Leitrim U21 A Final

Oughteragh Gaels 2 ? 14
Glencar/Manor 1 ? 6

Oughteragh Gaels comfortably retained their Leitrim U21 A title when defeating Glencar/Manor by eleven points in Drumshanbo on Saturday.

The Leitrim U21 ?A? final was a game of two halves with Glencar/Manor staying in contention with Oughteragh Gaels in the first thirty minutes but then disappearing off the radar in the second period.

The Aughnasheelin/Sean O?Heslin?s combination side, Oughteragh Gaels claimed a 1 ? 5 to 0 ? 2 lead in the first thirteen minutes.

In this spell Cathal Egan opened with a Gaels? goal and Wayne McKeon converted two frees while Vincent Mulvey and Anton Arandelovic added a point apiece.

Glencar/Manor?s Adrian Croal and Ronan McGourty responded with a point each.

However Glencar/Manor staged a fight back and turned the tables on Oughteragh Gaels by the nineteenth minute, to claim a one-point lead.

The all important Glencar/Manor revival scores were delivered by Alan Hickey, a goal, Ronan McGourty, two points and Gary Hickey, a point.

But Oughteragh Gaels got back on level terms and regained a 1 ? 6 to 1 ? 5 lead by the interval after Shane Murphy and Anton Arandelovic shot a point each.

Points were exchanged by Oughteragh Gaels? Wayne McKeon and Glencar/Manor?s Anthony McDonald in opening five minutes of the second half.

After that Glencar/Manor?s challenge collapsed and Oughteragh Gaels pulled well clear thanks to a goal and two points from Ronan O?Rourke while Finian Sharpley, Cathal Egan, Wayne McKeon, Liam Ferguson and Anton Arandelovic added a point each.

Oughteragh Gaels: Joe Murphy, Kevin Prior, Wayne Gilgunn, David Duignan, Wayne McKeon 0 ? 4, Barry McWeeney, Liam Ferguson 0 ? 1, Anton Arandelovic 0 ? 3, Fergal McManus, Ronan O?Rourke 1 ? 2, Cathal Egan 1 ? 1, Gavin Sammon, Shane Murphy 0 ? 1, Finian Sharpley 0 ? 1, Vincent Mulvey 0 ? 1. Subs DamienÓgilheaney for Prior (22 mins.), Philip Murphy for Sammon (60 mins.), Naoise Hayden for Sharpley (60 mins.).

Glencar/Manor: Mark Ryan, Shane Kerrigan, David Poniard, Shane Loughlin, Stephen O?Hara, Adrian O?Flynn, Gerry Hickey, Alan Hickey 1 ? 0, Darren Sweeney, Gary Hickey 0 ? 1, Ronan McGourty 0 ? 3, Padraig Kerrigan, Adrian Croal 0 ? 1, Anthony McDonald 0 ? 1, Colin Ryan. Subs Patrick Maguire for Sweeney (38 mins.), Paul Clancy for P. Kerrigan (42 mins.), Sean Watters for Gary Hickey (62 mins.).

Referee: Kieran Moran (Mohill).

 

 

19-Nov-06 by PJ Leddy

Connacht Junior Club Hurling Final

Skehana 1?10
St. Mary?s 0?6

St. Mary?s, aided by a strong breeze, grabbed a 0 ? 6 to 0 ? 4 halftime lead over Skehana in Sunday?s Connacht Club Junior final in Athleague.

Clement Cunniffe shot three points for Mary?s with Dana Regan, James Glancy and Vinny McDermott Scóring a point each.

Skehana halftime sub John McHugh, who hit a goal and two points, put his side on the road to victory in the second period when St. Mary?s failed to score.

Skehana: Tomas Hansberry, Cathal Jordan, Damien Costello, Padraig Scanlon, Mark Farrell, Derwin Costello, Eamon Hansberry, Sean Mannion, Jarlath Fahy, Brendan Costello, Peter Kelly 0 ? 1, Joey Glynn 0 ? 6, Thomas Costello, Simon Roche 0 ? 1, Fintan Finnerty. Subs John McHugh 1 ? 2 for Roche (ht.), Mark Costello for E. Hansberry (60 mins.), Fergal Costello for Fahy (60 mins.).

