As Leitrim play London this coming Sunday the 5th of February, there will be a large gathering of supporters from both home and away in Ruislip.   Over the last month over a thousand Leitrim people have been taking part in the  #50mileschallenge  to raise much needed funds for both Leitrim GAA and Leitrim LGFA. There has been plenty of activity on social media with loads of shared stories and memories.   Everyone taking part is sporting a Leitrim beanie which are getting a great reaction.   We are asking fans in London who have been taking part or wish to be associated with the initiative to attend at the side of the McGovern stand on the club house side for a photo opportunity about 20 mins before the game.    Entry is free to the game & don’t forget your hat and there will be a number of beanie hats available for supporters.  If you wish to support the effort you can donate via the link below.
All support is greatly appreciated.

Donate via this link to the London based Supporters Club fundraiser page

 

 

Donate via this link to the London based Supporters Club fundraiser page

 

The first meeting of Coiste Chontae Liatroma 2023 took place at Avant Money Páirc Seán Mac Diarmada last night and dealt with the competition motions that were referred forward from the Convention Clár in December. How the motions were received is outlined below:

Competition Structural Regulations (Adult) – Coiste Chontae Liatroma

Motion 1

2023 Junior A Football Championship (8 Teams)

Two groups of 4 with each team playing each other in round-robin series. Top Team in each group qualifies for the Semi-final, second and third placed teams play each other 2 v 3 and 3 v 2 across the respective groups. Semi Final Draw to ensure that the top placed teams avoid each other at this stage. Winner of Junior A Football Championship promoted to IFC 2024. The bottom-placed team in each group to play each other in the relegation final with the defeated team to be relegated.

Seeding 2023

Pot A   2022 Defeated Finalist plus 2022 IFC Relegated Team. (2 Teams)

Pot B   2022 Beaten Semi-Finalists (2 Teams)

Pot C   2022 Beaten Quarter Finalists (2 Teams)

Pot D   2022 Remaining Team plus Junior B Championship Winners 2022 (2 Teams)

2023 Junior B Football Championship (8 Teams)

Two groups of 4, inclusive of the three relegated teams from the JFC A 2022, and the five remaining teams that competed in JFC B 2022, with each team playing each other in round-robin series. Top two teams in each group will play semi-finals (1 v 2 and 2 v 1). Winner of Junior B Football Championship promoted to JFC A 2024. The bottom-placed team in each group to play each other in the relegation final with the defeated team to be relegated to Junior C Football Championship 2024. There shall no seeding in this draw.

Junior C Football Championship 2023 (8 Teams)

Two groups of 4, inclusive of the two relegated teams from the 2022 Junior B Championship, the 2022 Junior C Football Championship winners, plus any additional teams that are eligible and participating in 2022. Top two teams in each group will play semi-finals (1 v 2 and 2 v 1). In the event of there being six or nine teams these will be placed in groups of 3 teams each, if seven teams these are placed in groups of four and three respectively. In a three group scenario, semi-finalists will comprise the top team in each group and the best placed runner up across the three groups. No two teams from the same group to meet in semi-final. Winners of JFC C to be promoted to JFC B 2024. There shall no seeding in this draw.

Rule 6.21 TO 2022 to apply in determining final group placings in each of the above championships.

Coiste Chontae Liatroma – MOTION PASSED

Competition Organisational Regulations (Championship) – Coiste Chontae Liatroma

 Motion 1

That ‘Winner on Day’ regulations no longer apply to all Senior, Intermediate and Junior A Football Championship games. In the event of a drawn game, extra time will take place, and if still drawn the game shall be replayed. In the event of the game ending level at end of extra time on 2nd day, ‘Winner on Day’ scenario would then come into play. All finals shall go to replay.

Naomh Muire Cill Tochairt – MOTION PASSED 

Motion 2

In the event of knockout championship games up to the Senior or Intermediate Football Championship Final ending level at full time they will be subject to extra time. This will involve the playing of two periods of

extra-time of ten minutes each. If the teams are still level a replay will be required. The replay to be played midweek following the drawn fixture. For the replayed fixture ‘Winner on Day’ scenario will apply.

This will involve the playing of two periods of extra-time of ten minutes each. If teams are still level the tie will be decided by the taking of five penalty kicks each, and sudden death if also required. All the foregoing to be in accordance with what was approved by Árd Comhairle on January 19th 2019.

