if you in a position to assist in any area, please speak to Ciaran, our Scoil Hoppers Lead: 087 233 3720 or Thomas, our GPO: 085 133 7728

Members Corner

Famous GAA Quote

They have a forward line that couldn’t punch holes in a paper bag.
Pat Spillane
On the Cavan football team.

Stags Voice

As always, should any member wish to have Club News included in the Stags Voice, please email all information to scoil.pro.eoc@gmail.com before the 15th of the month.

ANNUAL REGISTRATION

Annual Club Membership Subscriptions can be renewed and paid online, please see attached link: Pay Membership — Scoil Uí Chonaill (scoilgaa.com)