Shamrock Gaels Club notes Monday 17th March
The Dinner Dance takes place next Saturday 22nd March in the Clayton Hotel - tickets available from any committee member.

The Spring league kicks off on Saturday 29th when our Junior team takes on Tourlestrane at home while on Sunday our Senior team take on Coolera/Strandhill also at home.

Membership for 2025 is now open and all members should register as soon as possible through their foireann.ie account. If you have any problems accessing, please contact Michelle McMorrow or Mary Quinn. With games starting at the end of March, all players and coaches need to have renewed their membership before they can return to play.
  
The winner of last week's 50/50 draw was Sean Callaghan who won €811. The next draw takes place tomorrow St Patrick's Day with a guaranteed jackpot of €1,000 - play now at https://www.lottoraiser.ie/shamrockgaels/ 

The club wish to express sympathy with the Clerkin family, Sooey on the untimely passing of Antionette last week. The club also wish to express sympathy with the Taaffe family on the passing of Tommy after a long illness. Tommy played with the Gaels in his early days, winning a county minor title in 1973 and an U21 county title in 1975 before going on to play his senior football with the newly formed Ballintogher Club and then St Michaels.  

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Shamrock Gaels Club notes Monday 10th March
Just two weeks now to the Dinner Dance on Saturday 22nd March in the Clayton Hotel - tickets are available from any committee member.

Well done to Sligo and Gaels players involved on a hard fought win over Clare on Sunday. We ran our now very popular bus to the game with 22 travelling to support Sligo including Rosaleen and Eddie Cogan who celebrated their 51st wedding anniversary today, congratulations. 
Membership for 2025 is now open and all members should register as soon as possible through their foireann.ie account. If you have any problems accessing, please contact Michelle McMorrow or Mary Quinn. With games starting at the end of March, all players and coaches need to have renewed their membership before they can return to play.
  
All tickets for the National Club Draw should be returned to Mary Quinn this week. Thanks to all who have supported the draw.
 
The winner of last week's 50/50 draw was Mary Hamilton who won €906. The next draw takes place tomorrow Monday 9th March - play now at https://www.lottoraiser.ie/shamrockgaels/ We will also be holding a special St Patrick's Day draw with a guaranteed prize of €1,000.

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Enniscrone/Kilglass GAA Club notes Monday 10th March

Spring League fixtures

Our long awaited return to senior football will take place at the end of this month with a home fixture against Drumcliffe/Rosses Point in the opening round of this season’s Senior Spring League. The game has been fixed for Quigabar on Sunday, March 30th at 2pm. 

Coolera/Strandhill and Shamrock Gaels have also been included in Group A, with the Division One league campaign set to commence at the end of April. 

Coaching Development Officer

The club extends a warm welcome to John Kelly, who has been appointed as the Coaching Development Officer for 2025. Working in our parish, John will provide coaching in local schools and will also work with our club teams between now and the end of the summer. We wish John well for the coming months and thank him for his work to date. 

Friday night coaching 

Our Friday night coaching initiative continues this Friday in the astro-turf. Under 9s are from 6-7pm, under-11s from 7-8pm and under-13s from 8-9pm. 

GAAmigos success for Kilglass

Well done to the Kilglass NS boys team on qualifying for the county finals of the GAAmigos skills competition after they advanced from the west Sligo section last week. 

Membership 

Membership is now due for 2025. You can take yours out via the Foireann website at www.foireann.ie. All players must be registered for insurance purposes. 

County scene 

Well done to the Sligo senior footballers on their important win over Clare in Division Three of the Allianz Football League. We wish the team well in their crucial encounter with Antrim on Sunday next in Belfast. 

Well done also to the Sligo ladies footballers on their triumph over Leitrim in the National League, with a special mention to the Eoghan Rua contingent. That result puts Sligo through to the Division Four semi-finals. 

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Enniscrone/Kilglass GAA Club notes Monday 3rd March
Management teams 

Most of our teams are now back into full training in preparation for the new season. 

At last week's club meeting, the following management teams were ratified for the coming season.

