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Getting ready for the biggest match of my life

As my beautiful wife sits here beside me she is ten days overdue our first child. I've been thinking that it’s a little like preparing for a big championship match. You’re readying in every way you can and are filled with eager anticipation and with ...

26 Nov 2017 at 09:00

Leitrim Sport

The Connacht Wheelchair hurling team needs you!

A few weeks back I was fortunate enough to attend the M. Donnelly All Ireland Wheelchair Hurling finals at the National Sports Campus in Abbotstown. Wheelchair hurling was devised by Tim Maher 20 years ago and has become an established part of the ...

13 Dec 2018 at 13:07

GAA

GAA's gender revolution is already underway

Leitrim folk are well aware of the benefits of being blessed amongst women thanks to the writings of John McGahern. Yet even McGahern would, I imagine, have some problem with the idea of the government determining the precise percentage of women ...

18 Dec 2016 at 13:00

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Sportsperson of the Year winners highlights Leitrim’s talent

What a remarkable woman and worthy winner of the Leitrim Sports Star of the Year is Dearbhla Rooney. The young Glenade athlete is no stranger to success, but her bronze medal at the Youth Olympics in Argentina last month placed her in another ...

28 Nov 2018 at 15:58

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The luck of the draw leaves you dependent on luck

The dogs on the streets the past fortnight were sick of talk about the importance of a lucky draw for Leitrim. But depending on a lucky draw leaves you always beholden to luck. It’s indicative of the state we’re in right now. Leitrim is poor ...

14 Jun 2018 at 12:38

Other Sport

Treat semi-finals for what they are – just another game

A semi-final is a curious beast. We lost enough of them during my time with Melvin Gaels to allow me some decent insight. In some of those games elements of the team were guilty of having one eye on the final. They felt we were better than ...

19 Sept 2018 at 17:37

GAA

Married to Leitrim 'till death do us part

There is such warmth in the communion of people. As the mixture of familiar and new faces file into Croke Park each January for the annual Leitrim Supporters Club gathering, the nerves that start fluttering in my stomach from early ...

12 Jan 2018 at 16:19

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