Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Uladh

Following the successful completion of last year’s Diploma Course in Team Management this qualification is being offered at the request of coaches who want to make the transition from coach to manager. It recognises that coaching and managing have significant similarities but it also recognises that they are different. The series of workshops will take [...]

The Ulster Council Coach Education Programme continues to evolve as we move into autumn/spring 2012/13 with Ulster Coaching and Games Department rolling out the following courses in Armagh this autumn Award 2 Child Course on the weekend’s of the 19 – 21st & the 26 – 28th October. All applicants must have completed the Award [...]

The inaugural Jim McGuigan Cup (u17 football) was played at Glen on Saturday afternoon with the home side emerging victorious. In the semi final, despite a poor opening half, the young Oak Leafers finished strongly against a fancied Tyrone side running out winners on a scoreline of 2-11 to 1-09. With Cavan netting a last [...]

All Ireland SFC Semi Final: Donegal 0-16 Cork 1-11 Donegal will play in the All-Ireland football final on September 23 after securing a fully-deserved victory over Cork at Croke Park on Sunday. The Ulster champions were magnificent, playing an open, attacking style of football whilst also defending with true grit, discipline and skill. The first [...]

The 2012 Phoenix Natural Gas Ulster GAA Elite Football and Hurling Squads have competed at the highest level recently when Ulster’s footballers took on Dublin U17 side, while Ulster hurlers took on Connacht. These matches were a follow-up to the Phoenix Natural Gas Ulster GAA Elite Academies which the young athletes attended earlier in the [...]

Are you aged 14-24 years old? Are you involved in volunteering with your GAA club? If the answer is YES then you should register for the GoldMark Programme today! GoldMark aims to recognise the volunteering efforts of young people in sport. There are 3 levels of award – 50 hours, 100 hours and 200 hours [...]

The inaugural Jim McGuigan Cup (Ulster intercounty U17 football) will take place this Saturday 25th August at Watty Graham’s GAA, Maghera. The semi final line-up is: Derry v Tyrone; Cavan v Down. The throw-in for both games is 12noon. All media and photographers welcome. Jim McGuigan served as treasurer for Derry County Board for 32 [...]

The Minister for Justice David Ford MLA held a meeting with officials from Ulster GAA today at the governing body Headquarters in Armagh. Meeting the Minister and his officials were Aogán Ó Fearghail (President Ulster GAA), Dr. Danny Murphy (Director and Secretary Ulster GAA), Ryan Feeney (Head of Strategy and Public Affairs), Aileen Cummins (Community [...]

First Derivatives, leading providers of software and consulting services to the global capital markets, has announced its sponsorship of the GAA Asian Gaelic Games Tournament 2012. Held during October in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the games are in their seventeenth year having started in 1995 with six men’s teams and now approaching 900 participants. The appeal [...]

On Friday, 10 August 2012, PeacePlayers International – Northern Ireland (PPI-NI), Ulster Rugby, the Gaelic Athletic Association, (Ulster GAA) and the Irish Football Association (IFA) will host the Belfast Interface Games flagship event at Seaview Crusaders Football Club from 6 – 9pm. Throughout the summer, the participating sporting organisations have held a series of multi-sports [...]

Following an incident on 1st August 2012 at a Club league game in Fermanagh in which an official took ill, the GAA in Ulster and Fermanagh wishes to publically acknowledge it’s members efforts to emergency response. Brookeborough GAA clubman Peter Boyle, a lifelong volunteer within the Association, was officiating as umpire at a Club league [...]

GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Quarter-Final: Donegal 1-12 Kerry 1-10 Donegal are through to the semi-finals of the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship for the second year running after a deserved win over Kerry at Croke Park on Sunday. Colm McFadden hit 1-6 for the Ulster champions, who were comfortably in control of the game, [...]

Armagh recently had one of their most succesful Handball days. On the courts in the Citywest, Dublin, Clann Eireann took top Girls Honours in the All-Ireland GAA Handball 40×20 Feile and five National Onewall titles were also secured. In capturing the Girls 15 and Under title and the Boys 17 and Under one wall Nationals [...]

The NSPCC’s Child Protection in Sport Unit and Sport NI are working in partnership with a number of sports governing bodies to deliver an All Ireland Safeguarding in Sport and Leisure conference. The conference is targeted at those in the role of Child Welfare Officer/Children’s Officer at club or community level in any sport and [...]

For the first time a Fermanagh Camogie squad participated in the national Feile na nGael competition in Dublin. The team was comprised of girls from all across the county. It was a huge achievement for Fermanagh to be represented in this competition as Camogie continues to develop in the county. Camogie have received great support [...]