Westmeath G A A Notes By Pat Reilly Westmeath P R O. GOOD WEEKEND FOR WESTMEATH FOOTBALL AS GARRYCASTLE AND TUBBERCLAIR REACH LEINSTER CLUB FINALS: LEINSTER CLUB SENIOR FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS: On what can only be described as a winters day Garrycastle overcame a strongly fancied Ballyboden St Enda's side with a resilient performance in the AIB Leinster Football Championship semi-final. Ballyboden took the field without key marksmen Conal Keaney a flu victim and Kenny Naughton, and could only manage two points to Garrycastle's five (two from the boot of stalwart Dessie Dolan) in the first half as who played with the aid of a very strong breeze. Garrycastle defended well in the start of the second period and a Mark McCallan goal in the 16th minute put them six points up, and when Gary Dolan was put through on goal six minutes later one could have been forgiven for thinking it was all over for Ballyboden but a fine save by keeper Daire Walsh kept the Dublin side in the match. Try as they might Ballyboden could not break down a resolute Garrycastle defence who ran out winners by 1-8 to 0-6 and booked a place in this year's Leinster final. LEINSTER CLUB INTERMEDIATE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS: Tubberclair continued their good run in this year's club championship with a hard fought win over Walsh Island last Sunday. This win means that Westmeath now have two clubs competing in the Leinster club football finals. Tubberclair had to dig deep and come from behind as they trailed at the break by 0-06 to 0-03 and could have been further behind if Walsh Island hadn't been so wasteful in shooting nine wides, but to their credit Tubberclair dug deep restricting Walsh Island to a single point in the second half and came out on the right side with a two point margin and 1-06 to 0-07 and will now face Maynooth in the final. SCÓR NA nÓG The finals of this years Scór na nÓg competition take place next weekend (Sunday) in the community hall in Ballymore at 3pm with a great evenings entertainment guaranteed, the following is the line up for the evening. (Figure Dancing) St. Mary's Rochfortbridge, The Downs, Mullingar Shamrocks, Ballymore; (Solo Singing) Ballycomoyle Ladies, The Downs, Mullingar Shamrocks, Ballycomoyle : (Instrumental Music) The Downs, Fr. Daltons, St. Fintans Street, Ballycomoyle; (Recitation) Ballycomoyle Ladies, The Downs, Ballycomoyle, The Downs Ladies; (Ballad Group) Moate All Whites, St. Mary's Rochfortbridge, Mullingar Shamrocks, Ballycomoyle; (Question Time) Ballycomoyle, Castletown Geoghegan Camogie, Delvin, St. Joseph's; (Novelty Act) Ballycomoyle Ladies, St. Malachy's, Balynacarrgy, St. Josephs; (Set Dancing) St. Josephs, Ballynacarrgy, St. Malachy's, The Downs; Congratulations to all acts and competitors and the best of luck in the final, please come out and support your local club in what is the social side of the GAA. LIVING HISTORY: As part of the 125 year celebrations for the greatest amateur sporting organisation on earth, Baker Security and Networks, would like to make a presentation to the GAA museum. As befits a new era for this organisation, this presentation will be of the form of an electronic map showing the location of every GAA club in the world. The map will have more than the club location however, we hope it will form part of the living history of the organisation and to make it possible we need your help. We need you to tell us about your club, its past, present and heroes - but only as much as you want to. Put your name at the end of the piece you write, or get some help and put all your names down, and you will forever become part of the history of the GAA. Later on we hope you will be able to upload photographs and other interesting details about your club. 15 SILVER PROOF COMMEMORATIVE COIN: The specially commissioned 15 silver proof coin is only available from the following sources: Central Bank, Dublin - email [email protected] Order forms available from www.centralbank.ie Locall numbers (1890 307 607) and from the north & overseas (0035312198000). The set may also be purchased directly from the Central Bank's premises in Dame Street, Dublin A small quantity of the coins will be available directly from the GAA museum and by phone on 018192323 Demand for the coins has been significant so people will need to contact the above details as soon as possible. Only 10,000 of the coins will go on sale. The 2009 uncirculated coin set launched back in January is also available to purchase from these contact details COUNTY CONVENTIONS: The following dates were agreed for the County Conventions Football Board Convention: 10th Dec in Cusack Park Hurling Board Convention: 10th Dec in Cusack Park County Convention: 14th Dec in the Hilamar Hotel @ 7.30pm REFEREES TRAINING COURSE: Referees Co-ordinator - Liam McDaniels intends to organise a new referees training course before Christmas. We are appealing to all Clubs to encourage as may as possible to undertake this course. Please forward names to Pat Lynagh (County Secretary) or to Liam Mc Daniels (referees co-ordinator) C/O Cusack Park Mullingar as soon as possible. NOTES FOR CLUBS: I would ask all clubs to note the following issues: 1 Garda vetting. To date there has been a poor response to the return of Garda Vetting Forms. The issue will have to be addressed as soon as possible so I appeal to all clubs to commence the process as soon as possible. 2 E-Mail As we are all aware by now the GAA has introduced a new email system and as a consequence is winding down service on the old email server. As highlighted previously full decommissioning of the old server will take place on Monday November 30th 2009 at 10:00am. What this will mean is? E-Mail service on the old email system will no longer be available and users will be unable to log into that system. Information on the new email system can be found under the following link: http://newmail.gaa.ie/ As of the 23/10/2009 85% of GAA clubs are active and using the new GAA email system which is quite good but we need to get to the famous 100%. WESTMEATH GAA DEVELOPMENT LOTTO: (Results 17th November) NO JACKPOT WINENER: WINNING NO'S: 23, 25, 26, 28 NEXT WEEKS JACKPOT 3,740 1 MATCH 3 WINNERS @ 320: Eoin Kenny C/O St Lomans Mullingar GAA NEXT DRAW DATE: TUESDAY 24th November2009. RESULTS FOR WEEK ENDING 22-11-09: Leinster Senior Football Club Championship: Garrycastle (Westmeath) 1-08, Ballyboden St. Enda's (Dublin) 0-06 Leinster Intermediate Club Championship: Tubberclair (Westmeath) 1-06, Walsh Island (Offaly) 0-07; Fe 21 Football Championship: Rosemount 1-13, St. Malachy's/Ballinagore 2-05 Fe 21 Hurling Championship Semi Final: Clonkill 2-12, Crookedwood 2-11; Fe 21 Football Championship Final: Raharney 1-06. Clonkill 1-04; Minor Hurling Div 2 Semi-Final: Castlepollard W/O, Southern Gaels Scratch; U-16 Football Div 1 Final: St. Malachy's/Ballinagore 2-08. Corlastown/Kinnegad 1-04; I can be contacted by phone on 044 9666476, 087 2777987 or by email on [email protected] Tweet

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