St. Mary?s: Alan O?Shea, James McGreal, Niall Clancy, David Tiernan, Padraig McWeeney, James Keane, Sean Walsh, Fearghal Carroll, Clement Cunniffe 0 ? 3, Vinny McDermott 0 ? 1, James Glancy 0 ? 1, Thomas Cronin, Breian Carroll, Donal O?Grady, Dana Regan 0 ? 1. Subs Martin Coles for B. Carroll (45 mins.), Olcan Conway for Cronin (54 mins.).

Referee: Michael Carroll (Roscommon).

 

 

19-Nov-06 by PJ Leddy

Club Grounds of the Year

Congratulation to Aughnasheelin on winning the Leitrim County Club Grounds of the year for 2006. In a close run competition the outright winners were chosen after Connacht Officers inspected the short list recommended by the Leitrim County committee. The runners up were Bornacoola and Drumreilly.

All 3 have paid excellent attention to detail in recent years and this has culminated in the excellent quality of the grounds for both players and spectators alike.

Aughnasheelin have been particulary busy with recent major upgrading of the pitch and surrounding area. The awarding of this years title is well justified and congratulations to all concerned and well done on the win.

 

 

15-Nov-06 by Brendan Doyle

Coaching News

GAA National Coaching Conference
The 4th annual GAA coaching conference will this year be hosted in Croke park from Friday, November 24th to Sunday November 26th. This year a new dimension has been added and for the first time the conference will address key medical issues specific to player welfare.

The conference will be officially opened on Friday evening with two discussion topics. On Saturday the conference programme will combine a cross sectional theme targeting coaches, administrators and referees as part of the GAA games development CARE foundation. This year the conference will also include a full GAA suppliers exhibition village. Cost this year will be 75 Euro per delegate. All clubs should check out the programme as there is something of interest for everyone including topics on pitch maintainance.

For further information on booking places ,
Please contact: GAA National Coaching + Medical Conference, Invent building, DCU, Dublin 9. Telephone 01- 7007578 for delegates. 087- 9219217 for sponsorship / exhibition details.

Hurling in Leitrim ? The way forward
A meeting will take place in the Bush Hotel on Thursday 16/11 at 8pm to discuss the way forward for both Hurling and camogie in Leitrim. All clubs are asked to send a delegate to this meeting even if they don?t field teams at present. Mr. Damien Coleman, Hurling director for Connacht will attend this meeting. Primary and Post Primary Teachers and any personnel from other Counties currently working in Leitrim are asked to attend.

Under 17 Development Squad
An under 17 development squad will commence training on Saturday next 19/11 in the Sports complex, Ck ? on ? Shannon, commencing at 10.45 am. Players to report by 10.30. All players on the under 16 panel of 2005 and players from this years minor squad still eligible for minor in 2007 are asked to attend. Other players will be contacted by either Gareth Phelan 087 7989876 or Seamus Mallon 086 8334614. All players are asked to bring runners as the session will be indoors. Bus routes as follows:

Ballinamore 9.00, Carrigallen 9.15, Aughavas Pitch 9.30, Cloone Pitch 9.45, Mohill 10.00, Dromod 10.10, Annaduff 10.20, Complex 10.30.

Kinlough 8.45, Manorhamilton 9.15, Dromahair 9.30, Drumkeerin 9.50, Drumshanbo 10.15, Complex 10.30.

Coaching Courses
Any club wishing to host a foundation level coaching course should contact Thomas Keenan or any member of the coaching committee. Our level one course will commence in early 2007.

 

 

14-Nov-06 by Thomas Keenan

AIB Connacht Club Semi-final

Corofin 1 ? 11
Mohill 1 ? 02

Corofin proved much too good for Leitrim champions Mohill in a one sided Connacht Club Semi-final in Cloone on Sunday.

Mohill made life reasonably difficult for Corofin for most of the first half as it took the Galway side quite some time to get to grips with their Leitrim opponents.

Defences were on top early on with the result after the first quarter Kieran Comer for Corofin and Colm Beirne for Mohill had only swapped a point each.

Mohill took the lead for the first an only time in the showdown when Seamus McCrann shot a point in the seventeenth minute.

