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Went on the tour of Croke Park today. 20 lids for the four of us. Guided tour of the a dressing room, premium level, corporate suite etc from a chirpy Dub 'on message'.

Some points to share:

1. Dressing room table has some serious damage to it from a few hurls. Big lump ate out of it as well. Tour guide said it was probably Brian Cody
2. Very funny seeing 5 bucket seats on their ownio installed on The Hill
3. Floodlights are the most powerful in the world. I am definitely going to Dublin v Tyrone game.
4. Restaurant in museum had only tay and coffee as grumpy auld chef went on the batter last night and pulled a sickie. Nobody had spare keys to release the crisps etc from the safe

The most amazing thing is shown on the picture below. Yep - for that all-over tan the sod had its own sunlamp to keep the grass growing all year round.



So - all in all, with the browsing in the Museum not really for the little uns but I could spend a week in there, well worth the time and effort.

Well done boys and girls in Croker and will someone get a new table made of marble or something.

Lynchboy

Yes - Emmet Og are Killoe

Sean O'Shea played with Ballymahon, I think. Or was it Civil Service in Dublin. Or both maybe. Laureleye may correct me here.

I tried writing this into Wiki but lost the plot so if anyone can quickly add this information I would appreciate it:

County Longford Senior Championship
Table of Honour 1890 - 2006

Club              Number of Wins
Longford Slashers   20
Fr. Manning Gaels   15
Clonguish                   12
Granard St. Mary's   11
Emmet Og                    9
Colmcille                    5
Ardagh St. Patrick's    4
Cashel                    4
Mostrim                      3
Dromard                   3
Mullinalaghta   2
Abbeylara            2
Ballinamuck    1
Rathcline                   1
Sean Connolly's   1
Ballymahon                    1

Modern day equivalent of clubs have been used where necessary.
________________________________________
Year by Year
Below is the full listing of the winners since the championship commenced in 1890.
Year   Winners   
1890   Colmcille   
1891   No Competition   
1892   No Competition   
1893   No Competition   
1894   No Competition   
1895   No Competition   
1896   Longford Shamrocks   
1897   No Competition   
1898   No Competition   
1899   No Competition   
1900   No Competition   
1901   No Competition   
1902   No Competition   
1903   No Competition   
1904   Longford Leo Caseys   
1905   Longford Leo Caseys   
1906   No Competition   
1907   Killoe   
1908   No Competition   
1909   No Competition   
1910   No Competition   
1911   Killoe   
1912   Killoe   
1913   Killoe   
1914   No Competition   
1915   Killoe   
1916   No Competition   
1917   Sean Connollys   
1918   No Competition   
1919   Clonguish   
1920   Ballinamuck   
1921   No Competition   
1922   Longford Wanderers   
1923   Longford Wanderers   
1924   No Competition   
1925   Game Abandoned   
1926   No Competition   
1927   Drumlish   
1928   Drumlish   
1929   Granard St. Mary's   
1930   Granard St. Mary's   
1931   Granard St. Mary's   
1932   Drumlish   
1933   Granard St. Mary's   
1934   Granard St. Mary's   
1935   Granard St. Mary's   
1936   Ardagh St. Patrick's   
1937   Drumlish   
1938   Colmcille   
1939   Drumlish   
1940   Drumlish   
1941   Granard St. Mary's    
1942   Ardagh St. Patrick's   
1943   Drumlish   
1944   Longford Wanderers   
1945   Drumlish   
1946   Dromard   
1947   Longford Wanderers   
1948   Mullinalaghta   
1949   Colmcille   
1950   Mullinalaghta   
1951   Young Ireland (Drumlish)   
1952   Colmcille   
1953   Eire Og (Drumlish)   
1954   Longford Slashers   
1955   Eire Og   
1956   Longford Slashers   
1957   Longford Slashers   
1958   Colmcille   
1959   Longford Slashers   
1960   Emmet Og   
1961   Longford Slashers   
1962   Clonguish   
1963   Clonguish   
1964   Clonguish   
1965   Clonguish   
1966   Granard St. Mary's   
1967   Granard St. Mary's   
1968   Clonguish   
1969   Clonguish   
1970   Granard St. Mary's   
1971   Longford Slashers   
1972   Clonguish   
1973   Clonguish   
1974   Mostrim   
1975   Longford Slashers   
1976   Rathcline   
1977   Cashel   
1978   Ardagh St. Patrick's   
1979   Longford Slashers   
1980   Longford Slashers   
1981   Clonguish   
1982   Granard St. Mary's   
1983   Cashel   
1984   Cashel   
1985   Mostrim   
1986   Cashel   
1987   Ardagh St. Patrick's   
1988   Emmet Og   
1989   Longford Slashers   
1990   Longford Slashers   
1991   Longford Slashers   
1992   Mostrim   
1993   Emmet Og   
1994   Longford Slashers   
1995   Emmet Og   
1996   Fr. Manning Gaels   
1997   Fr. Manning Gaels   
1998   Fr. Manning Gaels   
1999   Dromard   
2000   Abbeylara   
2001   Fr. Manning Gaels   
2002   Ballymahon   
2003   Clonguish   
2004   Clonguish   
2005   Dromard   
2006   Abbeylara   

