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CROKE PARK TICKETS FOR ALLIANZ LEAGUE DIVISION 4 FINAL CROKE PARK SATURDAY MARCH 30^TH

Tickets will go on sale on Monday 25^th March through Supervalu Local Stores, online and via Leitrim County Secretary Attracta O Reilly by emailing to secretary.leitrim@gaa.ie

Clubs who wish to purchase tickets for Under 16 Groups may do so directly through their Club Secretaries. These may be purchased in Groups of 10 with one supervising adult free per 10.

SUPPORTING LEITRIM GAA IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE!!

Don’t forget, no matter wherever you are, you can be part of Leitrim GAA – for example why not join our 2019 Supporters Club for €50 and you get entered in the annual draw for 10 great prizes & the chance to win the 5,000 euro top prize – the draw is fast approaching.

You can go one better if you want to be leave a permanent mark of your support for Leitrim GAA.  Simply Buy a Brick in the fund raising wall at our wonderful Centre of Excellence.

You will be helping all Leitrim teams with this contribution as the facility is the centre for the coaching and development of all future Leitrim Senior Players through the various Underage Academies right through to the current Leitrim Senior Teams. The development of players through the academy coaching, indirectly contributes the improvement in standard of club players into the future. A lot of money has already been invested & the centre is nearly finished but we need €300,000 to complete it to the highest possible standards.

You can play your part & a contribution would be a big help to that project.  In return remember you get your own personalised message imprinted on your own brick.  The deadline is just around the corner and the concrete foundations for the wall have commenced.

Supporters Club:  https://www.leitrimgaa.ie/supporters-club/

Buy A Brick:   https://www.LeitrimWall.com

Wheelchair Patrons

Patrons that may require wheelchair access to the upper level of the stand in Avantcard Páirc Seán Mac Diarmada are requested to arrive in good time tomorrow so that access can be completed in advance of throw in.

Match Programme

A 20 Page match full-colour programme has been produced for tomorrow’s match. Please watch out for our programme sellers at the entrance stiles.

Leitrim Wall

Members of the Leitrim Wall Committee will have on display in the ground tomorrow samples of the bricks that are currently on sale. You are invited to take a look!

Throw in 1pm

Best wishes to Team and Management as they aim to make it 5 wins in a row!!

Leitrim GAA Supporters Club will be chartering a bus to Joule Park, Aughrim for next Sunday’s Allianz League Division 4 match with Wicklow, provided there is sufficient interest. Anybody who wishes to book a seat on the bus should contact Jerome McWeeney at 0876370051 or Rúnaí Coiste Chontae Liatroma Attracta O Reilly at secretary.leitrim@gaa.ie Bookings need to be confirmed by Thursday next latest.

JP Clarke’s Saloon McLean Avenue, Yonkers, NY

Leitrim GAA is delighted to announce, on County Senior and Intermediate Finals day, that JP Clarke’s Saloon, McLean Avenue, Yonkers, New York, will be the new sponsor of the Leitrim Senior Football team, taking over from the Bush Hotel which has been the main sponsor of county teams since it was announced at Convention in December 2009. The sponsorship deal is for three years, commencing in January 2019 to coincide with the start of the Connacht FBD Insurance Competition and Allianz Football League.

JP Clarke’s has been a home base for travelling Leitrim teams and supporters since Leitrim’s first Connacht championship match against New York in 2003 and also on the more recent trips of 2008, 2013 and 2018. The Leitrim players and management have been hugely impressed with the welcome and hospitality they have received over the years, and would like to take this opportunity to thank Seamus and Caitríona Clarke and their staff for all their help and generosity during our visits.

While it is unique for a county team to have a sponsor from the USA, it also reflects the strong connection between Leitrim and New York, and especially the ties between Leitrim and the Woodlawn/Yonkers section of New York which is often referred to as ‘Little Leitrim’.

When asked what sponsoring the Leitrim team means to him, Seamus Clarke replied, ‘Well, I suppose the Bard of Ballycarry put it best when he wrote: “The savage loves his native shore though rude the soil and chill the air.” It’s a great honor for me and all of us here at JP Clarke’s to sponsor our county and to show our appreciation for the support and loyalty shown to us by our Leitrim customers and the many Leitrim visitors who drop in to visit us each year.’

Seamus Clarke hails from the parish of Gortletteragh and his wife Caitríona, a Drumshanbo native, is the daughter of the late Leo Kenny who served as an officer of Leitrim GAA and the Connacht GAA Council for a long number of years. He held the position of Leas Uachtarán of Comhairle Connacht before his untimely death in 2000. Caitríona’s brother Padraig won a Connacht SFC medal with Leitrim in 1994.

Leitrim GAA looks forward to a fruitful partnership with JP Clarke’s and we look forward to mutual success. We thank Seamus and Caitriona Clarke for the confidence they have placed in us and we will carry their brand onto the field of play with pride over the period 2019-2021.

The new sponsorship brings to a conclusion the Bush Hotel sponsorship of Leitrim GAA teams over the best part of the past decade. Joe Dolan and Family came on board in 2009 and over the intervening years, the Bush Hotel has been synonymous with the Leitrim GAA brand. Leitrim GAA will always remain grateful to this family for digging most deeply into their pockets over the past nine years, many of which years have seen the country in the depths of a recession and grappling with austerity measures. To contribute as they did in times as we have referred to is a huge testimony to the generosity of the Dolans and their hotel business and Leitrim GAA wishes to place this on permanent record as a statement of our grateful appreciation. Many thanks, Joe, Rosie and all the Dolan family and indeed to your very professional staff for the huge generosity of support and the courtesy you have always afforded us. It has been the utmost pleasure to have been in partnership with you. We wish you and the Bush Hotel the very best in the future and we also look forward to supporting your business in whatever way we can.

Leitrim Supporters pictured outside JP Clarke’s in May 2003