Well done Carlow
It was not easy but we got there

Blackbog (Carlow) - Posts: 803 - 28/03/2026 19:27:01    2663638

We don't make life easy for ourselves do we? Hon Carlow and the team!

CarlowJuniorB (Clare) - Posts: 135 - 28/03/2026 20:14:23    2663643

To joe and the team thank you for delivering a piece of football silverware in croke park add that to our joe mcdonagh win a couple years ago and we've jad another great day in croker.

We're a small county but we're mighty fair to all involved.

ITSCHOLAR (Carlow) - Posts: 329 - 28/03/2026 22:46:20    2663666

Congratulations to Carlow. Nothing like a long awaited success. It can reap benefits for a county for years to come.

Headtheball1 (Louth) - Posts: 79 - 28/03/2026 23:17:04    2663668

Congratulations on your league victory. Shows what can be done when you get the right man in charge and the players rowing in behind him.

Hawkeye2 (Wicklow) - Posts: 189 - 28/03/2026 23:31:15    2663669

What can I say? Our first ever silverware in Football in Croke Park. I am so proud of all the lads. I remember the feeling after laois beat us in 2018 & today we reversed that. Wasn't a perfect performance but we got there. To see a Carlow captain lift a cup in the Hogan Stand was unbelievable.
We were the better team throughout the game but how many goals did we miss ? I highlighted this earlier in the league about us failing to take our goal chances. Nearly cost us today. Not having a pop at anyone but we conceded 2 very poor goals today, I'll stand over my previous comments. Not up to inter county standard. Ruth was my MOTM but Doyle was close 2nd. Hopefully the lads will drive it on for Wicklow now in 2 weeks.
Ceatharlach Abu

carlo (Carlow) - Posts: 321 - 29/03/2026 02:44:33    2663673

Congratulations to Carlow on a great win in Croke Park. It was a great game for the neutrals and both teams were out on their feet at the end. Carlow were the better team but the red card decisively tilted it away from a resilient Longford team. Games like this underpin the need to further develop proper championship structures for all counties. A space is now needed on the wall in the Irishman's for Carlow footballers 2026.

Eddie the Exile (Monaghan) - Posts: 1295 - 29/03/2026 11:02:15    2663692

CARPS (Carlow) - Posts: 1065 - 29/03/2026 11:36:34    2663696

CARPS (Carlow) - Posts: 1065 - 29/03/2026 11:40:30    2663697

Well done chaps.

sponger (Wicklow) - Posts: 2985 - 29/03/2026 11:45:14    2663699

What a day. The mother of all hangovers to go with it. Some feeling coming out of croke park.

Barrowsider (Carlow) - Posts: 1748 - 29/03/2026 12:03:33    2663702

Carlovian83 (Carlow) - Posts: 15 - 29/03/2026 12:13:07    2663705

CarlowJuniorB (Clare) - Posts: 135 - 29/03/2026 12:40:38    2663709

Great result yesterday. Full credit to Joe Murphy and his team for the turn around within a year. The results in the league speak for themselves and indeed in the wider historic context.

It was clear we had a gameplan -and rigidly adhered to it. It worked and we got over the line. Some of the players 'sacrificed' their more instinctive game for our possession-based strategy. I did feel we let them back into it on numerous occasions - some gift wrapped scores for them - and failed on several occasions to kick on when in control. Saying that, I do feel the more experience some of the younger lads get the better. The kick-out when it worked (most of the time), it worked very well.

It could be argued the sending off was the decisive factor, but I do feel we still on balance had enough to do it. However towards the end whether it was game management, tiredness or fear of mistake it was still one score for them to equalise and we we still passing around - they secured possession and had a half goal chance near the death. I feel we should have ran at them more to close it out - when we did we created opportunities - we had fresh legs on at that point - Clarke and Choo Choo with huge pace. Anyway that is all moot now, we got there.

Unfair to single out players for praise or criticism Great spread of scorers, subs who came on added to our tally. It also sounds obvious, but what was heartening was the IMMENSE work-rate of the players. Lads got stuck in all over the pitch - a complete team performance with no show ponies.

