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Clonduff Milestones - 1887 - 2002
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2010 |
Cultural
Ø
Quiz team of Katherine Milligan, Mark
Devlin and Ciara Kelly win Co Scór na
nÓg title
Ø
Clonduff awarded 'South Down Scór Club
of the Year'
Ø
Set Dancers
(Ursula Quinn, Niall Quinn, Elaine
Farrell, Jayme Farrell, Wendy Farrell,
Francis
Quinn, Joleen Morgan and John
Cunningham) and Novelty Act (Sean
Downey, Eamon
Devlin, Kealim O'Hare, Chloe Nelson,
Anthony Brogan and Owen Roe Brogan) win
their
respective County Titles; Quiz team
(Marie Walls, Mary McGreevy and Anita
Brannigan)
win South Down Title
Handball
Ø
Eddie Clancy is Co Junior Handball
Champion
Ø
Shane Milligan is U14 County Handball
Champion
Ø
Rían Branagan and Conor Brown are U16
County Handball Doubles Champions
Schools
Ø
Patrick O'Hagan and Eamonn Grant on St
Colman's Peadar Barry U15 7-a-side
winning team
Ø
Caolan McAvoy and Jamie Gribben on St
Mark's winning McDevitt Cup (U14) team.
Michael
Grant, Padraig Harper, Connor Murray
and Darragh McPolin also on the panel
Further and Higher Education
Ø
Fionnuala Carr wins a fourth Combined
Universities Ashbourne All Star Award
Ø
Mark Downey at corner forward on SRC
that won All Ireland Over 19 Further
Education Cup
Mark Copeland jointly managed the
team
Ø
James Killen on UCD team that won All
Ireland Freshers title
National Youth Formum
Ø
Niomhi Murray and Katherine Milligan
among nine Down Youth Delegates (16-20
year olds)
at Forum held in Croke Park on
Saturday 20th February 2010
Co Committee Administration
Ø Jerry
Quinn Chairperson of Referees Co
Administration Sub Committee. Anita
Brannigan
and Mary McGreevy on Co
Language and Cultural Sub Committee
National Congress
Ø
Ciarán McGreevy elected Co U21
representative to attend National
Congress to be held in
Slieve Donard, Newcastle in 2010 |
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2009 |
125 Events
Ø
Members issued with
Commemorative certificate/membership
card
Ø
Inter-club Table Quiz (7th May) - won by
'Goward Dolmens' (Clonduff)
Ø
Townlands Project - first stone unveiled
by Jarlath Burns (Chairman National 125
Committee)
on 8th May
Ø
Club Day 10th May 2009 - (Noon to post
Midnight) Sunshine, Mass, Parade (from
Ballygorian Church to Playing Fields;
'125' by participants on pitch; U8, U10,
U12 mixed
Football and Camogie/Huring games,
mixed Adult Football and
Camogie/Hurling; Skills,
Long Puck/Kick, Penalty Kick
competitions for U14 to U18, Rounders,
Set Dancing, Handball
('One wall'), Time Capsule buried,
Memory Tree planted, Ceili and Scór
Concert
Ø
Inter-club Handball Tournament
(Clonduff, Downpatrick, Saval) -
Saturday 4th July - Finals
played on 125 Wall Monday 6th July
Ø
Townlands Community Quiz (confined to
Parish) - Saturday 4th July - Boley
Fair)
Ø
Big Breakfast followed by walk to Goward
Dolmen via Old Downpatrick Road, now
laneway
behind St Patrick's Primary School
(Sunday 5th July - Boley Fair)
Ø
Poc Fada on Hen Mountain (Monday 6th
July - Boley Fair)
Ø
Parish Sevens (Football and Camogie)
(Tuesday 7th July - Boley Fair)
Ø
Big Clonduff participation in Downings
Ulster Scór Concert - 22nd July
Ø
Tribute Night to Kevin Mussen and Patsy
O'Hagan to mark 50th Anniversary of
Down's first
Ulster Championship win (Kevin was
the Captain) 14th August
Ø
Bus trip to Croke Park and Glasnevin
Cemetery in conjunction with Clonduff
Historical
Society Wednesday 14th August
Social
Ø
Clonduff Club honoured their two clubmen
who were pivotal in Down's first Ulster
title 50
years ago - the forerunner to a
glorious chapter in Down's history. On a
great night - 14th
August, Kevin Mussen and Patsy
O'Hagan were feted in front of their
families and former
team mates to mark the momentous
occasion which occurred on 9th August
1959.
