Lux GAA would like to invite you to our annual general meeting for 2011 which will be held in Foyer Européen (Address/Map below) on November 22th, to begin at 8pm.

On the night itself, events on and off the field of the past year will be discussed as well as decisions which need to be made with 2012 in mind.

This AGM will be once of immense importance with both a committee for the G.S.C.L. to be elected and one for the new federation in Luxembourg.

Below is a list of positions on both of the committees which will be open for nomination between now and the AGM. Anyone interested in nominating themselves or others to positions are more than welcome to do so.

Chairman / Vice Chairman / Treasurer / Secretary / PRO / Registrar / Club Development Officer / Sponsorship Officer / Team Managers / Ex-Officio Members

We look forward to seeing you there – especially new and prospective club members.
Once concluded we will retire to Decibel.

Address: Foyer Europeen, 12 rue Heinrich Heine, L-1720, Luxembourg

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Comhgairdeas to Anna Geary who has won her fourth Camóige All-Star. Somewhere amongst her 23 All-Ireland medals is a European Championship medal that she won with Luxembourg GAA in 2007.

Luxembourg players from both the championship side and the shield side that competed in Limerick

Congratulations to Guernsey Gaels GAA on winning the third and final round of the men’s European GAA Championship in Limerick after beating Den Haag in the final in the Gaelic Grounds late last Saturday night. The win means they win the overall European GAA Men’s Championship for 2011. Amsterdam were convincing winners for the 2011 shield title and the Belgian runaway winners in the ladies competition. Beir Bua.

Luxembourg continue to build, and while they showed some of their true potential they unfortunately where pipped to a place in the final after Den Haag grabbed a late goal in the semi to resign Lux to a 3rd/4th play-off against Belgium. Having well and truly emptied the tank against Den Haag, Lux had neither the physical or mental capacity remaining to give a fair reflection of themselves, leaving Belgium with a healthy win to claim 3rd place.
All this meant Lux finished 4th in the overall standings for 2011.

This weekend 2011’s European City of Sport, Limerick will host the final rounds of the European Men’s Championship, Ladies Championship and Men’s Sheild, with Luxembourg fielding a men’s team in both the Championship and the sheild. The Championship side are gouped with Guernsey and Stockhom. With teamss from Valencia, The Hague and Brussels competing in the other group. The Sheild side will face both the A and B teams from Amsterdam in Group A. Group B consists of Copenhagen, Niort, Belgium B and Gothenburg. Group C contains Lyon, St Gallen/Zurich, Toulouse and Frankfurt. Check out the previews on RTE.ie and Limerick.ie.

Click the link below for the European County Board website where they hope to stream the final live for the Gaelic Grounds on Saturday afternoon.

Gaelic Sportscast will be conducting interviews throughout the weekend and these will be streamed live and available on podcast.
Also tune into Live 95FM where they will be broadcasting live.
And finally, there will be exstensive coverage in the Limerick papers; The Limerick Post (with a special supplement for the day), The Limerick Leader and The Limerick Chronicle.

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This past weekend saw the wonderful marriage of club secretary Chris Sheperdson and club cheerleader Niamh Shivnan, in the stunning Abbaye de Neumünster.
GSCL wishes them many years of happiness together.
Comhghairdeachas libh.

Lux GAA veteran John Haughney serving Irish Coffee at last years International Bazaar

There’s more to life in Luxembourg than top class Hurling and Football! There’s lots going on over the next few weeks here in Luxembourg.
We got the British and Irish Film Festival, the return of Pure Drops live in concert and of course, the Irish Stand at the International Bazaar.

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A team assembled from various Clubs across mainland Europe tookpart in the All-Ireland Junior 7’s in St. Jude’s of Templogue, very admirally reaching the final of the Shield before being beaten by Caherlistrane of Galway.

Read Dave Barrett’s review of the day here.

Following in Lux GAA’s footsteps, September sees the publication of “A Parish Far From Home”, Philip O’Connor’s remarkable book which outlines the founding of the Stockholm Gaels GAA club and their first season together. With a foreword by Irish broadcasting legend Michael O Muircheartaigh, copies can be ordered directly from the publishers’ website or any of the other links below. For more information on the book and the author, please see the ‘A Parish Far From Home’ website and the Stockholm Gaels homepage The book can also be bought from: Play | Amazon | Foyles | WH SMith

Eoin Mac Domhnaill, Dónal Shivnan, Danny Harvey and Robbie Carthy take the reigns at last year's BBQ

Earlier in the year GCSL was lucky to have three time All Ireland medal winner Éamonn Fitzmaurice over for a coaching weekend.
He kindly donated an O’ Neill’s football signed by the Kerry panel and in honour of old rivals Dublin and Kerry doing battle for Sam this Sunday, we will be hosting a raffle for the ball along with many spot prizes.

The raffle will take place in The Black Stuff after the big match (Kick off 4.30pm CET).
We will also be putting on a BBQ all day for the event. All procedds in aid of Gaelic Sports Club Luxembourg.

Fáilte riomh chách

2011 / Vol. 3 The latest newsletter has been printed. Members should have received theirs in the post by now. There are still hard copies available, please contact us if you wish to pick one up. This edition features a review of the Camogie season along with a review of the Men’s football tournament in Frankfurt (Benelux round 4). There are also some nice pictures of recent marriages and a birth within the club. You can download a PDF copy of it here . Also, our Newsletter page has PDF downloads of past copies.