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Based on the reverse of Carlow’s fixtures last year, the Seniors’ leinster campaign opens with Galway at home, followed by visits to Dublin, Kilkenny and Wexford, and concluding with a home tie against Antrim. Looks like Antrim have Kilkenny home, Wexford away, Dublin home, Galway away and concludin...

Jaysus, howld on! Because the Senior team manager prioritises the Senior team and the U20 manager prioritised the team he manages does not indicate they “wouldn’t have the best working relationship”. And in early June with the U20 All-Ireland secured, prioritising the then forthcoming Joe McDonagh f...

From the crunchie board's site, Killoughey v Ballinamere, Rynaghs v CRC and SBK v Birr are confirmed quarter-final pairings. Belmont, Coolderry, Clara/Brosna Gaels and Birr are still in the championship, as far as I can make out. Na Fianna, DSK, Shamrocks, Tullamore and Kinnitty/Lusmagh are gone hav...

Indeed. The border wasn't based on parish boundaries then either. Killoughey was in the north division, while Kilcormac was in the south. And so north winners Killoughey played south winners Kilcormac in 1964's Junior hurling final. I find the attempts to define NORTH & SOUTH amusing but the ter...

A County final with a difference. But this one is more different than others that have gone before it. A few random thoughts. Firstly, ignore the match for a minute. Sunday is about Ballinamere. A first final for over 100 years, so effectively their first final. Such a big deal. Emigrants will come ...

Because they changed the regrading rule around 2018 or 2019. I don't know why, but it suited someone. Time was (pre 2019ish) if you won a grade (say Intermediate) and you already had a team in the next grade up (Senior), then everyone who took the field in the Intermediate final was graded Senior fo...

Ah, you never write off Coolderry!

tacmot wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2024 11:18 amYou were been a bit unfair on Coolderry here .

Very interesting to get a neutral perspective of the referee. I don't normally spend a match berating a referee- honest! - but yesterday was an exceptionally. To me, he seemed to believe it was his duty to bail Killoughey out! As for Lusmagh, this year was difficult. Numbers are tight at the best of...

Just a few points before the weekend. I continue to be impressed with Shinrone’s recent form. Not that they were stunning against Belmont, they weren’t, but that they controlled the game from start to finish and played it on their terms. Which isn’t a trait you’d associate with Shinrone. Their tackl...

That was the year 2000. The year the championship ran late and it was controversially decided Rhode and Edenderry would play off for the right to represent Offaly in the Leinster club championship.

The big hill wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2024 6:45 pm When was the last time rhode failed to reach the semis

They've been keeping it tight, in fairness, giving decent game time to as many as possible. Alex Kavanagh is just the 19th to play Senior A, they've used 20 different players in Senior B, and further 20 in Junior A (up to round 4, I don't have last weekend's Junior A lineout to hand). They still hav...

Can people STOP undermining the Minor hurling manager before he takes up the role.

Best wishes to Brian. And best wishes to the players, about to embark on an exciting journey of development, both as hurling players and as young adults.

A few things emerged from round 4. Principal among them that Ballinamere aren’t as good and Shinrone aren’t as bad as they both appeared hitherto. Last Sunday was Shinrone’s best performance since 2022’s Senior final. There was a real pace and intensity to their work that Birr couldn’t match, even d...

I don't believe it does. Firstly, three qualify. If the group finishes 8 4 4 4 0, am I right in thinking it is the record between the three tied teams that separates them? That being the case, Coolderry and Rynaghs have the superior scoring differences. Some win for Clareen. Does that mean Rynaghs a...

And yet while Fr G was a Westmeath native, he'd been in Tullamore for over a decade by 1971, was immersed in Offaly football (trained several successful minor football teams including 1964's). He was nearly more Offaly than Offaly themselves. Then the bishop of Meath took him off us. Fr. Gilhooley w...