Club Notes – 18 October 2025

As the evenings get darker, we are getting near the end of our GAA year. We are at the semi final or final stages in most competitions and our Go Games matches will finish at the end of October.

Since our last club notes, we received the very sad and unexpected news of the passing of our coaching officer and treasured friend Noel O’Sullivan. The sideline for the last few games has not been the same and never will be. We will miss him dearly.

Comhbhrón lena clann agus cairde, ní bheidh a leithéid arís ann

Around the Clubhouse

Date for the diary !

Save the date , the Club AGM will take place on Wednesday 26^th November. More details to follow.

Lotto
We had no winner of our jackpot last night, congratulations to Diane Brogan and Robbie Culleton on winning the €50 lucky dips. ?

Our jackpot for Friday 24^th October is €3,100, perfect amount coming up to midterm for a break away! You can purchase tickets under the link below:

https://ardcloughgaa.clubzap.com/draws

Thank you to everyone who plays each week and our lotto committee who run the lotto each week.

Clubhouse
Hot food continues to be available in the clubhouse. Why not come down and give them a try?

Ardclough Club Draw 2025 in association with Club Kildare

The final club draw takes place this Friday 24^th October, fingers crossed for an Ardclough winner. Thanks again to all who purchased tickets.

Golf Classic – 17^th October

Our Golf Classic tool place on Friday October 17^th at the fabulous K-Club South course and huge thanks to Michael Fetherstone and all his team at The K-Club again. A great day and night was had , huge amount of work goes into all of these events. Thank you to everyone who organised, sponsored a tee or prize and took a team. We hope you had a great day

Senior Hurling Awards Night – 18^th October @8pm

Celebrate a fantastic season with our senior hurlers receiving their division 2 and 3 medals and our minors receiving their 7-a side medals

ASDS & AYT Karaoke Night – 8^th November

A great night ahead for a great cause , tickets €10 are available on the night. We’re really looking forward to the panto and we know how hard lots of our members are practicing

Dermot Earley Youth Leadership Programme
Our DEYLI continues every Friday, our participants are nearly halfway through module 1 already ! This week they worked on communication. Huge thanks to our participants and particularly our fantastic facilitators who are delivering the course each Friday. We are so lucky to have such amazing club members.

Green Club

We are delighted to announce that our Green Club Committee secured €1,000 seed funding for their 2 identified initiatives – Reducing single use plastic and Club Gear Swap.

Great news and we are looking forward to seeing these and other initiatives that the team are working on over the next few months.

Scór nan Óg – 14^th November

We’re really excited for this year’s contest – taking place on Friday, 14 November. There are 20 participants from Ardclough who are practicing with Elaine every week – great to see

On the pitch

Our senior camogs played the last of our adult fixtures finishing their championship campaign with a shield final against Naas on Sunday 12^th October. Hard luck to the team.

Juvenile Teams

As always there has been huge activity going on around the club.

Hard luck to our U16 hurlers who lost by 3 points in extra time to Maynooth in their division 1 shield semifinal.

Our U14 B Championship team are through to a semi-final on Tuesday 21^st having beaten Celbridge and with Maynooth conceded their re-fixed fixture they finish top of their group. Hard luck to our C Championship U14 team who lost to Confey in their shield semi-final – a big step up from division 4 which they won in the spring and will stand to them next year.

Not only do we have the best teams.. but we have the best supporters , some of our younger club members and Celbridge friends ! watching on at the U14 hurling match between Ardclough and Celbridge.

Our 2 U12 teams have had lots of games, and their rounds are now concluded. Our A championship team beat Maynooth in their last game to get a home semi-final next Friday 24^th against St Coca’s.

And our U12 C Championship team lost their last game to Clane concluding their round. Again, as with our U14s, a big step up for the team to play C Championship having won division 4 in the spring , great experience for the team who will play the U12 competition next year .

In football our Edwards teams have also reached the end of their rounds.

Our U16 C championship team reached a shield semi final and our G team have qualified for a shield final against Leixlip in Manguard tomorrow. Best of luck

Our U14 teams played some great football with the B and H championship teams reaching shield finals which will be played next weekend.

And our U12 teams have played all their round games with the A championship team through to a shield final on the bank holiday Monday. Our H team despite scoring 5-8 lost to Maynooth narrowly 8-2 , hard luck lads

As always there are blitzs and games going on all the time . Our U13 hurlers were invited to the Larry Hayes Memorial Tournament at the end of September , a fabulous day out for the team playing Killenaule and Taghmon- Camross.

Our U11 hurlers hosted Myshall and Ballinteer for a blitz last Sunday and our U10s travelled to Kilmacud Crokes at the end of September for their blitz in UCD , great days out

What a sight to see this fabulous crew of U6s playing their very first hurling match in Sallins on Saturday 11^th October. We are so proud of you and your coaches and your fab video gave us all a much needed lift on a tough week

Our fab U9 footballers pictured below after their match

Below our camogs being taught the special skill of free taking by their fab coaches.

Don’t forget our nurseries continue every Wednesday for Football and Friday for Hurling / Camogie at 6.30pm for 4-6 year olds to learn basic fundamental movement, have fun and make friends.

Coming up this weekend

Please check the fixture page on Clubzap App for full details in case of changes to venues / throw in times. https://ardcloughgaa.clubzap.com/fixtures

Best of luck to all teams playing over the next 2 weeks.

Our U14 camogie team playing in division 1 head into their shield final on Sunday at 4pm in Clane and our U16 team will play on Monday night in their championship semi final. Best of luck to both teams. Our Go Games camogs play their last U11 game on Sunday.

On Tuesday our U14 hurlers play at home in the C Championship against St Laurence’s. And our U12 hurlers are at home to St Coca’s on Friday night in the A Championship semi final.

For Go Games its our U10 footballers out on Saturday and U7, U9 and U11 hurlers out on Sunday with our U8 hurlers hosting a blitz on Sunday afternoon.

Best of luck to all teams !

Cumann na mBunscoil

Well done to the U11 boys playing in the football and hurling in St Anne’s National School who during the week lifted both trophies . And special mention to the amazing U11 girls team who fought hard against Mercy Convent Naas losing by a point in the camogie semi-final. And who played some fantastic football in their group stages.

It was great to see so many Ardclough hurlers and camogs taking part both for St Anne’s and Rathmore and Kill schools with our own Ella Mai Kelly making it to the division 2 final for Kill.

And all our amazing footballers coached by Mr Tyrrell himself