U15 Footballers host Breaffy Gaa, Mayo [ Saturday, 23rd February 2019 ] Our U15 Footballers hosted the Mayo lads yesterday in a challenge match on PUM ahead of the Senior Dublin v Mayo match in Croke Park. A fanastic display of football ensued with the lads and mentors hitting off so well that plans are…
Juvenile Boys Football
85 boys began their football careers last Saturday with 3 teams playing away to Ballinteer and 6 teams at home to Kilmacud and Ballinteer in Sancta Maria. It’s wonderful to see so many happy little faces donning the Boden jersey. The future is bright!
U9 Footballers begin their football carreers [ Saturday, 16th February 2019 ] Finally the wait was over for 85 Ballyboden boys last Saturday afternoon when they got their chance to put all the skills learnt in the Academy into competitive action in their 1st ever games. Three teams travelled to Marley Park tp play Ballinteer St John in…
Well done to our U10 Footballers winners of the Pat Walsh Memorial Cup in the Tournment hosted by The Downs Gaa club in Mullingar on Sunday. For a report on the day’s proceedings, see here. Photos by Naomi Bartley. For more, see here. Boden Abu!
They came, they saw and they did the club proud. The Downs was celebrating their 125 year anniversary and Ballyboden had the honour of representing Dublin in The Pat Walsh Memorial U10 Boys Football Tournament in The Downs GAA in Mullingar on 23rd September. The ethos of the tournament was a “focus on players playing…
Delighted to see the chaps line out against a rather gruf, St. Vincents side in PUM on Saturday last. “Fortuna audaces juvat “, I said to the charming lady beside me. “Wha?”, she barked. “Fortune favours the bold”, I said, in full knowledge that my Latin education is really wasted on you GAA types. The…
All 3 U16 Football teams had great wins in the U16 Football Cham;pionship over the weekend. Our A’s beat St Vincents in PUM 3-10 to 0-08 (see here for match report) in ‘A’ Championship, our B’s beat Kilmacud Crokes in Silver Park 5-19 to 0-04 in ‘C’ Championship while our C’s beat Na Fianna C 4-14 to…
This weekend sees round 2 of the Under 16 Football Championship. Please come out in force again to support the teams, it’s a great experience for the players. I have listed a few phrases that you can use on the side line, so you will look like a seasoned supporter. A team at home on the “Good…
Under 16 Football A Championship – A Traditionalists View Growing up in the 50’s, I believe that there are only two ways to play football, direct and directertor (education was not my priority!). That’s when a successful training session was measured by the amount of bodies lying strewn in a heap at the bottom…