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Replying To Bluelake: "Castletown have hurlers playing for ST Martins. Game most likely in Lakepoint Park" But the Leinster Hurling Championship doesn't start until the 17th? Doesn't affect next weekends game? Temple56 (Westmeath) - Posts: 513 - 04/11/2024 09:21:16 2578273 Link
Replying To A_Chairde: "Todays performance was the best Ive seen out of St Lomans in years. Dunshaughlin had beat all top teams in Meath ( Summerhill, Ratoath, Dunboyne and Wolfe Tones) to win county title so this was the best Meath had to offer. Meath men behind me couldnt believe how Dunshaughlin were torn apart. Really impressed with Jack ODonoghue. Hes grown in stature and definitely worth a look for the county. The Mc Cartans as usual were excellent and Fola caused lots of damage. It will take a very good team to stop Lomans. Definitely have a right good chance at winning Leinster title with Kilmacud out of the picture." I agree Lomans are Leinster contenders.The Downs almost did it last year so why would they not be. We need as a county to believe in ourselves more but dont get carried away about trouncing the Meath champions they would be hard pushed to beat Kinnegad or Tyrellspass. jobber (Westmeath) - Posts: 1600 - 04/11/2024 09:25:08 2578274 Link
Replying To Claretandblue: "Does Jack Donoghue not play with Garrycastle?" Jack Geoghegan that should read. Mixed up with the Garrycastle captain A_Chairde (Westmeath) - Posts: 242 - 04/11/2024 09:49:34 2578280 Link
Replying To Temple56: "But the Leinster Hurling Championship doesn't start until the 17th? Doesn't affect next weekends game?" Castletown are playing in the Leinster Hurling Junior. A_Chairde (Westmeath) - Posts: 242 - 04/11/2024 09:53:47 2578282 Link
Replying To A_Chairde: "Castletown are playing in the Leinster Hurling Junior." Fair Enough. Tough on Castletown to come to Mullingar mid week. Probably a two hour trip on a bus. With the game to throw in at 7:30 they will have to be leaving at around 3 o clock as they have to factor in M50 traffic. Tough on lads who will have to take a day off work. Even for Lomans lads that work in Dublin it will be tough. At the same time it will be great for Lomans to have a home game in Lakepoint Park under lights. As of now St Marys of Ardee are Lomans only threat on their side of the draw. The Downs beat them handy two years ago but they gave Crokes a right good game last year. Would still expect Lomans to reach Leinster final. They will more than likely then play the winners of Cuala and Naas. With Crokes gone both Naas and Lomans will see this as a great chance of winning Leinster. Would be super for the county if both Garrycastle and Lomans went the whole way!! Temple56 (Westmeath) - Posts: 513 - 04/11/2024 11:05:30 2578289 Link
Replying To Temple56: "Fair Enough. Tough on Castletown to come to Mullingar mid week. Probably a two hour trip on a bus. With the game to throw in at 7:30 they will have to be leaving at around 3 o clock as they have to factor in M50 traffic. Tough on lads who will have to take a day off work. Even for Lomans lads that work in Dublin it will be tough. At the same time it will be great for Lomans to have a home game in Lakepoint Park under lights. As of now St Marys of Ardee are Lomans only threat on their side of the draw. The Downs beat them handy two years ago but they gave Crokes a right good game last year. Would still expect Lomans to reach Leinster final. They will more than likely then play the winners of Cuala and Naas. With Crokes gone both Naas and Lomans will see this as a great chance of winning Leinster. Would be super for the county if both Garrycastle and Lomans went the whole way!!" Don't write off Castletown. Shelmaliers from Wexford gave Lomans plenty of it last year, Bluelake (Westmeath) - Posts: 172 - 04/11/2024 11:28:45 2578294 Link
Amazing what can be achieved in a "few weeks". Mullingar Shamrocks have raised over €250,000, half the sum needed for their development plans. To put this into perspective, the county board (or clubs I should say) raised €170,000 from their major fundraiser last year. iarmhiabu (Westmeath) - Posts: 100 - 04/11/2024 16:15:56 2578359 Link
Replying To Bluelake: "Don't write off Castletown. Shelmaliers from Wexford gave Lomans plenty of it last year," St Loman's will beat Castletown quite easily. St Mary's from Ardee won 3 in a row in Louth and will be a tougher test if they meet them in a semi final. iarmhiabu (Westmeath) - Posts: 100 - 04/11/2024 16:28:44 2578362 Link