Béal an Átha Móir – Seán Uí Eslín – MOTION WITHDRAWN

Motion 3

In the Senior, Intermediate and Junior A Championship; the ‘Winner on Day’ format should not apply to Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals and Finals.   At Quarter-Final and Semi-Final stage, a replay if required shall be fixed for a date at the discretion of the CCC before the following Wednesday with ‘Winner on Day’ format to be used.  In the event of a draw in the final of any of the three grades, a replay date to be fixed at the discretion of the CCC with finish on the day format to be used.

Cill Tiobraid – MOTION WITHDRAWN 

Motion 4

In Senior and Intermediate Championships, teams that finish in 1st and 2nd Position at end of the round robin be kept apart in Semi-Final draw.

Cill Tiobraid – MOTION PASSED 

Motion 5

The CCC to have the discretion to make the draw for Rounds 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the Senior and Intermediate Championship round robin when they see fit.

Cill Tiobraid – MOTION DEFEATED

Competition Organisational Regulations (League) – Coiste Chontae Liatroma

 Motion 1

The team who finishes in first position of ACL Div 1, 2 & 3 and Res Div 1, 2 & 3 shall be granted home advantage in the League Final. This is subject to the club having a home venue that has an enclosed playing area with a secure perimeter fence.  In the event of a club whose pitch is currently closed, or does not have a securely enclosed playing area as outlined above, it will have the option of nominating an alternative venue as its home venue for the final within the county, subject to having gained permission from both the club to nominate the venue and ultimate CCC approval.  In the event of no pitch being made available to that Club, CCC will retain the authority to decide a venue.

Cill Tiobraid – MOTION DEFEATED 

Motion 2

All County League & Tailteann Cup / All Ireland Qualifier scenario: Where All County League fixtures are scheduled for any weekend that Leitrim are playing in the Tailteann Cup / All Ireland Qualifiers, such All County League fixtures to be played on Friday evenings in advance of the Inter County fixture.

Béal an Átha Móir – Seán Uí Eslín – REFERRED TO CCC LIATROMA AS A RECOMMENDATION

Competition Organisational Regulations (Underage) – Coiste Chontae Liatroma

Motion 1

If a team has 15 players or more available on a given evening, the game shall be played as 15 a side, in such a scenario if a team loses a player to injury, the opposing team shall remove one player. Teams with less than 15 players will play 13 a side, less than 13 the game is conceded.

Naomh Muire Cill Tochairt – MOTION DEFERRED 

Motion 2

In a situation where a club underage team is short the minimum number required in Leitrim GAA underage competitions by 1 or 2 players an accommodation be made to allow the team take part in the competition.

Naomh Caillin Fiodhnach – MOTION DEFERRED

Motion 3

Juvenile club fixtures are not scheduled to clash at a different venue with the club’s adult fixtures on the same date.

Gortleitreach – REFERRED TO CCC LIATROMA AS A RECOMMENDATION

 

 

This free HSE programme  is run across Ireland for anyone living with a long term health conditions or carers of people with long term health conditions. 
They are run across the year, predominantly online at present but moving back to face to face.

Leitrim GAA is very saddened to learn of the death of the late James McGovern, formerly of Aughavas, County Leitrim. The McGovern Family has been imbued in the fortunes of Leitrim GAA over a period of time that has been continuous since the glory days of the early 1990s. They first came to prominence by agreeing to become the sponsors of the Leitrim Senior Football team in the early days of sponsorship names being allowed on jerseys, as the team’s rise to prominence hit a high with the capturing of the Connacht SFC title in 1994. A multiplicity of images that continue to be reproduced over the decades since are ingrained in the consciousness, with ‘McGovern Aughavas’ forever associated with that glorious era. James was the central figure in this deal at that time.

Beyond that, the McGoverns have continued their association with Leitrim GAA, the main stand in Avant Money Páirc Seán Mac Diarmada renamed the McGovern Aughavas Stand in the late noughties and more recently, the naming rights of the Leitrim GAA McGovern Aughavas Centre of Excellence are attributed to the generosity of James’s brother, Tony McGovern, based in London.

Of course, James and Family have not forgotten their more local roots and for many of Aughavas’s most successful recent years, particularly around their Leitrim SFC success of 2000, the name McGovern found a most prominent and proud placement on the front of their native jerseys.

Leitrim GAA will always be most appreciative of the contribution of James McGovern to Leitrim GAA. We know we made him proud throughout that glorious era of the early to mid-1990s.

