Leitrim Club Championships Souvenir Programme 2021

This is the culmination of months & months of work to showcase the 1,100+ players who will take part in the Leitrim Football & Ladies Football Club Championships this summer.

You can get your copy of this publication online here or at the following Outlets:

The Reading Room Bookshop, Carrick on Shannon
Corrib Oil, Carrick on Shannon
Corrib Oil, Ballinamore (Edentinny)
Murphys, Ballinamore
McCormack’s Mace, Leitrim Village
McCormack’s Mace, Manorhamilton
McGowan’s Spar, Kinlough
Clancy’s, Glenfarne
McGoldrick’s Centra, Dromahair
Gala, Dromahair
Nearby, Drumkeeran
Gibbons Centra, Drumshanbo
Cardiff’s, Drumcong
Sheemore Lounge, Kilclare
Berry & Brew Cafe , Mohill
Hunt’s Supermarket, Dromod
The Dugout, Aughavas
Higgins, Cloone
Masterson, Carrigallen

Any other outlets who would like to stock copies of the publication can order them from Breifne at 083 4853420 or info@leitrimdaily.com

The book will also be available at pop-up shops at some championship venues over the weekend.

This publication is introduced by Larry McCarthy, President of the Gaelic Athletic Association and Michael Naughton, President of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association as well as welcomes from Enda Stenson, Chairman of Leitrim GAA and Aidan Heron, Chairperson of Leitrim LGFA.

With a photo & profile of every player from all 23 Gaelic Football & 13 Ladies Football clubs it is a must have companion for players, coaches and supporters of each club across the entire county.

The complete championship guide includes results, fixtures, competition details and articles from plenty of Leitrim GAA stalwarts including former champions, commentators, pundits, coaches and county GAA & LGFA officials.

The publication was compiled by the Leitrim Daily / Final Whistle team including:
Editor: Philip Rooney / Research: Con Doyle / Producer: Breifne Earley

Drone footage and imagery: David Regan  /  Front cover design & layout: Daniel Moran

With the assistance of contributors from all GAA & LGFA clubs across the county.

Vistamed 2020 Junior B Championship Final Match Tickets

The long-awaited 2020 Vistamed Junior B Football Championship Final, Allen Gaels v Mohill, will take place at Avant Money Páirc Seán Mac Diarmada on Saturday next, July 31st, at 7 pm. This will be a fully ticketed event, limited to an overall capacity of 500 Supporters. The tickets for this match, priced at €5 each, have been placed on general release and are available to purchase from the link located on the main page of this website https://www.leitrimgaa.ie/

All supporters attending the game will require a match ticket, irrespective of age and there are no concessions.

Anybody who wishes to attend this game will be required, once they access the link, to supply a working email address which will ensure that the ticket, once paid for by card, will arrive at this address. You will then have the choice to print the ticket or just present the barcode on your phone at the venue for scanning. It is worth noting that this method of ticketing is most likely to be used in the future at all knock-out championship matches in the county.

Mohill GAA Allen Gaels GAA

Leitrim Volunteer Centre.

Leitrim Volunteer Centre, Carrick on Shannon

 

We would like to introduce the newly established Leitrim Volunteer Centre.

 

The centre was launched by Minister Joe O’Brien on May 18th. Now that we’re up and running we would like to introduce ourselves and our services.

 

If you have any queries or suggestions please give us a call on 071 9622537, we’d be delighted to hear from you.

 

 

Centre Staff

 

Josephine – Centre Manager, Orla –  Garda Vetting Officer and Charlotte – Placement Officer are available to you, providing the following services:

  • Advertising and promoting volunteer opportunities for all non-profit organisations in the county. We use our i-vol database to reach hundreds of volunteers in Leitrim:
  • Providing training on finding, retaining and managing volunteers.
  • Providing ongoing information, advice and support on working with volunteers.
  • We provide a Garda Vetting service.

If you are involved in any not-for-profit community group and need volunteers, please register with us on www.i-vol.ie

If you like to become a volunteer, you too can register on www.i-vol.ie

Currently we are seeking volunteers for the following roles:

 

  • Mentor with Foroige’s Big Brother Big Sister Programme;
  • Retail Assistant at the NCBI Shop;
  • Chef, Drivers and Gardener at Glenfarne Community Development;
  • Call Operators with Leitrim Calling and Rossinver Community Development,
  • Befriender to Older People with Leitrim Development Company;
  • Conversational English language tutor with Failte Isteach;
  • Facilitator and Board Member with Smart Recovery Ireland;
  • Tidy Towns Assistant in Drumsna;
  • Board Member with the Carrick Family Life Centre;
  • Social Media Assistant with Leitrim Volunteer Centre
  • Reserve Driver with Childhood Days.