Replying To iarmhiabu: "Amazing what can be achieved in a "few weeks". Mullingar Shamrocks have raised over €250,000, half the sum needed for their development plans. To put this into perspective, the county board (or clubs I should say) raised €170,000 from their major fundraiser last year." Won't be any Centre of Excellence in Westmeath for 10+ years and no lights in our county ground. We are streets behind other counties. Fair Play to Shamrocks and every other club in the county who are raising funds to better the development of their clubs. Temple56 (Westmeath) - Posts: 513 - 04/11/2024 16:46:22 2578367 Link
Replying To iarmhiabu: "Amazing what can be achieved in a "few weeks". Mullingar Shamrocks have raised over €250,000, half the sum needed for their development plans. To put this into perspective, the county board (or clubs I should say) raised €170,000 from their major fundraiser last year." I could be wrong , but I think that's half the sum just to buy the land. Actually developing it will be more again ; but they'll be able to access grants for that. Can't use grants to buy land. I suspect they'll have their new facility up and running long before the Centre of Excellence across the road jamsie (Westmeath) - Posts: 463 - 04/11/2024 17:15:02 2578372 Link
Have we missed a trick in missing out on the Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund? Sporting centre of excellence in Cavan getting €19m funding, granted it's not exclusively GAA. Fitzgerald Stadium getting in the region of €6m. Clare GAA getting €3.2 for their centre of excellence, to name but a few. Almost conspicuous by our absence in the list of counties getting some allocation, seems like a missed opportunity, but I'm unsure of the criteria to be eligible. Hopefully our county administrators are all over this for the future Lakers.for.Sam (Westmeath) - Posts: 82 - 04/11/2024 23:16:03 2578413 Link
Replying To jamsie: "I could be wrong , but I think that's half the sum just to buy the land. Actually developing it will be more again ; but they'll be able to access grants for that. Can't use grants to buy land. I suspect they'll have their new facility up and running long before the Centre of Excellence across the road" You're right, I think having this money in the bank more or less means they can get a loan. The €200,000 grant they got from Government Sports Capital Grants is separate. iarmhiabu (Westmeath) - Posts: 100 - 05/11/2024 11:27:26 2578440 Link
Replying To Lakers.for.Sam: "Have we missed a trick in missing out on the Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund? Sporting centre of excellence in Cavan getting €19m funding, granted it's not exclusively GAA. Fitzgerald Stadium getting in the region of €6m. Clare GAA getting €3.2 for their centre of excellence, to name but a few. Almost conspicuous by our absence in the list of counties getting some allocation, seems like a missed opportunity, but I'm unsure of the criteria to be eligible. Hopefully our county administrators are all over this for the future" Big time, county board have been asleep at the wheel for years. Lagging way behind the rest of the counties. iarmhiabu (Westmeath) - Posts: 100 - 05/11/2024 11:31:45 2578443 Link
Replying To LoughLeneKing: "Such a shame to see Lilliput with up on 30 players togged out for their U14 Div1 final, while conceding their Div6 semi final. And they say its all about giving kids game time? They decided to leave 15 on the side line. Shameful. I wonder did they reach out directly to Maryland Tang to get the venue changed or are they just assuming it would be a no? Who knows... maybe they would have accommodated.... But then again... they can now pack a Div6 team for the Shield final and give Kilbeggan a whacking. They'll be more than 20 points in it... Will the rule if you don't field in championship you're eliminated be upheld? By right Kilbeggan U14s should be awarded that shield. Same as the mismatch in the U16 Div5 game yesterday... killucan 5-15 Joseph's 3-3. With killucan starting 4 if not 5 influential players from their div2 team that started all championship games in div2... but wait... they weren't named in the magic 15 so it's alright. I wonder who do these clubs actually