U6, U8 and U10
Coaching Academies will continue on Sunday mornings 10 30am to 11 45
am. All boys and girls are welcome. It is most important that parents
arrange to collect their children promptly at 11 45!
Hurling academies are on Monday evenings starting 6 30 pm.
Camogie Coaching for U12s Tuesday evening 5 15pm and U12 Ladies Football
Wednesday evenings 6pm. |
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New!
Clonduff
reps at the Down Strategic Planning Day -
June 08
P J McGreevy on the Sideline! |
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Who is
pretending to be working during Boley Fair '08? |
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Clonduff GAC and The Boley Fair 2008
(Contributed by Marie Walls) |
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New!
Check out the various
Galleries for photos from Boley Fair 2008 - if
you were there you may just be in one of the many photos |
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More great pics of Clonduff
people on Boley Fair website -
www.boleyfair.com
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All Ireland
Qualifiers - Laois v Down - Best wishes to
Ross and the boys as they take on another
midlands side in their own back garden (O'Moore
Park, Portlaois) in the next round of the
qualifiers on Saturday 28th July at 7pm. |
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All Ireland
Qualifiers – Offaly v Down
Congratulations to Ross and the
boys who took Offaly apart in a scintillating first half in Tullamore on Saturday evening
(19th July) - Down led 3-12 to
0-4 at half time playing with a strong wind
advantage. It should have been a game of
two halves and whilst Down scored the first two
points of the the second half the homeside began
to take advantage of the strong breeze and sent
in the long ball to their full forwards which
reaped some reward. In the second half they
scored 2-6 but Down scored 2-7 to leave the full
time score Offaly 2-10 Down 5-19. The goals were
scored by Kevin McKernan, Danny Hughes, John
Clarke, Benny Coulter and Ronan Sexton. The two
Clonduff men, Aidan Carr (RHB) and John Fegan (RHF)
contributed immensely to the victory. |
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Clonduff Seniors took part in the Ambrose
Rogers Memorial Invitational Sevens on Sunday 13th July. There were eight teams
from Down, Derry Armagh and Antrim. Clonduff were in a group with Castlewellan,
Bryansford and Loup - the latter failed to travel. Clonduff won their two group
games and then defeated UUJ in the Semi Final to set up a final show down with
the host club. The final was an
entertaining game between Longstone and Clonduff. At half-time the hosts led 0-9
to 0-3 with Barry Doran and Colin Burden the chief scorers. The Yellows hit back
during the second half with the O’Hagan brothers, Darren and Conor, and Peter
Withnell in good form and with a minute to go Longstone only led by two, 1-11 to
1-9. This is how it finished as both sides defended well in the remaining time
to prevent any further score. This was a
great performance from the Clonduff lads who thoroughly enjoyed the competition
and collected a very generous prize for finishing as runners-up. The panel was:
John, Mark and Paul McPolin, Conor óg and Darren O'Hagan, Peter Withnell, Rory
Grant, Eugene Branagan, Noel McPolin and Cathal Maginn |
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Paul Shields, Sean McNally and Des
McNeill represented Clonduff at the One Wall National Championships in
Sligo over 28th and 29th June. Paul and Sean played in the
Men’s B competition and Des played in the Diamond Masters. Both Paul and Des got
to their respective semi-finals but were both narrowly beaten by D. Flynn and N.
Rafferty respectively. Hard luck lads. However a good weekend was had by all. |
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Clonduff are Down U9½
Community Games Champions! In the Semi Final they
beat Drumnacoyle 3-4 to 0-2 and in the Final they beat
Mayobridge 4-3 to 0-2 and now go on to represent the
County in the Ulster series next month. Panel: Conor
Milligan, Jack Campbell, Patrick Branagan (2-1), Daniel
McGivern, Ryan Matthews, John Boden (0-1), Lyndon Brown,
Conor Woods (2-0), Ben McConville, Ross Carr, Brandon
Roe (1-2), Darren Quinn, Aaron Devlin (3-3), Jude
Campbell, Niall Doyle, Oran Fitzpatrick. The games were
played in Mayobridge and were refereed by Leo
Smyth, Mayobridge and Clonduff's Paula Cairns with
Paula taking charge of the final. |
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Clonduff have six newly
qualified coaches! Congratulations to Jackie
Gilmore, Louise Savage, Noel Fitzpatrick, Sean Gribben,
Plunkett McConville and Jimmie Smith who all completed the
Foundation Level Coaching Course. |
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Clonduff win Irish News
'Club of the Year' award for Large Clubs! |
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Young Whistlers!
Seven Clonduff boys attended the 'Young Whistlers'
course held in Clonduff Clubrooms on Thursday night -
organised by P J Quinn and delivered by Frank McDonald.
The boys thoroughly enjoyed the course and are filled
with enthusiasm. Most of those who attended are involved
in upcoming examinations but wish to proceed with
the training and registration as soon as they have the
exams out of the way. These budding referees are Rory
McGreevy, Darragh Sherry, Paul Lively, Ché Curran, Henry
Brown, Gary McGinn and Conor Grant. |
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New Clonduff Referees
Congratulations to Paula Cairns who took charge of her
first Ladies U14 football match (Bryansford v Bosco) on
Sunday 20th April. Paula is one of two new club referees at this
level – Shane McGreevy is the other but unfortunately he
broke his arm playing Football for the Minors last week.
We wish you well Shane and hope that you can soon join
Paula in taking charge of your first game and, of
course, in returning to your Minor Football team! |
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Congratulations to Paula
Gribben who has been appointed Down Minor Camogie
captain for the incoming season! |
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Clonduff wins 'Camogie Club
of the Year' at the Down Awards following the Down v
Derry game in St John's on Sunday! |
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Clonduff Competitors
collected two County Scór Sinsear titles and
narrowly missed out on two others in the County Finals
on Sunday night in Castlewellan. The County Champions
are the quiz team, with Marie Walls, Brian Canavan and
Mary McGreevy who were eight points ahead of the nearest
opposition and the Set Dancers - Wendy Farrell, Ursula
Quinn, Lisa Parr, Andrea Gribben, Onagh Gribben, Laura
McShane, Gayle Kane and sub Niamh Pritchard (for the
injured Joleen Morgan to whom we wish a speedy
recovery). Both the Céili Dancers and the Novelty Act
were narrowly beaten into second place. The Quiz team
and Set Dancers go forward to represent Down in the
Ulster Semi Final in Randalstown on Friday 8th March. |
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Congratulations to St
Colman's College who won the Corn na nÓg after an eleven
year absence! There were five Clonduff boys on the panel
- Conor Brown played at full back and the other
panellists were: John Brown, Shea Murnin, Conor Gribben
and Eamon Grant. Of course Cathal Murray was involved as
the Head of PE in St Colman's! Well done everybody! |
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Championship Draws!
SFC
Bryansford v Castlewellan
Ballymartin v Downpatrick
Ballyholland v Saval
Clonduff v Mayobridge
Burren v Attical
Longstone v Liatroim
Loughinisland v Rostrevor Kilcoo v An
Riocht
PRFC
Carryduff II v Clonduff II
RFC
Clonduff III v Ballyholland II (Preliminary) - lost
JHC
Bredagh v Clonduff
MFC
Kilclief v Clonduff -
Comfortable win
SLFC
Clonduff v Burren - Big win
JLFC
Clonduff v St Michael's - Lost
Sen Cam Portaferry v Clonduff - Good
win |
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