I have all the Longford senior (since 1890 when it began) , intermediate (1966 it started) and minor (1936)  football winners as well as the senior hurling but I fall down on the losers.

I'll see is there some way of cutting and pasting cos I am too lazy to type them all in.

To all Longforddians and non Longfordians alike please remember Christmas is all about the baby Jesus.

Longford play DIT

1. A decent run in the League to avoid Tommy Cooper Cup nonsense
2. A 1/3 of a point win over Westmeath in the Leinster
3. A humane culling of the Armagh/Tyrone representation on the board 

Dervan is a wingnut and if he told me 1+1 was 2 I'd get me calculator out.

Maroon

Those domains were coralled by the Leinster council about 6 years ago. Nothing to do with anyone in Westmeath. The Longford website got the next generation address from the Leinster council:

http://www.longfordgaa.ie/

So - I'd scale back your score there a tad.

I would give it 1

How in God's name does it even merit 1? 

Have vouchers in the program for each game with some classa ticket number like, say LD 250307 1256 (meaning the purchaser bought a program at a Longford home game on 25 Mar 07 and he was number 1256)

Each county than gets 100 All Ireland football tickets that it can then draw out the numbers and offer the program holder the choice to buy 2 AI tickets. If an away supporter wins then too bad - that's the luck of the draw.

Or something like that. Idea probably would need fine tuning.

I think Longford's finest, Eugene Murtagh, led the way on this one.

6 month's ban 2 years ago for referee abuse.

He's back reffing alll the same now 

Wrong there Sean3

Gaelic Sunday was held cos the RIC were introducing a licence system in that before a gaelic game could take place anywhere at any time formal permission had to be sought and a licence issued by the local RIC station.

Rightly (although I think the Church did not support the GAA here) the GAA said 'feck that' and ordered all GAA clubs to have a match on Gaelic Sunday in Aug 1918 without the licence.

The propsal was quietly dropped.  The rest is history

1971 - the 'Ban' on GAA members attending foreign games is lifted

For me it was minor. Won a rake of hurling schoolboy/U14/juvenile and minor hurling medals (easy enough in Longford) but hit the payload in 1984 with a minor football championship medal ( as last sub  )

Played one senior football game for my beloved Mostrim in 1984 agin Coyningham Rd Bus Garage who were in the town on the piss and were up for a challenge.

Also played on Nov 1 1984 when all GAA clubs in Ireland celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the GAA. (For the record Wolfe Tones (us) played Clonguish)

So - what was/is your peak of achievement?

I reckon on a scale on 1-10 I'm at 1!