name in the first 15?? Terribly unfair on kids playing in Lower divisions.... get to a semi final or final then the big guns roll out and wipe out the weaker teams. Looks like the CB are allowing the lower divisions to be a consolation prize for clubs that aren't good enough to win div1 and 2. Hopefully it gets sorted for 2025. It's bizarre how influential players from a div2 team that played consistently in div2 championship can then play in a div5 championship. Forget about naming 15.... it doesn't work. It should be for the subs of the 1st team and kids who can't make the first team panel. I'll guarantee you the 15 kids that started on the sideline for Lilliput on Saturday won't be the starting 15 in the shield final. Guaranteed. And then they say its all about game time.... How the CB can't see these 2nd teams competing in the league and start of the championship as "struggling " as in either loosing or playing tight scoreline games... then when it comes to knockout they go out and hammer real Div5 and 6 teams... is beyond me...." You don't have a clue what you are talking about again. I fully expect LG to do the best by their full panel in the shield final. There's a reason why they are retaining so many players at this key age, do you think their D6 players will return next year if they use their stronger players ahead of them in the shield final? Their D6 team have lost a lot of their group games, but improved against Millmore in the last game. If they beat Kilbeggan in the final it will be from hard work put in, not parachuting players in from the first team. Unfortunately the knock on of this years debacle wont be felt until next year when teams decide not to enter a second team and struggle with a single team with 15+ subs. If that happens, and i suspect it will it will be as a direct result of the requirement to play both games at the same time. Surely there is a better way to handle this issue. It will be interesting to see how M/Ts first team get on against Athlones second team................ Highball_Lowball (Westmeath) - Posts: 12 - 05/11/2024 13:03:13 2578450 Link
Good win for Coláiste Mhuire Mullingar against Naas CBS in the Leinster championship today, 1-11, to 1-02. Naas maybe not as strong as previous years but a few nice footballers on the Mullingar side, William Scahill the standout with 1-03. iarmhi_an_mhaith (Westmeath) - Posts: 274 - 05/11/2024 13:55:24 2578457 Link
Replying To iarmhi_an_mhaith: "Good win for Coláiste Mhuire Mullingar against Naas CBS in the Leinster championship today, 1-11, to 1-02. Naas maybe not as strong as previous years but a few nice footballers on the Mullingar side, William Scahill the standout with 1-03." A serious result. Naas made the Leinster u16 final last year (where Mullingar beat them), so they can't be bad. Haven't seen their full 15, but their forward line includes Scahill, Matthew Thornton, and Conor Heffernan, who are all excellent prospects. Andy_Capp (Westmeath) - Posts: 283 - 05/11/2024 14:42:04 2578468 Link
There's unlikely to be many of last year's 16 year olds from either side playing today, senior is 18.5 in colleges, still a fine result and presumably the likes of Eoghan Conlon from Shandonagh, Oisin O' Hara and John Casey from Loman's, Alec Sheerin and Ty Masterson from Shamrocks and Michael Maloney from The Downs involved also. Looks like a very strong side Claretandblue (Westmeath) - Posts: 1916 - 05/11/2024 16:09:50 2578486 Link
CBS were a far superior team today. I don't know if Naas are missing anyone but CBS won that game easy. Good style of play, nice mixture of different types of players. Good coaches involved too , great to see. Gaawestmeath (Westmeath) - Posts: 85 - 05/11/2024 22:31:47 2578522 Link
.A notable scalp for CBS as Naas have been a dominant force in the Leinster Senior over last 5 or 6 years. Well done to players and management A_Chairde (Westmeath) - Posts: 242 - 06/11/2024 09:53:40 2578551 Link
Replying To Gaawestmeath: "CBS were a far superior team today. I don't know if Naas are missing anyone but CBS won that game easy. Good style of play, nice mixture of different types of players. Good coaches involved too , great to see." CBS were actually missing a few. Masterson, Ormsby, and Maloney were all starting county minors this year. They have a real chance. jamsie (Westmeath) - Posts: 463 - 06/11/2024 12:53:14 2578576 Link