A Trevor Burke goal for Corofin in the twenty-eight minute put the Galway men ahead by 1 ? 2 to 0 ? 2.

Kieran Comer added two points to put Corofin further in front by 1 ? 4 to 0 ? 2 at the interval.

When Stephen Conaty shot a spectacular goal nine minutes after the restart it looked like that a Mohill comeback was on the cards.

But Corofin took total command for then on hitting seven unanswered points before final whistle with Gary Sice finding the target twice while David Morris, Emmett Killeen, Aidan Donnellan, Kieran Comer and Thomas Costello added a point each.

Mohill were reduced to fourteen players before the end when Seamus McCrann was dismissed for two yellow card offences.

Corofin: Glen Comer, Gary Delaney, Kieran Fitzgerald, Padraig Kelly, Kieran McGrath, Damien Burke, Gary Sice 0 ? 2, Aidan Donnellan 0 ? 1, Greg Higgins, David Hanley, Kieran Comer 0 ? 4, Alan Burke, Trevor Burke 1 ? 0, David Morris 0 ? 2, Alan O? Donovan. Subs Emmett Killeen 0 ? 1 for O?Donovan (37 mins), Shane Conlisk for Delaney (42 mins), Thomas Costello 0 ? 1 for Morris (55 mins), Shane Monaghan for T. Burke (57 mins), James Lardiner for McGrath (61 mins).

Mohill: John McCrann, Paul McLoughlin, Michael McGuinness, Niall McGovern, Darren McLoughlin, Colin Murphy, Ciaran Kennedy, Shane Canning, RonanÓgallagher, Colm Beirne 0 ? 1, Daniel Beck, Shane Conaty 1 ? 0, Seamus McCrann 0 ? 1 , Philip McGuinness, John McGuinness. Subs Paul McDermott for D. McLoughlin (ht.) Paul Bannon for P. McLoughlin (ht.).

Referee: Peter Carney (Roscommon).

 

 

13-Nov-06 by PJ Leddy

Connacht Clubs Football Semi-Final

Best wishes are pouring in from Leitrim supporters as Leitrim Champions, Mohill, face the Galway Champions, Corofin, in the Connacht Clubs Football Semifinal in Cloone on Sunday at 2:30pm.

Its a number of weeks since Mohill played their county final and the extended delay is something they will have had to contend with. They have however filled that time span with their participation in the ACL 1 League.

Sundays enounter will be tough as the only advantage that Mohill have is the familairity and size of Cloone. Corofin have played in the Connacht Clubs in recent years and will have more experience at this level.

The winners progress with a chance to play either St. Brigids or Crossmolina in the final. Their semifinal is also on Sunday in the Hyde park in Roscommon as Kiltoom, St. Brigids home ground, is under development.

Bes of luck to all in what will be 2 lively encounters.

 

 

11-Nov-06 by Brendan Doyle – PRO

Website update-

As part of our ongoing process to improve our site the home page has been modified to include a listing of the two most recent match results and the next 2 fixtures.

In addition the League Competition headings is now clickable and will bring you directly to the respective competition table. The League Team names are also clickable so when a team name is chosen a filtered view of results and known fixtures is displayed for that particular team.

More features will be added as they are developed over the next few weeks. Suggestions always welcome.

Brendan, PRO

 

 

10-Nov-06 by Brendan Doyle – PRO

Coaching and Development news

[b]GAA National Coaching Conference[/b]
The 4th annual GAA coaching conference will this year be hosted in Croke park from Friday, November 24th to Sunday November 26th. This year a new dimension has been added and for the first time the conference will address key medical issues specific to player welfare.

The conference will be officially opened on Friday evening with two discussion topics. On Saturday the conference programme will combine a cross sectional theme targeting coaches, administrators and referees as part of the GAA games development CARE foundation. This year the conference will also include a full GAA suppliers exhibition village. Cost this year will be 75 Euro per delegate. All clubs should check out the programme as there is something of interest for everyone including topics on pitch maintainance.

For further information on booking places, please contact:
GAA National Coaching + Medical Conference,
Invent building, DCU, Dublin 9.
Telephone:
01- 7007578 for delegates.
087- 9219217 for sponsorship / exhibition details.

