Social Functions in Newly Refurbished Clubrooms!

To book clubrooms for any function, ie Birthday Party, Christening, etc please contact Social Club Officer Martin on 07736681415

Cemetery Masses in Clonduff Parish

Cabra - Tuesday 4th June                    Ballygorian - Wednesday 5th June                   Ballymaghery - Thursday 6th June

There will be a Special Family Mass for this Year of Faith on Sunday 26th May @ 11am in Ballymaghery, concluding with May Procession.

There will be no activity for Clonduff players during these times! Training and games will be re-scheduled for later times.

Clonduff Youth Tournaments

All Clonduff Tournaments have been sanctioned and the dates are as follows:

Daniel Andre Memorial U10 (P6) Football – Saturday 1^st June

Brian McGreevy Memorial U8 (P4) Football – Saturday 15^th June

Gary Murray Memorial U12 Football – Saturday 22^nd June

All the tournament are for 24 teams and the finals are played at three levels - Cup, Plate and Shield

The Connor McConville Primary Schools Tournament is on Tuesday 4th June in Clonduff Park (organised by McConville Family)

NEW! Fixtures for 2013 NEW!

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MIND THE BANK!

Over the winter months The Club has invested in a planting program for the banks around our new Pitch. Hundreds of new Dogwood plants are now in place which will provide a highly attractive and colourful feature within Clonduff Park as well as help stabilise the earthbanks.

It is very important that these young plants are not disturbed during this period and we would ask that everyone takes care not to enter the planted areas as the plants are very easily damaged at this stage of their growth.

Down Handball Awards 2013 - Saval Sports & Leisure Complex - Saturday 8th June

Clonduff Handballers have a number of Awards to receive and hopefully they can all attend or arrange to have awards picked up:

U12 RU Patrick Cowan; U13 RU Conor Milligan; U17 Champion Shane Milligan

U12 Girls Doubles RU Niamh Fitzpatrick and Erin Rafferty

Senior Singles RU Paul Shields; Intermediate Singles Champion Colin Shields

Intermediate Doubles Champions Eddie Clancy and Colin Shields

League Div 1 Champions - Paul Shields, Sean McNally, Colin Shields, Connor Brown and Eddie Clancy

The Clonduff Girls - Clara Cowan, Erin Rafferty, Molly Brown and Cara Boden and boys Darragh Fitzpatrick, Conor Milligan, Shane Close and Rory McKernan who were runners up in the Feile lin May will also receive their awards on the night -

We would like all Clonduff award winners and their parents to be there for what’s always a good handball night

Ladies Football Referee Course
As noted at the last County Board meeting there is a "Grab Your Whistle" referee course for U12 Go Games, on Monday 27th May 2013 in the Thierafurth Inn, Kilcoo. This course will commence at 7pm and finish at 10pm, the minimum age for the course is 15 years old and all clubs need to ensure that they have at least 3 members who have completed the course. Each home team needs to be able to ensure in the Go Games that they supply the referee so it’s imperative that we have a number of Go Game qualified referees per club. The Board is hoping that each participating club can supply three members to complete the course.

SDU12FL Clonduff v Ballyholland

In the U12 games against Ballyholland on Sunday 19th May 2013 both teams claimed very convincing wins with team 2 rattling up a very impressive 30 plus points victory. Team 1 came out with a 2-6 to 0-6 win. There was some great defending and very solid midfield and forward play gradually broke down a very well organised Ballyholland team.

Clonduff Juvenile Camogs at Longstone Tournament - Sunday 19th May 2013

Above - Clonduff U6 Camogs who took part in their first ever tournament in Longstone - Stars in the making!

Above the U8 Camogs and Below the U10 Camogs who all took part in the Longstone Tournament on Sunday 19th May 2013

Senior Camogs get their season up and running

Well done to Senior Camogs who got their first League points on the board with a win at home over Portaferry - great game all round but U16 and Minor players really stepped up to the plate!!! Paula Gribben who was leaving for The Big Apple the next morning scored 1-6!
Next game Wednesday 22nd May away to Ballyholland

U12 LFL - Kilcoo v Clonduff

Another good win for Clonduff U12 girls in the Ladies Football League. This was another great team effort from all  the girls with some brilliant individual  performances. The skills displayed by some of these young girls was a joy to watch considering that a number of them have only been playing football for a few weeks. Training continues on Sunday morning at 10.30 am in the field.

Panel: Hannah Wilson, Erin Lively, Paddi Fitzpatrick, Seanin McGarry, Sinead Woods, Fionna Burns, Isabella O'Hare, Alanna Donnan, Sarah Kelly, Aoife Brown, Elizabeth O'Hanlon, Aoife McCusker, Una Fearon, Orla McCusker, Emma McGreevy, Ella McCumiskey, Lauren Kane, Rhiannon McKeown, Katie Cunningham, Aimee Lowry, Elana Devlin, Grainne Devlin, Ally Magee, Rachel O'Hanlon, Evie Lyness-Feenan, Paula McGarry

South Down Minor Sevens 2013

The Clonduff Minor Sevens Football team and their mentors that took part in the Sevens on Tuesday 14th May 2013 in An Riocht (postponed from Sunday 12th May due to waterlogged pitches in Warrenpoint). The boys won their group to progress to semi finals but were defeated by Mayobridge. Back row (l to r): Louis Brown, Shane Milligan, Jack O'Hagan, Declan Gribben, Liam McAleavey, Mark Bradley, PJ McGreevy, Artie Noel McConville; Front row (l to r): Kevin Smith, Brendan Britton, Rory McQuaid, Stephen McConville, Thomas Murnin

The Senior Hurlers Get a Second Win

Clonduff 3-12   Kilclief 3-8

To quote the cliché, ‘this was the game of two halves’. With a strong wind blowing across the pitch that presented no great advantage to either team, Clonduff defending the Rathfriland end goals in the first half. Giving the recent weather, the top pitch was in good condition to allow for good hurling.

Team: David Quinn, Jamie Lowry, Christopher Brown, Shane Quinn, Sean Downey, Shay Murnin (0-2), Rory Mathews, Danny Nugent, Ciarán Smyth, Jamie Lynch (0-4), Shane Murray, Pauidi Mathews (0-1), Rian Brannigan (2-1), John Murphy (0-3), Darragh Downey (1-1); Subs Used: Francis Quinn, Andrew Quinn, Christopher Young (Full match report)

Irish Cultural Activities in Clonduff Parish

Monday 6.30pm - Irish Dancing (Nolan School) - Parochial Hall

Wednesday 7-8pm - Juvenile Set Dancing (Joe Farrell) Clonduff Clubrooms on Wednesday evenings from 7-8 pm. All boys and girls from P2 up

Thursday 8pm - Adult Set Dancing (Joe Farrell) - Parochial Hall

Friday 6 30pm -Traditional Music - Carcullion House

Winners of AIB Down Club of the Year 2000, AIB Down and Ulster Club of the Year 2001, Club Maíth Platinum Award 2006,
Irish News Club of the Year 2007 (Administration and Structures)