Congratulations to Down Ladies who won Div 3 in Saturday's League Final v Armagh and gained promotion to Div 2 for next season.

Clonduff Youth Tournaments
All Clonduff Tournaments have been sanctioned and the dates are as follows:
Daniel Andre Memorial U10 (P6) Football - Saturday 1st June
Brian McGreevy Memorial U8 (P4) Football - Saturday 15th June
Gary Murray Memorial U12 Football - Saturday 22nd June

MIND THE BANK!
Over the winter months The Club has invested in a planting program for the banks around our new Pitch. Hundreds of new Dogwood plants are now in place which will provide a highly attractive and colourful feature within Clonduff Park as well as help stabilise the earthbanks.
It is very important that these young plants are not disturbed during this period and we would ask that everyone takes care not to enter the planted areas as the plants are very easily damaged at this stage of their growth.
Would all parents and Mentors/Coaches please remind children and adults, players and visitors not to enter these areas so that the plants can be protected and in the near future we can all enjoy a really special feature of our continually developing 1st Class facilities.

Cemetery Masses in Clonduff Parish
Cabra - Tuesday 4th June                   
Ballygorian - Wednesday 5th June                  
Ballymaghery - Thursday 6th June
There will be a Special Family Mass for this Year of Faith on Sunday 26th May @ 11am in Ballymaghery, concluding with May Procession.
There will be no activity for Clonduff players during these times! Training and games will be re-scheduled for later times.

Clonduff Merchandise
There is now a vast array of Clonduff Club merchandise available to order for all ages - children's gloves (with club crest), jerseys, shorts, socks, hoodies, raincoats, umbrellas (with club crest), official club tie, 125 DVDs, etc. There will be a number of ordering/fitting events organised over the coming months.

Handball
Clonduff Girls Handball U14 Feile Team made history last week as they were the first group of girls ever to represent Clonduff in the Feile. They acquitted themselves very well and were runners up to an experienced Downpatrick side. It was held in Clonduff Handball Court on Wednesday 8th May. The girls only started playing Handball before Christmas 2012. The team was:  Clara Cowan, Erin Rafferty, Molly Brown and Jenna Boden and were presented with their medal by Feile Committee member Michael Keenan who gave the girls a great commendation.
Clonduff sent two Boys' Teams to Saval also on Wednesday night to compete in the Down U-14 Feile Handball Competitions.
Team 1 - Tom Close, Charlie Kerr, Patrick Cowan and Shay Fitzpatrick
Team 2 - Darragh Fitzpatrick, Conor Milligan, Shane Close and Rory McKernan.
Both teams played their hearts out and were very unfortunate not to have any winners on the night.
Team 1 were beaten by Downpatrick but came back strongly to beat Saval
Team 2 got to their Final and beat Warrenpoint 15/7 in game 1 but were beaten 15/4 in game 2 to lose narrowly on aggregate scores.
Tom Close came very close to winning the skills competition - 37/42. Hard luck, Tom.
Clonduff were the youngest teams on the night and have to be in with great chances of winning next time. Well done lads!

