Munich Colmcilles GAA, Gaelic football and hurling

Founded in 2001 by a group of Irish ex-pats in the English Garden, the München Colmcilles is the Gaelic Football and Hurling club in Munich. The club is made up of an underage hurling team, a ladies football team and men’s football and hurling teams.

The Colmcilles have their own training grounds within TSV Gartenstadt Trudering. In 2007, the men’s footballers won the Eastern European Regional Championship after finishing second in Budapest and winning the Vienna and home Munich tournaments. In 2005, Irelands fastest growing sport, Ladies Gaelic Football, became firmly established in Munich and in 2007 the team lined out in all 7 tournaments across Europe. The hurlers used the year to regroup and are once again aiming for success in the European League in 2008.

Last year also saw underage hurling develop. Training is held every Saturday afternoon and there are up to 25 children ranging from the ages of 5 to 13 in attendance. A vital part of the club is the off pitch activities which include social nights, “Stamtisch�, Strassenfests and the post tournament craic at up to 8 continental European venues over the summer.

The time has come to shed the winter pounds. Why not come and learn more about the Munich Colmcilles. We will answer all your hard questions, like “What does GAA mean, and what are those crazy sports and names I do not recognise? Irish people, culture and sport, do I dare? Yes you do, and you will love it ! All you have to do is come to the Irish Pub “The Shamrock� at 7p.m. on Wednesday 19 of March for a “Meet and Greet� evening. We welcome all potential players, club members and socialites.
Bring a friend to keep you company if you please, but it is our only hope that you enjoy yourself and are interested in our club. Hope to see you all there.

More info here. http://www.munichgaa.de/

If anyone is interested in playing some Gaelic Football i.e. Irish football, then please send an email to info@munichgaa.de for details. We are currently looking at boosting our numbers, as we are hosting a tournament on July 26th here in Munich (more on that closer to the date).

The club trains 3 times a week, near the Ostpark, at a proper soccer playing grounds. Training info can be found here. We are part of S.V. Gartenstadt.

GAA is a more physical game compare with soccer, as it's semi contact. More about the game can be found here, or you can watch the youtube videos below :

1. All-Ireland Football Final 2002. Armagh v Kerry. (4 mins 39 secs)
2. All-Ireland Football Final 2003. Tyrone v Armagh. (7 mins 41 secs)

So if you are male or female (what else is there ?) and are looking to join a friendly, active club, feel free to get in touch with us. It doesn't matter if you've played before or not, we have players from all over the world (USA, Japan, Bulgaria, Munich, England, Sweden,etc). Our next training session is this Saturday at 11am.

Our website is located at : http://www.munichgaa.de/

The 7th annual Munich Gaelic football tournament will take place on July 26th, 2008 at our training grounds in SV Gartenstadt Trudering, Heinrich-Wieland Str 102, 81735 Munich.

We will have 5 teams taking part in the 1st round of the men’s European championship and 6 teams in the 4th round of the ladies European championship.
The first round of the European men’s shield will have 4 teams competing for a place in the final. The days event will throw in at 9.30am and will end with the 3 finals, the first of which will begin at 4pm.

There will also be a pitch side bar and BBQ to keep the thirst and hunger from the door. Good weather as always is expected. A kids hurling exhibition will take place if numbers are sufficient.

The Munich Colmcilles look forward to seeing you all on the 26th for what promises to be a spectacular day showcasing Irelands national games.

More details here www.munichgaa.ie

This is on this Saturday, if anyone wants to come and watch some Gaelic Football. There will also be a bar selling Augustiner Helles/Guinness/Magners as well as a one of these . Games start around 9:30am and will go on til about 4:30pm.

Details on how to get to the place (it's beside the Ostpark/Michaelibad) can been seen here : http://www.munichgaa.de/training/directions/

Weather currently is looking at a sunny 28° ! http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/GMXX0087_c.html

So do come on down and join in the fun.

Here is the official Poster too

Just to bump this up as an event in Munich also!

The 7th annual Munich Gaelic football tournament will take place tomorrow July 26th, 2008 at our training grounds in SV Gartenstadt Trudering, Heinrich-Wieland Str 102, 81735 Munich.

This is a Europe wide competition and Munich are the only official playing club now in Germany. Teams are travelling from Copenhagen, Barcelona, Paris, The Hague, Amsterdam, Maastricht, Belgium, Luxembourg and Vienna.

We will have 5 teams taking part in the 1st round of the men’s European championship and 7 teams in the 4th round of the ladies European championship.
The first round of the European men’s shield will have 4 teams competing for a place in the final. The days event will throw in at 9.30am and will end with the 3 finals, the first of which will begin at 4.30pm.

There will also be a pitch side bar and BBQ to keep the thirst and hunger from the door. Good weather as always is expected. A kids hurling exhibition will take place if numbers are sufficient. We also have a bouncy castle for the younger ones.

The Munich Colmcilles look forward to seeing you all on the 26th for what promises to be a spectacular day showcasing Irelands national games.

More details here www.munichgaa.ie

Yay, we'll be there cheering you on! Excellent craic last year and a great atmosphere, even for rabidly anti-sports me. The GreenFarm Girls will be out in force.

Looking forward to seeing you there Crusoe with all the greenfarm gang
Fingers crossed that Munich could do a double!!!

We had a great time. Fair dues to the lot of ye for putting on a first class day.
We were even able to let the dog watch the games.
He'll be down to the next training.
CONGRATS!

Great day. Well done on the weather as well.

Who won it in the end? I had to leave before the end unfortunately.

THEY did

Nobody won - it was participation that counted in the long run.

We had a great time!

Thanks folks, glad to hear that you enjoyed the day.

Luxembourg beat our Munich boys in the final

A great evening was had too with 250 footballers and friends scoffing a grand dinner in the Hofbraukeller!!

Next tournament Budapest 13th. Maybe we'll do better there!!

We'll light a candle for yez, riri!

Well done to all the Munich players, shame about the results coz you all worked your asses off ...

But great sport, cold beer, great weather = great sunburn !!