By Peter Sweeney on Dec 7, 2011 | In News | No Comments »
Ranelagh Gaels’ Annual General Meeting will take place on Friday night.
The venue is the Community Hall on Mountainview Road and proceedings get underway at 8.0.
All club members are encouraged to attend as the AGM is where we make plans for the year ahead and address any issues that may have arisen during 2011.
A good turn-out is expected because this is one of the most important dates in the club’s calendar.
For directions to the Community Hall, click here.
By Peter Sweeney on Dec 4, 2011 | In Social Scene | 7 Comments
THERE was a great turn-out on Thursday night for Ranelagh Gaels’ annual awards function.
This is only the second year that the event has been run, but already it is a firm fixture in the calendar.
Players from the men’s and ladies team plus other club members packed a room at Doheny and Nesbit on Baggot Street for what turned out to be a great night.
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By Cathal MacSuibhne on Nov 14, 2011 | In Men's Football, Murphy Cup | 14 Comments
Murphy Cup Final
Ranelagh Gaels 1-8
Ballinteer St Johns 1-7
They were the sentiments of Murphy Cup winning manager Liam O’Hagan in the aftermath of his Ranelagh Gaels side’s nail biting win in Glencullen on Sunday. The Gaels came out the better in a dogfight where work rate and honesty of effort won the day.
It was a great end to a long, tough year for Ranelagh; training for almost 11 months solid the lads richly deserved their silverware after having had a great championship run and another encouraging finish in the league.
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By Cathal MacSuibhne on Nov 6, 2011 | In Division 8, Men's Football | 2 Comments
Ranelagh Gaels 1-12
St Josephs 0-4
Ranelagh Gaels ended their 2011 Division 8 League campaign with a comfortable win at Bushy Park on Sunday morning. A league programme that began in February was wrapped up in early November with the Gaels lying 4th in the table.
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By Site Admin on Nov 1, 2011 | In News | 1 Comment »
The mens team have one outstanding AFL8 fixture remaining, against St Josephs OCB – this has been fixed for Sunday next, November 6th, in Bushy Park at 11.0.
The game will serve as a good warm up for the lads with the Murphy Cup Final against Ballinteer St Johns expected to be played within the next few weeks.
The next Ranelagh Gaels Lotto draw will take place in Birchalls on Sunday 27th of November. It costs just €2 per ticket to entry, so why not get involved? Tickets can be bought at all the local points of sale or you can even play from the comfort of your own armchair by logging onto www.locallotto.ie .
THERE was a Ranelagh Gaels reunion on Hardware Lane in Melbourne last week.
The club’s finest-ever water-carrier, umpire and substitute Peter Sweeney met up with former team mates Cathal Murphy and Gordon Pritchard, who are now living Down Under.
Kerry-man Cathal has managed not to put any further engineering businesses into liquidation since his move (three he worked for closed immediately before his emigration!).
Gordo is Melbourne born and raised, but while he was in Ireland for a year back in 2008 he showed off his Gaelic football skills in Dublin’s AFL Division 10 North.
By Peter Sweeney on Oct 19, 2011 | In Championship, Men's Football | 4 Comments
Ranelagh Gaels 2-5
Parnells 2-9
RANELAGH Gaels’ brilliant run in the Junior C Championship came to an end at the semi-final stage on Sunday.
Having beaten teams ranked far higher than them in earlier rounds, most notably Naomh Fionnbarra in the quarter-finals, the Gaels finally came undone against an excellent Parnells side in Balgriffin.
Ranelagh came back from the dead to lead at the three-quarter hour mark, but ‘Nells showed real class and composure to pull away to a deserved five-point victory.
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