📰 Around the club

Ardclough are hosting a Punchestown preview night on Saturday April 26th for those interested in horse racing. Some very special guests making an appearance on the night.

🏐 Cul Camps 2025 🏐

There are still places available in the Straffan and Ardclough football summer camps. Places filling up fast.

https://www.kelloggsculcamps.gaa.ie/

📝 Some of you might have spotted our detailed match reports from Straffard games over the past couple of weeks on social media. Many thanks to Francis Farrell for these “on the sideline” reports. 

We look forward to more of these reports in the future as he transitions to his new career of sports journalist 🙂

 

💃 Best of luck to all our Straffard players from Ardclough and Straffan Youth Theatre groups who thread the boards in Belfast this weekend, presenting the show they’ve worked so hard on this year. Enjoy the weekend girls. 

🏐 On the pitch

Our U10s kicked off their Go Games season on Saturday with some fantastic skills on display! 

Huge thanks to Confey and Cappagh for making the trip to Straffan. The girls looked amazing in their brand new jerseys—big shoutout to PwC for the generous sponsorship. Support like this means so much to the club and helps us continue to grow and support our young players. Well done to all the girls, brilliant effort all around!

Our U12s made the short trip over to Clane in the first of the spring league games. The girls showed skill and determination and worked extremely well against a strong and  skillful Clane team. They fought until the very end and never gave up. Thanks to Clane for the hospitality as always. 

The girls also looked amazing in their brand new jerseys with a big shoutout to PwC for the generous sponsorship. Support like this means so much to the club and helps us continue to grow and support our young players.

U8s vs Leixlip/Rathcoffey

Our U8’s were in action at the weekend against Leixlip and Rathcoffey. 

The girls were all great and did the jersey proud!

Our U13s played Kilcullen in Division 1 on Monday evening in Straffan, coming out on top 4-9 to 3-5 making it 2 wins from 2 and putting them top of the league table after round 2.


U14s vs Kill

Our U14s had a local derby with Kill in Straffan on Tuesday evening. Kill came out of the blocks all guns blazing and racked up some early scores to leave Straffard with a mountain to climb in the second half. 

With a number of girls playing with knocks and a couple having leave the field of play due to illness things looked bleak. However the players rallied in the second half, showing phenomenal character. 
Although they lost the match, they can be proud of keeping their chins up and winning the second half.

Special praise to Millie Viljanen and Lucy Cunningham who switched to the back line in the second half and shored things up. 
Also well done to Lucy Ferris who was given the unenviable task of switching to midfield in the second half and marking Kills strongest player. Kills attacking threat was immediately stifled because of her workrate after half time. 💪 

Our U13 Div 4 team played Clane in Straffan last night. Although they lost on the night to a very good Clane team, they kept going right until the final whistle. Well played girls and hard luck on the night.


🗓️ Coming up this week

Our brilliant U15 team are in Feile action this weekend. Best of luck to Gary, Siobhan, Tony and all the team in their games against Caragh and Kilcock.

🏐 Straffard U17s vs Cappagh  

🗓️ Friday April 11th 

🕐 7.30pm

📍 Cappagh GAA

🏐 Straffard U11s vs Caragh/Robertstown  

🗓️ Saturday April 12th 

🕐 10am

📍 Straffan GAA

🏐 Straffard U7s vs Caragh/Clane/Raheens  

🗓️ Saturday April 12th 

🕐 11am

📍 Straffan GAA

🏐 Straffard U9s vs Leixlip  

🗓️ Saturday April 12th 

🕐 12pm

📍 Leixlip GAA

🏐 Straffard U15s vs Caragh (Feile)  

🗓️ Saturday April 12th 

🕐 12pm

📍 Caragh GAA

🏐 Straffard U15s vs Kilcock (Feile)  

🗓️ Saturday April 12th 

🕐 12.45pm

📍 Caragh GAA

🏐 Straffard U13s vs Maynooth (Div 1)  

🗓️ Thursday April 17th 

🕐 7pm

📍 Straffan GAA

🏐 Straffard U17s vs Carbury  

🗓️ Thursday April 17th 

🕐 7.30pm

📍 Straffan GAA


🏳️ County Teams

Well done to Straffards Bea van Lonkhuyzen and Daisy Fortune who played the U14 Platinum semi-final against Offaly last Saturday.

The Kildare girls came out on top 1.12 to 2.05 and can now look forward to facing Meath in the final.

Straffard were also well represented last Saturday in the Kildare U16s win against Westmeath, 2.17 to 1.05. Well done to Issey Kelly and Lila van Lonkhuyzen.

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