12 May 2010

The Jakes, Slackjaw Gabbity, the Amadhans, Anarkali and the Wakes put their talent on show at the Admiral bar to raise £900 for the minibus appeal.

About 140 gig goers enjoyed a lively and varied performance, with something for everyone.

The club would like to say thanks to the bands for their support and to Danny Boyle for all his hard work in making the night a great success.

A full report on the night was carried in the Irish Post, see the "Glasgow Irish music community pull together in aid of GAA fundraising efforts " article by Mary McGinty. 

Slackjaw Gabbity

The Jakes

The Amadhans

Anarkali

The Wakes

When bad stuff happens, keep smiling...

14 April 2010

Today Tir Conaill received an e-mail from the Lord Provost's Secretariat to advise that they are sending us a donation of £200 for our Minibus Appeal. 

Not only is this greatly appreciated by the club but it also is the donation that has taken us over the £5,000 mark.

This is a great achievement and our thanks go out to all who have supported this appeal, from both within and without the club.
All efforts are now going into our up and coming Club Awards Night on April 24th.

Only £7,000 to go!

11 April 2010

The picture below doesn't quite do justice to the efforts of Darius & John.  If taken five minutes earlier they would have been surrounded by the river of Celtic supporters that were flowing towards Hampden.  Only to de delayed briefly by the lads giving out Minibus Appeal leaflets like the clappers.  In 40 minutes we gave out about 800 leaflets.

Now, for the supporter who insisted on giving us a donation on the street (I tried to refuse it, honest) with the words; "I will leave it to your conscious as to where the money goes".  Your donation is in the club funds and duly recorded on our Appeals page.  Thank you very much.  We hope that Darius & John's efforts will be rewarded by a few more like yours.

05 April 2010

The first visitors to our stall were Mr & Mrs MacDonald (Glengarry shinty club), who not only took a few leaflets for back home but also took the lovely photo of our hard working stall team.

During the rest of the afternoon we were visited by a number of the competitors from the Irish Dancing championships, a few more highland visitors, some visitors from further afield, a few Weegies (including a friendly Glasgow Gaels player) and Pat Bonnar (we think).

We hope that the information given out will raise the awareness of our Bus Appeal and also of the club as a whole, both in Glasgow and in elsewhere.

Hard at work:

Enthralling the crowds with a skills display:

Gaelic sports take over Buchanan St:

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23 March 2010

There’s now an easy for you to help raise funds for Tir Conaill Harps Gaelic Athletics Club!

Shop Online and Raise Funds 

easyfundraising is a shopping directory listing some of your favourite online stores including Argos, Next, Debenhams, John Lewis, Toys R Us, HMV and over 2000 others. Just use the links on the easyfundraising site whenever you shop online and, at no extra cost to you, we'll receive a free donation of up to 15% from every purchase you make.

It’s completely FREE to register and you won’t pay a penny more for your shopping when you use the easyfundraising site. In fact you can even SAVE MONEY as many retailers offer discounts, special offers and even 'e-vouchers' exclusive to easyfundraising.

If you shop online anyway then why not raise valuable extra funds for us. All you need to do is visit http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/tchgac and when you register, select Tir Conaill Harps Gaelic Athletics Club - Glasgow as the organisation you wish to support. 

So if you are thinking of joining E-bay then sign up through http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/tchgac and earn £4.50 for the club. Easy peasy.

18 March 2010

 Our annual dinner dance in the Crowne Plaza Hotel goes ahead on Saturday 24th April.  Tables of 10 can be booked from harps@live.ie or by leaving a message in 0141 221 4553 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              0141 221 4553      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              0141 221 4553      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              0141 221 4553      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              0141 221 4553      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              0141 221 4553      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              0141 221 4553      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              0141 221 4553      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              0141 221 4553      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              0141 221 4553      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              0141 221 4553      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              0141 221 4553      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              0141 221 4553      end_of_the_skype_highlighting.

We have a limited number of single seats which can be booked @ £40. Club members are asked to do their best to promote this evening as all proceeds are going to the mini-bus appeal.

16 March 2010

The Harps minibus appeal is £1500 to the good after the club served up a winner with visitors to the St Patrick's celebrations at Glenconner Park in Royston.