Ø
Big Fundraiser - Strictly Come Jiggin' -
Club members the participants
Ø
Dean Davies, Clonduff President,
recognised at Down Awards for services
to Camogie and
at South Down Award for Services to
Gaelic Sport
Ø
Clonduff GAC honoured at South Down
Awards for winning Kilmacud Double
Referees and Coaches
Ø
Three new referees - John Francis Murray
(returns after 10 year break) and Ben
(Gerard)
Brennan (football) and Eddie Clancy
(Hurling)
Ø
18 new Foundation Level coaches
Development
Ø
Planning Permission granted for
provision of new flood-lit playing
field, entrance, parking
Ø
Clonduff
granted payout from County Board (one of
ten projects) to benefit from County's
share of profits from renting out of
Croke Park for Rugby and Soccer matches
Ø
Funding secured from Sport NI and
Contracts signed on Thursday 22nd
October
Ø
Work on new pitch and driveway
officially started Monday 26th October
Scór - 40th Anniversary
Ø
Murray family - Stephen, Sean and Mary
Catherine win South Down Scór na nÓg
Instrumental Music title (Stephen
also reached All Ireland Final (having
won Dromore and
Ulster) in Readorí Competitions
Ø
Mixed Set Dancing Team and Novelty Act
win South Down and County Scór Sinsear
titles-
narrowly beaten in Ulster Final
Ø
Big Clonduff contingent take part in
Ulster Scór concert in Downings, Co
Donegal on
Wednesday 22nd July - Senior Set
Dancers, Novelty Act, Recitation and
Junior Instrumental
Musicians
Ø
Clonduff double winning dancers from
1993 invited to participate in Ulster
Scór Celebration
Concert in Saval on 14th November
Ø
Scór na nÓg Quiz team of Katherine
Milligan, Mark Devlin and Ciara Kelly
win County title
Handball
Ø
Shane
Milligan wins Down U13 Singles title
becoming the first player in 17 years to
win a juvenile Handball title
Ø
Paul Shields and Sean McNally are Down
Senior Doubles Handball Champions
Ø
Des McNeill and Eddie Clancy are Down
Junior Doubles Handball Champions
Ø
Boley Fair Tournament big success with
U15 and U18 finals played on 125 One
Wall at
Clonduff Park
Ø
Clonduff team of Paul Shields, Colin
Shields, Eddie Clancy, Sean McNally and
Des McNeill
win County Division One title
Ø
Sean McNally selected to play for
Ireland at World Championships in
Portland, Oregon in
Silver Masters grade
Ø
Sean McNally selected as Ulster's
Masters Player of the Year and nominated
for National
All Star at the grade
Ø
Paul Shields retains County Senior
Handball title
Football
Ø
Senior Footballers win first ever Kilmacud
All Ireland Sevens title
Ø
U10s win Pat Meade (Drumgath) Tournament,
retain Fiddlers Green Tournament
title
(Rostrevor) and Runners Up in An
Riocht Tournament
Ø
Aaron Devlin selected as 'Player of the
Tournament' in Mitchels U10 Tournament
(40 teams)
Ø
U9½s
win Down Community Games title
(6th time)
Ø
U8s
win Longstone Tournament
Ø
U12s
(A and B) win Moy Tournament and Burren
B Tournament
Ø
U14s runners up in League and
championship
Ø
Minors reach All County League Playoffs
Ø
Rory Lively wins place on Ulster U16
team
Ø
Peter Withnell on Masters (Over 40)
Compromise Rules team
Ø
U11s win South Down League
Camogie
Ø
U14s win Féile Shield
Ø
U12s win County title
Ø
Seniors win League and Championship titles;
Kilmacud Sevens Shield
Ø
Kitty Fegan appointed to National
Coaching Committee in Croke Park
Ø
Ursula Quinn (Personality of the Year -
Mother Maura won in 1974), Lisa McPolin
(Minor
Player of the Year) and Grace Brown
(U16 Player of the Year) all picked up
County Awards
for 2008
Ladies Football
Ø
Michaela Downey awarded Newry and Mourne
Sports Personality of the Year (for
2008)
following on from her National All
Star Award at the end of last season
Ø
Clonduff Senior Ladies win Feis Sevens
Competition at first ever attempt
Ø
U14s reach County Final - beaten by a
goal in extra time
Ø
U16s runners up in League
Hurling
Ø
Senior Hurlers reach semi finals in
Ulster League
Ø
U12
Hurlers top Go Games League
Ø
U16
Hurlers win Div 2 League and Shield
Championship final
Schools
Ø
Lisa McPolin awarded Schools
All Star Awards for 2008
Ø
Jamie Gribben, Caolan McAvoy, Michael
Grant, Connor Murray and Padraig Harper
on St
Mark's U14 team that won Schools Co
Final (December)
Ø
Jenna Boden (Capt),
Petrina Lively (Player of the
Tournament), Clare O'Hagan, Cliodhna
Crothers and Caoimhe Morgan on St
Mark's Year 8 Camogie team that won Down
title
(Lorraine Maginn was manager)
Ø
Leona McGarry, Laura Grant, Shannon
O'Hagan, Roisin Mulholland, Rebecca
Mussen,
Petrina Lively, Jenna Boden, Jane
McAleenan, Sarah O'Hagan and Nicola
McAleenan on St
Mark's team that Won Down Year 9
title and reached Ulster Final
Further and Higher Education
Ø
Fionnuala Carr wins her
fourth Universities All Star Award
Ø
Orla Maginn on Purcell
Winning Team with QUB
Ø
Ryan McShane awarded English
Universities Hurling All Star (He is
player/coach of the
Hope University Hurling team, coach
of the Camogie team as well as Chairman
of the Club)
He was also received a Special
Recognition award at the University
Sports Awards night
Ø
Niall McPolin on SRC team
that won Ulster U18 Vocational Schools
Sevens Blitz
(October)
Mark Copeland was the manager
Ø
Mark Copeland (Minor mentor) jointly
managed SRC to All Ireland Vocational
Over 19 glory
Mark Downey a playing member of the team |
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2008 |
Clonduff awarded
Irish News Club of the Year (Large Club
Category)
Camogie
Ø
Clonduff Camogs received an award for services to
sport from Newry and Mourne District
Council in their 40th anniversary
year
Ø
Sara Louise Carr and Paula Gribben
awarded Schools All Star Awards for 2007
Ø
Clonduff Camogs win Dubai Sevens and
Fionnuala Carr is awarded 'Player of the
Tournament'!
