Two More in the Bag

Two more in the bag

Not a bad weekend. Two points for Leitrim in a do or die match in Carlow and team captain Emlyn Mulligan named on the Team of the Week. Things are looking up again and it’s no more than the players and Brian Breen, George Dugdale, the backroom team and the CountyBoard deserve. It’s all systems go now for the remainder of the Allianz League, because promotional hopes will be in the balance until the very last round. So the scene is set for an exciting few weeks ahead – amazing what a vital win can do.

 

We welcome Offaly to Páirc Seán on Sunday and the two points will be hard earned, so vocal and moral support will be vital. Leitrim followers have never found wanting, so have an early dinner and be in Carrick inÓgood time to welcome the team on to the pitch and keep that “Leitrim Leitrim” chanÓgoing from the throw-in. There will be stages in the game when Offaly will dominate, so the war cry will be needed even more then and the players will respond, as they always do.

 

Over the coming weeks we will be keeping a close eye on other results form Division IV and how they might impact on us, but really we just need to keep winning and be in the shake-up at the end.

 

Every game is now a vital one, so Leitrim followers should rally to the cause on Sunday and keep the pot boiling. Offaly are renowned for their fighting spirit and never say die attitude, so we will have to match them mentally as well.  Barney and George are busy men this week, plotting a game plan with the players and looking for another high Scóring performance on Sunday. Hopefully supporters will be there in large numbers and come home happy with another two points in the bag.

 

 

05-Mar-13 by Tommy Moran

Leitrim v Offaly

Fixture Details Allianz League Division 4 – Round 4

Leitrim v Offaly this Sunday 10/3/13 at 2.30 in Páirc Seán.

Please put Sunday in your Diary – Lets ALL get behind the team.

 

 

04-Mar-13 by Colette Fox – PRO

Carlow v Leitrim

Link to an article on todays match against Carlow by John Lynch on Shannonside and an interview with Barney Breen.

 

 

03-Mar-13 by Colette Fox – PRO

Post Match Reaction

Joint Leitrim Manager Brian Breen in a post match interview with Shannonside FM reporter Seamus Gallagher after our victory over Carlow today. 

 

 

03-Mar-13 by Colette Fox – PRO

Allianz Football League – Carlow v Leitrim

Leitrim Supporters Club are organising a bus (subject to numbers travelling) to Carlow v Leitrim Allianz National League game on Sunday 3 March.

Venue Carlow.
Fare €15
Booking essential to Shay Reynolds 0879030882 or Attracta O Reilly 0861708499 on or before Thursday 28 February.

Bus Route
Drumshanbo 9.15am
Carrick on Shannon 9.30am
Dromod 9.50

 

 

21-Feb-13 by Colette Fox – PRO

Letting down the Blade

Letting down the Blade

When my uncle, Joe Sweeney, would tell me he had to let down the blade, it never made a lot of sense to me. But of course I let on I understood, as he lowered the mowing arm on the horse drawn machine to get every last sprig of grass off the meadow in Killaneen. He wanted to shave off the minutest strand, to get the best value he could out of the few acres of grass he had to work on.

I thought of Uncle Joe last Sunday, as Mary Flynn and Noeleen Noone poured the tea in a rather subdued atmosphere at half time. There were happy Clare faces of course, but the stewards and supporters and everyone in a green and gold jacket hovered inÓgroups, like in the hallway of the High Court and wondered what in blazes had happened in the run up to half time.

We appeared to be on a roll, but play was rightly held up to care for worrying looking injuries to Cathal McCrann and then Adrian Croal and suddenly we were behind and Clare had risen from the dead.

Micko will probably be getting plaudits today for pulling some master stroke inside that wise old head. But he didn’t really, he probably just told his players to go back out and keep the stolen momentum going. Anyway, they did and we could have had no complaints at full time, Clare deserved to go home with the two points.

Of immediate concern to us is that Cathal and Adrian make full and speedy recoveries – and not just for football reasons, they don’t deserve to be in pain or discomfort or unable to work or socialise for giving their all for the county jersey. But hurry back, lads!

If George or Barney talk this week about letting down the blade, we will all know what they mean. What has beenÓgiven on the training field to date, will pale a little compared to what is to come, every last ounce will be demanded from everyone in the team party. It’s not the end of the world. We have lost two matches in a row before. And don’t forget we had won four in a row just before these last glitches.

The rest of us can let down the blade a bit too – if we could all get just one more member each into the Supporters Club, it would make such a difference. Shay Reynolds and Michael Feeney would be quite happy if they had to bale the Euro notes. The banks are open for business, well, some of them anyway.

And George and Barney and the players are still open for business.

Let down the blade, lads, we are all still behind you.

 

 

 

11-Feb-13 by Tommy Moran

Calling on Leitrim Followers

 

 

 

Calling all Leitrim Followers

 

Your support is needed to help us over the line

 

Maybe you can’t make New York in May

But you could make Carrick on February 10th

 

 Emlyn and the boys need that sideline chant of

Leitrim ….. Leitrim ….. Leitrim

 

Leitrim v Clare

See you in Páirc Seán on Sunday at 2pm

 

Go raibh maith agaibh

 

 

 

07-Feb-13 by Colette Fox – PRO

The GAA national website (wwwgaaie) has a preview of all teams participating in this years Allianz Football League

The GAA national website (www.gaa.ie) has a preview of all the teams participating in this years Allianz Football League.  Follow this Link to preview the Leitrim team ahead of our Allianz Football League opening match against Limerick on Sunday.  And dont forget if you intend travelling to Sundays game on the Leitrim Supporters Bus you are advised to book your seat as soon as possible.  Latest date for booking your seat is Thursday 31st. January but seats will be reserved on a first come basis and as the man says “when theyre gone, theyre gone.”

