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Balboa, Ballymena have had the same problems as ourselves in the past but they've progressed well in the intravening years although hurling in their club is now the poor relation with most juveniles opting to play football. The onus now for Latharna Og is to continue to develop at underage levels and field a senior team that can compete with the Cloughmills' of this world. This will be a few years down the line, but the club is going in the right direction. 

 Balboa, that may be so, however when the Latharna Og club has developed players at underage / minor level, Glenarm have been sniffing around trying to entice players to play for them. This happened last season and its not on. Latharna Og have finally gotten an underage structure after many years in the wilderness and the last thing that club needs is their best underage / minor players being poached by their neighbours. 

Glenarm have poached players from Larne for years and continue to do so.  Re; Feystown, Glenarm only own 50% of the facilities there.

Sure Glenarm will probably go all out to ensure they stay in Division 1 next year by poaching players from neighbouring clubs.

Glensman, I assume you haven't checked the results section on the county and North Antrim websites by chance. If you do, you'll find that Latharna Og have won several fixtures this season, at senior and underage level. So there is no need for Larne to import shinty players on the boat or anywhere else to play our national game as the club has a thriving youth set up with 2 players on the Antrim U-16 development squad. In case you are not aware, the hurling club in Larne was founded 42 years ago in 1965 and had to put up with the usual hassle from the usual suspects until recently when they opened their second pitch closer to the town, where the McCaughan Cup final was played last week. The McCaughan Cup was presented to the North Antrim board in memory of James McCaughan, founding member and driving force behind the Latharna Og club, especially when times were bad in the late 80's and 90's.
You may have previously attended a hurling match or two at Larne's other pitch in Feystown.

I would hope that that Gaelic Life will cover hurling a lot more than the few paragraphs that appeared in the first issue. I wish the paper well, but if it is going to turn into a football paper with lip service paid to hurling then I wont buy it in the future. More focus and articles on clubs would make a welcome read.