Lá na gClub

[JohnDenver]

Did many clubs celebrate Lá na gclub yesterday? It seems to have been a very low key affair compared to the 125 year celebrations of last year.

Thats because 125 year celebrations were a landmark.  If you go running these things every year the novelty factor wears off and it takes away from the occasion.  Clubs run enough functions throughout the year to bring in the community.

This la na gclub day was hastily organised by the fat cats in croke park trying to justify their wage.

[Louth Exile]

Well safe to say that you are a cynic!

We ran a hugely successful day last year and followed the same format again this year. The weather or the day wasn't just as good as last year, but still a very good day and got the same numbers down to the pitch. If you are doing it, do it right, or don't do it at all

[magpie seanie]

Lá na gClub was a great idea to help celebrate the GAA's 125th anniversary and was a tremendous success last year. A weekend free of fixtures and clubs grasped the opportunity and once again showed where the real strength of the GAA lies. It was so successful there were calls for it to become an annual fixture. Needless to say the boffins in Croker were a little perturbed. Once the 125 celebrations were over they didn't want to know but they had to do something. So they just named a day for Lá na gClub and it was good luck to ya after that. No free weekend or even a free day. They hope it will die out because heaven forbid you'd have a weekend or even a day every year given over to clubs. After all, the priority is to get games played - come hell or high water!

We had a hugely successful Lá na gClub last year with massive effort put in by committees to run a host of events. This year we scaled it back a bit but mixed it up too and had another tremendous success. Sadly I only heard of one other club in the county that did anything (there are probably more) so it looks like the head honchos plan may be working. All I'd say to the clubs who did nothing is that we'd regard it as the best PR exercise we ever had on top of a great bit of craic.

I think its a great day and should be kept and expanded upon. To me the GAA club is much more than a sports club and it would be refreshing for the upper echelons to do more than pay lip service to clubs in the future.

[Zulu]

I think it is a great idea for clubs to something special once a year but I'm not sure allocating a particular weekend/day for all clubs is the way to go. It probably suits many clubs to do something like this on an alternative day and I think it should be left up to clubs themselves or at least to each county to designate a day for this type of activity.