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2017 Down GAA Indoor Hurling Leagues

Monday 27th March 2017

2017 Down GAA Indoor Hurling Leagues

Down GAA indoor Hurling leagues commenced in Eddie Irvine Sports in Bangor on January 15th 2017.   The programme rans for 8 consecutive weeks, with the final round of games taking place on Sunday, 12th March 2017. 

There has been a great atmosphere around the programme with a great number of clubs attending from both Down and Antrim. Down GAA Hurling GPO Danny Toner should be commended on his work within this programme. There is a huge organisational aspect associated with the running of this initiative and Danny was helped in no small measure by the various clubs who attended the programme and their willingness to pass on and return information on a weekly basis.

 

Down GAA Outdoor Hurling Programme (P4 / P6)

The Coaching Department have also agreed with the Hurling Development Committee to once again take responsibility for the running of 1 x u8 & u10 (P4/P6) county wide hurling blitz on the first Saturday of each month, running from April to October. The first of these will be held on April 1st 2017. The blitzes will be held in St Patrick's GS Downpatrick, commencing at 10am each day.

These blitzes will be organised, delivered and administrated by the Coaching Department Staff. This initiative ran very well in 2016 and we hope to build on this success in 2017. At the request of our clubs, the outdoor programme for both p4 and p6 will be fully airborne in 2017. We are keen to develop our young players to the very best of their abilities and would therefore ask clubs the ensure that players are experienced with full striking in advance of the programme commencing.

We would ask all clubs involved to make sure they return requested information promptly on a weekly basis to the Coaching Department when asked in advance of each blitz to allow for fixtures planning etc.

2017 Outdoor Hurling Programme & Co-ordinators:

1ST APRIL - DOWNPATRICK
KS1 Coaches - Pierce Caherty & Ryan McShane
RHDO in Charge - Danny Toner

6TH MAY - DOWNPATRICK
KS1 Coaches - Caitriona Kiloran & Mark Hand
RHDO in Charge - Kieran McGraw

3RD JUNE - DOWNPATRICK
KS1 Coaches - Pierce Caherty & Caitriona Kiloran
RHDO in Charge - Ryan Gaffney

1ST JULY - DOWNPATRICK
KS1 Coaches - Ryan McShane & Mark Hand
RHDO in Charge - Danny Toner

5TH AUGUST - DOWNPATRICK
KS1 Coaches - Pierce Caherty & Mark Hand
RHDO in Charge - Kieran McGraw

2ND SEPTEMBER - DOWNPATRICK
KS1 Coaches - Ryan McShane & Caitriona Kiloran
RHDO in Charge - Ryan Gaffney