This week in Leader Sport GAA fans enjoy an opportunity to help select the Limerick 25-year team in hurling and football - an entry form, including three nominees for each position, can be found on page five of this section.
The hurling and football teams of the last 25 years (1984 to 2009) will be selected as part of Limerick’s 125-year celebrations and the final selections will be unveiled next month ahead of both county finals while the chosen 15s will be honoured at a gala function on Friday, October 16 in the Strand Hotel.
The scheme is sure to inspire plenty of good-humoured debate right across the county. A panel of experts have selected the nominees for each position, but with Limerick legends like Stephen McDonagh and Damien Reale battling for the right corner-back spot on the hurling team and Brian Geary tussling with Ciaran Carey for centre-back the final selections should be more than interesting.
As an added bonus all entries to the scheme will be entered in a draw for two tickets to the gala function to honour those selected on the 25-year teams including overnight accommodation in the Strand Hotel while five runners-up will receive a pair of tickets to your choice of the Limerick’s Live 95FM-sponsored county football or hurling finals.
Game cancelled
Although last night’s County Board meeting in Claughaun has ruled out Sunday’s attractive intermediate county championship quarter-final between Glenroe and Dromin-Athlacca - that game was initially fixed for Bruff - there is a whole plethora of attractive games taking place this weekend.
The highlight of the action must be the county senior hurling championship clash between Doon and Adare at the Gaelic Grounds on Sunday afternoon (2.30pm).
That game sees Clarecastle brothers Ger and Fergue O’Loughlin face down one another as the respective managers.
The defending county champions Adare will be favourites to progress, but Doon, following their impressive win over Kilmallock, are in rare form and anything is possible.
Patrickswell will take on Murroe-Boher in Sunday’s other county quarter-final (Gaelic Grounds at 1pm) while the two remaining quarter-finals (Croom v Na Piarsaigh & Emmets v Ahane) are scheduled to take place on the weekend of September 18-20.
For a preview of all this weekend’s action please see page four.
Justin McCarthy
At Tuesday night’s County Board meeting chairman Liam Lenihan clarified to those present, following a question posed from the floor, that Justin McCarthy and his management team will remain at the helm for the 2010 championship campaign and complete their two-year term in charge.
SFC sorted out
On Tuesday night in Ballingarry St. Senan’s and Hospital-Herbertstown completed the group stage of this year’s county senior football championship.
St. Senan’s won on a 3-15 to 1-5 score line and condemned Hospital-Herbertstown to their fifth defeat of the campaign - Hospital-Herbertstown will now face St. Kieran’s in a relegation final.
Meanwhile St. Senan’s have leap-frogged Ballylanders into third place on group one, who beat Monaleen 0-14 to 1-7 on Saturday night, and Martin Kiely’s men will face Pallasgreen in a county quarter-final which has yet to be scheduled.
The other quarter-final will see Drom-Broadford, who lost to Fr. Casey’s (0-7 to 1-8) last Thursday night, take on Newcastle West (lost 0-8 2-3 to Ballysteen on Friday) on Sunday night next (throw-in 8.15pm) under lights at the Gaelic Grounds.
As the respective group winners Ballysteen and Fr. Casey’s progress straight to the semi-finals of this year’s championship.
Sadly the competitive season has come to an end for the 2007 county champions Ballylanders and Monaleen in group one while in group two Adare (who beat St. Kieran’s last weekend) missed out on a priceless quarter-final spot on scoring difference while Claughaun suffered a heavy defeat (1-8 to 3-8) to Pallasgreen and also missed out on the knock-out stages as a result.
Brian McDonnell
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