Munich Colmcilles Football & Hurling Club Munich Germany

Munich tournament approaching

2009-07-14T13:49:20Z

We would like to remind you again that on Saturday, 25th July the Munich Colmcilles are going to host the 1st Pan-European Men’s Gaelic Football tournament for this season and the 4th round of the Ladies European Championship. With both Munich ladies and men’s teams participating alongside various European GAA clubs, organisation is already on the go so that we can all enjoy a great day of Gaelic Football and brilliant post-tournament celebrations. Tournament start is scheduled for 9:30am at the SV Gartenstadt training grounds and the finals are supposed to take place between 4 and 6pm.

Following GAA teams have already confirmed their participation - (ladies): Holland, Paris, Vienna, Belgium; (men’s) Copenhagen, Paris, The Hague, Zurich, Luxembourg, Vienna and Frankfurt.

If you don’t want to miss this event, which has proved to be a great craic in the years so far, make sure to keep Saturday, July 25 free in your calendar.

Everybody’s welcome!

Training Times , 3 times a week

2009-07-03T08:06:51Z

Here is a run down of the updated training times.

Mens Football

* Tuesday : 7pm
* Thursday : 7pm
* Saturday : 11am

Ladies Football

* Tuesday : 7pm
* Thursday : 7pm
* Saturday : 12pm

Underage Hurling

* Saturday : 2pm

See you there !

Training updates July 2009 & some news

2009-07-01T18:12:32Z

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 Mens Team is Thursday, July 2nd at 7pm. After this training will be on Saturdays at 12pm and Tuesday and Thursdays at 7pm sharp. To insure your place on the team at the tournament you will need to attend as many trainings as possible and you are asked to let the trainers know when you will be absent.

Further Team updates

To insure that you get all the relevant news and updates please check GAA message board and make sure you are signed up for the Munich Colmcilles newsletter.

Other News in Munich

Just quick news for people, the Munich Irish Network are planning their first meeting on Thursday 9th July to discuss how to make Munich more welcoming for the expected wave of expats over the next few months. And a little prewarning that tickets have gone on sale for the Wilde Night Out which takes place on October 17th. It will feature the principle director of Dublin’s Gate Theatre Alan Stanford as well as traditional Irish band. Last year the tickets sold out months before the gig so do get your orders in ASAP.

2 Munich Colmcilles Ladies compete in Triathlon

2009-06-25T15:07:55Z

Susi Schwalb and Angie Büchler from our ladies football team participated in the 16th annual Stadttriathlon Erding previous weekend. They competed in the so-called Volkstriathlon discipline, consisting of a 400m swim, 20km cycling and a 4km run, and performed very well altogether. Angie even managed to finish 3rd in her age group and take the 4th place in the overall standings!

Congratulations to both Angie and Susie and fair play for their inspiring sportsmanship!

3rd Greenfarm Festival

2009-06-25T08:43:54Z

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 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]