The club's End-of-Year Social takes place this Saturday night (Dec 21st) in Davis's Restaurant, Drumcliffe, from 9pm. The night will also include our Senior Award presentations for 2024 - and the Christmas Draw.

Tickets for our bumper Christmas Draw are still available this week from club officers and senior players. There are 10 great prizes to be won on Saturay night, including the top prize of two All-Ireland football final tickets for 2025 along with hotel accommodation in Dublin's Skylon Hotel.

Congrats to our under-13/14 club footballer Noah Zakaria, who has recently signed for the Sligo Rovers U14 squad - an exciting next step in his young sporting career.

Here are last wek's DRP Club Lotto results: The numbers drawn were: : 6, 13, 19, 27.

No jackpot winner and no match 3 winners

This Thursday's Jackpot will be €7000.

We continue with our special 50/50 December draws with a minimum prize each week of €1,000 plus an additional prize of a Christmas hamper. Last week's winner was Adam Kearns who won €1,170 with Camilla Jinks winning the Christmas Hamper.

Play now on https://www.lottoraiser.ie/shamrockgaels/

Our Healthy Club Committee will again be holding the Goal Mile fundraiser in Riverstown Park on St Stephens Day at 11.00AM to raise funds for Goal - note the date in your diary.

The GAA will be hosting a webinar on the new rule changes on Monday 15th December - anyone interested in joining, please follow links posted on our Facebook and X account.

We will be hosting our annual underage merit awards on Saturday 18^th January at 8.30PM in Riverstown Community Hall. Along with merit awards, we will present medals for the U13 Girls Autumn league runners up, U16 Girls Div 1 league shield winners, U15 Boys Div 1 shield winners, U17 Boys Championship shield winners, u18 Boys league shield winners.

Had luck to our Ballad Group of Kate Jinks, Lauren Kearns Chapman, Elyse Médas, Niamh Kennedy and Ava Kennedy who participated in the Connacht Final at Connacht Scór which was won by Moy Davitts, Mayo,

The club wish to express sympathy with the family and relatives of Eileen Flaherty, Ross Road, Riverstown and Fidelis Meehan, Sooey who died during the week.

The DRP Club AGM was held on Sunday evening in the Old School, Rathcormac. We wish to extend our appreciation to outgoing Treasurer John Deacy who steps down from his role after a very productive spell in charge of the club's finances. We thank John for all the time and commitment he gave to the job - and we welcome his successor Gillian Dunleavy to the top table for 2025. A word of thanks also to Sean Reynolds and Paul McDonagh who are stepping down from their roles of Insurance Officer & LGFA Co Board delegate respectively. The following officers were elected/re-elected for the 2025 season, following Sunday evening's AGM:

Chairperson: Mary Power
Vice-Chair: Paraic O'Grady
Secretary: Jimmy O'Brien
Assistant Secretary: Emma Flanagan
Treasurer: Gillian Dunleavy
Assistant Treasurer: Liz King
Registrar: Debbie Ferguson
PRO: Austin O'Callaghan
Development Officer: Shane Campbell
Coaching Officer: Rowan O'Callaghan

Additional Club Executive Members:
Declan Carroll
Aidan O'Reilly
Michelle McNamara (Player rep)
Steven Regan (Player rep).

We are delighted to announce Tommy Deignan as our new Club President. Tommy, nominated by Chairperson Andy Kearns and seconded by Lauri Quinn was appointed at our AGM to succeed the late Seamus Cawley who passed away recently. Tommy has a long association with the club and Sligo GAA having won a County Championship with Sooey in 1959 and winning a Connacht Junior title with Sligo in 1956. Tommy's three sons won two Senior Championship medals with the Gaels and also served Sligo with distinction. The Deignan legacy lives on with Tommy's grandsons, Shane and Lee, members of the current Gaels and Sligo senior squads. 

Congratulations and well done to Coolera/Strandhill on their impressive Connacht Championship title win at the weekend. Bringing a Connacht Club title to Sligo for the first time in 41 years is a fantastic achievement and a great boost to Sligo football and sets the standard for all clubs to follow.

The AGM of Bord Na Nóg takes place this Wednesday 4^th December at 8.00PM in the Clubhouse. Bord Na Nóg is responsible for running all of the underage activities of the club and we would especially ask Parents interested in getting involved to attend this meeting.

The winner of our 50/50 draw last week was Caroline Healy who won €753. We will be holding special draws over the four weeks of December with a minimum prize each week of €1,000 with an additional prize of a Christmas hamper and this weeks hamper is sponsored by Kearns Centra, Sligo.

Our Healthy Club Committee will again be holding the Goal Mile in Riverstown Park on St Stephens Day at 11.00AM to raise funds for Goal - note the date in your diary.

The club wish to express sympathy with Executive member, Martin McMahon on the death last week of his uncle, Martin Doherty, Castlerea.

The Club's AGM takes place next Sunday December 1^st in the Clubhouse. This meeting will be a reflection on the year gone by but also sets the platform for the year ahead. The AGM is open to all and if you are interested in getting involved in club activities in any area, be it coaching, administration or generally helping out, please attend. We would especially welcome parents and new residents to the area to attend.

The AGM of Bord Na Nóg takes place the following Wednesday 4^th December at 8.00PM in the Clubhouse. Bord Na Nóg is responsible for running all of the underage activities of the club and we would especially ask Parents interested in getting involved to attend this meeting.

Our Healthy Club Committee will again be holding the Goal Mile in Riverstown Park on St Stephens Day at 11.00AM to raise funds for Goal - note the date in your diary.

The winner of our 50/50 draw last week was Noel Jinks who won €769. We are planning to have 50/50 Christmas bonanza draws with a minimum prize of €1,000 for each of the four weeks in December along with a bonus prize of a Christmas hamper each week. Play now on Https://www.lottoraiser.ie/ShamrockGaels/ 

Well done to our Ballad Group of Kate Jinks, Lauren Kearns Chapman, Elyse Médas, Niamh Kennedy, Ava Kennedy and our Music Group of Ava Kennedy, Niamh Kennedy, Amy Bagnall and Sophie Hanley who won county titles in Scor Na Nóg and now go on to represent Sligo at the Connacht finals on Dec 7th . We also won the overall best Club award. Well done also to Niamh Kennedy who participated in the solo singing and our Quiz team of Joseph O'Connor, Josh McTiernan, Fionnan Duffy and Charlie King. 

The club wish to express sympathy with the family and relatives of Martina McLoughlin, Coolaney and formerly of Bricklieve, Castlebaldwin who died last week.

The winner of last weeks 50/50 draw was Michael Clancy who won €800.  We are planning to have 50/50 Christmas bonanza draws with a minimum prize of €1,000 for each of the four weeks in December along with a bonus prize of a Christmas hamper each week. Play now on Https://www.lottoraiser.ie/ShamrockGaels/ 

The AGM has been scheduled for Sunday Dec 1^st in the Clubhouse at 7.00PM. This meeting will be a reflection on the year gone by but also sets the platform for the year ahead. The AGM is open to all and if you are interested in getting involved in clubs activities in any area, be it coaching, administration or generally helping out, please attend. We would especially welcome parents and new residents to the area to attend.

Congratulations to Coolera/Strandhill and Ballymote on reaching their respective Connacht finals and hard luck to Eastern Harps who lost out narrowly. Congratulations also to Easkey on winning the Connacht Junior Hurling championship for the third year in a row.