We are delighted to announce we have recordings of the commentary of the full match and also last nights Sports Beat programme in the form of podcasts available on this website . The podcasts are provided courtesy of Shannonside Northen Sound and are available for download or for you to listen online via the Podcast link on the left hand menu.
Thank you to Shannonside for making the recordings available.
25-Sep-07 by Brendan Doyle – PRO
Following last nights County Board Meeting Des Dolan was ratified by Club delegates as the Senior County Team Manager for 2008. This will be Dess fourth season at the helm with Leitrim Senior football team and we wish him the best of luck for the forthcoming season. The rest of the management team including the selectors will be ratified at the next meeting in October. In the mean time Clubs are asked to forward nominations for the posts of Senior Team Selectors, Junior Manager and U21 Manager.
Other news from the meeting was the announcement that Jim Meehan will step down from his post of County Board Treasurer at the end of the year and Gerry Mahon also announced his decision to step down from Central Council after 25 years in office.
11-Sep-07 by Brendan Doyle – PRO
The highlights of the Senior Championship Final will be shown tonight at 8:30pm on TG4.
06-Sep-07 by Brendan Doyle – PRO
RTE to show Aughawillan on Summerpride on Tomorrow night (Wed, 5th Sept) @ 8.30 RTE 2
From RTE Website :
Programme 9: Aughawillan GAA Club in Co. Leitrim
Theres a saying in Aughawillan that, whenever a babys born in the parish, they always ask, "Is it a boy?". And well they might because Aughawillan is such a tiny parish (in a county that, itself, has a small population) that they need all the potential players they can get, and its the same for the ladies team.
The club was started in 1936, reached senior level in 1939, but suffered due to emigration and died out in 1963. In 1971 it was, again, revived and included players who had moved up to Dublin since 63. One such player is Frank Darcy who, with wife Phil, talks about how they managed, children in tow, travelling to Leitrim each weekend so he could continue to play.
Seán Ó Suilleabháin, a local historian, gives the history of Aughawillan, and also featured is Maeve Quinn, captain of the ladies football team.
The programme also looks at Leitrim county football on the back of the teams Connacht Football Final win the previous year against Mayo (in 1994) – a very special win for them. GAA All-Star Mickey Quinn and Tom Gannon (Leitrim Captain in 1927), talk about what its meant for the county.
Other contributors include: Patsy Prior, team coach; Pat Flanagan, club chairman; Syl McGovern, club secretary; Tommy Moran, Leitrim county board secretary and club member, Des Quinn.
Unfortunately, since this programme was first transmitted, both Syl McGovern and Tom Gannon have died.
04-Sep-07 by Brendan Doyle – PRO
In recent days we have had requests to our Guestbook regarding League football and the promotion/ relegation from specific Championships. In each case the CCC have issed a reponse and the following are their responses:
League commencement:
"Clubs may expect league games to resume asap early in September. League games will resume when more teams are eliminated from Championships. As of yet with 5 championships on the go there are still 45/56 championship teams involved in competition over all grades."
Championships – Relegation & Promotion:
"In response to the query the answer is that in the event of St. Mary’s winning the IFC then there will be no promotion/relegation from SFC to IFC at the conclusion of the 2007 championships. At the conclusion of the JFCB and JFCC round robin stage the team in first place inÓgroup 1 will play the second placed team inÓgroup 2 in SF1 and the team in first place inÓgroup 2 will play the team in second place inÓgroup 1 in SF2. There will be no Quarter Finals. The teams that finish in fifth place inÓgroups 1 and 2 will play off to decide relegation fro JFCB to JFCC 2008."
23-Aug-07 by Brendan Doyle – PRO
All fixtures for the coming weekend are now on the website.
The Live scoreboard service was a big success as large numbers tuned in to follow the exploits of the Senior Quarter-finals. This service will be continued for the remainder of the Senior championship.
Starting today an online poll will allow visitors to predict the outcome of the Senior Semi finals and this week its the turn of Kiltubrid v Bornacoola. Next week we will feature the second semi-final of St. Marys v Carrigallen.
A few comments have been sent in regarding how to use the wap or mobile version of this website. I will endeavour to provide details of how to set up your phone to quickly log in to our site. the first time takes a minute or two to type in the website address which you should then save as a bookmark for future visits to the site. Don t forget the Live scoreboard is available as well as all the main sections of this site , i.e. News, Fixtures and Results.
13-Aug-07 by Brendan Doyle – PRO
A new Download area was added to the site in recent days which currently has 3 sub areas. A link is available on the left hand menu under the Interactive section.
The first section has files available for Insurance claim purposes and info on the whole Insurance process.
The second contains links to files that Club Runaí, in particular, might find useful for the day to day administration of the Club.
The third section contains League table files that are particularly useful to club website developers.
The League files are updated every time any league table is updated on the main site and they contain sufficient information to enable a webmaster to recreate an accurate League table on a club site. The values are stored in the following order:
Team P W D L F A +/- Pts
01-Aug-07 by Brendan Doyle – PRO
Following recent enquiries for clarification of derogation from Rial 129 the following has been supplied by the CCC.