Ø
Clonduff awarded 'Camogie
Club of the Year' in Down for 2007
Ø
Fionnuala Carr awarded third consecutive
Universities All Star
Ø
Moya Maginn, first Clonduff girl to
captain Senior County Camogie team;
Paula Gribben
Minor Camogie captain for 2008
Ø
At the first ever integrated Down Awards
night, Moya Maginn and Paula Gribben
selected
as County Senior and Minor Player of
the Year respectively. Kitty Fegan also
received
Award as joint County Minor Manager
on winning Ulster Final and reaching All
Ireland
Final
Ø
Clonduff II win Intermediate Co Final
Ø
Clonduff Seniors just fail by 2
points in extra time in replay to retain
Co title
Football
Ø Senior
Footballers participate in their first
ever Ulster League - top their group
Ø
St Colman's College win Corn na nÓg
title with five Clonduff boys involved -
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!
Ø U9½
Footballers win Down Community Games
title
Ø Seven Clonduff boys
qualified as 'Young Whistlers'
-
course organised by P J Quinn and
delivered by Frank McDonald.
The budding referees are Rory
McGreevy, Darragh Sherry,
Paul Lively, Ché Curran, Henry
Brown, Gary McGinn and Conor Grant. Gary and Conor
officiated in the Croke Park Juvenile
Tournament on 16th July
Ø
U10 Footballers win Moy Tournament
Ø
Clonduff runs 32nd Gary Murray U12 and
4th McGreevy U8 Tournaments
Ladies Football
Ø
Michaela Downey first Clonduff girl to
captain Senior Ladies Football team;
sister
Aoibheann one of two vice captains
Ø
Michaela on Ulster team that won Inter
Provincial title
Ø
Paula Cairns and Shane McGreevy qualify
as Ladies' Football referees - Paula
officiated in
'Gaelic for Girls' Tournament in
Croke Park on 13th July
Ø
Ladies Junior team fielded as Second
adult team
Ø
Clonduff Senior Ladies win 3-in-a-row
County Championship titles - miss out on
the double
by a single point - Lorraine Maginn
receives 'Player of the Match' award in
Co Final
Ø
Michaela Downey 'Runs To Africa' in Down
Leg of of Charity
Ø
Michaela picks up Down's first ever
Ladies All Star Award - Clonduff's
second (Ross Carr)
Hurling
Ø
At the first ever integrated Down Awards
night,
John Murphy and Paul McCusker,
members
of Down Junior Hurling team comprised of
non-Ards players (renamed South Down)
received their medals for winning Leinster
Shield. Brian Canavan as part of the
management
also received recognition. Arthur
McConville and Danny Nugent also
received All Ireland
Minor 'C' winning medals
Ø Clonduff
Senior Hurlers beaten in County Junior
Final
Ø U14
Hurlers win 'B' League
Handball
Ø Clonduff Senior Handball team gained
promotion to Elite Ulster League and win
Divisional
Championship title -
Team: Paul Shields, Colin Shields, Eddie
Clancy, Sean McNally
Ø Paul Shields, Sean McNally and Des
McNeill represented Clonduff at the One Wall
National Championships in
Sligo over 28th and 29th June weekend. 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.
Ø
Team
reaches Ulster Final in Junior Club
Championship - first Down team to do so
Ø
Sean McNally and
Brian Havern (Saval) won the Ulster
60x30 doubles Silver Masters title
Scór
Ø
Two
County
Scór Sinsear titles for Clonduff - Set
Dancing
- Wendy
Farrell, Ursula Quinn,
Lisa Parr, Andrea Gribben, Onagh
Gribben, Laura McShane, Gayle Kane and
sub Niamh
Pritchard (for the injured Joleen
Morgan):
and Quiz
- Brian Canavan,
Marie Walls and Mary
McGreevy
- both reached Ulster Final - Ciarán
McGreevy was a worthy sub in County Semi
Final
Ø
Murray Children - Stephen, Sean and Mary
Catherine included in entertainment in
Pairc Esler
at half time in Inter-County
Championship games
Ø
Clonduff Scór na nÓg singer, Christina
McConville sings Amhrán na bhFiann
before Senior
Championship games in Pairc Chluain
Daimh and Senior League Final in Pairc
Esler
Ø
Clonduff Scór singer, Eadaoin Hynes wins
major talent competition 'De X-Factor'
for Gaelic
Clubs in South Down and South Armagh
- Finals in Canal Court in November.
