Now that’s how you make an impact. Leitrim native Eilish O’Dowd set a new record for the fastest goal ever scored in AFLW history when she kicked the ball between the posts just ten seconds into her down under debut. The former Gaelic footballer joined Greater Western Sydney Giants last March following a a successful […]

1 year ago

Let the debates begin. After a debate of our own, this is the XV we have settled on. On it, there are four Derry men, three Dubs, two Tyrone men, two Donegal men, one Laois man, one Galway man, one Westmeath man and one Leitrim man. There are ten Division One players, two Division Two […]

2 years ago

Pat Spillane believes that the GAA would be making the correct decision were they to drop Cavan, Fermanagh, Leitrim, Louth, and Longford from the National Hurling League. The GAA’s Central Competitions Control Committee made the recommendation last week that any county with less than five adult hurling teams should be banished from the National Hurling […]

2 years ago

Mohill’s man-for-all-seasons Ronan Kennedy stepped up again on county final day. The sharpshooting forward was his club’s hero in 2006, when as a teenager, he kicked the winning score against St Mary’s Kiltoghert to end a Leitrim SFC famine for Mohill. 17 years and eight finals later, some things never change, Kennedy was again the […]

2 years ago

There were some frankly incredible scenes in Division Two of Leitrim’s Gaelic football League on Saturday night. Eventually, due to protests on the pitch, the derby clash of Ballinaglera and Allen Gaels had to be abandoned . The referee had no option but to call the game off. Just moments earlier, he had thrown the […]

2 years ago

Leitrim GAA have hit out at the criticism their players were subjected to after their Connacht championship quarter final loss to New York. Leitrim became the first county ever to lose to New York in the Gaelic football championship on Sunday when, after drawing a blank in the penalty shoot-out, they found themselves on the […]

3 years ago