It appears that further clarification on the CCC Interpretation of Liatroim derogation from Rial 129 TO 2007 may be required. Please note the following points:
The League Status of Players graded for the ACL by having been named on First/Second/Third 13s is not in any way affected by the their championship status as determined in Club Championship 2007 and vice versa.
If your club uses less than 17 players at a particular grade, it is not necessary to bring that number up to 17 by subsequently naming two extra players, if they have not yet played. They become ineligible to play at a lower grade only when they have played at the higher grade and are among the first 17 players used at that grade.
If your club uses only 15 players in Round 1, and subsequently uses a 16th and/or 17th player at that grade in subsequent games then these players only become ineligible from that point forward to play at any other grade other than your clubs highest grade team, irrespective of whether they have played a lower grade in the meantime. The same applies in the grading of your club’s second and subsequent teams.
Ordinarily, the order in which substitute players play in any given match will determine if they are among the 17 players ineligible to play at a lower grade, in other words if a club uses 5 substitutes in Round 1 or any subsequent round, the first 2, in order, of these players used will be ruled ineligible to play at a lower level, until such time as the club has used 17 players at a givenÓgrade. Exception: Blood/Temporary Substitute(s) used at any grade.
In the case of team which may use 15/16 players in Round 1 and subsequently makes changes to its starting 15 in Round 2, or any subsequent Round, which brings the total number of players used at that grade over the maximum 17 excluded from playing at a lower grade, the club will be required to nominate the players from among the extras used, ie the said 1 or 2 players who will be added to the 15/16 used at that grade in the earlier rounds, to bring the total number ineligible at lower grade to a maximum of 17. If it is the case that the games take place in successive grades on consecutive days, or indeed immediately following each other, clubs are advised, in this case, to have that nomination done immediately following the first game by informing Rúnaí CCC. This may apply from Round 2 forward only.
In the case of a club with three/four championship teams, if the club has only used 15/16 players in its first team and has used 17 players in its second team, then if/when 1/2 players are used in the first team to bring the number to the maximum of 17 deemed ineligible to play at any other than the club’s highest graded team, then the next 1/2 players to play on the clubs second team will have been deemed ineligible to play at any other grade than the club’s first or second team. The same will follow from second to third team.
Put simply:
A Club with 2 Championship teams the maximum number of club players ineligible to play on 2nd team = 17
A Club with 3 Championship teams the maximum number of club players ineligible to play on 3rd team = 34
A Club with 4 Championship teams the maximum number of club players ineligible to play on 4th team = 51
Members of the Leitrim Senior Panel for Connacht SFC/All-Ireland Qualifier 2007 are ineligible to play at any grade of Club Championship other than a club’s highest graded team.
19-Jul-07 by Brendan Doyle – PRO
Archive results from 2004 Championships to present day are now available via the links on the left hand menu. The links covering 2004, 2005 and 2006 are located on the lower section of the menu. 2007 is on the Championship Tables link in the Clubs section. The software is designed to allow a filtered view of a club so that you can see their progress inÓgroup and final stages.
A number of queries regarding the derogation to Rial 129 have been sent in by email and via the guestbook. In order to address the queries properly the CCC will issue a statement before Friday evening with regard to their interpretation of this derogation.
In addition a more detailed set of fixtures for the Championship will also be released which give firm dates for as many fixtures as possible.
18-Jul-07 by Brendan Doyle – PRO
All clubs are invited to this event in Ardan Mhic Samhrain (Level 3 Meeting Room), Pairc Sean Mac Diarmada on this Thursday 19th July at 8.30 pm.
This will be an opportunity for all clubs to get up to speed with Insurance Forms and Processes and any questions relating to GAA Insurance will hopefully be dealt with on the night.
It is very important for all who deal with insurance in each club to familiarise themselves with forms etc.
16-Jul-07 by PJ Meehan Development/Insurance Officer
A New Player Welfare Initiative For All GAA/CLG Club and County Players Giving Rapid Access and Reporting
To MRI & X-Ray Services At Competitive Prices From Sunday 15th July 2007
[b]Medical Services – better services, lower costs and a better deal for Players[/b]
An issue of concern that has regularly been brought to our attention is the high cost of medical treatment of our players and, specifically, the high cost of MRI scans.
We have been looking at ways of reducing the expenditure of clubs and counties in this regard and have been examining ways of nÓgotiating lower prices nationally at strategically located MRI Centres throughout the country.
As a first step towards that end, we have nÓgotiated a service level contract, on a pilot basis initially, with Northwood Imaging Ltd, which comes into effect from Sunday 15th July 2007. In addition to the player centric approach and benefits, the prices agreed with Northwood Imaging will yield considerable savings to clubs and the GAA as a whole.
