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Training updates July 2009 & some news
The Munich leg of the European GAA tournament is about 3 weeks away (July 25th) and our mens and ladies teams will now be training more regularly. This is the final push to get teams ready for the tournament. Ladies Team Next training session is Saturday 4th of July at 12pm, and after that training will be on Tuesdays & Thursdays at 7pm. The extra training session on Thursdays will be on a trial basis, and will depend on attendance whether it will be continued for the next few weeks or not. Mens Team The next training session for the [...]
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3rd Greenfarm Festival
Hallbergmoos 19. – 21. Juni 2009 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 [...]
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The 2009 season starts
Training times for both the mens and ladies teams are now available. As the pitches are not open yet, we will start training on the all weather pitch (so please bring runners and football boots). It is expected that the pitches will have recovered from their snowy winter and will be open in the middle of April. For further details on what is happening with regards to training, we would advise you to keep an eye on the message board thread about the 2009 training schedule.
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Ladies Football Team meeting 2009 season
A players meeting is planned for this Friday for the Munich Colmcilles Ladies team. Plans and dates of tournamnets for 2009 will be discussed. What: Team Meeting 2009 Where: Lutzstrasse 23, 80687 München (U-Bahn Laimerplatz or S-Bahn Laim) When: Friday March 20th @ 19:30 Why: Discuss Training and Tournament Plans for 2009 More details can be seen on the ladies message board
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Munich Tournament Results 2008
The scores are available are available to download via this PDF. Congratulations goes to the Ladies team from Belgium and the Mens Team from Luxembourg for taking their respective Championship titles and to Copenhagen Mens Team for winning their first Mens Shield title of 2008. An overview of the day and more reports are due later in the week. If you have photographs from the day and you want to share them, please get in contact with us.
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Limited Banquet places available
There is still a limited amount of space left at our post tournament banquet on Saturday 26th of July. This year it will be taking place at the Hofbräukeller at Weinerplatz (near Max Weber Platz U-Bahn station, see www.hofbraeukeller.de). If you would like to come along please get in contact with us and we will send you all the details. The meal starts at 8:30pm, and will be in the upstairs function room at the Hofbräukeller. It promises to be a crazy night of good food/beer and fun. Info and directions
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Munich does Vienna again and again and again and again
Saturday 03/26/08 – 4 in a row! The Munich mens football took the road for the first time in 2008 with a fairly light load. 11 players and 1 mentor left Munich at 7.30am for the 4 hour trip to Puckersdorf, a small village 30 minutes from the host city, Vienna. Upon arrival the lads were presented with 2 problems. The goals posts that were to be attached to soccer goals to enable the superstar, Todd, to kick points were missing. The bloke delivering them had managed to slip on a David Hasselhoff disc whilst practicing his Saturday night moves [...]
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Munich Colmcilles Club Representatives meet Irish President
On February 26th 2008, the was a State Visit to Munich, by Irish President Mary McAleese. Some of the members of the Club were present at the event. The President mentioned many of the events that the club was involved in, including the St. Patricks Day Parade in Munich (www.stpatricksday.de). She said that “The Munich parade is the biggest east of the Liffeyâ€. For those of you who are interested in attending the parade, it will take place on Sunday 16 March 2008. This is the 13th St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Munich. The parade starts from Münchner Freiheit at [...]