Football
SFL Clonduff had two games in four days both with very different outcomes. On Thursday 9th May the were in Kilcoo and were on the wrong side of 2-12 to 0-6 drubbing. They were well in the game up to half time but trailed 2-1 to 0-4. Team: Neil Trainor, Shane McGreevy, Mark McPolin, Ruairi Lively, John McPolin, Shane O'Hagan, Rory Grant, Henry Brown, Niall McPolin, Kieran Trainor, Gary McDonald, Paul Lively, Tony McGreevy, Arthur McConville, John Fegan. Subs used: Jason Brown, Karl O'Hagan.
On Sunday afternoon (12th May) they entertained their great adversaries Mayobridge and and the end of an exciting game emerged two point winners - 0-12 to 1-7. This result lifts them us to joint 3rd in the table. Team: Neil Trainor, Shane McGreevy, Ruairi Lively, Niall Tumilty, Shane O'Hagan, Darren O'Hagan, Rory Grant, Henry Brown, Arthur McConville, Tony McGreevy, Paul Lievely, Barry O'Hagan, John Fegan, Jason Brown, Finbarr McConville. Subs used: Patrick O'Hagan, Gary McDonald, Liam McGreevy.
MFL - Clonduff's Minor footballers came out on top against the reigning County Minor Champions on Tuesday evening, winning 5-7 to 2-14. This was a well deserved win though perhaps Clonduff made things difficult for themselves at times. Team and scorers: Mark Bradley, Declan Gribben, Caolan McEvoy, Thomas Murnin, Shane Milligan,  Liam McAleavey, Rory McQuaid (Capt) (0-2), John Brown, Patrick O'Hagan (1-2), Liam McGreevy (2-1), Stephen McConville (0-1),  Darren Harper (0-1), David Quinn, Mark Devlin, Jack O'Hagan (2-0), Team Subs used: Charlie Carr and Kevin Smith. Other Team Subs: Patrick Gribben; Declan Rooney; Niall O'Hare; Rián Ward and Michael Grant.
SD U14FL - Clonduff U14 Footballers lost a very entertaining League game away to Warrenpoint on Monday night. Both sets of forwards were on top with Warrenpoint's clinical finishing the only difference in the two teams - Final Score Warrenpoint 6-10 Clonduff 3-12. Team: Thomas O'Hare, James Keenan, Lyndon Brown, Ryan Woods, Dean McCabe, Ryan Matthews, Tiarnan Russell, John Boden, Ross Carr, Darren Quinn, Jamie O'Hagan, Ethan Lyness-Feenan, Cathal Fitzpatrick, Ben McConville, Padraig Wilson. Sub used: Shay Fitzpatrick; Other subs: James Carvill, Shane Cairns, Conor Milligan, Jack Campbell, Eoin Murray
SD U12FL - Clonduff v Burren - Team A had a great win 2-7 to 1-4. Playing with the wind in the first half Clonduff played great long passing football that put the Burren backs under pressure and they went in at the break leading by 5 points. An even better display against the wind was seen as Clonduff coped well and played as a team. Again some great long range point scoring and a strong back line saw the boys gain victory.
Team B also played some great football with the wind in the first half and they also had the lead at halftime. Burren came back strongly and even despite some very solid defensive play by the Yellas, the visitors came out winners by 4 points. Well done to everyone!

Camogie
The Senior Camogs got their belated season under way during with week with two games - home to Liatroim and away to Portaferry. Despite being depleted though injury, holidays and exams, the girls played some good Camogie but found the going tough and were defeated in both.

Hurling
Clonduff Senior Hurlers Take a Heavy Defeat - Ballygalget v Clonduff
Following on from the high of their first win in the Senior League last week, the Senior Hurlers got a sharp reminder of the realities of Division One Hurling. Going to the Ards and missing 5 players through injuries was always going to be a struggle.
Next up is Kilclief at home on Monday 13th May at 7:30. In the meantime, we wish Ryan Brannigan and Sean Downey all the best with the trials for the Down U21 team on Thursday.
Team: Ryan McShane, Shane Quinn, Christopher Brown, Jamie Lowry, Rory Mathews, Pauidi Mathews, Sean Downey, Ciarán Smith, Danny Nugent, Jamie Lynch, Shane Murray, Rián Branagan, Laurence Murphy, John Murphy, Christopher Young; Sub Used: Mark Downey
U16 HL - Clonduff played host to Warrenpoint and following a feast of goals - 12 in total the spoils (and the points) were shared on the score Clonduff 7-4 Warrenpoint 5-10.
Best wishes to Gerard Coughlin who sustained an ankle injury and was removed to hospital. Hope the injury is not too serious Gerard.

Ladies Football
The U12 team was the only Clonduff Ladies Football team in action in the past week. With no league game this week a friendly in Clonduff Park was organised with the Warrenpoint girls. Two teams of 9-a-side fielded and both teams played extremely well and there were some great performances in only their second game of the year. Panel: Hannah Wilson, Erin Lively, Paddi Fitzpatrick, Seanin McGarry, Sinead Woods, Fionna Burns, Isabella O'Hare, Alanna Donnan, Sarah Kelly,
 Aoife Brown, Elizabeth O'Hanlon, Aoife McCusker, Una Fearon, Orla McCusker, Emma McGreevy, Ella McCumiskey, Lauren Kane, Rhiannon McKeown.
 Next game is away Kilcoo in the U12 League on Wednesday 15th May - all players to meet at field at 6.15 to travel to Kilcoo for kick off 7pm. Volunteer transport from parents appreciated.

YOGA IN THE CLUBROOMS
Mon - Yoga for backs 7-8pm; Yoga for everyone 8-9.30pm
Tues - Yoga for everyone 10-11.30am
Thurs - Yoga for everyone 7-8.30pm
All classes £5
New comers and returners always welcome

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