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3rd June 2016

Sea Races starting this weekend – Important Notice for Sea Swimmers to register

The Sea swim season is starting this weekend, all swimmers from the Club need to complete the on line declaration. Go to http://leinsteropensea.ie/rules-swimmers-declaration/ .Best of luck to all swimmers this year, if anyone is interested in doing any sea swims with the Club contact Brian or Jim. We would like to encourage as many as possible junior and senior swimmers. For this years race calendar go to http://leinsteropensea.ie/calendar/ . The Clontarf Swimming Club sea races are the Island swim which is on Sunday 26th of June and the Bobby Nolan swim which is on Friday 9th of September.

1st June 2016

Irish Girls win Gold in ASA Regionals 2016

Well done from Clontarf to the Irish Girls team who came home with Gold from the ASA Regional Tournament held in Liverpool last weekend. A special mention to Robyn Joyce doing Clontarf proud and also well done to Sophie Moran who was Ireland MVP over the tournament. The group stages took place on Saturday 28 May, with Ireland leading the table in Group A, despite an early 3-4 loss to North West Thunder. Ireland won against Wales by just a goal in a thrilling 4-3 victory. A brilliant performance from Ireland in the semi-final saw the first clean sheet of the competition in a 7-0 shutout against the South East, booking their place in the final. A thrilling final followed, Ireland took the lead in the closing seconds of the first half, with Robyn scoring on a man-up. Aoife Hennessy found the back of the net early in the second half. Just seconds later, Aoife then scored her second of the game and Ireland held on to take their first ever victory in the competition, claiming gold. Well done again to all the Players, Coaches and Supporters who travelled over, great achievement for Irish Waterpolo. Well done from Clontarf.

16th May 2016

Girls 2001 Irish Team Selection

Congratulations to Robyn Joyce from Clontarf SC on her selection for the Irish U15 team travelling to the UK at the end of this month. Well done Robyn!

15th May 2016

U15 Irish Cup – Clontarf Boys 3rd Place

Clontarf U15 Boys team took part in the Irish U15 Cup this weekend, a strong performance on Saturday with wins against Drogheda and North Dublin gained them a place in the semi final against Corrib. This was a hard fought match with Corrib winning 12-5. Clontarf boys then had a third place playoff with St. Vincent’s. Saint Vincent’s started off strong getting a 2 goal lead going into the second quarter. Clontarf responded and levelled the score to 2-2, the match then went to 3-3, leading to an exciting fourth quarter, Clontarf took a 2 goal lead, St. Vincent’s came within 1 goal with two minutes left and Clontarf quickly responded again getting back the two goal lead. Eventually the score finished 6-4, with a great display of Waterpolo for both Leinster Clubs. The boys final was contested between Corrib and Clonard with the final score as 4-4 and Clonard winning on penalties. The girls final was between Tribes and St. Vincent’s, with St Vincent’s winning by 1 goal.  Donegal Diamonds won against North Dublin in the Girls third place play off, Well done to all teams over the weekend, a great tournament. Thanks from Clontarf, we will be back next year.

18th April 2016

Clontarf SC AGM

The Annual General Meeting for Clontarf Swimming and Waterpolo Club will take place at Clontarf GAA Club on Thursday the 28th of April starting at 8pm sharp.

18th April 2016

Date for your Diary Clontarf Family Day

Same as the last few years we will be holding our family fun day event in Clontarf GAA Club on Saturday 25th June at 5pm. The afternoon will start as always with the annual Junior Boys, Junior Girls and Senior Sea Races. We will meet at the shelters at the Bull Wall at 3pm. Presentations will be held after the sea swims in Clontarf GAA Club. More details closer to the date.

18th April 2016

Training Sessions for remainder of Season

This Wednesday the 20th April and this Sunday 24th of April will be the last Waterpolo training sessions in Guinness Swimming Pool for this season. This is due to maintenance work being carried out on the pool between May and June. There will also be No training in the NAC this Friday 22nd of April due to the Irish Senior Cup. This will be a great event starting on Thursday until Saturday so if you near the NAC it will be worth watching a few matches. Training will be held in the NAC on 29th April and 6th May, this will be the final sessions of this season.

18th April 2016

Clontarf Win the U13 Irish Waterpolo Cup 2016

Clontarf Waterpolo Club won the U13 Irish Cup last weekend. The tournament started on Saturday 16th April with 18 teams involved for 2 days of action packed waterpolo. Clontarf entered two teams into the competition, Clontarf United were in a group with a strong North Dublin team and Tribes Claddagh. North Dublin won both their games and Clontarf United won against Tribes Claddagh in a very tight game winning 2 goals to 1. In the other group the other Clontarf team were up against Grads and Claremorris winning both games. The two teams progressed to the second group stages on Sunday, the Clontarf United team had two games against St. Vincents and Kells loosing both games. This knocked them out of the competition but for the majority of the players in the United team this was their first time in a Cup competition and they had a great time over the two days. Meanwhile our other team progressed steadily through the second group stage winning against Tribes and Guinness to gain a place in the Semi Final against Clonard. Clontarf won against Clonard who got to into the semi final after a tense penalty shoot out against Drogheda. In the other Semi Final Corrib A won against St. Vincent’s. The final was set, Corrib v Clontarf, the game started off with Clontarf scoring first and stretching out a 2 goal lead before Corrib responded to make it 2-1, then Clontarf scored another 2 before half time. In the third quarter Clontarf stretched out a lead eventually winning the game 10-4. Thanks to Corrib for a great match and the crowd were well entertained. A special thanks to all the supporters who came over to the NAC to support the teams. Thanks to Swim Ireland for hosting the competitions over the two days with over 180 children from 6 to 13 playing. Also thanks to the tournament director, the referees, the bench duty staff and the NAC staff for a well run event. We will be back next year to hopefully make it three in a row.

2nd April 2016

Clontarf Welcomes Jersey

Clontarf will play a mixed Senior team from Jersey on Sunday 3rd April at 2pm after the Junior Training in Guinness Swimming Pool.