Dear Munich Colmcilles and friends,

Time has flown by and another eventful year has passed…and now it’s almost Christmas again. To end the year, our club held our Christmas party last Saturday, December 15th at Kilians. It pleasantly united old, current and new members and players and proves that the Colmcilles spirit survives.

We were treated with a special reserved area in Kilians that was set up in colourful Christmas style.
The party was organised along with a raffle to help raise money for our club and the presentation of special club members of the year. A special thanks to Dave, Daire and Sean for selling tickets and doing an entertaining raffle presentation. As for the awards, Karl Sassenberg won the Regional player of the Year and Lauren McLaughlin won both the Ladies player of the year and Club member of the year. We congratulate them both on their hard work, as well as all other members and volunteers for their participation and help in events throughout the year. It was nice to see so many members at the dinner and hope everyone enjoyed this last coming together in 2007.

As for the year of 2007, we saw the growth of the kids team to over 25 children training regularly on Saturday afternoons at Gartenstadt. We are incredibly thankful to the parents and coaching volunteers, especially Maria and Pat, for their time and efforts to help the team grow. We hope that the growth only continues next year and wish to get the children playing against other teams competitively. The hurlers and men’s football teams trained at the beginning of the year and the footballers attended three tournaments and won two. We congratulate them on their success and wish both teams back next year in full force, and more. We look forward to it. The ladies football team trained the whole season despite cold and wet weather and succeeded in attending all of the 7 tournaments. Team numbers are increasing and the team expects to be a European challenge next year. Good luck ladies!!

By the look of things, next year will be as eventful if not more than this one-there will be a lot of tournaments, hard and fun training, and of course many occasions to come together and celebrate for whatever reason. As for our first event, we will be holding our AGM on January 22nd at 8pm at the Einerwelthaus. We welcome everyone to join and help start our year in a positive way.

For now we just want to wish you all: Nollaig Shona Doibh РFr̦hliche Weihnachten and a Happy New Year ! Enjoy your holidays and get back safely and full of enthusiasm for a new season of Gaelic Football and Hurling in 2008 with the Munich Colmcilles.

Merry Christmas !

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