James McGovern is deeply regretted by his wife Peggy, children Aidan, Vera, Nuala, Andy and Eileen, daughters-in-law Christina and Louise, sons-in-law Willie, Tristan and Ciarán, grandchildren Sean, Nikita, Karla, Henry, Leo, Bill, Pete, Jodi, Séamus, Tómas, Euan, Grace, Pierce and Charlie, brothers Tom, Gerry and Tony, in-laws, extended family, friends and neighbours. He will be laid to rest in Dardistown Cemetery, following 11.30am funeral mass at St Vincent de Paul Church, Marino, on Wednesday morning.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh sé.

https://rip.ie/death-notice/james-mcgovern-drumcondra-dublin/522801

 

Dessie Kieran, Ballinamore Seán O’Heslins RIP

The death has occurred of Dessie Kieran, one of the stalwarts of Ballinamore Seán O’Heslin’s since his playing days in the late 1940s and through the 1950s. Dessie was the goalkeeper on the famous Ballinamore team which won the 1956 Senior Championship, the club’s first at the time, after what seemed an eternity from 1939. That victory was the highlight of Dessie’s generation and was spoken about with pride ever after. Pictured below is a photo of the Ballinamore team of 1956 with Dessie third from the right in the back row.

While still a player, Dessie was very involved in the administration of the club along with his brother, the late Brendan. Between them, they were central to the running of the club in the 1950s and 1960s. Dessie was club Treasurer from 1953-1955 and again in 1958. He was also Assistant Treasurer from 1964-1968. He was a mine of information on anything to do with the club, and indeed the town, and a visit to the chemist shop run by himself and his wife, Sheelah, would yield the answers to many questions.

Dessie was particularly proud to see his son Paul play a central role in Leitrim’s great Connacht Senior Championship win in 1994 and in Ballinamore’s Senior title wins in the 1980s and 1990.

The club expresses sympathy to Dessie’s wife Sheelah and sons Paul, John and Mark and the extended family. Reposing at Smith’s Funeral Home, High St. Ballinamore N41 TD62 on Wednesday evening from 6pm until 8pm. Funeral Mass in St. Patrick’s Church, Ballinamore on Thursday at 12 noon followed by burial in Oughteragh cemetery, Ballinamore.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh duine de laochra chlub Sheáin Ui Eislin. Leaba i measc na naomh agus na peileadóirí go raibh age.

As part of the Club Leadership Development Programme, role induction webinars have been scheduled on a Provincial basis for Club Chairperson, Secretary, Treasurer, PRO and Coaching Officer.

 To register for these events please visit – https://learning.gaa.ie/officertrainingcalendar

 If you have any queries relating to any of these training events, please contact officertraining@gaa.ie

Leitrim GAA wishes to offer its deepest sympathies to the family of the late Brian Bohan, Gael Linn Lynndale, Maugheraboy, Sligo Town, Sligo and formerly Mohill, Co Leitrim. The Late Brian never forgot his roots and remained a keen Leitrim supporter and annually sold Leitrim Supporters Club Tickets in his adopted Sligo.

Our sympathies are extended to his son Rory (Galway), his daughter Emer Kennedy (Sligo), daughter-in-law Nicola, son-in-law Tony, grandchildren Ciaran, Grace, Rian, Penny and Luke, nieces Barbara and Mary, nephew Cormac, sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, relatives and friends.

Ar dheis de go raibh a anam dilis.

Funeral Arrangements Below.

https://rip.ie/death-notice/brian-bohan-br%C3%ADan-o-buacha%C3%ADn-gael-linn-sligo-town-sligo/520784

Leitrim GAA wishes to offer its deepest sympathies to the family of the last Paddy McEneaney, Lurganboy, Manorhmilton, who passed to his eternal reward on Saturday, December 17th. The late Paddy, a native of Cavanaguillagh, Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan, has been very positively associated with the Glencar/Manorhamilton GAA Club over many decades and has held a number of prominent officer positions in the club during this time.

Our sympathies are extended to his wife Julia, his children Siobhán, Gerardine, Eibhlín, Dympna, Mary, Róisín, Patrick, Terence, Cathal and the extended members of the McEneaney family at this sad time. May he rest in peace.

Funeral arrangements are located below.

https://rip.ie/death-notice/paddy-mceneaney-manorhamilton-leitrim/518578

 

Due to pitch conditions and health and safety concerns of all concerned, tomorrow’s Under 20 Football Championship Finals have been postponed until January 22, 2023.

Due to the inclement weather and ground conditions, this evening’s Under 20 Division 1 final has been postponed. The game has been rescheduled for Sunday, December 18th at a time and venue TBC by CCC.

Due to the current inclement weather conditions, tomorrow’s Division 1 , 2 and 3 Under 20 Championship Finals have been postponed. CCC will inform clubs of any re-fixture details as soon as possible.

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