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League is League and Championship is Championship but Rathvilly put down a marker in the league final last night with a comfortable win against Eire Og. Both teams had strong sides out. Rathvilly looking like favourites at the moment. ACarlowGael (Carlow) - Posts: 44 - 15/06/2026 09:34:03 2679733 Link
Cracking weather to kick off the hurling championships. Are there any links to football draws at all? Completely forgot there was a change in format and there's only the first rounds for hurling up so far CarlowJuniorB (Clare) - Posts: 188 - 20/06/2026 13:12:47 2680697 Link
Don't know if they have been published but got sent the below senior fixtures: Round 1: Old Leighlin v Fenagh Rathvilly v Grange Pal v MLR Bagenalstown v Eire Og Round 2: Old Leighlin v Pal Rathvilly v Bagenalstown Eire Og v MLR Fenagh v Grange Round 3: Old Leighlin v Eire Og Rathvilly v Pal Bagenalstown v Grange Fenagh v MLR Don't think last two rounds have been drawn yet. ACarlowGael (Carlow) - Posts: 44 - 20/06/2026 21:07:49 2680757 Link
Replying To ACarlowGael: "League is League and Championship is Championship but Rathvilly put down a marker in the league final last night with a comfortable win against Eire Og. Both teams had strong sides out. Rathvilly looking like favourites at the moment." Some victory by Wickliw today. Their meltdown in their promotion bid now well forgotten. Great to see them go all the way in the competition. I don't think that a D4 team has won it Jack L (None) - Posts: 3233 - 20/06/2026 21:26:13 2680758 Link
Replying To Jack L: "Some victory by Wickliw today. Their meltdown in their promotion bid now well forgotten. Great to see them go all the way in the competition. I don't think that a D4 team has won it" Happy to see Wicklow go well, mcconville has them flying and the buy in from league to Leinster to Wicklow should really be brought into the Carlow mentality. Last year they made the semi final and final this year, getting a winning mentality like that is huge and given what I've heard about the players losing interest in the season after the league it's incredibly disappointing. CarlowJuniorB (Clare) - Posts: 188 - 21/06/2026 13:58:22 2680848 Link
Offaly dodged a bullet last weekend by not having to come to Carlow for all Ireland Prelim Q/F. Shame on our county board for voting to change the original McDonagh qualifier system . No interest in promoting hurling with a big day out in NCP. Carlowtothecore1 (Carlow) - Posts: 158 - 22/06/2026 09:13:33 2681112 Link
Senior hurling championship starting this weekend. MLR probably favourites after last year's win and they had a strong Bolger Cup campaign without their county players. Anywhere here how teams are going? Be interesting to see how Naomh Brid get on back up senior, no doubt they'll be targeting a scalp against Naomh Eoin, Bagenalstown and Ballinkillen. hurlingguru (Carlow) - Posts: 1864 - 23/06/2026 23:22:17 2681627 Link
Replying To CarlowJuniorB: "Happy to see Wicklow go well, mcconville has them flying and the buy in from league to Leinster to Wicklow should really be brought into the Carlow mentality. Last year they made the semi final and final this year, getting a winning mentality like that is huge and given what I've heard about the players losing interest in the season after the league it's incredibly disappointing." Disappointing if true that players lost interest, however I wonder if the resilience is there in the group yet to have a run in both campaigns ? Having reflected on it since, the way we faltered near the end of the league and perhaps the pressure to get over the line points to this -when the championship and T/C started it wasn't in the tank. Hopefully, they will come back stronger from this and players and management will have learned a few things from this year. Looking to next season it has to be all about survival in Div 3 in the first instance. I don't know where Murphy is going to 'unearth' these new players some mention from, we will see. However, he might need to revisit the 'nativist' backroom ticket, if there is someone with expertise out there who can help, bring them in. Counties more successful than ours and with greater know-how do it. Anyway, tumbleweed on this forum for the next few months .... Bainisteoir (National) - Posts: 622 - 24/06/2026 09:29:25 2681643 Link