Booking details:

Shay Reynolds, Bornacoola 087 903 0882

Attracta O Reilly, St. Marys 086 170 8499

€15 per person

Departure Sunday 03/02/2013

9.15 am Drumshanbo swimming pool
9.30 am Pairc Sean Mac Diarmada
9.50 am Bornacoola GAA, Dromod 

Be there to cheer them on to a winning start

 

 

 

 

29-Jan-13 by Colette Fox – PRO

Bus to Limerick v Leitrim match

Allianz Football League 2013

Division 4

Round 1

 

Limerick v Leitrim Sunday
03 February 2013


Leitrim Supporters Bus to Limerick v Leitrim match on 3/2/13

(Subject to sufficient uptake)

Bookings to

Shay Reynolds Bornacoola 0879030882
Attracta O Reilly St. Marys 0861708499

€15 per person

Departure Sunday 03/02/2013

9.15 am Drumshanbo swimming pool
9.30 am Pairc Sean Mac Diarmada
9.50 am Bornacoola GAA, Dromod


Be there to cheer them on to a winning start

 

 

28-Jan-13 by Colette Fox – PRO

Dublin Supporters Travelling to Limerick – Information only

Limerick v Leitrim

Sunday 3/2/13 at 2.00pm in the Gaelic Grounds

 

Train departs – Hueston Station 8.30 am or 10.00am

You change trains at Limerick Junction

Train arrives Limerick – 10.40 am or 12.05 pm

Return from Limerick

Departs – Limerick – 16.20 or 17.45

The 16.20 direct to dublin.

The 17.45 YOU CHANGE AT LIMERICK JUNCTION

Arrives Dublin – 18.40pm or 19.50pm respectively

Supporters should book on line on the train that suit them best

Adult fare – return  €30

Lets cheer them on to a winning start.

 

 

 

28-Jan-13 by Eamonn Duignan

New York New York

New York New York

Yes, it’s New York on the double for Leitrim this year. The wave of emotion that greeted the FBD Connacht League Final victory on Sunday reverberated across the Atlantic right to the Big Apple and phone lines and skype were busy — in one direction with congrats to all concerned, and in the other with queries about spare beds in some long lost cousin’s house for a weekend in May and another in October. Manhattan, the Bronx, Yonkers, Queens, Staten Island, anywhere within reasonable striking distance of GaelicPark. The Gathering may be enticing our loved ones to travel back to Ireland in 2013, but loads of us will be spilling West also.

What a change to have the boys in green and gold as the headliners in all local and national news and sports bulletins on Sunday evening and all day Monday. Our players deserve it, as do Brian Breen and George Dugdale, who incidentally were part of the last Leitrim senior side to get their hands on silverware back in 1994; as does strength and conditioning coach Ollie Cummings; as do the members of the backroom team, all of whom play vital roles; as do County Chairman Joe Flynn, Secretary Diarmuid Sweeney and all of our top-class county officers; as do probably the most loyal GAA followers of any county in the country. Supporters did not make a sudden appearance in Markievicz Park because the smell of a final was in the air, for they were in Elphin on a shivering cold day for the first round against the Rossies;  were in Ballinamore for a long awaited other shot at Mayo and were back again on the following Sunday for the clincher against GMIT. One thing Leitrim can always be assured of, is support.

Most of the happy faces in Markievicz were also in the Hyde for the Connacht Championship victory nineteen years ago and were also there in the Hyde for the All Ireland B Championship victory (also over Sligo) four years earlier and while none of them could have been in Tuam for the 1927 Connacht title, no doubt plenty of their parents, uncles, aunts and cousins were.                              

Funnily enough, the seeds for Sunday’s victory were probably sown last June as the players trooped off the field in Castlebar, after one of the real drubbings of the Championship against Mayo. Every man in a Leitrim jersey that day must have sworn to himself that this would never happen again, he would do whatever it took to bring about a turnaround. And turn around it did, as we all remember in an all hands on deck rousing victory over a fancied Wicklow side in the Qualifiers and in an agonisingly close call against Laois, who subsequently scored the life out of the All Ireland champions the Dubs in Croke Park. The year had finished for the players on an upbeat note and they were determined to carry that into 2013.

This they have done in real style, so hats off to every single member of the panel and particular praise to our Joint Team Managers. A happy supporter was heard singing

“Barney’s winning matches

George is winning games “

as he happily made his way back to his car for a delighted journey home from Sligo. Probably today he is singing the Frank Sinatra hit New York New York!  

 

 

28-Jan-13 by Tommy Moran

FBD Photographs

Glad to report that James has overcome the “technical difficulties” he was unfortunately encountering last night and the remaining photographs from yesterdays FBD Home League Final are now available on the Connacht GAA gallery.

 

 

 

28-Jan-13 by Colette Fox – PRO