Onwards to Wicklow next !!

Bainisteoir (National) - Posts: 609 - 29/03/2026 14:45:19    2663725

So proud to see our county colours flying high in croke park. Terrific performance. Fair play longford. You never gave up. Carlow excellent performance from all concerned agree with earlier post on Fury Phiri Ruth Curran Bolger big performance from them. But whole team excellent. know their roll wheather starting or coming on. Need to start taking all these goal chances created. Enjoy few days. You have the whole county behind you now for what will be a very tough championship game with our neighbors Wicklow. Thank you for the amazing experience yesterday in croke park. Was emotional hearing the chant of Carlow ringing out as we were receiving the division four trophy.well done to all concerned.

Brendandoyle (Carlow) - Posts: 12 - 29/03/2026 15:03:40    2663730

Barrowsider (Carlow) - Posts: 1748 - 29/03/2026 16:44:39    2663748

What a great day for Carlow yesterday. First national title at Croke park and winning there for the first time since 1971.

Thought we were the better team and one day all those goals will go in and someone's getting a hammering.
The runs off the shoulder were great to see and it's a well drilled squad. The difference from last year is staggering and shows how good a manager Joe Murphy is.

Thought Phiri was immense as was Doyle but all of them were brilliant. Our possession on kick out ratio has gone through the roof considering where we were the last few years. This is majorly because of the excellence of our keeper on kick outs.
There was a comment from a poster about a player which is petty and disgraceful. The players are the record breaking squad of players and all of them deserve our respect particularly the younger ones.

Onwards to our neighbours in the championship and I'm looking forward to it. Very proud Carlow man here.

carlovia (None) - Posts: 1544 - 29/03/2026 19:11:25    2663788

Fantastic to finally win a senior football trophy in Croker last night. We were by far the better team and took the lead inside about 15 seconds and Longford never once got a lead on us but we kept letting them back in to get level and always before a break in play, except for the end thankfully. In fairness we never become frustrated and kept driving at them despite once again leaving a load of goals behind us but thankfully it didn't matter last night. Great scenes in Croker and back in the town afterwards until very late. The squad seem very content. The all Carlow nature of it is contributing to that I feel.

Regarding the rest of the season we're now in bonus territory for me with the most important objective for this year having been met. Need to stay in Div 3 next year now and continue to strengthen the team at a higher level. I think that's really important.

The Wicklow game in the Leinster championship is coming very soon. A bit too soon for my liking. How often have we seen league winning teams fall flat in their first championship game a few weeks later. We should beat them as we were far superior in the league (but only won by 3 despite owning the game) but that was then and they'll probably be stung having messed up their own promotion. How they react to that I dunno they might go the other way I suppose especially now they're back recruiting players in from outside and doing so just before the last league game can't be good for squad morale. Be great to win and get a crack at the Dubs and see if we can rattle them like in 2017. That's as much as we can hope for in fairness as the Dubs on song are still very formidable. Tailteann cup we should get a favourable draw as we're among the number 2 seeds now but with the new format I dunno what that actually means. In the old format we would only have had one Div 3 side in our group so presumably it means we get a now Div 4 side in the first round?

Anyway congrats to Joe and his management team and all the players.

Onion Breath (Carlow) - Posts: 1809 - 29/03/2026 19:42:55    2663797

Not to put a downer on an otherwise great weekend but underage hurling results were very disappointing this weekend. We're definitely slipping and it seems to be getting a bit worse now each year. I thought last year's minors were disappointing having looked better on paper but at least they beat Kildare. Two bad defeats at minor already this year however and now the U/20 losing to Meath is cause for major concern. I know we don't have the numbers and all that, so going on winning runs every year is not on but we're getting used to getting beaten by likes of Kerry and now Meath who are two teams we'll be competing to stay ahead of in senior in the coming years.

Onion Breath (Carlow) - Posts: 1809 - 29/03/2026 19:46:08    2663799

Huge congrats to our ladies qualifine for division four final and joining our men in playing division three next year . Well done and best of luck in final

Brendandoyle (Carlow) - Posts: 12 - 29/03/2026 20:00:10    2663804