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New Ireland Assurance Dub Stars Match Report
January 09, 2017
NEW IRELAND ASSURANCE DUB STARS CHALLENGEDUBLIN 3-12 (21) DUB STARS 2016 3-11 (20)By Daire WalshThe Dublin ladies senior side began 2017 in a winning fashion at the DCU Sports grounds on Sunday afternoon, when they held off a late surge from the 2016 Dub Stars in the New Ireland Assurance Dub Stars Challenge.In his first game as Sky Blues supremo, Mick Bohan selected eight players from the team that lost the 2016 All-Ireland decider to Cork. Foxrock/Cabinteely’s Niamh Collins also featured fo..
Match Report New Ireland Assurance Junior Dub Stars
January 09, 2017
NEW IRELAND ASSURANCE JUNIOR DUB STARSNAVY TEAM 5-5 (20) BLUE TEAM 4-7 (19)By Daire WalshRachel Staunton and Frances McCann were in flying form at the DCU Sports grounds on Sunday for the Dub Stars Navy Team, who narrowly defeated the Dub Stars Blue Team in the inaugural New Ireland Assurance Junior Ladies Dub Stars Challenge.In an entertaining encounter at the Ballymun Road venue, there was always very little to separate the two teams, who used rolling substitutes throughout the course of acti..
New Ireland Assurance Dub Stars Sun Jan 8th
January 06, 2017
New Ireland Assurance Dub Stars - Sunday January 8th – DCU St. Clare’sThe annual Dub Stars challenge match takes place this Sunday January 8th in DCU the event is the first competitive outing of the new season providing both players and management with an ideal opportunity to dust off the holiday cobwebs.Since the event commenced back in 2009 (not played 2012/2013) Dublin lead the way with 3 victories to the Dub Stars, two. (2009) Dub Stars 2-11 Dublin 2-10, (2010) Dublin 3-06 Dub Stars..
Dublin U16 2017 Squad is announced
December 15, 2016
Dublin U16 2017 Squad is announcedFollowing a series of trials which ran for a seven week period the Dublin U16 squad which will represent their County in the championship of 2017 has been announced. The 35 strong squad will begin the defense of their Counties Leinster crown with a home fixture versus Meath on the 12th of March next. In total over 220+ players were involved in the trials process providing the Dublin U16 management team with a mammoth task to reduce this number down to the final..
Dublin Minor Training Panel announced
December 13, 2016
Dublin Minor Training Panel announced:The minor management team would like to thank most sincerely all the players that attend Dublin minor trials over the last number of weeks as well as their parents for taking the time to get them there.Over 150 + players have taken part in the trials with the standard on display extremely high following a series of trials the Dublin management team have selected the players listed below as the Dublin Minor training panel for the coming weeks.Please note that..
Mick Bohan to be appointed new Dublin Senior Manager
December 05, 2016
Press Release on behalf of Dublin LGFAMonday 5th December 2016Dublin LGFA would like to announce the appointment of Mick Bohan as Dublin Ladies Senior Manager in an interim capacity with a view to ratification at the next available County Committee meeting.This will be Mick Bohan’s second term as Dublin Ladies senior manager having previously managed Dublin to the 2003 All Ireland final versus Mayo. Mick was also part of Dublin management team led by Willie Lillis that captured the County’s ..
Nominations sought for Minor panel 2017
November 15, 2016
Dublin U 18 (Minor) Trials 2017:Dublin LGFA would welcome nominations from clubs for players to attend trials for the 2017 Dublin U18 / Minor panel.Clubs are requested to deliberate carefully when submitting forward nominations for the trial process. Dublin LGFA would like clubs to strongly reflect on the attributes of the player or players who they are sending forward for consideration.Dublin LGFA are appealing to clubs to only send forward players for trials who possess the attributes, commitm..
Dubs' secure Five TG4 All Star Awards
November 14, 2016
Dubs' secure Five TG4 All Star AwardsTG4 All Ireland Championship winners Cork dominated the 2016 All Star team with 6 All Star awards.Dublin claimed five awards of their own with Monaghan claiming a pair of All Stars and Kildare and Mayo receiving one place each.Briege Corkery joined Cora Staunton and Mary Jo Curran as the most decorated player of all time with 10 All Star awards.Corkery was joined on the 2016 team by Cork team mates; Marie Ambrose, Bríd Stack, Leah Caffrey, Deirdre O’Reilly..
2016 All Stars Awards
November 11, 2016
Good luck to our 8 Dublin 2016 TG4 All Star Nominees - The 2016 LGFA All Star nominees will be revealed tomorrow evening at a gala banquet being held in City West Hotel, Saggart. TG4 senior All Ireland champions Cork lead the way with eleven nominations followed by Dublin with eight. Beaten All Ireland semi-finalists Mayo and Monaghan each have four nominations along with quarter finalists Donegal. Lidl NFL division 3 league champions Waterford have also secured four nominations. Intermediat..
Leinster Young Player of the Year
November 11, 2016
Leinster Young Player of the Year - Dublin LGFA would like to congratulate Caoimhe O'Connor from Clontarf GAA club on being chosen as this year's worthy recipient of the Leinster Young Player of the year Award. Caoimhe will be presented with her award at the TG4 All Stars Banquet in the city West hotel tomorrow evening, Sat Nov 12th. Caoimhe was instrumental for Dublin this season at U16 level and played a pivotal role in Dublin winning their seventh consecutive Leinster Crown. The diminutive..