Shamrocks

Committee
President: James Marshall
Secretary: Luke Devitt and Shane Gibney
Treasurer: Krystal Hansen
General committee: Paul Rice, Cameron Carney, John Collins, Meranda Toner, Sue Monsen

Contact Details
Postal - P.O. Box 2066, Graceville East 4075, Queensland, Australia
Official Internet - www.geocities.com/shamrocksgfcq
Supporters News Internet - www.come.to/shamrocks
E-mail - shamrocks_club@hotmail.com

2006 Committee news story
2003 Committee news story
2000 Annual Report

Training Ground
Dunlop Park

794 Oxley Road, Corinda, in Brisbane's western suburbs. Location map

Shamrocks has always been based in Brisbane’s western suburbs, true to the club’s foundation name of “Wests” in 1983. Over the past decade training grounds have included the Jindalee Recreational Reserve (1998-2004), Powenyenna Oval, Chelmer, (2005-2007), and now to start 2008 training is at Dunlop Park, Corinda.

The oval is over the picturesque Walter Taylor Bridge from Indooroopilly, surrounded by a bend of the Brisbane River, between the Chelmer and Oxley train stations. Shamrocks train Wednesday nights 7pm-9pm from February to September.

Aborginal names and Irish history abound across the Shamrocks' western suburbs: Powenyenna means "magpie"; Indooroopilly means either "running water" or "gully of leeches"; Jindalee means "bare hills"; Corinda is of Aboriginal origin, but its meaning unknown. The first European owner of the land including Dunlop Park was Arthur Hunter Palmer, born in Armagh, Ireland. He was a member of parliament 1866-1881 and for four of those years was Premier of Queensland.

308 Bowhill Road, Willawong, in Brisbane's southwest

Home of the Queensland Gaelic Football Association. The Clubhouse officially opened in 1990 by the Irish Ambassador to Australia, and visited in 1992 by the president of the Republic of Ireland, Mary Robinson. Lights making night matches possible for the first time were erected in 2003, thanks to grants from the Irish GAA and the Queensland Government, when the QGFA executive was president Nicholas Carpenter, secretary Harold Peacock, and treasurer Seamus Sullivan. The ground was the site of the 1990, 1998 and 2005 Australasian Gaelic Games.

Queensland Gaelic Football shield, league, and championship matches are played from March to September. There is often also a social summer league. Telephone 3372 2181 for match-day pitch conditions.

Willawong is Aboriginal for "junction of two creeks".

Senior Mens Coach: John Kelleher (2nd year)
Manager: TBA

Senior Ladies Coach: Cameron Carney (2nd year)
Manager: TBA

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