Leitrim GAA is pleased to announce the appointment of Olcan Conway as Leitrim Senior Hurling Manager for 2020. Olcan has been the recent Manager of Carrick Hurling Team and in addition to leading them to three-in-a-row County Senior Hurling Championships, he led his local charges to the Connacht Junior Hurling Championship in 2018, which was a first-ever provincial success on the playing fields for an adult male team.

Olcan takes over from 2019 Lory Meagher Cup winning Manager Martin Cunniffe, who recently stepped down from the position, and Leitrim GAA wishes him the very best as he takes charge for the incoming season. Leitrim GAA wishes also to acknowledge and thank all other candidates who applied for consideration for the position and those who attended for interview.

With the 2020 Season just around the corner, the GAA has announced its season ticket details.
Season Tickets can be bought here https://seasonticket.gaa.ie/
Out of every €120/€99 Adult ticket sold by our County, €45 goes directly to Leitrim GAA.
Out of every €200 Club+ ticket sold by our County, €146 goes directly to Leitrim GAA.

The GAA today circulated the 2020 Master Fixture Plan and the 2020 Diary of Events which can be accessed here.

All details relating to the Allianz Football and Hurling Leagues are contained in the attachments in addition to the key championship dates for the 2020 playing season.

GAA Master Fixture Schedule Booklet 2020 – 26112019

Diary 2020 (26112019)

Allianz League Fixtures 2020 – Leitrim

 

Leitrim GAA is seeking nominations/applications for the post of Leitrim Senior Hurling Manager.
Clubs are asked to submit nominations of interested personnel and with their consent by close of business on 25th November 2019 to secretary.leitrim@gaa.ie
Applications from interested personnel for consideration for the position are invited also. Please submit applications with CV and relevant Coaching Experience to secretary.leitrim@gaa.ie by close of business on November 25th.

Last night at the Bush Hotel, Leitrim Hurlers launched a fundraising draw to conclude on Saturday, December 21st with a Grand Draw Function in Flynn’s Bar Ck-on-Shannon.

The Draw will have a number of attractive prizes on offer:

1st Prize Flights to New York for 2 and 3 nights Accommodation at The French Quarters Guest Appartments Sponsored by Frank Dwyer, New York.

2nd Prize FA Cup Semi-Final Tickets of your choice at Wembley Stadium including Flights and Accommodation for 2 for two nights in London. Sponsored by David McHugh, Role, London.

3rd Prize One Night B and B at Lough Eske Castle, Donegal for 2. Sponsored by Clement Gaffney, Gowel.

4th Prize One Night B and B at Galway House Hotel for 2. Sponsored by Declan Molloy, Galway.

5th Prize One Night B and B at Castleknock Hotel, Dublin for 2. Sponsored by Mark Chandler, Leitrim Gaels.

Tickets costing €20 each are available from all players and at the following outlets:

Gurn’s Bar, Manorhamilton.

Supervalu, Manorhamilton.

Scollan’s Shop, Drumshanbo.

Prior’s Bar, Ballinamore.

Smyth’s Siopa Ól, Ballinamore.

Flynn’s Bar, Ck-on-Shannon.

The Swan Bar, Ck-on-Shannon.

The Anchorage Bar, Ck-on-Shannon.

Donnellan’s Bar, Leitrim Village.

Baxter’s Centra, Mohill.

You may also buy a ticket online using a Smartphone  with 3 simple steps:

Step 1 Add Seán Ó Riordáin on Whattsapp +353873471695

Step 2 Text name, address and phone number to Seán.

Step 3 Transfer €20 via the ‘REVOLUT’ app.

You will then receive a picture of your ticket for confirmation.

Michael Dwyer presents hi nephew Padraig McWeeney with 1st prize Sponsorship on behalf of his brother Frank Dwyer, New York. Also in the picture is cousin Stephen Goldrick.

Prize Sponsors Clement Gaffney and Mark Chandler pictured with Padraig McWeeney and Padraig Clerkin

Leitrim Senior Hurling Panel 2019 at last night’s launch.

 

 

 

Leitrim GAA wishes to express its great appreciation for the efforts of Senior Hurling Team Manager Martin Cunniffe who announced his resignation from the position earlier today. Martin had been Senior Hurling Team manager for the past nine seasons but his involvement in the promotion of Leitrim Hurling goes way and beyond that significant contribution. He is the current Leitrim Hurling Chairman having previously held the roles of Secretary and Treasurer of the same committee over a combined period of time that has spanned decades, not years.

After many years of struggle to produce a competitive team, Leitrim always kept the hurling show on the road but over recent years under Martin’s management and his able allies the Leitrim Hurlers began to make inroads into competitive fare and in 2017 the hurlers reached Croke Park for the Lory Meagher Cup Final but had to settle for the runners up position against Warwickshire. In 2018 they were decidedly unlucky to lose the League Final versus Lancashire as a late rally rescued a draw for Lancashire in Ballyconnell. Our opponents went on to claim the title after extra-time.

