You can meet the Clonbony Ladies on Facebook here or visit their short profile over here.

The game aftermath has been planned as a social event of getting together and having fun, so everybody is more than welcome to join the ladies not only as spectators during the day, but for the post-match entertainment as well. We would like to wish our ladies good luck for the games and hope for good weather conditions so that more fans and supporters can join in on the day at Gartenstadt.

The evening also offers the opportunity of attending the WildeNight Out 2009 – a charity fundraiser event organised by DIF-Bayern and kindly sponsored by the Embassy of Ireland, Berlin, and the Munich-based company Riverland Solutions GmbH. The event shall take place at the Schlachthof, Zenettistr. 9, in Munich and would offer its audience the theatrical one-man-show “In the Company of Oscar Wilde” performed by Alan Stanford, followed by live Irish music.

The Munich Colmcilles are one of the charity beneficiaries alongside with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Ireland, so we encourage everybody to join in. You can find out more about the event and purchase tickets here.

The weather is supposed to be kinder to us this year but don’t forget the sun screen in case. You should all have the directions from the previous mail and the underground stop Quiddestrasse is less than 10 minutes away from the grounds. You should all turn left when leaving the train and up the stairs. This will all be signed from here on to help you get to the grounds.

Munich GAA on the Sueddeutsche

Carsten Eberts from The Sueddeutsche Zeitung has published his article in today’s paper, here is the online version.

Teams for the pan European Tournament

• Championship Mens:
  • Belgium A
  • Luxembourg
  • Paris
  • The Hague
• Shield Mens:
  • Belgium B
  • Copenhagen
  • Frankfurt
  • Liffre
  • Munich
  • Vienna
  • Zurich
  • Liffre
  • Amsterdam
• Ladies tournament:
  • Holland Ladies (2 teams)
  • Paris
  • Vienna
  • Belgium (2 teams)
  • Munich

After Tournament Location

Some people have been wondering where the after tournament location is, well it’s at the Hacker-Pschorr, Bräuhaus an der Bavaria and a map can be seen here. The best way to get there is via the U-Bahn located at Theresienwisese, via the U-4 or the U-5 U-Bahns.

In the newspaper

And one further piece of news, check out the Sueddeutsche Zeitung (www.sueddeutsche.de) tomorrow as there will be an article about the club and interviews with some of the player !

A weekend of Dance, Music, Culture, Scottish madness, exotic games of hurling and Tim’s pies!

What else could one have asked for last weekend on an organic farm but a 3 day long Irish festival with top quality folk music from Ireland, Germany, Austria and Britain. Moving forward from the success of last year’s festival, we increased the number of bands taking part, covering the wide spectrum of Irish music played by German and Irish bands in Germany in addition to traditional German folk music played by native German bands and, of course, guest artists from Ireland. In total there was a total of 5 stages; 3 open-air and 2 indoor.

On a very wet Friday evening the festival opened (indoors thankfully) with the introduction of the Green Farm song by Paul Daly accompanied by Alison Moffat and Frank McGlynn. The Rose of Tralee contest followed where we had 6 beautiful and fantastic girls take the stage for the Munich heat. Shane McAvinchey and his dancers of Rince Tir na nOg provided us with the cream of Irish dancing at the intervals.


The winner on the night was Jessica Kreuz, a midwife whose mother hails from Tipperary town. Jessica will head for Frankfurt next weekend to take part in the German Rose finale. Paul Daly and his band entertained the crowds till late in the night with many hits including “Galway girl” and “St. Patrick’s day in Munich”.

After a night of rain, the weather took a turn for the better and Saturday beheld an afternoon of plenty music and Irish dancing on the 5 stages. Among other facilities the festival offered on-site camping and parking, a free shuttle bus service from the local train station to the festival site, beer tents, sessions, workshops, organised catering, an Irish market, bathing in the on site lake, kids’ playground and an open stage for visiting musicians.

The campers arrived in their droves and set up camp by the lake and Riverland stage while the overflow headed for the back where the Highland Games were beginning. The Highland games thanks to the Munich Caledonians and the Munich Scottish Association provided the crowds with plenty entertainment for the adults and kids alike with caber tossing, welly throwing, sack racing and the much loved egg and spoon race. Munich’s pipebands entertained the crowds along which was followed by sword dancing, Scottish country dancing and a ceilidh. The music continued on the various stages with the highlight at the end of the day being the Bavarian-Irish Ceili by the “Well Buam” and the “Munich Ceili band”.

While the bands took to their stages, people wandered about the many stands selling their paintings, guitars, irish ware’s, food and the DIF info stand provided all the information one needed as well as selling the bands CD’s or a bottle of chef brown sauce or even an Odlums brown bread mix. Tim’s pies went down as always a treat.

Sliotar were the last to take the stage in the Murphy’s festival hall on Saturday night and brought the roof down with their stunning Irish traditional music with a rock flair to it.

The night didn’t finish there as all the musicians from the day, along with the many campers and DIF volunteers congregated into the Saloon bar and had the biggest Irish trad session on the continent that night. Rumour has it that there was Irish dancing on the tables still going at 5.30am. Sunday morning!!

The sunshine awoke us to a glorious day with another fulfilled stage plan of dancing and music. The Sunday also provided the spectators to an Irish sports day with the München Colmcilles GAA club donning their skills of Gaelic football and hurling. The hurling turned out to be the more favourite of the two sports and spectators as young as three years of age joined in on the banter. The parents and underage hurlers provided the crowds with very entertaining demonstration games. One reporter from a local paper described hurling as a very exotic sport where they play with oversized cooking spoons!?!

The Munich rugby club took to the field after the Colmcilles to give a fine display of their sport with kids and adults alike taking part.

As the green farm festival was coming to an end, the cream of Irish and Euro Folk music was on stage with Sarah McQuaid and Irish-steirisch.

As the last encore was played in the hall, the DIF volunteers and organisers gathered their belongings and said goodbye to one another with a smile of satisfaction and the same thought …”That was one hell of a do”

Until Greenfarm Festival 2010!!!.
[further pictures in the gallery]

The festivities begin at 7pm on Saturday the 13th of December. The menu for the evening is A la Carte from the daily menu which includes the traditional Turkey and Ham roast.