Seeing Louth push on in the manner they have and make a semi final really makes you wonder what we are doing wrong. Yes they have a larger population but with two league of Ireland teams, gaa isn't the number one sport in the county. Could learn a lot from them. CarlowJuniorB (Clare) - Posts: 188 - 28/06/2026 20:04:30 2682609 Link
Replying To CarlowJuniorB: "Seeing Louth push on in the manner they have and make a semi final really makes you wonder what we are doing wrong. Yes they have a larger population but with two league of Ireland teams, gaa isn't the number one sport in the county. Could learn a lot from them." There's nearly no hurling in Louth though. They'd have a far higher number of Football only underage players than Carlow or Wexford would have. Also they have some really exceptional players right now, and at the same time more importantly , the sort that dont come along every decade in smaller counties, let alone a few at the same time. That being said they've worked really hard at underage, snd deserve the success they are getting. Would be great to see them make the final and win it now. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 20127 - 29/06/2026 08:36:58 2682756 Link
Replying To Viking66: "There's nearly no hurling in Louth though. They'd have a far higher number of Football only underage players than Carlow or Wexford would have. Also they have some really exceptional players right now, and at the same time more importantly , the sort that dont come along every decade in smaller counties, let alone a few at the same time. That being said they've worked really hard at underage, snd deserve the success they are getting. Would be great to see them make the final and win it now." definitely great to see them progress and hopefully go further. I understand they have a very progressive CB, but as you say population and generational talents do help. Whatever about Carlow, the likes of Wicklow should be asking themselves questions ... Bainisteoir (National) - Posts: 622 - 29/06/2026 16:03:13 2682946 Link
Replying To Viking66: "There's nearly no hurling in Louth though. They'd have a far higher number of Football only underage players than Carlow or Wexford would have. Also they have some really exceptional players right now, and at the same time more importantly , the sort that dont come along every decade in smaller counties, let alone a few at the same time. That being said they've worked really hard at underage, snd deserve the success they are getting. Would be great to see them make the final and win it now." I think people really overestimate the numbers hurling here compared to football. Borris and St Mullins are the main hurling only strongholds. Carlow Town are the main town team and struggle against them. Tullow and rathvilly don't even field a team. Bagenalstown are dual and do better than Carlow Town. Not wild to say that around 80% are football. CarlowJuniorB (Clare) - Posts: 188 - 29/06/2026 16:44:43 2682958 Link
Replying To CarlowJuniorB: "Seeing Louth push on in the manner they have and make a semi final really makes you wonder what we are doing wrong. Yes they have a larger population but with two league of Ireland teams, gaa isn't the number one sport in the county. Could learn a lot from them." Louth has 139,000 people. That's more than Mayo. And they don't take hurling seriously. We have 55,000 for GAA purposes (taking out Graiguecullen). Also we have two relatively strong rugby clubs. With nearly all the players locals. The two professional soccer clubs in Louth have players from all over the country. CARPS (Carlow) - Posts: 1119 - 29/06/2026 19:11:26 2683022 Link
Replying To CarlowJuniorB: "I think people really overestimate the numbers hurling here compared to football. Borris and St Mullins are the main hurling only strongholds. Carlow Town are the main town team and struggle against them. Tullow and rathvilly don't even field a team. Bagenalstown are dual and do better than Carlow Town. Not wild to say that around 80% are football." I think we currently have 21 or 22 adult hurling teams and maybe 42 football teams. And our senior clubs are playing at a very high standard. The Louth senior champions would struggle in our intermediate championship. They play in the Leinster Junior. There's just no comparison. It's only hobby hurling up there. Carlow Town would win the Louth Senior championship fairly easily. Naomh Brid would absolutely walk it. CARPS (Carlow) - Posts: 1119 - 29/06/2026 19:18:24 2683026 Link