Prize £5,000 -
half for herself and half for Club
Higher Education
Ø
Orla
Maginn (Capt) and Karen Gribben playing members of the QUB
team that retained the
Purcell Shield in Camogie
Ø
Fionnuala Carr awarded third consecutive
Universities All Star
Schools
Ø
St Colman's
College win Corn na nÓg - 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!
Referees
Ø Paula
Cairns and Shane McGreevy newly
qualified as referees in Ladies Football
- Paula
refereed in Croke Park in 'Gaelic 4
Girls' initiative
Ø Seven
boys -
Rory McGreevy, Darragh Sherry, Paul
Lively, Ché Curran, Henry Brown, Gary
McGinn and Conor Grant completed the
first part of the 'Young Whistlers'
programme - to
complete after end of school term -
Gary Maginn refereed in Croke Park in
'Gaelic 4 Boys'
initiative
Inter-County Managerial Involvement
Ø
Ross Carr reappointed Senior County
Manager; Alistair McGilligan his statistician
Ø
Kitty Fegan reappointed
County Minor Camogie Manager; also
retained as UUJ Manager
Ø
Brian Canavan reappointed to South Down
Hurling management team; Sean Cairns
re-appointed as 'Stick Man'
Ø
Paul McShane re-appointed
County Senior Ladies Manager
Community
Involvement
Ø
Eadaoin Hynes representing Clonduff GAC
wins major talent competition -
'De X-Factor' for Gaelic Clubs in South
Down and South Armagh - Finals in Canal
Court in November. Prize £5,000 - half
for herself and half for Club
Ø
Francis Quinn, Fionnbharr Murphy, Orla
Maginn and Sheenagh McConville initiate
'Yellow Globes' Awards based on playing
season just ended
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2007 |
Clonduff
achieved a Platinum Award in the pilot
scheme of the Club Maíth programme
Camogie
Ø
Camogs
win first ever County Senior title
beating Portaferry. They also win League
and reach Ulster Club Final – beaten by
one point
Ø
Down
Minor Camogs lift Ulster title a week
after losing All Ireland Final - Kitty
Fegan, Join Manager and 5 Clonduff girls
on team - Sara Louise Carr, Paula
Gribben, Lisa McPolin, Nicola O'Hagan
and Ciara Murphy
Ø
Four
Clonduff girls – Karen Gribben, Moya
Maginn, Fionnuala and Sara Louise Carr
on Ulster team that won Gael Linn
Interprovincial title for first time in
forty years
Ø
U14
Camogs win Div 2 County Féile na nGael
Ø
Senior
Camogs win Patricia Bateson Memorial
Tournament in Ballinderry
Ø
Minor
Camogs win 5-in-a-row Feis Sevens title
Ø
Minor
Camogs in County Final
Ø
Jackie Gilmore wins University All Star
(second in a row) in England; Fionnuala
Carr and Karen Gribben win All Stars in
Ashbourne/Purcell week-end
Ø
Fionnuala
Carr gains 3rd Place in her first ever
All Ireland Poc Fada on Cooley Mountains
– achieved her second nomination for a
Camogie All Star Award
Ladies
Football
Ø
Senior
Ladies win back-to-back Championship
titles and win first Senior League title
Ø
Michaela
Downey nominated for Ladies Football All
Star Award
Ø
U14
Ladies reach County B Final
Eight
Young Ladies from Clonduff are ‘Double
Double’ County Senior Winners!
Hurling
Ø
Hurlers
play in Ulster League for first time
ever
Ø
John
Murphy on County Senior Hurling team
Ø
John
Murphy and Paul McCusker playing members
on All Ireland winning Junior Hurling
team.
Ø
Youthful
Senior Hurling team win Junior Feis 7s
title
Ø
U16s in B
Final at time of going to press
Ø
U14 and
Minor Hurlers reach finals of respective
B Championships only to fall to St
Josephs, an amalgamation of Ballyvarley
and Ballela
Ø
Danny
Nugent and Arthur McConville playing
members of non-Ards Minor Hurling team
that won All Ireland C Final - they beat
Sligo
Ø
U12
Hurlers win their League and Ballela
Tournament
U14
Hurlers and Footballers both win B
titles in Down Féile competitions
- ten boys play both codes. Hurlers went
to All Ireland series in Kilkenny and
Footballers went to Ulster series in
Cavan.
U14 Footballers win Div 3 of Ulster
Féile Peil
Football
Ø
Seconds
Footballers win PRFC
Ø
Minors
win B Championship Final and South Down
League
Ø
Cathal
Murray nominated for Ulster Minor All
Stars during last 25 years
Ø
U16
Footballers in B Championship Final
Ø
U14
Footballers win Warrenpoint Tournament
Ø
U12
Footballers win Kilcoo and An Riocht
Tournaments; represent Down in Moy
Tournament
Ø
U10
Footballers win Kilcoo and Fiddlers’
Green Tournaments
Ø
U8
Footballers win Moy (Tyrone), Longstone,
Burren and An Riocht Tournaments
Ø
U13 and
U20 footballers still involved at time
of going to press
Scór
Ø
Murray Family - Stephen, Sean
and Mary Catherine plus Keith Mackey won
the Down Instrumental Music in Scór na
nÓg. They had also won South Down as did
Christina McConville in the Solo
Singing.
