Na Fianna Nuacht

Saturday In Na Fianna

Club shop open tomorrow Saturday 1st June from 9-1pm in Club foyer. The Na Fianna Nursery, in conjunction with Sherry Fitzgerald, takes centre stage from 9.20am. The ever helpful Coffee Cabin crew will be serving teas and coffees with their usual smile and anything you need to know about Na Fianna will be on hand at the Info Hub. Car owners are asked to please drive carefully and park responsibly. Illegally parked cars, i.e. cars parked on double yellow lines and in yellow boxes, will be clamped.

LOTTO Jackpot Climbs To €18,750!

Club lotto jackpot still hasn’t been won which means that next Monday night’s jackpot now stands at €18,750. It will be a busy weekend around the Club so be sure and buy your ticket. Tickets on sale in members bar. Alternatively, by signing up for the direct debit option, you could win the jackpot every week! See details here

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The annual Dermot McNulty memorial Tournament will take place in the Club on Sunday 2nd June. Hosted by Na Fianna’s 2007 boys and being played across two venues (Mobhi Road and St Pats DCU), this year’s tournament draws 16 Teams, representing nine Clubs, six Counties and all four Provinces playing in three competitions.

Teams taking part are as follows;

o St Finbarrs, Cork o Rúairí Óg, Cushendall Co. Antrim o Eoghan Ruadh, Dungannon, Co.Tyrone o Seán MacCumhaills, Donegal o Meelick-Eyrecourt, Co. Galway o Clontarf o Ballyboden St Endas o Erin’s Isle

All starts from 10am on Sunday and goes through to 4pm and the lads would love a good home crowd to support the event. In what is always a great Club day, it promises to be a great day of Hurling. Full fixture list available to view at http://www.clgnafianna.com/fixtures/

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Annual U-10 Football Blitz

Na Fianna will host the annual Under 10 Football Blitz this Saturday 1st June and welcomes participating clubs from Ballyboden St Endas, Geraldine’s P Moran, Dunshaughlin, Dromintee, Shillelagh Coolboy and Templeogue Synge Street.

The organising committee and the parents of the Na Fianna Under 10 Boys have done a great job in putting this event together and with the help of event sponsors, SanSab, Corrigan’s Butchers, Perfect Print and Fionan O’Connell Photography and to everyone who has contributed through providing food and drink for our guests it promises to be a great day. Special guests on the day will include John Horan Úachtarán Cumann Lúthchleas Gael who has taken time out of his hectic schedule to be here, as well as members of the Dublin Senior panel.

Registration opens at 11.30am on Saturday with welcomes and opening ceremony taking place at 11.45am before a full programme of games starting at 12.15pm, see website for full fixture list http://www.clgnafianna.com/fixtures/ We wish all teams well and hope that all of the participants have a great day. Come down and support the lads.

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Na Fianna Camp Viennese Style

The young people of Vienna are still trying to figure out what is meant by ‘wirey’, ‘shemozzle’, and ‘pull on it’! Our man in Vienna, Kilian Smith explains last weekend’s multi- cultural experience when Na Fianna’s Mark McManus and Gavin King, exceptional ambassadors for CLG Na Fianna, landed in the Austrian capital and inspired Viennese kids and parents with an excellent Cúl Camp.

This is the second Cúl Camp in Vienna and the first to be delivered by the highly skilled GPO’s from CLG Na Fianna. On Friday last, Mark and Gavin provided coaching sessions in two schools here in Vienna. The Austrian kids announced that hurling is the ‘best game EVER’! On Saturday & Sunday, in the shadow of the Ernst Happel National Stadium, Mark and Gavin provided a GAA Cúl Camp. They engaged all parents and got them involved in the coaching during the camp. They also had time with the Vienna Gaels football and hurling players and providing advice.

The kids thoroughly enjoyed the coaching and were very impressed with both of the CLG Na Fianna lads. Parents, kids, teachers and players had nothing but positive comments about them - they really made a fantastic impression.

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Vienna Gaels continue to engage local Austrians into GAA. Gavin & Mark were both encouraging and supportive of the club’s plans and gave the club lots of ideas that will be used to continue to raise the profile of the club and gain new (local) Austrian members.

The Vienna Gaels club wish to express their gratitude to Cathaoirleach Cormac Ó Donnchú and Chairman Juvenile Games Colm Davis for supporting their activities this year. In particular, the club thanks Gavin and Mark for all their work over the weekend.