Leitrim GAA Senior Football Team Manager Announcement

Leitrim GAA has been informed by Senior Team Manager Terry Hyland that he has decided to step down from the role. We wish to express our eternal gratitude to Terry and his entire backroom team, for the professional, wholehearted, and energetic manner in which they have carried out their respective duties to the team and all associated with it over the past three seasons. In his first year in charge, Terry oversaw the Allianz League promotion to Division 3 in 2019 and a rare appearance in a Croke Park Final which gave Leitrim GAA, its players, and supporters the biggest lift since the days of 1994. Over what has been the most difficult sixteen months in living memory since the onset of the Covid pandemic, Terry and his management team managed to navigate our players through difficult times for all concerned, while always respecting and abiding by the various levels of restrictions that we have experienced across these unprecedented times. Progress was inevitably affected by the huge disruptions that this caused to all involved.
Leitrim GAA is hugely appreciative and proud of its association with Terry and his professional and practical manner of dealing with both the board and its players over his three seasons in charge. We appreciate his many sacrifices on our behalf. Indeed his contribution to the activities of Leitrim GAA went way beyond those expected from a Senior Team Manager, particularly during the course of the pandemic. We will be always grateful for his very positive efforts with us and the wealth of experience he brought to the role of Leitrim Senior Team Manager. We wish Terry the very best of luck in the future.
We wish to also acknowledge the excellent contributions of Jason O Reilly, Gary Donohoe, Padraig McGourty, Kevin Downes, Padraig Dolan, Damien Eames, Colin McCabe, Shane Bohan, Fergal Wynne, Alan Loftus, and Ronan O Rourke as the various members of Terry’s backroom team over the past three years, while not forgetting the unsung heroes Leo Duignan, Kevin Lee and Brian Blake.

The Late Kitty Nangle RIP

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Leitrim GAA are sad to hear of the passing of Kitty Nangle Castleknock Dublin. Kitty was a fanatical Dub supporter married to a fanatical Leitrim supporter the late Gerry Nangle who passed away on the 25th April 2019.

On Morning Ireland on  Radio 1 in a piece compiled by Eileen Magnier  Eamonn Duignan Chairman of The LEITRIMWALL committee told the story of two bricks in the leitrimwall.

The story told was of Gerry & Kitty Nangle. Gerry from Drumshanbo met Kitty a Dub  at a dance  in the  National  Ballroom in Dublin  and Gerry left  her home.

She said  she  wasn’t  interested  in boys  she was only   16.   Friends  of hers   from Arigna were friends  of Gerry   & her name  came  up  after  being  lost  for  6years

Gerry and Kitty were married in 1963 -56 years ago

Gerry Nangle bought a brick in  the wall and his message is

Gerry Nangle Drumshanbo- 40 years a publican in Dublin – great leitrim supporter

Two weeks later Kitty asked Eamonn Duignan for a brick in the wall and Eamonn told her Gerry had bought one. She said ‘ I know , and I want to buy one as well’

Kitty a   fanatical Dublin Supporter message was  Up the Dubs- Thanks Leitrim -for Gerry

Kitty became known to everybody when she told her story to Eileen Magnier  on the RTE main evening news at the official opening of the Leitrim GAA Centre of Excellence.

Leitrim GAA would like to extend their sympathy to Kitty’s children ,Gerard, Caitriona, Finbarr and Paula and the entire Nangle family

Funeral arrangements later

Nicky Rackard Cup Mayo v Leitrim Livestream

Leitrim Hurlers are currently in action in the Nicky Rackard Cup versus mayo in Elvery’s McHale Park. Livestream coverage courtesy of Aidan Morley Livestream is available here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4FDbl68JR0

 

Eirgrid Connacht Under 20 Football Championship Streaming Details

The Eirgrid Connacht Under 20 Football Championship match, Roscommon v Leitrim, on Tuesday next at 7pm in Dr. Hyde Park has now been declared a sellout.

However, the game will be streamed live. All information with regard to this streaming service is located here

Eirgrid Connacht Under 20 Football Championship Leitrim v Roscommon

Ahead of next Tuesday’s Connacht Under 20 Football match, Roscommon v Leitrim in Dr. Hyde Park, a limited number of tickets have been placed on general online sale. These are available to purchase on a first come first served basis at the following link. Tickets cost €10 each.

https://www.universe.com/events/u20-connacht-football-championship-quarter-final-tickets-Z6MBWQ?ref=universe-discover

Corrib Oil Partners Leitrim GAA as Sponsors of the 2021 Leitrim Junior Football Championships

Leitrim GAA is delighted to announce that Corrib Oil will be partnering with us during the summer months as they have come on board to sponsor the 2021 Leitrim Junior Football championships. The company has service stations and oil offices in both Carrick on Shannon &  Ballinamore and is delighted to be supporting local jobs and business within County Leitrim. Corrib Oil would like to wish Leitrim GAA the best of luck with the organisation of the forthcoming championships and we look very much forward to a mutually beneficial partnership.

