Dunoon Shinty Club was founded in 2000 by a small group of enthusiastic parents.

A committee was formed and the club was set upwith a mixture of boys and girls from Dunoon and Innellan. Bobby Crowe, whose family members played for Kyles Athletic took on the role of coach and today virtually runs the club single handed.

With a very kind donation of strips by an Irish team participating in the Cowal Shinty tournament the youngsters were ready to play their first games and duly entered the local Cowal and Bute First Shinty tournament.

At the same time a local primary school at Sandbank Dunoon also set up a first shinty club and a friendly rivalry thus began.

Although they lost many of their games the potential of the Dunoon team, especially the very young, became apparent to everyone watching them and before long they were soon winning more than they lost.

Their main opposition, unsurprisingly, came from the youngsters of Kyles Athletic with their long history in the sport but it was not long until the Dunoon team were matching them.

This year (2002) coach Bobby Crowe has been pleased to see Dunoon become the dominant team in Cowal. Winning the Bute First Shinty Tournament both the 'A' and 'B' competitions, and qualifying for the national tournament at Fort William.

At the recent Dunoon First Shinty Festival Dunoon swept the board by winning and coming second in the 'A' division, and also winning the 'B' and 'C' divisions.

The club is now going from strength to strength and the future truly is ORANGE.

The Argyll and Bute Area Development Officer is
Garry Reid
Argyll & Bute Shinty Development Officer
Atlantis Leisure
Dalriach Road
Oban
Argyll
PA34 5JE
Tel 01631 570894
Fax 01631 570894
Mobile 07711 068325
email: garry@abshinty.fsnet.co.uk