Under 5 - Alan Hargadon, TBC
Under 7 - Brendan Byron, Mark Gordon, Greg Regan
Under 9 - Paul Kilcullen, Sheila Casey, Derek Boland
Under 11 - Mick Thornhill, Brandon Fitzgerald, Kevin Fallon, Derek O’Boyle
Under 13 - Derek Tuffy, Ronan Tuffy, Trevor Gordon, Carmel Crean, Dermot Beglane
Under 15 - Peter Regan, Ronan Martin, Neville Finnerty, Michael Duffy
Under 17/18 - Shane Hargadon, Brendan Murray, Declan Rouse, Paul Bourke, Alan Duffy
Junior: Kevin Carden, TBC
Intermediate: Enda Gilvarry, John Paul Carden, Derry O'Sullivan, Brendan Byron, Kevin Carden, Paul Bourke 

We wish all of our teams and their management teams the very best for the coming year. Thank you to all of the club coaches who attended last week's Safeguarding Course in Quigabar and to Charlie Jordan for delivering the course. 


Membership

All membership is now due and can be taken out via the Foireann website at www.foireann.ie. All players must be registered for insurance purposes. 

Club draw tickets

There are National Club Draw tickets on sale from members of our Intermediate football panel. Please get yours before the end of this week (ending March 7th). Tickets are €15 each with a wide array of prizes on offer. 

County scene

Well done to Charlie Lynott who featured for the Sligo under-16s in their win over Longford last weekend. 

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Shamrock Gaels Club notes Monday 3rd March
Just three weeks now to the Dinner Dance on Saturday 22nd March in the Clayton Hotel - tickets are available from any committee member.
Membership for 2025 is now open and all members should register as soon as possible through their foireann.ie account. If you have any problems accessing, please contact Michelle McMorrow or Mary Quinn. With games starting at the end of March, all players and coaches need to have renewed their membership before they can return to play.
  
We are participating again in the National Club Draw and tickets are in circulation and available from any club member. The tickets are €15 with a first prize of €50,000 with 100% of the sales coming to the club.

The Club wishes to welcome our new Coaching Development Officer, Aoife McGoldrick who has already started work with the club's underage teams and local schools. We wish her the best of luck in her role which we will be sharing with Eastern Harps. 

The winners of our monthly draw were, Sean McKeon €150, Paul Higgins €80, Patricia Cawley €50 while Declan Willis and Anthony Willis win a free entry to next week's 50/50 draw.  
 
The winner of last week's 50/50 draw was Maura Brehony who won €825. The next draw takes place tomorrow Monday 3rd March - play now at https://www.lottoraiser.ie/shamrockgaels/ We will also be holding a special St Patrick's Day draw with a guaranteed prize of €1,000.
All proceeds from the draw will be split 50/50 between the draw winner and Shamrock Gaels GAA Club. Thank you for your continued support.
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The club wishes to express sympathy with the family and relatives of Marie Jinks, Riverstown who passed away at the weekend and Una O'Malley, Westmeath.

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Shamrock Gaels Club notes Monday 24th February
The monthly club meeting takes place this Tuesday 25th in the Clubhouse at 8.00PM and will be preceded by the Bord Nóg meeting at 7.30PM all members are welcome to attend.
Just four weeks now to the Dinner Dance on Saturday 22nd March in the Clayton Hotel - tickets are available from any committee member.

The Healthy Club Committee would like to congratulate all who took part in the MyLife challenge which concluded last week. We more than doubled our goal of 4,000KM and with 44 participants walked 8,189KM, the equivalent of walking from Sligo to Los Angeles and placing us at 36th out of 135 Connacht Clubs participating - well done all.
Membership for 2025 is now open and all members should register as soon as possible through their foireann.ie account. If you have any problems accessing, please contact Michelle McMorrow or Mary Quinn.
  
We are participating again in the National Club Draw and tickets are in circulation and available from any club member. The tickets are €15 with a first prize of €50,000 with 100% of the sales coming to the club.

Scor Senior takes place on March 2nd - anyone interested in participating should contact Laura Brennan on 087 743 7520.

Sligo GAA are looking to recruit new referees for the coming season. Anyone interested should contact Paul Brennan on 083 1164923. 
  
The winner of last week's 50/50 draw was Damien Kelly who won €813. The next draw takes place tomorrow Monday 24th - play now at https://www.lottoraiser.ie/shamrockgaels/
All proceeds from the draw will be split 50/50 between the draw winner and Shamrock Gaels GAA Club. Thank you for your continued support.
www.lottoraiser.ie
The club wishes to express sympathy with the family and relatives of Sean McDonagh, Whitehill who passed away last week.

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