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March 4, 2024
Coaching Workshop with Mick Bohan

Over 50 coaches were involved in a joint LGFA/Football workshop with Dublin Senior Football Manager Mick Bohan, which took place last Saturday in the clubhouse. Mick gave a wonderful insight into his time involved with the Dublin senior football team,with DCU and of course his current role with the Dublin Ladies senior football team. The…

March 4, 2024
Ballyboden St Endas is in safe hands!

Under the leadership of Paul Waters the official launching of Goalkeeping Academy  took place on Monday 26th for Gaelic Football and LGFA Youth Goalies. Paul Waters gave a presentation themed “Roll of a Goalkeeper”  to over 40 goalkeepers plus Coaches on the night. The Academy will be a learning experience for both the players and…

November 5, 2023
Notice: Gym restrictions due to upgrade works

**Notice** Due to upgrades in the gym starting Monday 6th November, the gym with have limited equipment in use until the refurbishment finishes on Friday 17th November. The gym will still be open during this refurbishment apart from Wednesday 15th and Thursday 16th when it will be closed for health and safety reasons. Thank you…

August 23, 2023
Project to Support Hurling and Camogie in our schools

At the Hurling review meeting in November 2022, one of the priorities identified was to support our local Primary and Second Level schools in promoting Hurling and Camogie. We are now calling on some coaches to support this initiative. We are looking for coaches to commit to 6 weeks in one of our local schools….

August 16, 2023
Summer Coach Education Series

The last of our Summer Coach Education series took place last Friday on the All Weather pitch and this time it was the turn of LGFA and Gaelic Football. The two main themes of the session were tackling and support play. The workshop was aimed mainly at the U13 to U16’s coaches with 21 coaches…

June 23, 2023
Boden Boys Festival of Football & Hurling

We are delighted to bring the “Ballyboden St Endas Festival of Football & Hurling” to our juvenile boys for July 2023. This is a huge opportunity for all of our players to participate in weekly internal tournaments and enjoy lots of games in the sun (hopefully!).   There will be weekly games for each age…

May 30, 2023
Gaelic Football & LGFA Communities of Practice

85 of our Ladies & Mens football coaches gathered at 8am last Saturday morning for our Gaelic Football & LGFA Communities of Practice seminar. The aim of the session which was held in St Colmcilles National School, was develop a framework for how we coach & prepare our football and ladies football teams. The seminar…

May 11, 2023
Athletic Nutrition Workshop – 24th May 2023

We are delighted to host an Athletic Nutrition Workshop with Sarah Nagle, Registered Dietician & Performance Nutritionist, on Wednesday 24th May 2023 at 8pm. This is open to all athletes aged 15-18 years across all codes, and to all club coaches, and to parents of U13-U18. Register for this great event here

May 11, 2023
The Easter Schools of Excellence

Our Easter School of Excellence kicked off on the Tuesday of Easter week (11th April) with Camogie. Our attendees and coaches were joined by Senior Camogie player Áine Rafter and special guest Orla Gray of Dublin Camogie and Na Fianna. Hurling followed on the next day and club coaches including Mattie Weldon were joined for…

May 7, 2023
Summer Camp Launch

We were delighted to be joined at the launch of our Summer Camps by our main sponsors – Leahy O’Rioradan Accountants and Cruinn Diagnostics. We are grateful to them for their continued support, and we look forward to a fun 4 weeks of Summer Camps during July/August. A few places still remain for Week 1…