Ø
Three
County Scór Sinsear titles for Clonduff
- Eileen McCusker (Recitation); Sean
and Paddy Downey, Cailim O'Hare, Therese
White and Danny Nugent (Novelty Act);
Marie Walls, Mary McGreevy and Anita
Brannigan (Quiz) - all three acts reach
Ulster Final
Referees
Ø
Ciarán
Branagan appointed to National Referees'
List for Inter-county League and
Championship - voted South Down's Senior
Referee of the Year.
Handball
Ø
Handball
Club plays in Ulster B League and stages
first ever Juvenile Tournament in
conjunction with Boley Fair
Ø
Seven boys reached respective County
Championship Finals
Ø
Paul Shields won Down Senior Handball
Championship
Ø
Paul Shields and Sean McNally won Down
Senior Doubles Championship
Community
Involvement
Ø
Cross
Community Treasure Hunt, Townlands Quiz,
Poc Fada and Parish Sevens Football (2nd
year) and Camogie (1st year)
in conjunction with Boley Fair; also
facilitated a number of field events
Ø
Updated Sceal Cluain Daimh (Clonduff
Story) launched in Clubrooms on 8th
December
Inter County
Managerial Involvement
Ø
Ross Carr reappointed Senior County
Manager; Alistair McGilligan joins him
as statistician
Ø
Kitty Fegan reappointed
County Minor Camogie Manager; also
appointed as UUJ Manager
Ø
Brian Canavan reappointed to South Down
Hurling management team; Sean Cairns
appointed as 'Stick Man'
Ø
Paul McShane, current Senior Footballer
and former Ladies trainer appointed
County Senior Ladies Manager
Schools
Ø
St Paul’s PS, Cabra won Down PS
GAA Quiz
Ø
St
Patrick’s won the cup and St Paul's won
the Shield in Annaclone inaugural PS
Tournament
Ø
Our
Lady’s Grammar School, Newry are Ulster
Colleges Champions with a strong
Clonduff representation – Sarah Farnon,
Sara Louise Carr, Lisa McPolin, Ciara
Murphy, Megan O’Reilly, and Hanna
O’Reilly all playing an active part.
Grace Brown was on the panel.
Ø
St Mark’s
HS Warrenpoint are Down U16 Hurling
Champions with 12 Clonduff players on
panel – reach Ulster Semi Final.
Clonduff panellists were: Arthur
McConville, J J Gilmore, Hugh Murphy,
Christopher Brown, Eamon Matthews, Jamie
Lynch, Gavin O’Hagan, Kyle Boland, Liam
McParlan, Darren O’Hagan, Niall McPolin
and Des McGarry
Ø
St Colman's
College win Ranafast Cup - their first
major trophy in eleven years! Three
Clonduff boys, Darragh Sherry, Shane
McGreevy and Paul Lively played every
game. Five other Clonduff boys were on
the panel, some of whom made substitute
appearances throughout the campaign and
were stalwarts of training sessions -
Ché Curran, Tony McGreevy, Karl O'Hagan,
Rory Lively and Rory McGreevy.
Higher
Education
Ø
Jackie
Gilmore wins her second Camogie All Star
playing for her University in England
Ø
Karen
Gribben wins University Camogie All Star
in Purcell Shield week-end.
Ø
Fionnuala
Carr wins University Camogie Long Puck
and an All Star in Ashbourne week-end -
her second University All Star Award in
a row!
Ø
Aidan
Carr wins Sigerson medal with QUB
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2006 |
First appearance of Clonduff Scór na nÓg
Quiz team in Ulster final having won
Down
Clonduff win 3 County Scór Sinsear
titles and all progress to Ulster Final
- Novelty Act, Set Dancing and Quiz
Clonduff Ladies win Senior Championship
at first time of asking - they beat
Castlewellan
Clonduff Minor Footballers win B
Championship defeating Longstone
Minor Camogs win League and Championship
Double as well as Feis 7s
Senior Camogs win Feis 7s for first time
ever
U12 Hurlers are runners up in inaugural Sciath na nÓg - losing to
Carryduff by one point
U11 Footballers successfully defended
their South Down title
Down Minor Camogs, under the leadership
of Clonduff's Kitty Fegan (and
Ballyholland's Lilian Tinnelly) lift All
Ireland Minor B title with five Clonduff
girls on board - Sara Louise Carr, Paula
Gribben, Sarah Farnon, Lisa McPolin and
Ursula Walls
Down U16 Ladies collect All Ireland B
Championship with Paula Gribben at
Centre Half Back - making her the Club's
first All Ireland Dual Winner! She
played every minute of every game in
both sports - in between the two All
Irelands she picked up 'Player of the
Game' in the Down County Ladies Final
(which Clonduff won)
Michaela Downey became the first ever
Clonduff player to play on International Compromise Rules team
Rory Grant corner back on Abbey CBS
Newry winning first ever Hogan Cup
U16 Miller Cup - Paul McPolin Captained St Malachy's to lift the title - Noel McPolin, Paul Bloomfield, Paul
Gribben, Michael Gribben and Patrick Gribben were also on the panel
Fionnuala Carr won Poc Fada (Camogie) at
Kilmacud Sevens competition in September
Fionnuala was on the Ulster
Interprovincial Camogie team that lost
to Connaught
Karen Gribben captained QUB Camogs to