At this juncture, we wish to thank outgoing sponsors VistaMed Limited for their generosity towards Leitrim GAA for the duration of their association with our most recent championships in 2019 and 2020, which will conclude in July with the playing of the of finals of the 2020 VistaMed Junior A and B Championships.

The late Cathal Flynn, Clonee, Co. Meath and formery Gorvagh, Co. Leitrim.

On the 6th April 2021, Leitrim lost its greatest ever footballer Packie McGarty. Less than two months later Leitrim has lost his footballing twin Cathal Flynn. Cathal was a native of Gorvagh, County Leitrim and was resident in Clonee, Co. Meath over many years up to the time of his passing last night.

Flynn & McGarty were to Leitrim what Purcell & Stockwell were to Galway.  Cathal was deeply upset when his ‘footballing twin’ died and spoke of him every day since his passing. Packie always said there was no better corner forward in the game than Cathal Flynn.

Cathal Flynn played his first game with Leitrim in 1952 against Cavan in Ballinamore when he came on as a substitute and his career in the Green and Gold progressed and blossomed from that point forward.  He was a scoring genius, top scorer in the National Football League for nine years in a row, was out injured for a year and returned the following year to top the scoring charts again. McGarty drew the fouls and Flynn converted. But Cathal Flynn was more than just a free-taker.

In the famous 1958 final against Galway when Leitrim lost on a scoreline of 2-10 to 1-11, the Connacht Tribune reported ‘it was Flynn who sent the Leitrim supporters wild when he scored the goal in the 14th minute of the second half when he rounded Keeley and sent a flashing drive along the ground to the net’. Cathal Flynn was brilliant throughout and ended the game with a personal tally of  1-6.

Cathal played in the Connacht Finals of 1957, ’58, ’59, ’60 & ’63 and lost them all.

Cathal Flynn, Leo McAlinden, Eugene Boland and Columba Cryan were honoured by selection on the Connacht Railway Cup team as substitutes as far back as 1954.

In 1958 – Packy McGarty and Columba Cryan were joined by a new Railway Cup Star genius, corner-forward Cathal Flynn.

In the semi-final v Leinster – in Ballinasloe in front of 11,000 spectators Connacht won -1-11 to 0-7. Packy and Cathal scored 1-7

The next day in the Irish Press the headline by Padraig Puirseal was ‘McGarty & Flynn stole the show in Ballinasloe’. He won his only Railway Cup medal that year. Cathal will always be spoken of as one of the Leitrim Twins ‘McGarty & Flynn’

He passed away in James Connolly Memorial Hospital Blanchardstown last night and is survived by his wife Terry, daughter Clara, son-in-law Dave, sisters Eilish and Brid, grandchildren, nieces and nephews and a large circle of friends.

Former Leitrim GAA Secretary Tommy Moran has paid tribute to the late Cathal and his contribution to Leitrim GAA in a Leitrim Observer article reproduced here

On behalf of Leitrim GAA and the Supporters Club, we would like to extend our deepest sympathy to all his family.

Leitrim Supporters Club Tickets

A Gentle Reminder That Leitrim Supporters Club Tickets remain on sale from all GAA Clubs within the county or from any member of the Leitrim Management Committee. Draw takes place on Saturday 19th June.  1st Prize €5,000, 2nd Prize €2,000, 3rd Prize €1,000 plus 9 more fantastic prizes on offer. Please support our main yearly fundraiser.

 

2021 Leitrim GAA Club Fixture Schedule Approved

A meeting of the Leitrim GAA Management Committee last night approved the 2021 Club Fixture Schedule for all grades from adult through underage as drawn up by CCCC Liatroma. Competitions at the adult level will commence with the 2021 Masonite Leagues across the weekend June 19/20 for certain clubs and in general, the Masonite Leagues will be up and running for all clubs by WE 26/27 June. There will be four full rounds of leagues played from these starting points and it is planned that the Masonite League Finals will be played across all divisions if possible over the last two weekends of July. Members of the Leitrim Senior Football, Senior Hurling and Under 2o Football Panels will not be eligible to play in these leagues until after the point at which their respective team has exited championship action for 2021. The only exception to this will be in the case of any Championship Match weekend at which juncture players who have not been named on the matchday panel of 1-26 will become eligible to play for their clubs on these weekends only. There will be no promotion or relegation in 2021 Masonite Leagues, the top two teams in each division will contest a League Final. The League Divisions have been graded on the basis of 2019 finishing positions.

The 2020 Smith Monumentals IFC Final, Annaduff v Gortletteragh, and the 2020 Vistamed JFA Final, Aughavas v Cloone, are scheduled for WE July 24/25 and the 2020 Vistamed JFCB Final, Allen Gaels v Mohill is scheduled for July 31.

The 2021 Connacht Gold SFC, Smith Monumentals IFC and Corrib Oil JFC A, B and C will commence with the first round of the Connacht Gold SFC on WE 6/7/8 August.

The complete 2021 Club Master Fixture Plan is as follows:

2021 Leitrim GAA Adult Master Fixture Plan