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Munich was our next port of call for our tournament excursions with the third round of the European Hurling and Camogie Championships 2024. We sent a full camogie team while our hurlers joined up once again with our friends from Leuven for the day.
Laura, Kat, Killian, Oisín Brennan, Eoin, Jan, Sebastian, Anto, Alanna, Alex, Annie, Annika, Svenja, Julia, and Phoebe were the Celts who represented us here.
These reports come from our hurling coach, Jan Stolle and club PRO, Katharina Breuer:
In May 2024, several Celts played with distinction in the first round of the European Hurling and Camogie Championships. We teamed up with Leuven and came back with some trophies!
Saturday, 6th April 2024, was a big day in the history of the Cologne Celtics GAA Club, as we secured our second German Hurling Cup, and reached the final of the camogie competition before losing out to the hosts, Hamburg GAA. This article was provided by Kat, Frank and Jan.
On Saturday, March 16th, we held the second edition of the Francie O’Connor Cup competition in Bezirkssportanlage, Chorweiler. It was a busy day as we had six hurling teams – Cologne, Rhineland Gaels, Eindhoven, Leuven, Darmstadt and Annaghdown from Galway, Ireland – and three camogie teams with Eindhoven, Leuven and a Cologne/Darmstadt mix. Annaghdown (hurling) and Eindhoven (camogie) proved to be worthy winners in the end.
As we prepare for the Francie O’Connor Cup and the German Hurling and Camogie Cups, a group of Celts went to Strasbourg last weekend to represent us there at an invitational hurling and camogie tournament. This tournament was, surprisingly, our first time playing on French soil.
Thanks to Laura for putting together this report on what several of the players said was one of the most fun Celtics‘ trips they’ve experienced!
Save the Date! On St. Patrick’s Weekend (Saturday, 16th March), the Cologne Celtics GAA Club is back in hurling and camogie action with the second Francie O’Connor Hurling Cup.
We will be playing at Bezirkssportanlange Chorweiler (Merianstraße 5, 50769 Köln). The event is free to attend and is open to the whole family.
On Saturday April 22nd, the Cologne Celtics competed in the 2023 edition of the German Hurling and Camogie Cups. This time they were held in Darmstadt. Although we didn’t win either of them, our players represented our club with pride, passion and skill.
On April 1st our camógs and hurlers represented the club with pride and passion as they reached their respective finals. Read about their progress here in this tournament report – compiled by hurling officer, Frank and club secretary, Lea.
Chris Bethe is a legend of Darmstadt GAA and a former European Hurling Officer for Gaelic Games Europe. He chatted to us about his plans for bringing hurling to the international community in Ireland, and his experiences as European Hurling Officer during the time of Corona lockdowns.
On September 24th, 2022, the Cologne Celtics held the German Cups – the Chris Hennessy and Sebastian Rießbeck Cups – in Chorweiler. With the Desmond Brothers TV crew, the head of the German Embassy’s Irish Abroad Unit, and many other guests in the crowd, we enjoyed a full schedule of hard hurling and camogie matches.
On June 11th 2022, the Cologne Celtics hulers faced off against Setanta Berlin, Darmstadt, Vienna Gaels and Hamburg GAA while our camoige team faced the hosts in the Darmstadt Tournament. It proved to be a wonderful day for the teams from the Rheinland!
Relive the German Camogie and Hurling Cups 2021 – the Chris Hennessy and Sebastian Rießbeck Cups – held on March 12 2022 in Düsseldorf. A fantastic day for our club, as both our teams came back to Cologne victorious.
Our first hurling and camogie tournaments in Cologne! On October 2nd 2021, we were delighted to host Darmstadt and Stuttgart in hurling, and Darmstadt, Munich, Vienna and Stuttgart in camogie.
What a day! This was a great day for hurling in Cologne. After a highly disrupted 18 months, the Celts were back on the hurling pitch for a feast of action with our friends and rivals at Darmstadt GAA.
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