[b]Hurling Coaching session[/b]
Paudi Butler, the recently appointed National Director of hurling and Damien Coleman, Hurling Manager for Connacht gave a coaching session for coaches in St.Marys GAA grounds on Thursday night last. With the help of young Hurlers from Manorhamilton and St.Marys clubs and coaches from the four hurling clubs and the camogie club, it was a successful evening. Paudi will return in early 2007 to give a follow up session.

[b]Coaching Courses[/b]
Any club wishing to host a foundation level coaching course should contact Thomas Keenan or any member of the coaching committee. Our level one course will commence in early 2007.

 

 

08-Nov-06 by Thomas Keenan

Connacht Club SHC Semi-final

Connacht Club SHC Semi-final

Athleague 3 ? 11

St. Mary?s 1 ? 7

Roscommon champions Athleague proved too strong for Leitrim kingpins, St. Mary?s in Saturday?s lively Connacht senior club hurling semi-final, which was played in ideal weather conditions in Athleague.

Athleague, who will face recently crowned Galway champions Loughrea in the Connacht final on Sunday November 19, took control of this game early in the first half after Brendan Boyle shot to the St. Mary?s net.

St. Mary?s trailed by 1 – 4 to 1 – 8 at the interval and managed to cut Athleague?s lead back to three points early in the second half but after that the Roscommon side upped the pace and won convincingly.

Athleague: David Connell, Tommy Mulligan, Kieran Mullan, Niall Connolly, David Delaney, Kevin McGeaney, Colm Moran, Gary Fallon 0 ? 1, John Connolly, Tom Reddington, Sean O?Brien 1 ? 0, Shane McGeaney, Brendan Boyle 2 ? 3, Mervyn Connaughton 0 ? 7, Alan Cunniffe. Subs Joe Fallon for Reddington (48 mins.), Ivan Connaughton for McGeaney (59 mins.).

St. Mary?s: Packy Phelan, Vincent McDermott, Niall Glancy, Sean Walsh, James Glancy 0 ? 1, James Keane, David Tiernan, Fearghal Carroll, Clement Cunniffe 0 ? 6, Dana Regan, Breian Carroll 1 ? 0, Tom Cronin, Martin Coles, Donal O?Grady, Padraig McWeeney . Subs James McGreal for Coles (40 mins.), Olcan Conway for Regan (58 mins.).

Referee: Pat Greene (Galway).

 

 

07-Nov-06 by PJ Leddy

Scotland record historic Croke Park victory

Sunday, November 5

Scotland 2-13 Ireland 2-5

There was a Leitrim connection as Clement Cuniffe and James Clancy participated in the Shinty comptition as Scotland collected their first Croke Park win over Ireland on a 2-13 to 2-5 scoreline after a high-skilled and entertaining international clash at Headquarters on Sunday.

The visitors ground-hurling skills were perhaps the difference in the end as the Irish side struggled to come to terms with the illegality of handling the sliotar.

Gary Innes, of the Fort William club, fired the Scots into an early four-point lead with two well taken scores off the ground from dead-ball situations.

Sean Silkes Ireland did fight back with a point from sharpshooter Kevin McGarry and a goal from Kerrys JohnÓgriffin to leave the sides level at 1-1 to 0-4 after 18 minutes.

The second quarter, however, saw Scotland impose their dominance. A wonderful interchange of ground hurling ended with Victor Smith striking a clean shot to the roof of Graham Clarkes net in the 27th minute.

Kevin Thain and Ronald Ross, both of the Kingussie club, added a further three points to the Scottish tally to leave Ireland facing a six-point deficit at the interval.

It was a clean but physical first half with a lot of timber being broken and the Scots sticks standing up better in the challenge.

After the break, Fermanaghs McGarry kept Ireland in touch and when Kildares Paudie Reidy scored a goal in the 66th minute, after great work by Leitrims James Glancy, it seemed as though a comeback was on the cards.

Any resurgence, though, was quickly quashed when, a minute later, some excellent dribbling from Ross ended with a goal for the Scots.

Substitute Gordon MacKinnon then added another two-pointer for the visitors as the Irish challenge faded.