Thanks to the generosity and time of members and supporters, Harps volunteers were able to feed hundreds of people at the event, which was organised by Garngad Irish Heritage Group.

We're now a total of £4000 closer to our fund target of £15,000 after a round of bag packing, dances and generous donations from other Gaelic sports groups and associations.
However, the campaign to get the Harps back on the road has a long way to go and we're asking everyone to pull out the stops.

While we were really cooking indoors, Ciaran Kearney and members of the Harps Youth Group were busy putting youngsters through their football  paces.

There's now a minibus appeal page up and running on this website. You can donate online and the committee is looking for more innovative fundraisers.

02 March 2010

It's a long road ahead but the substantial shortfall in the insurers valuation and the cost of a new bus was cut by £500 on Sunday when the underage hurlers and camogs got a great response from the Glasgow public at a bag packing at Tesco in the east end.

The club will be meeting soon to outline their plans to raise the shortfall.  It already seems certain that the proceeds of their annual charity dinner in April which funds all of the club community development activities will now have to be set aside to finance the new bus.  "It is disappointing that we have to go down this road as the dinner usually covers all of our coaching, equipment and youth leadership activities for the next twelve months, but the priority for us is transport.  We are not set up like a traditional GAA club in Ireland.  Our children are spread all over the city so transport is  the key " explained the club chairman.  Due to lack of games locally the bus is also used regularly to take teams over to Ireland for games. In the coming weeks the under 12 hurlers and under 10s footballers had planned to go on trips. These have now been shelved until the bus is replaced.
The club have an online appeal set up . You can make a donation by clicking this link Club Everyclick Page.

23 February 2010

The club mini bus was bunt out in an act of wanton vandalism in the early hours of Monday morning in the Lambhill area of Glasgow.  A full statement relating to the incident will be issued by the club executive committee in the near future.

13 September 2009

The Gaelic Athletic Association has recently launched it's new Foundation level gaelic football coaching course. The first course to be organised in Glasgow will be held at Glenconner Park, Royston Rd, Glasgow, on Saturday 3rd October, from 10am to 3pm.

The course will be facilitated by the Scotland GAA's Community Development Administrator, Ciaran Kearney as part of the Tir Conaill Harps GAC club's Women's Celtic Sports Festival. There is no charge for this course which is ideal for sports education students, parents and underage coaches. To register for the course ring Ciaran Kearney on 07872600442 or e-mail ciaran.kearney.cda.scotland@gaa.ie

The course is fully certified and free of charge.

14 September 2009

Included in this weekend's busy schedule were two fundraising events.

The first was a race night and ceili run by the U8s, 9s and 10s on the south side.  This event was very successful and raised a massive £1,650, including a generous donation of £300 from Coneworx.

The club would like to thank all those whose efforts contributed to the night's success, including our race master Jim Ward, our ticket sellers, the tellers, the cashiers, the ceili band who put on a sterling performance, the staff at the Railway club and most of all the people who turned out to support the club.

The second event was a dance hosted by the Garngad Irish in Royston.  This turned out to be a great night with a lively crowd.  The club would like to thank this group for their ongoing support of Tir Conaill Harps.

10 September 2009

The club would like to thank the efforts of Jack Trow and Sally Lafferty who have left the club's Managemnt Committe to concentrate their time and efforts on establishing the newly formed Harps Community Project. Between them they have given over fifteen years voluntary service to the club and we really appreciate all they have done for the club in this time.

We now welcome back Janice Aitken to the Management Committe were she will assume the role of club treasurer.

18 August 2009

Due to the decision of the GAA in Ireland not to continue to fund the post of Development and Health promotion Officer we have had to release Tommy Main from his contract. We are grateful for the years of service he gave to the club both as a volunteer and in latter years as an employee.

On the positive side Tommy has been able to find employment through a new initiative, the Harps Community Project. This project will develop various community initiatives with young people in the city. It was set up by some club members to ensure that the years of award winning work done by the GAA club in areas of social exclusion and poverty would continue, albeit in a different format. Although we have had great success over the years on the field of play, it is our work with young people at grass roots level which marks us out differently from a traditional sports club. We are grateful for the support of the Irish government who recognised the unique work being done by the club in this area.

There is a general club meeting to discuss these changes and the implications they will have for the club in the Govanhill Neighbourhood Centre, on Thursday 27th August, at 7pm.