Purcell Shield victory - Mary McPolin
also on panel
Fionnuala Carr and Moya Maginn on UUJ
Purcell Cup winning team - Fionnuala won
an 'All Star'
Jackie Gilmore wins a Camogie All Star
playing for her University in England
Ross Carr takes charge of Down Senior
Football team |
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2005 |
Set Dancers
win County Scór Sinsear title
Clonduff Referee, John Anthony Gribben
takes charge of All Ireland Junior Club
Hurling Final
Clonduff win
Ulster Div 2 Handball League title
Minor Footballers win South Down Feis 7s
title
U9½ Footballers win Ulster Community
Games final
First ever Brian McGreevy
Perpetual tournament for U8s staged by Club
Ladies Footballers collect Intermediate
Championship and League double
U10s clean up in Tournaments including
All Ireland Mitchell's Tournament
U12 Hurlers collect Club's first ever
title at this level - the League
Clonduff second string Camogs win
Intermediate League
Clonduff Handballers secure Div 2 Ulster
League - they will compete in Div 1 in
2006 |
| 2004 |
Three
County titles in Scór Sinsear - Céilí
and Set Dancing and Quiz
Senior footballers win South Down Feis
7s
U11 Footballers win first title at this
level
U21s win South Down and Down County
Championships
Clonduff referee, Ciarán Branagan
awarded Senior Referee of the Year |
| 2003 |
Quiz team
and Set Dancers win County Scór Sinsear
titles with Set Dancers also winning
Ulster
Ladies win Junior Football League and
Championship
Seconds win Premier Reserve Football
Championship |
| 2002 |
April 7 -
Clonduff Ladies take field for first
time in Challenge Game. Play first
competitive game a week later. 8 girls
selected for various Down teams
Clonduff's John McCumiskey joins the
Down Senior Management with Paddy
O'Rourke
Ross Carr takes charge of Down Minors
Martin Farnon teams up again with Trixie
Dougherty, this time to manage the Down
U21s
Club Referee John A Gribben officiates
in Munster Hurling Final
Camogs pick up Junior League and
Championship. Runners Up in Senior
League
Hurlers do the treble in the shape of
the Down Junior Championship, Division 2
League and Betsy Gray Shield
Paul Shields picks up Down Novice
Handball title
Footballers win Premier Reserve League
and are Runners Up in South Down U21s
U12s reach South Down Final
U10s Joint winners of League and Runners
Up in Mitchell's Tournament
Clonduff are South Down Club of the
Year |
| 2001 |
Thirds
Footballers collect Reserve Championship
and League titles
U16s win first ever B Championship and
South Down League
The Ross Carr trained Newry Mitchell's
collect Junior Championship. Ross
appointed Down Minor Manager for
incoming season.
The John McComiskey trained Warrenpoint
collect Intermediate Championship.
Clonduff referee, Kieran Branagan takes
charge of Premier Reserve Championship
Final.
AIB Club of the Year in both Down and
Ulster
Sean Downey wins County Scór na nÓg
Recitation title
Clonduff Set Dancers reach Ulster Scór
Sinsear Final |
|
2000 |
What a
year! Scór na nÓg Set Dancers narrowly
miss out (on a count back) on All
Ireland Title. Clonduff only Club in
Down to compete in all eight Scór
Sinsear competitions - make history by
collecting four County Titles - Ceili
Dancing and Ballad Group for the first
time ever. Solo Singer (Niamh O'Hare)
and Novelty Act reach Ulster Final.
Clonduff Handball pair in All Ireland
Final! Tony Wilson and Paul Girvan, the
Down Champions won the Ulster title with
victories over Monaghan, Derry and
Antrim. Then they beat Mayo in All
Ireland Semi Final to set up Final
against Wexford. This was
groundbreaking stuff for Clonduff.
Unfortunately they lost out in Final!
Senior Footballers Win Championship
for ninth time! They also won the League
Reserve Footballers Win All County
League for third time in a row!
Camogs collect three County titles and 3
League titles!
John A Gribben and Eileen Hamill, Club
Referees, participate in Hurling and
Camogie All Ireland Series.
Club Awards won - Best kept Ground in
Down (3rd in Ulster) Awarded by Ulster
Council; Club of the Year in South Down;
Club of the Year in Down Awarded by AIB
and Croke Park |
|
1999 |
Clonduff
wins award for the best kept GAA ground
in Down. The aim of the award is to
encourage and acknowledge high standards
of maintenance, presentation and safety
at club grounds.
Clonduff go On Line on
14 June! |
|
1998 |
Paddy Brannigan the 1st
Clonduff player to be named in a Down
Senior Hurling squad
Set Dancers win All Ireland CCD title -
last year of competition |
|
1997 |
Senior Footballers back
in their 1st County final
since 1982 but are narrowly beaten by
Burren
Clonduff
win their first ever Scór Sinsear Quiz
title.
