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Leitrim GAA thread - 3 Like(s)
Good luck to the team and management today. It's a big ask but we should approach it with the aspiration that every man gives his level best and when you've done that you can do no more.
Great credit is due to the lads who've stuck with the jersey and the cause in what are challenging times.
It's an honour to represent your county and its people - grasp the occasion. We'll worry about the final tomorrow.
Boxtyeater (National) - 25/04/2026 10:47:37
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Leitrim GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Gantric: "Where will the final be if Leitrim win?" Lourdes.
ORIELMAN85 (National) - 24/04/2026 21:56:27
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
No shame to lose to one of the big two if we play our best and I know the lads will. Tis like a day in June out there
ohwow (National) - 25/04/2026 14:19:56
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Westmeath Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Our minor hurlers achieve their biggest win in many years, deservedly beating Dublin by seven points with a performance full of energy, determination and lots of good hurling but virtually every poster since focuses on the system in Tier 1 and nothing about the players or management and their achievement.
Claretandblue (National) - 25/04/2026 18:17:19
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Drax_the_destroyer: "FT Leitrim 2-12 Galway 1-20
A far from convincing win for Galway although a match never looked like losing. Some amount of scoring chances Galway left behind them.
Leitrim goals a penalty and gift from Gleeson gave them hope. On the evidence of today the winner in MacHale Park tomorrow should win the Connnacht title
Main positive is Walsh,Comer got minutes and both looked sharp
Under 5k at the match on a lovely sunny day time for the Connacht GAA to adjust their ticket prices." Were you at the match chief?
ohwow (National) - 25/04/2026 18:14:52
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Drax_the_destroyer: "Half-time Leitrim 0-4 Galway 0-11. spirited showing by Leitrim but helped by Galways shooting efficiency with 8 Wides and other shots kicked short." Walsh made all the difference. Looked as good as the rest of our forwards put together. McDaid not too bad either, the other forwards a dead loss on the day imo.
So slack defensively too at times. Gave up the penalty being slack to a ball off the post, then exact same slackness shown getting to Gleeson's penalty save, and goal conceded.
Neither Flah nor Gleeson looked good on short kickouts as usual, with Gleeson throwing in a typically catastrophic spell on kickouts late on. Midfield poor under long kickouts too, which will have to improve to win a Connacht Final.
Pope_Benedict (National) - 25/04/2026 17:34:36
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
We have a bit of a goalkeeping crisis lads.
None of the lads we have are good enough end of story.
Disastrous mistakes are becoming the norm now. Worrying
galwayman2 (National) - 25/04/2026 17:26:18
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Galway Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Good lord we have a serious problem with kick outs. Actually didn't matter which keeper was in goal. Leitrim must have got half their scores from bad Galway kick outs. Nearly got a 3rd goal from another one.
Marooned (National) - 25/04/2026 17:08:49
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Longford GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Longford will have at least two rounds in Tailteann Cup with this years format. So county panel lads could be back with clubs for the final round of ACFL Division 1 IF Longford don't make it past those two rounds, or will not be back with clubs for any of ACFL Division 1 if Longford make it to Round 3. If you are a club in Division 2, your county lads won't be involved in league rounds at all. So we now have a situation where most senior league games are on Friday nights, and county panel members are not practically involved at all. We somehow managed to achieve the exact opposite of what the split season is supposed to be about.
LongfordgaaAbú (National) - 25/04/2026 15:50:02
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Westmeath Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To preddan: "Unfortunately I dunno is it enough to get through Wexford hammered Laois, Wexford and galway in same group as westmeath and two wins, westmeath will have to put up a cricket score against Laois and hope Wexford lose, correct me if I'm wrong,well done today though" Wexford lost to Dublin, some on the Wexford forum seem to be concerned they might not qualify. I'm not quiet sure. Our lads just need to focus on getting a result against Laois next
Dheen (National) - 25/04/2026 15:44:03
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Westmeath Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To preddan: "Unfortunately I dunno is it enough to get through Wexford hammered Laois, Wexford and galway in same group as westmeath and two wins, westmeath will have to put up a cricket score against Laois and hope Wexford lose, correct me if I'm wrong,well done today though" Wexford lost to Dublin in round 1 so Westmeath will go through if we beat Laois and Kilkenny beat Wexford.
But what a ridiculous Mickey Mouse system Leinster have created. We could be knocked out with 2 wins out of 3, with Dublin and Kilkenny going through with 1 win out of 3.
Who comes up with these formats? As people have said here already, why change from a really good tiered format that worked? Same with u20 format. An absolute shambles.
