XlR8 Summer Skills camp 2014
Our now annual XLR8 summer skills camp took place over two weeks at the end of June and start of July. The camp was another great success and is growing every year. Over 100 campers provided 10 days of enjoyable basketball skills and competition. See our photo gallery of camp photos. Well done to all of the participants and of…
Ada, Alex, Ellen, Laura and Laura with Dublin South
A great day for Liffey Celtics U13’s, Ada Bowler, Alex O’Shaughnessy, Ellen Devine, Laura Furlong and Laura McDermott who played for the Dublin South team in the annual U13 Liffey Challenge on Sunday April 13th. Following the Liffey Challenge the team stayed together, trained and worked hard to give a great performance in the SheHoops tournament played in Belfast on…
Double Success for Dublin U14 Girls
The Dublin Ladies Board U14 representative team comprising girls from Naas, Kubs, Oblate Dynamos, DCU Mercy and Liffey Celtics made it a double tournament success when they were victorious in the Shehoops U14 Tournament in Belfast at the end of May, and they followed this up with an impressive victory in the U14 FIBA International Summer Slam Tournament, in Sterling,…
Liffey Celtics & Dublin U14 boys in Belgium
Well done to Liffey Celtic’s U14 lads, Kris and Calum who were selected for the Dublin U14 team that played in the international tournament at Wanze in Belgium, from Friday May 30th to Sunday June 1st. Kris and Calum made it another first for Liffey Celtics as the first from the club to be selected at this level. A great achievement for…
Celebrating 10 years
It all started about 2003. Prior to that we had a team training in Leixlip Amenities, and seeing the potential there, the founders decided to setup a Liffey Celtics Basketball club, and entered the Dublin Ladies league, and thankfully some of those initial playing members are still playing in the club today. Thanks to the many volunteers who have worked so diligently to take…
Irene Says Goodbye And Thank You
Our Premier League player, Irene Sánchez, returned to Spain at the end of March having enthralled us with her skill, hard work and above all her friendliness and support. Before she left, she wrote the short note below to us all……. What does success mean? Maybe for some players can mean winning the world cup or having a big, big…
Magic 5 Cup wins for Liffey Celtic girls
March 1st and 2nd 2014 was some weekend for the Liffey Celtics basketballers. Going to play in five ladies cup finals was special, but to come through with five cup final victories at U12, U13, U14, U15 and U16 was a remarkable result. The U12 girls got it underway on Saturday morning at 10am, against a good Templeogue side. It was…
Boys Cup Finals 2014
Liffey Celtics Basketball Club underage boys teams followed the lead set by the girls, when they took part in the Dublin Mens Cup Finals weekend over March 21st and 22nd. It was a hard act to follow, but the boys proved they could do it and took home the U12, U13 and U14 cups, while the clubs U15s just lost…
RIP Toomas Ilves
Liffey Celtics got to know Toomas very well over the past few years. As well as being our Superleague coach during season 2011/2012, he coached at some of our camps, and many of our players attended his camps and 3 on 3 competitions. A number of traits were always obvious from Toomas – his love of basketball, good humour, his…