[b]Value for Money[/b]
The current prices being charged to GAA players, and in most cases being covered by the Player Injury scheme, vary from between 400 to over 600 per MRI Scan. We have nÓgotiated a price of 295 for a single MRI scan and 50 for an x-ray at Northwood Imaging in Dublin. These prices are all inclusive of professional fees, copies of scans on film or on CD etc. These rates represent a significant savings to our clubs, units and County Boards and clearly signal that a good cost containment policy is sustainable and consistent with improved standards of service. If this pilot scheme operates successfully, we hope to extend it to other regions during 2008 but for the duration of the pilot project these prices will be available to all players, club and inter-county, from all 32 counties, at Northwood Imaging only.
Northwood Imagingâs state of the art diagnostic imaging centre is located just 20 minutes from Croke Park and within 10 minutes from Dublin airport. The Centre has been added to the list of approved facilities by the major accreditation/funding agencies, including the HSE, NTPF and all private medical insurers, including VHI Healthcare, Quinn Healthcare, and VIVAS Health. ESB Medical Provident Fund, Garda Medical Aid etc
[b]Opening Hours meeting Playerâs needs and schedules.[/b]
As an integral part of this exclusive GAA service level contract, Northwood Imaging will extend its opening hours giving GAA players and our medical support personnel unrivalled access to their services for a total of 96 hours per week
Additional Opening Hours for GAA Players
⢠Sunday 12 noon to 8pm
⢠Monday to Thursday 8.00pm to 12 midnight
These arrangements are in addition to the normal opening hours
⢠Monday to Friday 8.00am to 8.00pm
⢠Saturday 8.00am to 6.00pm
Paddy Creedon, the CEO at Northwood Imaging and his qualified staff are always available to answer any questions you may have on this service. You can contact him at 01.8627361 or 087.2532011 at any time.
Starting on Sunday 15th July
This service will operate on a pilot basis from 15 July to 31 October 2007. A number of GAA players have already availed of the diagnostic modalities at Northwood Imaging since it opened in April 2005.
[b]How does the scheme work?[/b]
1. Make contact directly at 01-8627333 and make an MRI appointment. No appointment is necessary for an X-Ray as a walk in service is available at Northwood Imaging
2. Download and complete the relevant âMRI Scan/X-Ray Request Formâ from www.northwoodimaging.ie or on the GAA website at www.gaa.ie
[b]3. On arrival at Northwood Imaging, the player will present the necessary MRI Scan/X-Ray Request Form signed by his club or county secretary and medical doctor. All requests must be supported and signed off by registered medical practitioners.[/b]
4. The player will pay the fee of 295 (MRI) or 50 (X ray) and claim reimbursement through the GAA Player Injury scheme, subject to the rules of the scheme. If the player has Private Medical Insurance (e.g. VHI Healthcare) the necessary claim form for these insurers will be completed and no fee will be collected. (Please note that travel and accommodation expenses are not covered).
The only way we will know if this scheme is to be successful or not is if we use it at club and county level when the need arises. Please encourage all players and the medical team attached to your club/unit/county to try out the service during the course of the pilot scheme and let Paraic O Dufaigh, Bainisteoir Leasa na nImreoirÃ, or the people at Northwood Imaging know what you think of the service. All feedback and comments will be taken into account in the development of our medical services policy going forward and as we seek to develop this pilot project to other centres in 2008.
15-Jul-07 by Pauric Duffy – Croke Park
Progressive Co. Leitrim club Aughavas last week made history when they became the first Co. Leitrim to make their weekly Lottery available online.
The club have teamed up with Co. Galway company [link= “www.locallotto.ie “]www.locallotto.ie[/link] to make it possible for fans of the club all over the world to support them on a weekly basis.
“Sports clubs all over Ireland have been using [link= “www.locallotto.ie “]www.locallotto.ie[/link] to sell their weekly Lotto tickets for the last year, but we are the first club in Co. Leitrim to do so, ” said Terry Williams of Aughavas GAA Club.
“The weekly Lotto draw plays a huge part in our fundraising efforts. You can now take part in our draw on our club website [link= “www.aughavasgaa.com “]www.aughavasgaa.com[/link] or on [link= “www.locallotto.ie “]www.locallotto.ie/Leitrim/Aughavas/[/link]
whether you are in Aughavas, Dublin, Galway, London or New York.
“It is a safe and secure system, and it helps us reach people who live all over the world but who give their allegiance to Aughavas GAA Club. ”
The idea of [link= “www.locallotto.ie “]www.locallotto.ie[/link] came when founder Warren Healy lived in America, and realised he had no way of supporting his home GAA club, Carna-Cashel in Co. Galway.
“It grew from there, and now clubs all over Ireland are getting weekly revenue from supporters who no longer live locally, and are therefore not able to buy a weekly Lotto ticket in the local pub or shop, ” said Warren Healy, who runs [link= “www.locallotto.ie “]www.locallotto.ie[/link] from An Spideal, Co. Galway.
“We also discovered once we set up the site that people living locally also started to buy online, which is another welcome development for clubs like Aughavas. We realise how difficult it is to keep a club afloat and this definitely opens up a new source of revenue. ”
Clubs who require more details of how [link= “www.locallotto.ie “]www.locallotto.ie[/link] operates should contact Warren (warren.healy@locallotto.ie, 087-2365854, 091-553855.)
12-Jul-07 by Aughavas GAA