Na Fianna Golf Classic 2019

A massive day out had last Friday in Donabate Golf Club when the Na Fianna Golf Classic, in aid of Senior Football and Hurling, took place. 32 teams took to the first tee-box and set about competing (ferociously!) for the prizes on offer.

We had a mixture of many old faces and some first timers, though the jury’s out on some first-time claims (eh Ciaran Fanning!!). We had a spritely bunch of octagenarians with our own Jimmy Gray leading the charge followed by Jim Gavin Senior, father of Dubs Manager Jim Junior, and Kevin Keane, All-Ireland winner with Louth in 1957 (they could have done with him last Sunday). It was great to see these gents not giving an inch to the younger generations.

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The winning team was the Tom Dowd sponsored Senior Football Team of Mick Deegan, Glenn O’Reilly, David O’Hanlon, Colin Ryan. Second and third placed teams were annual supporters of the Golf Classic and it was great to see them in the prizes. Second placed was the team of John’Neill, Freddie Duignan, Pat McCarthy and Brian Bellew. Third place went to the DCU team of Ken Robinson, Frank Lee Stephen Bennett and Dominic Harris.

After the golf, we retreated to the Mobhi Suite for steak BBQ provided by Aidan and Cater4U, followed by the prize-giving and the efforts of the day were replayed and improved in the telling, no doubt.

Many thanks to Pat Breen and his organising committee and to Breege O’Reilly who assembled the fantastic hamper prizes.

Na Fianna Golf Society

Na Fianna Golf Society’s next outing will be to Forrest Little on Friday 14th June. Tee time 2.40 to 4pm, for timesheet please contact Ciaran Gray 0872269133. New members always welcome.

Na Fianna’s Dubs

Best of luck to Na Fianna’s Shane Barrett and Dublin’s Senior Hurlers in next Sunday’s Leinster Senior Hurling Championship clash against Carlow.

Dublin’s U-20 Footballers enjoyed a good win over Kildare in Newbridge last Wednesday night. Tom Gray's side included Na Fianna’s David O’Hanlon, David Lacey, Eoin O’Dea, James Doran and Brian O’Leary.

Also on Wednesday night, Na Fianna’s Sam Carthy was on the Dublin Plunkett side that claimed victory in the Bank of Ireland Celtic Challenge (U17) Group C hurling contest at O'Toole Park against Laois.

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Pic Of The Week

Pictured above are Juvenile Handballers at last weekend’s end of year party and medal presentations.

o Under 17 Boys Séimi Ó Cáthasaigh. Fionn Mc Loughlin

o Under 13 Boys Tom Ó Cáthasaigh, Leo Scanlon

o Under 13 Girls Saoirse Delaney, Sùin Nic Fhinn

o Under 10 boys Alister Kehoe, Dan Wheatley

Huge thanks to all the parents for their support throughout the year and to the Handball Coaches Frank Daly and Christy Donnelly. Also to Michael Carr and all the Nursery Mentors who have been promoting Handball there, the benefits of this great work can be seen as they are now coming through.

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Summer Camp

Details of Na Fianna’s Summer Camps are now on Club website, see link http://www.clgnafianna.com/product-category/summer-camp/ Early booking advised.

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Journey of The Jersey 2019

The lure of the J1 and the opportunity to travel and work abroad for the Summer will see many of our young adult players heading away for a few months. The opportunity to fly the Na Fianna flag responsibly on foreign shores is one that the Club would like to encourage this year and all our Club tourists are being asked to send in a photo of the Na Fianna jersey being worn in the most spectacular, original or amazing world setting. Appropriately publishable pics will feature on the Club’s Social Media and Nuacht, and a prize for the best will be awarded at the end of the Summer. So pack your colours when you’re heading away, wear them with pride and send us back a pic. All photos by email to [email protected]

Comhbhrón

Sincere sympathies of the Club are offered to the O'Neill family on the passing yesterday of Mr Matthew O'Neill, Father of former Na Fianna Senior Footballer John.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. Fógra Tabachtach

The objective of Na Fianna Nuacht is to communicate as much club activity as possible however it is important to note that all items for inclusion in either Club Notes or Na Fianna Nuacht are reported to [email protected] or texted to 087 9250697 by Sunday evening. With a growing membership of almost 3,000 and over 100 teams now competing it is difficult to ensure all club activity is reported upon – Do not assume that your team’s activity is already known to Na Fianna Nuacht or that someone else has reported it. When errors or omissions occur it is the policy of Na Fianna Nuacht to correct these in subsequent issues when they are reported to [email protected]

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