Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Uladh

On Wednesday 27th February St Patrick’s Hilltown cluster ran a ‘Step into Spring’ event involving two other schools – St Paul’s Cabra and St Colman’s Annaclone (all 3 schools are in the Clonduff Extended schools cluster programme). A lot of time and planning was put into the organisation of the activities which included agility, balance, [...]

Over a period of 6 weeks Ulster Camogie RDO Ross Corbett has been delivering Camogie coaching in 4 schools in Derry City aimed at improving the participation levels in the City. The programme has been supported by the Na Magha Camogie club with St Cecilia’s, St Mary’s College, St Brigid’s College and Thornhill College all [...]

The 2013 Leagues were launched on Monday 4th March at Stormont with the assistance of Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure Minister Caral Ní Chuilín along with Laura of Hughes of NWP Recycling. Applications are now open for the 2013 NWP Recycling Ulster Club Leagues. This year an extra section [...]

The KUKRI sponsored Ulster schools finals are well underway with six of the eleven finals now decided.  With goals a plenty and silverware being distributed around four counties so far it’s been a great year for Ladies Gaelic in our schools. Loreto Omagh retained their KUKRI Ulster U20A title thanks to a 2-13 to 1-8 [...]

Ulster Bank McDevitt Cup Final: St Paul’s JH School 5-8 Abbey Vocational School (Donegal) 3-10 Brewster Park in Enniskillen once again proved to be a popular venue for the Under 14 footballers of St Paul’s Junior High School where they collected the school’s third Ulster Bank McDevitt Cup, as it was at the same ground [...]

Danske Bank MacRory Cup Final: St Patrick’s Maghera 2-5 St Paul’s Bessbrook 0-10 Maghera school St Patrick’s were crowned MacRory Cup winners for 2013 after beating St Paul’s from Bessbrook 2-05 to 0-10 in the final on Monday 18th March. The south Derry boys were in command after early goals scored by Conor Carville and [...]

Ulster GAA, through the Stadium Board, have been widely consulting on their plans to redevelop Casement Park before submission of final planning application. Two Community Consultation Days have already taken place in the Andersonstown Leisure Centre at the end of the March, where local residents and businesses had the opportunity to hear more details about [...]

Comhairle Uladh CCC have confirmed the venues for the upcoming Cadburys Ulster Under 21 Football Championship Semi Finals are as follows: Wednesday 3rd April Cadburys Ulster Under 21 Football Championship Semi Finals (Both games at 8.00pm, ET if necessary) Dún na nGall v Doire at Healy Park, Omagh An Cabhán v An Dún at Athletic [...]

Over the last few weeks St Mary’s P.S. Mullymesker have been taking part in Sports Factor with Ulster GAA coach Owen Mooney. The children, teachers and classroom assistants from P2-P4 came together for each session. The focus of the three weeks were as follows: – Week 1: Leadership & Team work – Children were put [...]

St Mary’s Aghagallon GAC availed of a six week mentoring programme run out by DENI coaches Eoghan Gribbin and Conor Hynds. The six week programme allowed coaches from the different age groups within the club to see the individual structures of a session for their age range. They were taken though warm-ups and the components [...]

UUJ retained their Ashbourne Shield with a fine three point win over UCC.  Centre back Sabrina Larkin was in excellent form for UUJ along with captain Aileen Martin and Maire Mulholland.  UCC were best served by the hardworking Miriam Crowley and Patricia Buttimer. UUJ played with the breeze in the first half and withstood a [...]

Ulster GAA Secretary, Danny Murphy, and Treasurer, Michael Hasson, are pictured with a number of the 47 students who received €640 bursaries from Ulster GAA. The awards are part of a National initiative, which is administered by the Provincial Councils.  Ulster GAA awarded a total of €30,080 in bursaries for the 2012/13 academic year. The [...]

The Camogie Association Media Award and RTÉ Mick Dunne Memorial Award recipients for 2012 have been announced with two awards going to Ulster. The Camogie Association Media Award for Social Media went to the Ulster Camogie Council for their website www.ulstercamogie.ie Derry man Leo McElwee also won the Photograph of the Year in the amateur [...]

The 22nd Ulster Ladies Gaelic Convention was held in Kellys Inn recently.  The low key affair was opened by Hugh Devenney who was chairing his last meeting before stepping down as the most senior officer in the province. In the election of officers there were no major surprises with most officers retaining their positions from [...]

Ulster GAA has won an award for its ‘Live to Play’ Road Safety Campaign. Earlier this month, at the Michelin factory in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, where the Michelin Man presented Aileen Cummins, a community, health and wellbeing manager at Ulster Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) with one of the awards. Aileen was selected as a Michelin [...]