‘Europe’ Archives
#128 Stockholm take Scandinavian championship
In the fourth and final round of this year's Scandinavian Mens Senior Football regional championships at Gothenburg, Sweeden last Saturday Aug 14, it was league leaders Stockholm who came away with the spoils to take this year's title. The boys from Stockholm had a very strong squad at their disposal, complete with a number of recent [...]
Beach Gaelique …est arrivé!!!!
Les francais goin' about their business last weekend in the southern French city of Toulouse, were taken by surprise as a new sport had just taken a bow in their ville...Beach Gaelique! New GAA club Tolosa Gaels (Toulouse Gaels, formed this year), took on the job of introducing both Gaelic football and Beach Gaelique to the uninitiated with a [...]
#107 Belgium tops in European hurling
Last Saturday in Zurich turned out to be a fantastic day of celebration for Belgium GAA as they won both the hurling and camogie European championship titles for 2010. Belgium hurlers had left for the land of cow bells and chocolate with the hopes of retaining their '09 crown by overcoming the challenge of Luxembourg, Paris and Zurich, and, [...]
Stockholm gain revenge
At the recent Malmo GAA Tournament, June 19 in Sweden for Rd 2 of the Scandinavian Mens Football Championship, Stockholm, last month's runners up to Malmo, gained revenge when beating the 2009 regional champions in comprehensive fashion on a scoreline of 3-9 (18) to 1-5 (8). The southern Sweden event was deemed to be the best so far this [...]
#82 Impressive French performance in NW final
GaelicSportsCast today takes a look back to the fourth and final round of the North West European Regional Mens Football Championship held recently in Paris. Despite weather worries, the tournament was a great success with Belgium A winning the day for the ladies while in the mens section, hosts Paris Gaels ran out 4 point winners over Jersey. All [...]
#72 Guernsey win Channel 7’s to take North West Championship
Guernsey Tournament winners, Guernsey A. (Photo courtesy of Guernsey Gaels Club). Guernsey in the Channel Islands held their 13th Seven-a-side Mens Gaelic Football Tournament last Saturday. As well as local island neighbours Jersey, taking part in this annual tournament, which also doubled as Rd 3 of the North West Regional European [...]
#68 Madrid rule streets of Pamplona
Round 4 of the Iberian Football Championship took place in Pamplona last weekend. This northern Spanish city, famous for its 'running of the bulls' San Fermin festival in July, last Saturday saw the men and women footballers from Madrid Harps rule the streets as they ran out winners of both the mens and ladies tournament. Guillaume Kerrien, an [...]
#65 Belgium and hosts take spoils in Luxembourg
In Rd 2 of the European Hurling and Camogie Championships at Luxembourg last weekend, we had the largest club turnout to date make this a very entertaining and successful event. Last time out, Belgium in hurling and hosts Luxembourg in Camogie, walked away with the honours from Rd 1 in early May at the Hague in Holland. And, it was no different [...]
Malmo take Scandinavian opener
The Scandinavian Regional Mens Gaelic Football Championship got underway last weekend in the city of Copenhagen and here to tell us how the hosts fared and who made the final is Copenhagen Secretary, Kenny Grogan. It was the first meeting of the year between the Scandinavian Gaelic football clubs last Saturday the 22ndof [...]
# 58 Guernsey and Liffré best in Europe’s North West
We had Rd 2 of the North West Regional Championships of Europe as well as the final of the Breton Championships in mens football take place in Liffré, France yesterday, Saturday May 22. The host club and all French side Liffré, who despite losing in the final of the tournament, did enough to win their fourth successive title in the Breton [...]
