Senior Hurling:
Ahane GAA club are delighted to announce the appointment of Colm and Eoghan Hanly as manager and hurling coach respectively for the 2017 season. These two Claremen from the famed Wolfe Tones club in Shannon arrive highly recommended and with proven track records at every age level. Everyone wishes them the very best of luck in their roles along with a very astute back room staff of Seanie O Connor and Ger Mulcahy as selectors, Dave Crowley as S&C coach and club chairman Colm Barry as kit man and an up and coming senior hurling panel. Ahane have been drawn with Pallasgreen, South Liberties and Murroe/Boher in the East championship.
Bord na nOg Registration and Table Quiz:
Registration for all underage players for the 2017 season will take place on Saturday 18th February between 5pm and 7.30pm at both Ahane GAA and Castleconnell Hall and on Sunday 26th February between 5pm and 7.30pm at Ahane GAA. Also on Sunday 26th between 5.30 and 7.30 the very popular annual Bord na nOg table quiz will be held for all kids in the club from U8 age group upwards. Always great craic so make sure to get the kids to sign up for €2. Finally all younger boys and girls in the parish born in 2011 and 2012 are invited to become Spud-Ogs and join the Ahane U6 hurling & football squad for the 2017 season! Contact Linda O Connor Assistant Secretary on 087-7840493 for further details.
2017 Club Lotto and Finance:
Be Warned! The 2017 club lotto mafiosi will be donning their waterproofs in all weather to knock kindly on doors and to ask you to participate in the club lotto! The lotto is an essential means of raising funds to run Ahane GAA club. The cash prizes are very attractive and your contribution is much appreciated and valued without the club does not exist. We urge you to rejoin the club lotto again this year and also to actively search for new participants. There is also a new finance committee in place and and some very exciting and novel fundraisers are to be announced shortly. Watch this space for the latest news!
Clubhouse:
The clubhouse bar is open as always from 9pm every Thursday and Sunday night and every second Friday. Last Saturday night hosted U13 Girls football star Tara McCarthys confirmation party. There was an invasion of Ballybrown folk with some of them doing their best to drink the club dry but they obviously didn’t succeed despite their best efforts! A great family evening was had with the adults enjoying themselves in the bar and the kids having a ball in the hall and around the grounds. Thanks to Aaron and Shane Hackett, our expert trainee barmen, again for their help in the bar and indeed could teach some of our older volunteer barmen how to pull a proper pint!
so for all your wedding, funerals, christenings, birthdays, communion, confirmation, divorce and bar mitzvah parties please contact Louis Quirke on 087 2594997.
Pitch Bookings:
Please contact Finbar McCarthy grounds committee chairman ASAP on 087 7631819 to book pitch space for the 2017 playing season.
Irish Language Classes:
Ahane GAA will host a series of Irish Language classes in the clubhouse starting Saturday March 4th. The classes are primarily aimed at Irish language students preparing for this years Leaving and Junior certificate exams. The club is very pleased to offer this free service to students preparing for their oral exams and it is hoped that the opportunity will be availed of. Attendance is free and is funded by Ahane GAA and grant assistance from Glor Na nGael (Sceim tachaiochta Gaelige)
Proposed schedule:
Saturday March 4th 16.30-17.30
Saturday March 11th
Monday March 13th
Saturday March 18th
Tuesday March 21st
Saturday March 25th.
Everyone more than welcome and other times to be finalised shortly.
Junior Footballers:
The Junior footballers have been drawn with Oola, South Liberties, Ballybricken and Fedamore in this years East championship. Training every Thurs at Lisnagry NS at 7 and the club every Saturday 1-2pm. For further info please contact Jimmy “Willie Joe” Feerick.
