Kinawley. They’d be a grand wee busy club with a fair catchment area. There’s plenty of employment in the area and they have a grand compact ground set up. The various Corrigans who gave sterling service to the Swampies in their good years are clubmen and have assorted enterprises in and around the village. There’d be no fear of Kinawley and Corrigan, having drained SoH, can comfortably put on the slippers.
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Top Leitrim official warns of serious threat to many rural clubs
I see we had a surplus of around 300k last year.Andy won’t be long putting a dent in that 
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The Chairman is doing a great job, the iron fist in the velvet glove and all achieved with his customary bonhomie and “Howayas men”
Aisy enough be in funds, we played possibly 3 matches.
Yeah no real training done and only 4 matches.
Shit like this happens.
My townland had about twenty families 100 years ago and now there is none left.
Stop avoiding the issue - Cathaoirleach Stenson is doing a great job.
Furthermore, wearing his Councillor Stenson hat, there isn’t a pothole within a 10 mile radius of Mohill. A great lad altogether….
I’ve studied this at length and cannot make head nor tail of it…
leitrimobserver.ie
Expect the unexpected in the 2022 Leitrim Club Senior and Intermediate Championships after delegates at Wednesday’s Leitrim GAA County Board meeting backed a motion from the Aughnasheelin club to run with a radically new format for both competitions next year.
Simply put, Aughnasheelin’s amended motion that found favour with delegates means that all ten teams contesting the Connacht Gold Senior and Smith Monumentals Intermediate Championships next year will be thrown into one pot with each club’s fixtures randomly drawn for each of the four group games rounds.
One of the biggest changes comes with just six teams qualifying for the quarter-finals in both competitions, with the teams who finish in the top two of the ten team group qualifying directly for the semi-finals and the next four teams contesting the quarter-finals with the third placed team facing the sixth placed team and fourth playing fifth.
Fuck me.
Has the gargle dimmed me brain?
Hold on, I have it now. 10 teams, random draws each play 4 games.
The top 2 (two) straight to semi finals, the next 4 play a quarter final game and the bottom 4 have two chances of survival ( a new concept, a relegation semi-final) . It could have been made somewhat easier to understand but it think it’s a good idea, does away with meaningless contests.
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What is the story here ? Did o rourke move to Meath as a young lad? His old brother went back ?
They were re-settled to Co.Meath in the early 1970’s acquiring a parcel of land near Skyrne. This was a Land Commission (before your time) project that saw their existing farm in Aughavas divided among neighbours thereby increasing their viability.
His brother Fergus (in the photo) was on the Leitrim team soundly beaten in the Connacht final of 1957.
The auld land commission bungalows are still very recognisable across the country. The last vestiges of the 1970’s Ireland I’d suggest.
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Sure Meath/Kildare Westmeath are full of refugees from the West.There were as many Mayo flags flying in Meath in 96 as Meath ones
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I’m one of them.
I mean from the land commission.Isnt Sean Boylans parents from Leitrim.
Oh - sorry.
Yes, Boylan’s mother was from Cloone.
More news that Solan might be away.
Gathering legs alright. Be a bigger loss than Moran actually over the 3 years. Mayo hardliners at the top table will ate the legs off it before letting McHale into the tent. Solan in the box seat now alright.
Solan would be a huge loss.We have a few good underage lad coming through who would benefit a lot from his coaching