Hoboken Guards, Seeking 1st Championship Title, Face Upstart Newcomers Ulster in NYGAA Hurling Final Sunday

August 23, 2013

Three seasons of NYGAA competition. Three NYGAA Championship Hurling Final appearances. * The Hoboken Guards Hurling Club have again advanced through league play to the Big Sunday Showdown in the Big Apple’s historic, century old Gaelic Park, located at 4000 Corlear Ave in Riverdale. The Black, White and Red clad New Jersey hurlers will lineout against an impressive first-year Ulster Hurling club [...]

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Portion of proceeds from Hoboken Guards Fundraiser tomorrow go to former Manhattan College student injured in Boston bombings

April 19, 2013

(HOBOKEN) – We at the Hoboken Guards Hurling Club hold our annual Pub Crawl & Hurler auction each spring as a pre-season kick off the hurling season, introducing our team and the world’s fastest – yet often misunderstood – field sport to curious local residents. Tomorrow, April 20st, starting at 4 p.m., our team invites [...]

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Irish Athletes to be Auctioned at 3rd Annual Hoboken Guards Pub Crawl – Sat. April 20th

April 13, 2013

Discover Ireland’s national sport – Hurling – enjoy live Irish music,  make new friends, enjoy great drink specials, free food and enter to win a three-tiered cash raffle ($500/$300/$100) at the third annual Hoboken Guards Pub Crawl & Hurler Auction on Saturday, April 20, 4 pm till….starting at Willie McBride’s. – Ladies and gentlemen who enjoy [...]

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Former Hoboken resident seeks bone marrow match to save his young son

July 24, 2012

Calling all members of the New York/New Jersey Irish and Irish American community: A 5 year-old boy named Jake is in need of a bone marrow transplant, and we’re told by his Irish American parents Kimberly Cluff and Bob Larkin that the most likely match for Jake may come from someone of Irish descent. Friends [...]

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Official O’Neills Hoboken hurling jerseys & gear available for online purchase

July 2, 2012

BREAKING NEWS FROM DUBLIN – The largest sportswear manufacturer in Ireland has made available for purchase the official Hoboken Guards Hurling Jersey and other quality HGHC clothing! The Hoboken Guards, a junior hurling club which competes in the New York Gaelic Athletic Association Junior Hurling Division, and will compete in the 2012 North American GAA [...]

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Guards on Patrol: Hoboken’s Finest (Athletes) Crawling, to be Auctioned Sat. April 28

April 23, 2012

Discover Ireland’s national sport – Hurling – enjoy live Irish music,  great drink specials, free food, make new friends and enter to win one of several Irish hurling jerseys at the 2nd Annual Guards on Patrol Pub Crawl & Hurler Auction. Ladies and gents of all country origins who enjoy having a good time (craic, in Irish) [...]

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Camogie Rising: NYGAA planning meeting set (4/18), NJGAA Camogie Development Officers sought

April 17, 2012

A very important planning meeting for anyone interested in playing or developing Ladies Camogie – the sibling sport to hurling , Ireland’s national game – will take place at 7:30 pm sharp in the New York Gaelic Athletic Association Games Development Office on 893 McLean Avenue (across from Rory Dolan’s bar) on Wednesday, April 18. [...]

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Hoboken Hurling’s newest recruit: Mayo footballer Enda Kenny

February 18, 2012

Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny spent the last two work weeks between New York and Boston – with a pit-stop in Dublin – pitching Ireland as the most fertile and welcoming investment ground for companies to the likes of former President Bill Clinton, New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patric. The [...]

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NY/Hoboken Camogie Development Meeting – 2/7/12, 8:30 PM, NYC

February 6, 2012

Interested Irish and American-born camogs (AKA female hurlers) are meeting tomorrow night – Tuesday – 8:30 p.m. – to discuss the current plan to launch a camogie team under the Hoboken Guards banner, with their own jerseys already guaranteed. Whether you are interested in playing, coaching, assisting in recruiting, etc., please know that the Hoboken [...]

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Calling all Guards:Hoboken recruiting hurlers for second season

January 22, 2012

Are you an American-born athlete in the Manhattan/New Jersey area looking to be part of a team, willing to give the fastest sport on grass a chance? Are you a sound club hurler with match experience and wish to play at a competitive level in historic Gaelic Park? The Hoboken Guards Hurling Club (HGHC) is [...]

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