New and Exciting Developments
in Alberta Gaelic Football
By CATHOLINE BUTLER
CALGARY - I met with Adrian Lagan, the Chairman of the Calgary Chieftains Gaelic Football Club, along with some of the club members while I was in Calgary. We met at Jameson's Irish Pub in the North East of Calgary, which is one of the team's sponsors.
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MEMBERS of the Calgary Chieftains Gaelic football team at Jameson's Irish Pub in Calgary: (L-R) (FRONT ROW) Mandy Tuohy, Maeve McKiernan and Orla McKiernan. (BACK ROW) Mike West, Adrian Lagan (chairman of the Calgary Chieftains), Amanda Stewart and Tim Hamill.
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One piece of very exciting news was the recent announcement of the engagement of Adrian to Amanda Stewart. A fairy tale wedding is planned on June 9 in Dundalk, Ireland, with the reception at the Seventeenth Century Castle Bellingham.
The ceremony will be conducted by Father Christopher McElwee who is Adrian's uncle. The church where the wedding will take place is in the parish of Kilcurry and it is a small old parish church which holds about 100 people. It was also the parish that Amanda's mother belonged to in Ireland.
Adrian will be going to Ireland the beginning of June for three weeks, but said he will not miss any of the Gaelic football tournaments because he has planned his wedding around the tournaments.
Speaking about the up coming Gaelic season, Calgary will have some new members for the club and the women's team have new management. Three ex-members of the Chieftains, Stephen Kean, John Connolly, and John Fitzgerald have agreed to work with the women's team.
A new and exciting development this year is the new Eire Og Gaelic Football Club that has just been formed in Red Deer.
Adrian said, "we've been in touch with a couple of the members of that club and they are keen to get things up and running this year and now have 10-14 guys out training.
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CONGRATULATIONS to Adrian Lagan and Amanda Stewart of Calgary who will be married in Ireland in June this year.
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"Our first protocol this year will be to go up there and help those boys out as much as we can and make sure that they can get established. So we will have three teams in Alberta, and we could meet up every second week-end, since we are only an hour and a half drive away from Red Deer."
For more information about Gaelic Football in Calgary, visit their website at: www.calgarygaelicfootball.com, or call: (403) 998-5664. In Red Deer, e-mail: blainelavery@gmail.com, or call Rory Lynch at (403) 597-6684.
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