Mini Leagues Finals & Family Day The programme for this Sunday s Na Fianna Family Day has been finalised and it promises to be a great day, see details on next page. Mini Leagues finals start at 12 noon and go through to 5pm but there s loads going on that will keep all the family entertained right through the day. This Sunday marks the end of the 32 nd Na Fianna Mini Leagues and pictured below are two graduates from previous Mini Leagues who both have great memories of their Mini Leagues days. Jonny Cooper, Man of the Match in Dublin s recent SFC quarter final and Conor McHugh, recently announced Hero of the Future 2014, both past-pupils of Na Fianna s Mini Leagues pictured with Darren Chambers of Lisney Drumcondra, Mini League sponsors. 1
Lisney s Mini Leagues Finals Day Sunday 22 nd June 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 2004 Boys 2006 Boys 2004 Girls & 2005 Girls 2006, 2007, 2008 & 2009 Girls 2007, 2008 2009 & 2010 Boys 2005 Boys something for everyone! Among the attractions will be slush puppies, popcorn, sweet stalls, burgers from the barbeque, rounders games, food served all day in the carvery something for everyone. Once again, great praise and thanks is due to all those involved in ensuring that all will be in place on Sunday and indeed to those involved in organising the Mini Leagues and your support for all the effort would be appreciated. Particular thanks due to Lisney Drumcondra for their continued support. Plan you day and get down to Na Fianna on Sunday for a great day s fun and entertainment. Weekend Action Inter hurlers travel to PNU on Saturday to play St Vincents in league at 6.30pm. Then on Sunday our Minor A footballers play Kilmacud Crokes in Silverpark at 11am Sunday while Minor B s play St. Peregrines in Mobhi Road at 10.30am. Full fixture list on website, best of luck to all teams, all support welcome. Na Fianna s Dubs Best of luck to Dublin s Minor hurlers in Saturday s Leinster MHC semi-final against Wexford at 3pm in Parnell Park. The Na Fianna contingent includes Shane Barrett, Dónal Burke, Gavin King, Eoghan McHugh, Paul O Dea, Matthew Oliver, Seán Ryan, Eoin Skelly and Jonathan Treacy. 2
Best of luck also to the Dublin Senior Camogie panel in their 1 st round Championship match against Cork on Sunday in O Toole Park at 2.30pm. Big Na Fianna involvement with this group including players Elaine O Meara, Arlene Cushen, Alva Egan and Blaithin McQuillan and Management team includes Colum King and Sandra Tarr. All-Ireland U-21 Champions Congratulations to Na Fianna s Aoife Nolan, Lucy Collins and Leah Caffrey and to the rest of the Dublin U21 ladies on their All-Ireland final win over Meath in Clane last Sunday. 3
Club Lotto This week s Na Fianna Club Lotto winning numbers were; 20 24 25 30 No jackpot winner and no Match 3 winner this week. Lucky Pick winners, each getting 15 were; Matthew Cahill, Jean Bolger c/o Vinny, Martin Burnett c/o Vinny and the Purdues. Next Jackpot: 6,500, please support. Na Fianna Golf Society The Na Fianna Golf Society members enjoyed great weather on their outing to Luttrellstown last Monday 16 th June. The overall winner was John Foran with 36pts who won on the back nine from Stephen Gray also with 36pts and he won Class 1. Martin O Laoire also had 36pts and won Class 2. Jimmy Gray won Class 3 with 32 pts. Na Fianna GAA Summer Camps 2014 Date Camp Time Cost 7-11 July Club Camp 10am-2.30pm 50 14-18 July Club Camp 10am-2.30pm 50 11-15 August Club Camp 10am-2.30pm 50 18-22 August Kellogs Cúl Camp 10am-2.30pm 55 Booking Information: An online facility for booking Club camps is available www.clgnafianna.ie Kelloggs Cul Camps can ONLY be booked online at www.kelloggsculcamps.gaa.ie Camps open to children from 5-13 years of age. For additional information, contact Na Fianna s Games Promotion Officer, Mark McManus 086 0752644. 4
Féile Hurling Best of luck to our Féile hurlers who will take part in the Regional Féile na ngael tournament in Kilkenny tomorrow. These tournaments, being played for the first time and which came out of the review of the National Féile Competitions, are blitzes involving forty four teams from eleven counties playing at five venues throughout the country. Our lads qualified for regional tournaments following their fifth place play-off win against Lucan Sarsfields in Mobhi Road back in the middle of May and they will play tomorrow in Thomastown. In their group, Group 1, they will play Thomastown, Rathnure of Wexford and Ballygunner of Waterford. The winner of this group will play in the regional final in Nowlan Park tomorrow afternoon against the winners of Group 2 which includes Erins Own Kilkenny, St Olivers Waterford, Blackrock form Cork and Adare from Limerick. We wish the lads the very best tomorrow. Na Fianna Lads Part of Dublin Win Congrats to three lucky Na Fianna lads who were chosen to play for a Dublin under 12 selection in a Dublin versus Belfast challenge in a Cuman Na mbunscoil football game in Clontarf on Friday June 11th. Dublin won 6-4 to 3-4 in a great game of very competive football. Coaching the Dubs on the day was former Dublin half back David Henry. Well done lads. Seamus Smith (2003), Vinny Flynn (2002) and Bill Matthews (2002) 5
