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Melvin Gaels welcome the Mayo Intermediate Football Champions – Davitts this Sunday at 2.30pm in Pairc Sean. Hopes are high in the County that they can reach this years provincial decider and no doubt they will if they display the same appetite and self-belief as they did against the Sligo Intermediate Football Champions Coolaney Mullinabreena in the pre-lim game.

Coiste Chontae Liatroma take this opportunity to wish them the very best of luck on Sunday and we hope there is a large Leitrim following in Pairc Sean to support them.

Extra Time if necessary

28-Oct-11 by Colette Fox – PRO

GAA/JOBBRIDGE

The GAA aims to provide meaningful internships, which will enable interns to grow in competence and confidence as they develop their capabilities, on the basis of experience and reflection.

JobBridge is a new National Internship Scheme that will provide work experience placements for interns for a 6 or 9 month period. The aim of the National Internship Scheme is to assist in breaking the cycle where jobseekers are unable to get a job without experience, either as new entrants to the labour market after education or training or as unemployed workers wishing to learn new skills. The scheme will also give people a real opportunity to gain valuable experience to bridge the gap between study and the beginning of their working lives.

The GAA has always placed on emphasis on Social Capital – Scáth a Chéile – and Civic Contribution. The JobBridge initiative has provided the GAA with the means to make a contribution and to provide unemployed individuals with the opportunity to utilise the skills that they have learned during training or education in a practical work environment for the first time, or, indeed, to enhance the skills that they have already gained through previous employment.

The GAA/JobBridge Internship Scheme will provide unemployed individuals with the opportunity to develop and advance their skills in a practical work environment. In conjunction with the JobBridge initiative the GAA may be able to offer up to 200 internships, at any one time, in the areas of Games Development and Administration.

The first phase of internships as part of the GAA/JobBridge scheme have gone live today at www.jobbridge.gaa.ie and www.jobbridge.ie – both links are available on the Leitrim GAA Website.

24-Oct-11 by Colette Fox – PRO

Please be advised that U21 FC 2011 will not commence until at least the first weekend of November all going well in the interim. It is CCC Liatroma’s intention to have all Leagues Compeiitions ACL D1-5 at least at playoff/final stages before commencing with the U21 Competitions.

18-Oct-11 by Colette Fox – PRO

Dromahair were crowned Junior B champions on Saturday last when they defeated neighbours Glencar Manorhamilton by the slenderest of margins (0-10 to 1-8).

This was a very entertaining final which had the large following of supporters from both clubs on the edge of their seats right up until the final whistle. Dromahair had the better of the exchanges in the first half and they led at the interval 0-5 to 0-2. They got the ideal start to the second half when they finished to the back of the net and pointed from play to leave seven points between the sides. For the remainder of the contest the Manor men dominated but their efforts to claim victory or at least force a replay just fell short. Well done to Dromahair on their fine win.

17-Oct-11 by Colette Fox – PRO

Unity of Purpose

Oh to be a fly on the wall in any of the four Pairc Sean dressing rooms on Sunday.

The Managers are pacing the floors, roaring focus, focus, focus, just in case any player is not switched on to the task in hand, or worse still, switched on to an I-Pod or pressing the send button on a last minute text to the girlfriend in the stand ‘ distractions will be a no-no. They are here to do a job, the first step to a possible Connacht title and nothing must distract from that. The county championship has been won and suitably celebrated, so it’s a whole new ball game now.

Players will all have their own rituals, each of them in their own space, heads down, teeth gritted, laces tightened and double checked, gloves on and off and on again, hamstrings stretched, another slug from the bottle. The whole GAA talk may now be on the Compromise Rule games in Australia, but this is our Australia and the jersey on my back means as much as an international one to me. It was great to win the county and now Connacht and hopefully Croke Park beckon, but we have to get over today first.

The physios are doing the last minute rubs; the selectors are having a word in every ear; the air is tense but quiet; in a few moments the pep talk will shake the four walls; the linked arms will be gripped even tighter; unity of purpose all round.

The attraction of the double Leitrim- Sligo fixture will have the fans in town early, probably before the stragglers from the Hen or Stag party of Saturday night have made it back to their hotel, the brown deer antlers and the pink bunny ears adding to the colours of Coolaney-Mullinabreena, Melvin Gaels, Tourlestrane and Glencar-Manorhamilton. All roads have led to Carrick, but the hens, the stags and the supporters are on different missions.

For the four teams, the parties are put on hold ‘ there is serious business to be done in Pairc Sean first.

Be there, to support your club and county.

14-Oct-11 by Tommy Moran