Club News 01-07-2010

Newcomers - Well done to James Prentice and Mezzam Farazeh who played in their first tournament last weekend in Malmo.Well done lads!!!!

Condolences - Our condolences from Gothenburg GAA to Catherine Hayes on the loss of her grandmother .Darbh bhreis ar a hainm.

New fathers - Congratulations to David Burke and Tom Lehane on becoming new fathers recently.Its all over now lads !!!

Club news 25-05-2010

Gothenburg GAA traveled for the 1st round of the Scandinavian Football Championship to Copenhagen and what a scorching hot day it was...but the performance was outstanding against very tough competion.

Score-line as follows

Match 1 - Gothenburg 1-6 Oslo 0-0

Match 2 - Gothenburg 0-2 Copenhagen 2-7

Match 3 - Gotheburg 0-4 Malmo 0-5

Match 4 - Gothenburg 1-1 Stockholm 1-8.

Full marks to Mia Bira who represented Gothenburg with pride in a Copenhagen vs Gothenburg/Stockholm friendly match on the day.

Round 2 of the Pan-European Tournament in Copenhagen 29th August 2009

You would have to travel a long distance and watch a lot of Gaelic games to come across a team that deserved to win a tournament as much as Gothenburg deserved to win the Pan-European Shield competition in Copenhagen.

In the week before the tournament Gothenburg lost two influential players when David Burke and Gary McKiernan got injured at training. This meant that Gothenburg travelled with a squad of just 13 players, including two debutants. To add to this, Peter Brennan got injured in the first half of the first match and could only play a bit part in the remaining games.

The group games and semi-final took their toll and almost all the players had taken some knocks and were suffering from cramp, sore groins and hamstrings and exhaustion. When substitutions were made it was a case of an injured player being replaced by a slightly less injured player.

As for the final, it had everything: team scores; individual efforts; last-minute goals; last-minute penalties; last-minute equalisers; controversial decisions; yellow and red cards; near misses; blood sweat and tears. Rarely does a whole team play as well as the Gothenburg team did on that day. It was a victory for hard work, determination, and above all, a victory for discipline. Gothenburg had a game plan and every player stuck precisely to their job. It can be said, without fear of contradiction, that every player was outstanding and if any of the players was taken out of the equation then the team would not have been victorious.

27-06-2009

It all came down to the final match of the day between Malmö and Copenhagen and even then it had to go the the score boards from both rounds but in the end Malmö GAA club in their first year on the European playing field came out the overall winners of the inaugural Scandinavian Football Championship. Congratulations go to Malmö but be sure that Gothenburg & Copenhagen will be back next year for revenge.

23-05-2009

Round 2 of the Scandinavian Football Championship

The date has been confirmed for June 27th in Malmö for the next round of the tournament. Details and directions coming soon. Also announced is the date for the Pan-European Northern Group tournament which will be held in Copenhagen on August 29th.

14-05-2009

SCANDINAVIAN GAELIC FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP

The inaugural event of the Scandinavian championship was a great success.

Copenhagen and Malmo and Gothenburg provided great matches on the day with

Copenhagen running out eventual winners in a close fought battle with Gothenburg.

Malmö, making their first even run out as a team on the European stage made for a hard and worthy opponent putting up a brave and tough battle in both matches and proved that they will be a team to watch out for in the remaining rounds of the tournament.

This tournament really has set the benchmark with comments that it was one of the best organised tournaments ever attended. A marvellous day was had by all and all teams are looking

forward to Round 2 in Malmö during June.

29-04-2009

Not long now 2 DAY LEFT......

SCANDINAVIAN GAELIC FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP

Gothenburg / Malmö / Copenhagen

Saturday May 2nd @ 12:00 noon

Spartacus Rugby Union Football Club, Gothenburg

Check it out Scandinavian Football Tournament

So come on out and support the your local club on this great day..Forcast is for good weather.

Refreshment and food available throughout the day,

and don't forget to join in the evenings festivities back in the Dubliner on Saturday evening.

** 08-04-2009 **

News from The Captain

Training begins in earnest next Wednesday evening the 15th of April. Try and be there for 6;30 - ( and i mean 6.30 or as close to it as the bus schedule allows) as we need to be ready to be hit the pitch for 7pm.We may have a short team meeting before training begins ( mainly to appoint captain and vice-captain.) .I need everyone to be at training ( no exceptions ) If you cant make it , let us know but we really would appreciate everyone to make it. We have only less than 4 weeks to the first round

20-03-2009

April 4th see's our 2nd fundraiser of the year and what a night its going to be.

In conjunction with the Gothenburg Portuguese Society we are having a " Bring a bit of grub (Knytkalas) " Benefit night.

A great, great night is ensured. We even have spot prizes, so c'mon, c'mon, c'mon!!!

Bring enough food for you and 2 people. 25 kr per person for entry fee (all for Gothenburg GAA club)

01-06-2009

Ok all.. Its the New Year and its time to get down to it. Training starts back this Wednesday 7th Jan

and its gona be a busy year so get back to it and lose them extra Xmas pounds.....

*** Also, Gothenburg G.A.A.'s first Fund-Raiser of the year will be a Table Quiz

on Tuesday 13th Jan in the Dubliner Pud at 7:30pm sharp !!

Here is the Poster that you can print and put up in your work place / pub.