A wise Belgium GAA man once referenced an even wiser woman (actually he referenced her a number of times, but she is very wise, so that’s alright). This wise woman stood tall, with her hand on her hip, and spoke about Belgium GAA as a club that was developing into a community, a home awayContinue reading “Back-slapping: Race Night 2012”
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Better late than never: Guernsey 2011
Note from the editor: Last year, I received this article about the football tournament in Guernsey for submission to a newsletter that never came about. It’s about time that the article was published in a public forum and what better time than the day before the first tournament of the year and the day beforeContinue reading “Better late than never: Guernsey 2011”
Go forth and inflitrate
Go forth and infiltrate A startlingly warm and sunny Saturday morning in March saw a number of Belgium ladies heading to the Parisian suburbs, to meet with their European cohorts: a well-dressed Luxembourg squad, a lone Zurich ranger and the Paris camogie players, able hosts of the first European camogie workshop. This two-day workshop, 18Continue reading “Go forth and inflitrate”
Belgium Take a Bite Out of the Big Apple
(Photo courtesy of Laura Whiskerd)(Reportage by Irene Kirwan, also published on hoganstand.ie: http://www.hoganstand.com/camogie/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=156608) On 1st October, 8 teams gathered in Orangeburg, up-state New York for the Young Ireland’s 40th annual 7-a-side camogie tournament. Two teams each from Toronto, Baltimore, and Boston, joined New York and Belgium at the recently developed pitches at the Rockland GAAContinue reading “Belgium Take a Bite Out of the Big Apple”
Hurling/Camogie – Round Three – Zurich – 25 June 2011
The 2011 convoy of Belgians to Zurich was conducted en voiture, as opposed to last year’s Great Train Journey. This year’s odyssey had two immediate results. Firstly the camogiers (pictured below) won their third tournament of the year and in doing so, retained the European Championship ahead of their home and final tournament in LeuvenContinue reading “Hurling/Camogie – Round Three – Zurich – 25 June 2011”
European Hurling and Camogie Finals – Belgium – 23 July 2011
European Hurling and Camogie Finals – Belgium – 23 July 2011 (photo courtesy of Anna Bates) For a weekend, Belgium was the home of hurling and camogie. In Europe, at least. We even had Joe McDonagh to serenade us with The West’s Awake from the pulpit of De Valera’s. Some early organisational glitches aside (toContinue reading “European Hurling and Camogie Finals – Belgium – 23 July 2011”
Launch of European Hurling and Camogie Finals
Launch of European Hurling and Camogie Finals – Belgium 2011 The following is a piece written for hoganstand.com by Belgium GAA Chairman, Kevin Keary: The 2011 European Hurling Championship is coming down to the wire on the final tournament of the year in Leuven, Belgium, this Saturday July 23rd, from 9am – 6pm. 2009 andContinue reading “Launch of European Hurling and Camogie Finals”
The House Always Wins…
The House Always Wins 13 July 2011 – The gentlemen footballers of Belgium GAA were in the mood for fundraising/fleecing of late. With this in mind, they organised that most GAA of occasions, a Race Night. School night be damned, the whole club and more turned up in De Valeras to throw their money toContinue reading “The House Always Wins…”
Belgium Conquers Germany and Spain
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” If Charles Dickens was a member of Belgium GAA, he might have rewritten A Tale of Two Cities, basing it in Frankfurt and Barcelona on the weekend of 11 June 2011, and making that first paragraph dramatically more positive. But he wasn’t, andContinue reading “Belgium Conquers Germany and Spain”
Football Round One: Luxembourg 2011
Saturday 9 April 2011 saw Belgium GAA face scorching temperatures and strong oppostion in Luxembourg. The first round of the mens Benelux championship and the ladies pan-European championship took place in Berbourg. It was a long day, punctuated by sunburn and ambulances.The mens teams were divided evenly for the day, with the A team comingContinue reading “Football Round One: Luxembourg 2011”
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