Hurling & Camogie
The 2024/25 hurling and camogie teams have got off to a great start, with both making the Fingal League Finals in Parnell Park on Tuesday the 15th of October. Both teams won all three of their group games, thus avoiding any playoffs and allowing them to march straight into the final. This is a great achievement considering it is only the second year of having hurling and camogie teams in the school in a number of years. A lot of the credit has to go to the fantastic work being done in Beann Eadair GAA club at underage, and a special thank you to Mr Flynn and Mr Sunderland for conducting the tryouts and taking the first games for the teams while I was absent. Mr Burke also deserves a lot of credit for organising all the sports run in the school. The enthusiasm shown by the students for our ancient game has been inspiring, come along to the finals if you can and support our boys and girls. The girls are on at 11am, followed by the boys at 12.
Our philosophy for hurling & camogie in Howth N.S is one of participation, to introduce children to the games and offer them an opportunity to play them on a beginner level in a culture of inclusiveness and positivity and subsequently, to represent the school, on a more competitive level.
The hope is that if they are not members of a club, they will join one or that if they do not wish to continue playing when they leave school, that they can say that at one stage of their lives they played Gaelic games.