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RECRUITMENT FOR SEASON 2012:
THE DUBLIN DRAGONS AFC are recruiting players NOW!!
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NEXT DUBLIN DRAGONS TRAINING SESSION: Sunday 29th January @ 11am beside the Weston Hockey Club, at Griffeen Valley Park, in Lucan. There is a car park in the Griffeen Valley Park/Esker Running Club.
It is never too late to join. So, click on the "Want to play?" recruiting link above the Flash Images for more details, maps etc...
New Sponsor:
Sinnotts Bar Dublin is one of the Dragons proud new sponsors this year...more to come!! Click the link below for more information about our new sponsor.
Notre Dame versus the Navy embodies a spirit that football fans miss in the NFL, writes John Greene-Irish IndependentThe annual match-up between Notre Dame and the Navy academy is a marked event in the American sporting calendar.
Even though it has been dominated by Notre Dame throughout its 84-year history, the game will still fill any stadium they care to play it in year in year out and television networks will still pay mega bucks for the honour of showing the game live.
CBS forked out over $1m for the exclusive rights to the most recent encounter back in October at Notre Dame's home stadium in South Bend, Indiana, even though all the omens were that it was one of the poorer Navy teams in a while and that the home side would record a facile victory, which they did, winning pulling up on a 56-14 scoreline. Navy finished the season with five wins from 12.
The Notre Dame Stadium on campus holds 81,000 and, as ever, it was full to capacity for the game. The next meeting between the two rivals will be at the Aviva Stadium in September, at the start of the new college football season. The Dublin encounter will in all likelihood prove the point: this game really will fill any stadium, anywhere. What is fascinating about college football, however, is less that the stadia are full for games -- although that is quite remarkable in itself -- but that, firstly, they are generally located on the campus; secondly, they are all 50,000-plus grounds; and, thirdly, that thousands upon thousands of former students go to these games.... READ MORE HERE..
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US ambassador gives boost to Croke Park'sbid to stage €50m NFL bonanza -Irish Independent
GAA top brass are keeping their fingers crossed that Croke Park can secure a €50m boost to Ireland's beleaguered economy after the staging of a major American football game moved a step closer.
US ambassador to Ireland Dan Rooney revealed a visiting delegation were "very impressed" after a tour of the stadium last Friday to give a major shot in the arm to the bid to host an NFL match.
The home of the GAA has competition for the right to stage a regular NFL season game, with Frankfurt's Commerzbank-Arena and the Olympic stadium in Munich...
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2012 EFL and EFAF Cup promise tough competitionGroupings for EFAF's two European-wide club competitions, the EFL and EFAF Cup, have been set at the club's meeting at Thonon-les-Bains, and 2012 will see the return of the Finnish champion to the race for Eurobowl as well as the debut of a Polish team in EFAF Cup. The Helsinki Wolverines...
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INTERVIEW-with Glen Baker 
See the full interview from Ireland AM with Glen Baker. The presenter is wearing a Dragons jersey and one of our shiny old gold helmets, made it into shot too. Link to video.