2019 proved to be Leitrim Hurling’s greatest year as the team made it to Croke Park again in June for the Lory Meagher Cup Final and this time, despite the contest with Lancashire going to extra time, it was the Leitrim lads who had the upper hand and claimed a famous victory to gain national acclaim. It definitely was a proud day for Leitrim and there was no prouder man than Team manager Martin Cunniffe to have led his charges to the Promised Land of a Senior All-Ireland Title in Croke Park, a feat that is a first for a Leitrim Men’s Team in the famous stadium.

Leitrim GAA remains eternally grateful for the wonderful contributions of Martin and the entire Cunniffe Family to Leitrim’s Senior Hurlers over many seasons and particularly in 2019. Thank you, Martin we look forward to your continued involvement towards the promotion of the game!

Heartiest congratulations to James Glancy and Enda Moreton who tonight were honoured with selection on the 2019  PwC Champion All-Star Awards. The duo were to the fore in Leitrim’s great Lory Meagher success of last June, the first time ever that a Leitrim Senior Male team won a title in Croke Park. What makes the achievement all the more notable is the fact that the selected 15 came from the best of the teams that participated in the Christy Ring, Nickey Rackard and Lory Meagher Competitions. We should also acknowledge the achievement of having three other players nominated this year namely Team Captain Declan Molloy, Liam Moreton and Gavin O Hagan. Congratulations to all.

 

Congratulations and well done to Carrick Hurling Club and Leitrim Hurler Declan Molloy who was presented with his Nicky Rackard/Lory Meagher Champions 15 award at tonight’s PwC All-Star Awards function tonight. It is a tremendous individual award for the Carrick Hurling netminder. Best wishes also to Declan and teammates in tomorrow’s Connacht Junior Club Hurling Championship Final in the Connacht GAA Centre at 2pm.

The hurlers first outing in the 2018 Allianz Hurling League has had a change of venue today. The match will now take place in Tourlestrane at 2pm on Sunday and not Markievicz Park as previously advertised. Best wishes to Martin, Michael and the lads as they embark on a new season.

Our congratulations to Leitrim Hurlers Conor Byrne, Clement Cunniffe and Liam Moreton who were honoured with selection on the Lory Meagher Champion 15 selection for 2017. The PWC All-Star presentations took place in the Convention Centre, Dublin earlier this evening. This is excellent recognition for the lads and their team who qualified for the Lory Meagher Cup Final for the first time earlier in the season. Conor and Liam are pictured below with Team Manager Martin Cunniffe who picked up son Clement’s award on his behalf.

LORY MEAGHER CHAMPION 15: Darren Sheridan (Cavan), Matthew Hynes (Cavan), Sean Corrigan (Fermanagh), Shea Curran (Fermanagh), Kevin Banks (Sligo), Cormac Behan (Sligo), Ronan Crowley (Lancashire), Nathan Unwin (Lancashire), Conor Byrne (Leitrim), Liam Moreton (Leitrim), Clement Cunniffe (Leitrim), John Collins (Warwickshire), Dean Bruen (Warwickshire), Paul Uniacke (Warwickshire), Liam Watson (Warwickshire).

Lory Meagher Cup Final 


Best wishes to Leitrim hurlers and team management in Croke Park tomorrow as they play Warwickshire in the 2017 Lory Meagher Cup Final. It is a rare opportunity for the county to take an All-Ireland title and we wish the lads the very best.

For those not travelling to the match, live streaming will be provided courtesy of TG4 at http://www.tg4.ie/en/live/lory-meagher-cup/

 

 

09-Jun-17 by Declan Bohan – PRO

Wheelchair Hurling Inter-Pro comes to Ballinamore 

The town of Ballinamore will create a little bit of history on Saturday, April 29th when it becomes the first ever Leitrim venue to play host to the M. Donnelly Interprovincial Wheelchair Hurling competition. With the kind permission of BAM and the school authorities, the event will take place in the new Community School opposite Sean O’Heslin’s GAA ground.

Uachtaráin Tofa Cumann Luthchleas Gael John Horan will be in attendance at the event to present the GAA Wheelchair Hurling All-Star awards prior to the games. Enda Tiernan, Leitrim delegate on the Connacht GAA Games for All Committee described the event as “a unique competition which brings together the competitive action of the GAA with the promotion of inclusion and integration amongst all of our members”. Connacht GAA is the sponsor of this event in which teams and players travel from Ulster, Munster and Leinster as well as Connacht, competing in the competition.

Wheelchair Hurling is a new and exciting sport for manual wheelchair users. The games are an action packed, skilful team sport in which the competitiveness of the players and pride of representing their province rivals that of any team sport. The Interprovincial Wheelchair Hurling League and Championships were formed in 2013 and provide a competitive sporting environment for wheelchair users. The competition has gone from strength to strength with the Provincial Councils providing the platform for the players to compete.

The opening ceremony commences on Saturday at 11am and the games begin at 12pm. Admission is free and all are welcome to attend. The Connacht GAA Wheelchair Hurling team is hoping for strong home support to help them in their quest to get their 2017 campaign off to a winning start.

The Connacht GAA Wheelchair Hurling team have been in training under the expert guidance of coaches Adrian Hession (Mayo), Tadhg Morley (Mayo), Tim Hynes (Sligo) and Cathal Cregg (Roscommon).

 

 

25-Apr-17 by Wheelchair Hurling Committee