Clonduff competitors win three All
Ireland titles in CCD competitions - Set
Dancing, Solo Singing and Quiz |
|
1996 |
The big break-through in
Hurling – Clonduff win the Junior
Hurling Championship, League Division 2
and Junior Feis 7s.
Set Dancers win All Ireland CCD title |
|
1995 |
Céili Dancers win All
Ireland CCD title |
|
1994 |
Padraig Matthews and
Francis Quinn in the Down Minor Hurling
teams that wins the Ulster championship
Down win their 5th
All-Ireland Senior Football title
with Ross Carr and Cathal Murray
Set Dancers win All Ireland CCD title |
|
1993 |
At All-Ireland Scór Na
nÓg finals, Clonduff makes history when
they won both Céili and Set Dance
Competitions using only nine different
children. This was the first time ever
that a club won both titles on the same
day
Clonduff win the first of
their three-in-a-row Minor Football
Championships. They also win U16 and
U14 Championship. Shane Ward, now a
member of the Down Senior Panel plays on
all three winning teams!
Mary Morgan, Mary Kelly, Marie
Walls win All Ireland CCD Quiz |
|
1992 |
Clonduff Seconds make
history on winning Down Junior
championship. They also won All County
Premier Reserve League
U14s win All-Ireland
Féile Peil na nÓg
Young Céili and Set Dancers win All
Ireland CCD titles |
|
1991 |
Ross Carr is the star in
Croke Park when Down beat Meath to win
their 4th All Ireland title.
Cathal Murray is also in the squad.
Ross wins an All Star
Clonduff Set Dancers
appear live on Television programme "Up
for the Final"
Clonduff Hurlers win U16B Championship |
|
1989 |
Eileen McCusker wins All
Ireland CCD Recitation title |
|
1988 |
(June) St Patrick’s
Primary School win their first ever Co
Down 13-a-side final. They beat
Mayobridge 2-2 to 0-5. |
|
1987 |
Four Clonduff boys on
Down All-Ireland winning Minor panel –
Cathal Murray, Pat Hannaway, Mark
Matthews, Dominic Brannigan |
|
1984 |
Clonduff wins the McNamee
Award for the best Club History in GAA
Centenary Year |
|
1981 |
Eileen Hamill selected to
play for Ulster |
|
1983 |
Clonduff boys win their 1st
Hurling awards – U14 Special Feile
competition
Club Secretary, Fintan
Mussen, in his report to the Annual
General Meeting pays tribute to Sean
Matthews, Pat Matthews and Sean Cairns
for their efforts in the development of
Hurling in the club.
The Senior team was
beaten in the final of the Special
Junior Hurling Championship
Clonduff boys win County
Óg Sport to qualify for All-Ireland.
Patrick McComiskey wins All-Ireland
Penalty Kick competition
Johnny McAleavey Goalkeeper when Down
won 4th National Football League |
|
1980 |
Clonduff win their 8th
Senior County Championship. Johnny
McPolin was the captain. His father,
also John was captain when Clonduff won
their 1st Senior title in
1930. Johnny further followed in
his father's footsteps by becoming
Chairman of the Club |
|
1979 |
Harry Brown on Down U21
panel which won All-Ireland title |
|
1978 |
The Senior Football team
wins promotion to the first division of
the All-County League. Team managers
were P J McAlinden, Ronnie Hollywood and
Jerry Quinn. (Jerry is current PRO) |
|
1977 |
Clonduff win their 1st
County Camogie Championship beating
Mayobridge 6-3 to 1-2 in the
Intermediate Final
Club organised 1st
Hilltown Festival, a five-day event
which was subject of a special feature
programme on RTE Radio presented by
Donnacha O’Dulaing
Club President Fr Arthur
Bradley cc, was instrumental in reviving
the Pilgrimage to Alt An tSagairt Mass
Rock
Clonduff win All-Ireland
Scor Sinsear title in Novelty Act in
Limerick. Mary McGinn wrote the script.
She, Eileen Hamill and Anne Quinn were
the participants |
|
1976 |
Kathleen Crilly, Eileen
Hamill and Susie Lively in the Down team
which won the 2nd All-Ireland
Junior Camogie title |
|
1975 |
(October) Susie Lively is
selected to play for Ulster
Mary McGinn Wins All Ireland CCD
Recitation |
|
1974 |
Down Minor Camogie team
captained by Clonduff’s Susie Lively won
the inaugural All Ireland Minor
Championship |
|
1968 |
On 16th June
Pairc Chluain Daimh is opened |
|
1967 |
At a meeting on 25th
April, Clonduff Camogie Club was
reformed. Maura Hamill was elected
Treasurer. (In 2009 as Maura Quinn, Clonduff
Camogie Club Secretary) |
|
1966 |
Down win Ulster Senior
title captained by Patsy O’Hagan
Down win Ulster Minor
title captained by Dalsey Mooney. (Dalsey
is a member to the Y2K committee)
Clonduff win Feis Sevens
in a historic final against Leitrim
In March Mussen’s Meadow
is bought |
|
1964 |
Clonduff win County
League title |
|
1962 |
Down tour America.