Maroooned (National) - 25/04/2026 15:37:39
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Bowser93: "Think you dropped an extra 1 in there by mistake." Leitrim 1-18 (21)
Galway 0-9
Tacaí Liatroma (National) - 25/04/2026 14:43:26
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Ring Cup 2026 (Tier 3) - 1 Like(s)
Result in the Ballyforan sunshine Roscommon 1-18 Kerry 4-22. Very harsh scoreline on us for the effort put in. 5 points behind at half time and we cut the margin to two points early in the 2nd half. Kerrys fitness and better bench was a telling factor after that.
Our day probably summed up when we had two big goal chances in a minute not taken in the 2nd half then straight up the field Kerry went to score 2 goals in a minute. Padraig Boyle with 3-9 the best Hurling forward in this year's Christy Ring Cup?
Should we bring today's workmanlike performance into the Wicklow, Donegal games we'll give ourselves a decent chance of staying up.
The_analyser (National) - 25/04/2026 14:40:09
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Good luck today Leitrim , leave it all on the pitch lads we can't ask any more, hopefully we have a good support today , these lads deserve it.
JimmyNail (National) - 25/04/2026 13:06:38
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Wexford Hurling Thread - 1 Like(s)
This looks like a good wexford minor team. Well balanced with no obvious tail on the team. Downey is a good centre back
richiepmurphy (National) - 25/04/2026 12:17:13
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Fabulous day in Carrick, a few Galway heads around Carrick already. They fear what is ahead of them today.
Gantric (National) - 25/04/2026 12:16:11
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Leitrim GAA thread - 1 Like(s)
Best of luck
Today lads. Lay into them.
Ros2013 (National) - 25/04/2026 12:07:11
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Football Championship 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To legendzxix: "The main gripe I have against provincial championships is that there is no qualification standard. If provinces were limited to the following based on league ranking: Ulster - top 8, Leinster - top 8, Munster - top 4 and Connacht - top 4, it would set something of a qualification standard. The 9 missing out could enter a second tier cup where the winner could be guaranteed a place in their provincial championship in the following year." The problem with the provincial championship is that Kerry have a free run every year. You also want to get a free run to the All Ireland semi final by keeping the provincial winners apart up to then?
Scenicparish (National) - 25/04/2026 11:30:28
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Wexford Hurling Thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Pikeman96: "Another bit of reminiscing coming up.
About 20 years ago, I was part of a committee that was set up to try get more publicity for the All County Leagues. Basically, the four of us were assigned a couple of divisions each in hurling & football, and it was our job to get details from each club after each match so that short reports could be cobbled together for the newspapers each week ("The Echo" was still in operation at the time too).
It was a nightmare job. You'd be chasing people until all hours of a Monday night after a weekend's matches, and there were many who you'd never get at all. Some clubs were particularly bad. Even if they gave you details by fax (yes, fax!) or email or over the phone, you couldn't rely on them. For example, a common problem was them saying something like their team scored 2-14, but then when you added up the list of individual scorers they sent, it'd come to something like only 1-12.
Or one club would say that they won by 2-15 to 1-12, but the other club would say that they lost by 2-13 to 1-13.
It's a lovely idea in theory to say "clubs send in details so that they can be published" but the reality is it's far from that simple." Reminds me of an article back in the day in a Dublin newspaper. I was playing full back but told the reporter (I knew his brother) who missed the first half that I had scored 1-2 from full forward but we were being destroyed back the field so they had to move me back. In truth, I never went beyond the 45 in my life.
I put the scores down to a few other players I liked on our team because he had no idea who scored what.
The report in the paper was along the lines of "the surprise springing of Exile to full forward reaped huge dividends as he caused untold trouble for the full back line before helping himself to 1-2 in the opening exchanges". It got a great laugh at training the Tuesday afterwards.
ExiledInWex (National) - 25/04/2026 10:19:52
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Football Championship 2026 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To legendzxix: "The main gripe I have against provincial championships is that there is no qualification standard. If provinces were limited to the following based on league ranking: Ulster - top 8, Leinster - top 8, Munster - top 4 and Connacht - top 4, it would set something of a qualification standard. The 9 missing out could enter a second tier cup where the winner could be guaranteed a place in their provincial championship in the following year." Sorry I completely disagree. Every county should automatically have the right to compete in their provincial championship. You talk about qualification standards…..Kerry practically qualifies for the all Ireland business end every year because ye have no competition in Munster.
yew_tree (National) - 25/04/2026 09:11:32
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