Uncategorized

We are delighted to welcome Bradley Barnes to Clontarf as overseas player/coach for the 2017 season. Brad will take up the role vacated by Charlie Wakim who is remaining in Australia during his off season, we thank him for his contribution to the club last year and wish him well.

Brad comes to us as a level 3 coach currently working with the highly rated Bishops College in Cape Town and as a  former professional player with KwaZulu-Natal, Western Province and franchise team The Dolphins as well as taking part in South Africa’s U-19 World Cup campaign in 2008 which eventually ended in defeat to the Virat Kohli captained India team.

At the tender age of 28 he has played in 125 provincial games scoring 3,735 runs across all formats including 3 hundreds and 24 fifties. He has also managed 283 dismissals as wicket keeper during this time.

Chairperson of cricket Dereck McGeehan commented “we are delighted to welcome Brad to Clontarf. He has a tremendous track record as a player and more importantly as a coach, having attained level 3 qualification. We feel that he will be a great addition to the club as a whole and that he helps us to continue the great strides the club has been making. Finally, I wish to offer a sincere thanks to Steven Hirst from CricX for the role he has played in assisting in securing Brad’s services for 2017.”

Save the date, the 2017 CCC candlelit dinner will be on Friday April 21st.

Further details to come…

We at Clontarf CC are today delighted to announce the signing of John Mooney as our new club Head Coach. John is one of Ireland’s greatest ever cricketers having represented the national side on 182 occasions.

Since retiring from playing at the top level John has focused on developing his strength and conditioning business as well as coaching with the Danish international team.

Commenting on the signing Director of Cricket Dereck McGeehan said “we believe John was the outstanding candidate to replace Alex as our head coach and I’m delighted to have him onboard. John impressed with his ambition, enthusiasm and passion for his new role. I’m sure all club members will join with me in wishing John every success and welcoming him, along with his wife Helena and daughters Alisha & Robyn to the club.”

On his appointment to the role, John commented that he is “delighted to join one of Ireland’s long established and best known clubs and (is) very much looking forward to starting the new role and the next chapter of (his) career.”

As well as taking the role of head coach, John will also be available to play for the club as and when required.

In further news, we are delighted to also welcome Irish citizen by way of Johannesburg, Declan Gallagher, to the club. Declan has been in superb form for the Randburg club having scored 78 not out on his premier league debut last weekend as well as four hundreds in the 2nd team this season.

Declan will be moving to Ireland full time and we ask all members to do everything you can to help him settle in and to make this move a great success for him.

We hope to add the signing of our new overseas player to these exciting additions in the coming weeks.