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Special Packie McGarty tribute to headline launch of 2021 Leitrim Supporters Club launch

The bard of Leitrim life, Seamus O’Rourke, will pen and recite a tribute to the late great Packie McGarty as part of the online launch of the Leitrim GAA Supporter’s Club draw taking place online on Thursday, May 13, at 8pm. The event, which usually ...

10 May 2021 at 17:00

Leitrim Sport

Return of sport reminds us just what it means to us

Not that we ever truly needed reminding but the past ten days or so has reinforced just what sport means to so many people, not only in Leitrim, but all over the world. From the fan power that doomed the arrogant European Super League to the ...

02 May 2021 at 14:00

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Green & Gold great Cathal Flynn remembered by Dublin branch of the Leitrim Supporters Club

On April 6, 2021 Leitrim lost its greatest ever footballer Packie McGarty. Less than two months later Leitrim has lost his footballing twin Cathal Flynn. Flynn & McGarty were to Leitrim what Purcell & Stockwell were to Galway. Cathal was ...

04 Jun 2021 at 20:00

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McGarty features in "On the Shoulders of Giants" recallling a golden era of gaelic games

Reminiscing is good for the soul. That is the conclusion I have drawn after researching and writing a new book called ‘On the Shoulders of Giants’, which features many of the interviews I have done over the years with legendary Gaelic ...

22 Dec 2022 at 14:00

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'The Magic of McGarty' against Mayo in the National League

In the 1950’s there was lots of leisure time - football filled that time - and Leitrim were the team to follow. The source of this article is the Leitrim Observer and an article by Willie B, aka the late Billy Gilligan. In the early ...

14 Apr 2021 at 21:00

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Packie McGarty - Lovely Leitrim’s greatest ever footballer

In the Presentation Brothers Primary School in Carrick on Shannon, the final-year pupil frantically scanned the 1959 English Primary Certificate Examination paper. For weeks he had anxiously hoped that an English essay title ...

29 Apr 2021 at 17:00

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Special feature on the late great Packie McGarty in this week's Leitrim Observer

Following the death of the legendary Leitrim footballer Packie McGarty (RIP) last week we have been inundated with photographs, stories and recollections from friends, team mates and supporters. Packie was laid to rest last ...

12 Apr 2021 at 12:50

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“Dad loved Leitrim people and Leitrim people loved Dad”

Packie's son Eamonn spoke beautifully and lovingly about his late father prior to his Funeral Mass in St Pius X Church, Templeogue last Thursday. The celebrant was Fr Gerry Moore. Packie was born to Dan and Bridget McGarty ...

14 Apr 2021 at 15:00

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"Winning is not everything - not for anything would I part from my Leitrim team mates” - Packie McGarty

It's a dangerous game naming anyone as the greatest ever. A writer can only cover what he saw himself, his own lifetime. Leitrim won the county's only Connacht Senior Football Championship title in 1927 and that was five ...

14 Apr 2021 at 17:00

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No guard of honour for Packie

Everyone wanted to give Packie a send-off. Terry Hyland asked could he send some players to form a guard of honour at Packie’s funeral. County players from different decades and supporters contacted me asking was there ...

14 Apr 2021 at 15:30

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Leitrim honours legends Packie McGarty and Cathal Flynn - GALLERY

Stars from the past and present of Leitrim Gaelic games and the wider GAA world gathered in St Patrick's Church in Mohill for a special anniversary mass on Saturday April 9, to honour the late Packie McGarty and ...

09 Apr 2022 at 21:30

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Cathal and Packie - Leitrim's own terrible twins were a match for the best in Ireland

Still together, Leitrim football’s Terrible Twins. The news of the death of Cathal Flynn, so soon after the passing of Packie McGarty, had minds swirling back to their long partnership in the green and gold of ...

04 Jun 2021 at 18:52

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