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Club Turns 50
Our wonderful club turned 50 years old on Thursday 21st January. Our club was formed on 21st January 1971. Present at the inaugural meeting were Pat O’Neill, Mick Delaney, Paddy Branigan, John McGuinness, Mick Boyle and we know there were others so please send in your information that you have.
The first committee took on the club and was led under the chairmanship of Mick Boyle, with Paddy Branigan and Pat O’Neill as secretary and assistant secretary respectively. John McGuinness(RIP) took control of the purse in the treasurers role with a grand total of £34 for the club to start out with. Other members of the committee who will be familiar names to some of you are Oliver Kavanagh, Tommy Watters, Jim Murphy, Jim Pickens, Tommy Weir, Pat Beakey (RIP), Jimmy Stafford(RIP), Terry Collier(RIP), Ken Lougheed (RIP), and Mick Baxter(RIP).
Keep them coming - We ask you all to share your old photos and memories with pro@cilles.com
We will celebrate together again as soon as it's safe to do so.
Our 2020 Ladies Club AGM took place on Monday 18th
The Ladies AGM was held virtually on Monday the 18th of January attended by 44 members. Our new 2021 committee was elected. Congratulations to all our officers.
Paul Nash as chairperson
Ann Byrne as vice chairperson
Maeve Connell as secretary
Ollie Carroll as county representative
Natalie Davitt as ladies team representative
Other members elected were Aideen Gurrin, Ken McHutcheon, Mark Murphy, Paula Duignan and Urban Renstrom.
Thanks to our outgoing committee members Cliona, Denise and Aisling.
We are Looking forward to an exciting season later in 2021 💙
Healthy Club Conference
The GAA healthy club conference was hosted by @officalGAA on Saturday morning. We represented the club in the area of social football and sharing the experience of our Gaelic for Mams and Dads programme with the delegates in attendance. Our "social football" experience started in 2013 and we've never looked back. Paul and Ciara spoke about the benefits we've seen from a club, community and personal perspective. There were over 600 delegates in attendance from all over the country. There were lots of interesting initiatives shared by other clubs from around the country from Healthy eating, diversity and inclusion to operation transformation. The conference was an inspiring testimonial of how clubs are reaching out to their communities all around the country and making a difference in people’s lives.
James Kelly, who has been an integral part of the Healthy Club initiative since its inception in St. Colmcilles, has taken on the county board role as Healthy Club officer for Meath. We wish him well in this role.
Club Lotto
We’d ask all our members to help us on the lotto. Our sales are significantly down on last year, due to pubs and shops not being able to sell the tickets. You can subscribe online by clicking here📷
National Draw Tickets.
The GAA National draw has been postponed until June. We still have lots of tickets for sale and the club get to keep all money from funds raised. First prize is a Renault Clio V Dynamique Tce 100MY19.
Tickets are for sale on our website or by clicking here.
Contact Ciara 087 - 6560343 for more information
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My Life Challenge
Over 160 of us are currently pounding the roads of East Meath for the My Life challenge, which started Wednesday 13th January 2021 and runs for another 6 weeks until March 3rd 2021. We have started strong and are now in second place in Leinster, with over 170 other clubs participating. There is STILL TIME to join us, if you walk/run every day, help us get across the line to the top place. All our combined steps count!!
- Download the Mylife app from the App store or Google Play store
- Register your details
- Tap on the social tab on the Mylife app
- Select challenges
- Select the challenge for your province Tap on join & select St Colmcilles East Meath
New Coaching Hub.
Conor, our GPO, has developed a new portal with a commendable number of coaching resources for our teams. Well done Conor and thank you.
This is an internal resource and has been circulated to all coaches. If you didn't get details from him, please contact him on conor.brennan.gpo.meath@gaa.ie
Membership 2021
2021 Membership is now open for the 2021 Season. The price increase which was agreed at the 2020 AGM for the 2021 season has been deferred until 2022. Rates will remain as per last year. Emails will be sent out from ClubZap this week or You can register on our website HERE.
Upcoming coaching Webinar
There are 2 upcoming webinars aimed at different groups. Registrations is available by clicking here. The first, on 20th Jan @7.30pm, is aimed at coaches of the U15 groups upwards and will focus on Testing and Developing Aerobic Fitness. The second, on 3rd Feb @ 7.30pm is on Speed and Agility for youth athletes and is aimed at coaches from U13 upwards.
COVID-19
We remind all our members that due to current restrictions our grounds are CLOSED. Please do not use the facilities during this time.