Members Subscriptions Members are reminded that subscriptions for the current year became due and payable immediately following the Club s AGM last October. All GAA Registrations were submitted on 1 st April as per regulation, and any member whose membership was unpaid on that date was not included in this Registration as per Club policy. The consequences of this are that unregistered players are no longer insured to play or train and do so at their own risk. In addition, teams playing unregistered players could be adjudged an illegal team and suffer the loss of points and even elimination from competitions. Members subs can be paid in the bar on Wednesday nights between 6.30pm and 9pm and again on Saturday mornings from 9am to 11am. Payments by card, cheque and cash will be accepted. Subscriptions can also be paid at the club office, Mon to Fri, 9am to 1pm. 6
Handball Féile Best of luck to our handballers in Féile this weekend. Our team of four lads travel to Omagh to play in tomorrow morning s qualifiers and if successful there they will play in the finals on Sunday. Latest Addition to Pitch Signs Welcome to Kumon, an education study centre in Drumcondra, the latest addition to Na Fianna s pitchside advertisers. All information now available on club website www.clgnafianna.ie 7
Championship Tickets Details on the ticket ordering process for match tickets for Dublin s next Championship outing, the semi-final clash with Wexford in Croke Park on Sunday 29 th June, are now available to view on the club website www.clgnafianna.ie. Members should note that details of ticket orders made through the club will be used as basis for allocating tickets later in the Championship. New Club Website Members may have noticed the recently revamped Na Fianna Club website. A dedicated team has been working very hard on this project over the last few months and after much thought and work, the new website went live during the week. Special thanks is especially due to Maurice Grehan, Tom Maguire, Steve Downes who gave of their time freely to ensure that this project was successfully delivered. Particular words of thanks and appreciation are also due to Colin O Reilly who over the years gave a huge amount of his time in doing a fantastic job in the creation and ongoing maintenance of the old website that served the club so well over that time. The newly designed site can be visited at www.clgnafianna.ie and now includes links to our Twitter and Facebook page. 8
A day of Adventure for the Under 12 Girls What a day of adventure for the Under 12 Girls from Na Fianna last Saturday as the group of 43 Girls and mentors headed to the historic Cooley Peninsula for the day. The trip was action packed and kicked off with the Girls and a Mentor or two taking a leap into the Irish Sea off Carlingford Pier. Thankfully the sun was shining and almost all the girls were encouraged to take the leap of faith! After drying off, the crew headed to Cooley Kickhams where they were hosted by one of the country s most famous clubs and were joined by visitors from nearby St Patricks of Lordship. The girls represented the club proudly and great fun was had by all. After the games it was on the move again to the old railway village of Greenore where the girls went on a Leprechaun Hunt and followed up with a barbeque. To top off the day, Robert, Carlingfords most famous ice cream man made a surprise visit with his Ice cream stall, it was just the perfect way to round off the sunny day! Many thanks to all the mentors and parents for their help and assistance in organising such a memorable day. 9
Dublin Poc Fada In 2012 Uachtaráin Cumann Luthchleas Gael, Liam O Neill appointed a new national committee, under the Chairmanship of Humphrey Kelleher (Naomh Mearnóg) to run the affairs of An Poc Fada. This new committee set about re-launching the Poc Fada experience and ran an excellent competition in its first year in 2013. With the co-operation of the Beann Eadair GAA Club, this year s Dublin finals (12 competitors) will take place next Friday June 27 th and will start and finish in the Beann Eadair club grounds in Páirc Uí Ruairc, Balkill. Na Fianna s Andy Flaherty will hope to take the title from last year s winner Cormac Ryan from Whitehall Colmcilles who will defend his title. The winner of the Dublin competition will go forward to represent the county in the Leinster finals to be held in July with the National Finals taking place in the Cooley Mountains on the August Bank Holiday weekend. Our Lady of Dolours Parish Fun Day Come along to the Parish of Our Lady of Dolours, Glasnevin (church beside the Botanical Gardens) Inaugural Family Fun Day Sunday 29 June 1215-2.30 pm, with bouncy castles, novelty competitions, music dancing, wheel of fortune etc. All welcome to join us before trekking down to Croker to cheer on the Dubs! Lost & Found One of our Minor footballers left a pair of Addidas tracksuit bottoms in the dressing rooms in Collinstown in the pocket of which he had his mobile phone which he is most anxious to have back. Any details please to John Lynch 087 2347294.and finally Best wishes to Bob Courtney for a speedy recovery following his accident during the week.. 10
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 pro.nafianna.dublin@gaa.ie or texted to 087 9250697 by Sunday evening. With a membership of 2700 and approx 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 pro.nafianna.dublin@gaa.ie 11