TEAMS and ScórERS:

Ireland – G Clarke (Down), J Bermingham (Wicklow), D Coulter (Down), C Cunniffe (Leitrim), K Divilly (Kildare), A Gaul (Carlow), J Griffin (Kerry) (1-0), P McCormack (Armagh), P Reidy (Kildare) (1-0), K McGarry (Fermanagh) (0-5), R Mulry (Roscommon), M O Neill (Wicklow), G Savage (Down), D Shaw (Carlow).

Substitutes – P Gannon (Meath) for D Coulter (59th min), J Glancy (Leitrim) for J Griffin (59th min), M Kettle (Antrim) for R Mulry (50th min) and T Lennon (Roscommon) for K Divilly (26th min).

Scotland – S MacNeil (Fort William), A Robertson (Fort William), A MacLeod (Kingussie), A MacKay (Lochcarron) (0-2), D Dando (Inveraray), N Campbell (Newtonmore), D MacRae (Newtonmore), K Ross (Lochcarron), G Innes (Fort William) (0-4), J Stewart (Kilmallie), J Clark (Fort William), V Smith (Fort William) (1-0), K Thain (Kingussie) (0-3), R Ross (Kingussie) (1-2).

Subs – P MacKenzie (Lochcarron) for J Clark (70th min), R Graham (Inveraray) for K Ross (53rd min) and G MacKinnon (Fort William) (0-2) for J Stewart (49th min).

Referee – E Morris (Dublin).

Article – Courtesy of Gaa.ie

 

 

06-Nov-06 by Gaa.ie

Weekend Fixtures

[b]Aoine 3 Samhain 2006[/b]
In Cloone – ACL 1 T2
Kiltubrid v Mohill at 8.00

[b]Satharn 4 Samhain 2006[/b]
In Drumreilly – ACL 1 T2
Drumreilly v Aughawillan at 3.00

In Drumshanbo – U-21 B FC -SF
Melvin Gaels v Carrigallen at 3.00

Venue TBC – U-21 B FC SF
Drumkeerin v Glenfarne/Kiltyclogher at 3.00

In Aughawillan – U-21 A FC SF
Oughteragh Gaels v St. Francis at 3.00

(Extra Time if necessary in all of above U21 SF)

InÓgortletteragh – ACL 1 T2
Gortletteragh v Aughavas at 3.00

[b]Domhnach 5 Samhain 2006[/b]

In Fenagh – ACL 1 T2
Fenagh-St.Caillins v Annaduff at 1.00

In Dromod – ACL 1 T2
Bornacoola v Allen Gaels at 1.00

In Carrigallen – ACL 2 T2
Carrigallen v Glenfarne/Kiltyclogher at 1.00

In Drumkeerin – ACL 2 T2
Drumkeerin v Ballinaglera at 1.00

In Aughnasheelin – ACL 2 T2
Aughnasheelin v Cloone at 12.00

In Dromod – ACL 3 T2
Bornacoola v Glencar/Manorhamilton at 2.30

In Ballinamore – ACL 3 T2
Sean O Heslins v Gortletteragh at 1.00

 

 

02-Nov-06 by Brendan Doyle – PRO

RTE News Coverage of Leitrim Fundraising Launch

Click on the link below to view footage of RTE Eileen Magniers report which was aired on 6:01 news on Wednesday evening.

[link= “www.leitrimgaa.ie/livefootage/230-2187845.smi “]Click here for RTE News Footage[/link]

Thanks to RTE for the coverage and use of the video file. This file is best viewed with [link= “www.real.com/freeplayer/?rppr=rnwk “]RealPlayer[/link] – if you have difficulty [link= “www.rte.ie/news/using_audiovideo.html “]click here[/link] for assistance from RTE.

Realplayer is a programme designed to play Audio and view Video footage. The installation of RealPlayer is a once off event and will remain on your PC for further use. To download Realplayer [link= “www.real.com/freeplayer/?rppr=rnwk “]click here[/link], select correct operating system (normally windows) and run the installation programme. You can accept all the default settings. When finished close all open windows except the one for this page then reclick the above link to view the RTE footage.

 

 

02-Nov-06 by Brendan Doyle – PRO