Chicago’s welcoming committee included
former Clonduff man John Abernethy
In San Francisco, Clonduff’s Sean
Spiers played for the home team while
his brothers, Liam and Vincent, are part
of the organising Committee |
|
1961 |
Down win the Sam Maguire
again with Kevin Mussen and Patsy
O’Hagan representing Clonduff |
|
1960 |
Patsy O’Hagan scores 3
goals in Down’s 4-11 to 3-7 victory over
Galway in the Wembly Tournament
Down win their first
All-Ireland Senior Football title. Kevin
Mussen at right half back captains the
team. Patsy O’Hagan is the full forward |
|
1959 |
Patsy O’Hagan scores 2
goals in a 3-9 to 1-4 victory for Down
in the Wembly Tournament |
|
1957 |
The two Parish teams –
Cabra Harps and The Shamrocks – meet in
County Senior Championship final –
Shamrocks win |
|
1956 |
Cabra Harps win Down
Junior Championship |
|
1953 |
Clonduff’s 19 year old
Kevin Mussen selected on Ulster Railway
Cup |
|
1952 |
Clonduff win League,
Championship (6th) and County
Sevens |
|
1950 |
Kevin Mussen and Sean
Spires on St Colman's team that won
McCrory Cup |
|
1949 |
Clonduff win their 5th
Senior County Championship
James Brown on Railway
Cup panel |
|
1947 |
Clonduff win their 4th
Senior County Championship |
|
1946 |
Down win Junior
All-Ireland and Clonduff have on the
panel: Henry, Tom and Pat Brown, Eddie
Grant, Paddy O’Hagan and Andy Murnin |
|
1945 |
Clonduff win their 3rd
Senior County Championship |
|
1944 |
Clonduff win their 2nd
Senior County Championship |
|
1943 |
Clonduff defeat Ardtole
by 15 points to 11 to win Down Junior
Championship on 12th
September but Ardtole awarded game on an
objection |
|
1938 |
Armagh play Down in
National League in Hilltown with Jimmy
Doyle starring at right full-forward |
|
1937 |
Clonduff re-enters South
Down and Mourne League |
|
1935 |
Jimmy Doyle in Ulster
Railway Cup panel |
|
1934 |
George Mussen captains
the first Down team to play in Croke
Park |
|
1932 |
Club wins The Shanahan
Cup outright |
|
1931 |
On 13th
September, Dan Mussen becomes first
Clonduff man to play in an All-Ireland
Football Semi-Final |
|
1930 |
Clonduff win their first
Down Senior Championship |
|
1926 |
Clonduff win McLoughlin
Cup |
|
1922 |
Clonduff win Shanahan Cup |
|
1921 |
George Mussen chosen on
the Railway Cup Panel |
|
1920 |
A new Parish team called
Clonduff Shamrocks was formed and
entered in Shanahan Cup Competition by
Willie Woods and John McPolin. "The
jerseys were yellow and there were
Shamrocks embroidered on them. Two
girls, Maggie O’Hare and Sarah Magennis
it was who sewed them on. Their playing
pitch was John Murphy’s and it was Paddy
Murphy who gave the pound to enter the
team."
Clonduff win Shanahan Cup |
|
1918 |
Clonduff men John McPolin
and John McAlinden play for Down on 9th
May against Louth in Newcastle
Clonduff take part in
"The Gaelic Sunday" protest matches of 4th
August, 1918 called in defiance of the
ban on Gaelic matches under The Defence
of the Realm Act |
|
1916 |
Registrations – still
extant – show that two teams, known as
"Emeralds Gaelic Football Club" and "Cabra",
were registered with the Down County
Board of 1916-17
An unofficial team known
as "John Attey’s Men" or "Faugh an
Ballagh" played games here and there
during this period. A report of a famous
match between Mullaghmore and John
Attey’s Men, played on Easter Sunday
1916 still lives on in the folk memory
of the district |
|
1912 |
The "Frontier Sentinel"
dated 9th April 1912 gives a
report of a 1st round County
Championship meeting between Mayobridge
and a Clonduff team called "Hilltown".
The Hilltown team read: John Crilly,
Bernard O’Hagan, Patrick Morgan, James
Magill, James Brady, Michael Fegan,
Arthur Ronan, Hugh Doyle, Hugh Morgan,
Michael Morgan, James Brown, Frank
O’Hare, John O’Hagan |
|
1898 |
A team from Cabra called
"The Harps" and one from Hilltown called
the "Ninety-Eights" took part in the ’98
tournament organised by the Young
Ireland League to commemorate the
Centenary of 1798 |
|
1888 |
A team from Lenish (one
of Clonduff’s 14 townlands) competed in
a Gaelic Football Tournament for a "set
of crosses"
A Clonduff team known as
the "Red Hands" played two games against
St Patrick’s Mayobridge in May 1888 |
|
1887 |
The Banbridge Chronicle
of 5th November, 1887 carried
an account of a Gaelic Football match
between Ballyroney (Rathfriland) and a
Clonduff team known as The Hilltown
Amateurs |