Down Club Hurling & Football

[Trevor Hill]

Anybody got the Down starting line up for the Antrim game?

Down team: McVeigh, Lennon, McKernan, Cole, Hughes, Colgan, Cunningham, King, Fitzpatrick, M Clarke, McGinn, McGovern, Carr, Coulter, Laverty.
Subs Poland for McGovern, McComiskey for Carr, Rodgers for King, Duffin for Coulter and Clarke for Coulter.
Scorers Hughes 0-2, Fitzpatrick 0-3, M Clarke 0-4 2f 1 45, McGovern 0-1, Coulter 0-3, Laverty 0-4. McComiskey 0-2.

[In the Onion Bag]

Cheers TH

[Trevor Hill]

Its in the McKenna Cuup thread.

[13aside]

Noticed in the McKenna cup match programme that Ros Treabhir has replaced the former Caislan Ruairi as Rostrevor players. Is this a new Irish language description or an older version resurrected or something else?............just for conversation and explanation-thanks   

[dundrumite]

Noticed in the McKenna cup match programme that Ros Treabhir has replaced the former Caislan Ruairi as Rostrevor players. Is this a new Irish language description or an older version resurrected or something else?............just for conversation and explanation-thanks

As far as I can remember from school caislean meant castle and was used both the describe Newcatle (Caislean Nua) and castlewellan. So I would imagine caislean ruari is the castle of Ross. Then Ros Treabhir would be the literal definition of Rostrevor. However have no idea of which one originated first.

[Lecale2]

Caislean Ruari has always been used by the GAA because it was the original name for the area before the English Ross and Trevor families moved in and established themselves.

Ros Treabhir is a strange attempt to translate two English names into Gaelic. A bit like calling Hilltown Cnoc Bhaile rather than Cluain Daimh (Clonduff).

[5 Sams]

Caislean Ruari has always been used by the GAA because it was the original name for the area before the English Ross and Trevor families moved in and established themselves.

Ros Treabhir is a strange attempt to translate two English names into Gaelic. A bit like calling Hilltown Cnoc Bhaile rather than Cluain Daimh (Clonduff).

Would it be a townland thing?? I'm not sure....I would call Warrenpoint Rinn Mhic Giolla Rua although that is only one of the townlands in the area (Ringmacilroy) while the "Official" version is "An Phointe".

[Trevor Hill]

Down Manager James Mc Cartan has named a Panel of 24 for Sundays final Dr Mc Kenna Cup Group Match v Derry in Celtic Park.

After two impressive wins against QUB and Antrim, Down will want to conclude their Group games with a win against Derry.

The lads will be well aware of the challenge that faces them as a trip to Celtic Park always proves to be a difficult encounter.





Down Panel (24) for Dr McKenna Cup Group Game vs Derry
Celtic Park
Sunday, 24 January 2010 at 2.00pm

Declan Alder
Brendan McVeigh
Daniel McCartan
Conor Garvey
Damien Rafferty
Kevin Duffin
James Colgan
Aidan Carr
Ambrose Rodgers
Kalum King
Ronan Murtagh
Mark Poland
Peter Fitzpatrick
John Clarke
Michael Magee
Conor Maginn
Kevin McKernan
Martin Cole
Sean Parr
Darren Cunningham
Paul Greenan
Paul McComiskey
Conor Laverty
Martin Clarke

[DownFanatic]

Noticed in the McKenna cup match programme that Ros Treabhir has replaced the former Caislan Ruairi as Rostrevor players. Is this a new Irish language description or an older version resurrected or something else?............just for conversation and explanation-thanks

As far as I can remember from school caislean meant castle and was used both the describe Newcatle (Caislean Nua) and castlewellan. So I would imagine caislean ruari is the castle of Ross. Then Ros Treabhir would be the literal definition of Rostrevor. However have no idea of which one originated first.

Your a future Irish Lanaguage officer in the making.

[down desperado]

id lke to see mckernan starting at full back on sunday. He looked impressive in the 2nd half against queens but against derry our defence will get a much sterner test. I hope mick magee gets a chance at full forward i thought he would have featured before now, he was very good  for the u21s last year and was the stand out player in div 3 last season.

[Trevor Hill]

Your a future Irish Lanaguage officer in the making.

English isn't you're strong point. 

[Mourne Rover]

The Down squad released for Celtic Park suggests that the two keepers could get a half each, while the next 14 named may be close to the starting outfield team. It is going to be another experimental line-up in any case, sending out a message that James will take a McKenna semi if it comes but is almost entirely focused on the NFL opener at Kildare.

Regardless of what happens tomorrow, James has been impressive so far. The players have kept to a game plan, particularly in defence, and James has kept everything low-key and measured in his role.

The Kildare match will give us a pretty clear idea of where we are, as they are among the favourites for promotion and will expect to make the last eight at least in the AI. If we can make an impact there, we will be up and running.

[Minus15]

Your a future Irish Lanaguage officer in the making.

English isn't you're strong point. 

Should that not be your? 

[Trevor Hill]

Your a future Irish Lanaguage officer in the making.

English isn't you're strong point. 

Should that not be your? 

I was extracting the urine. 

[Trevor Hill]

The Down squad released for Celtic Park suggests that the two keepers could get a half each, while the next 14 named may be close to the starting outfield team. It is going to be another experimental line-up in any case, sending out a message that James will take a McKenna semi if it comes but is almost entirely focused on the NFL opener at Kildare.

Hopefully James will go with McVeigh as his number one keeper for the league, but he has a great reserve keeper in Alder. McVeigh has come on in leaps and bounds over the last few years and has probably been Downs best player over the last two years. Depending on how the league goes Alder could get a run out towards the end of the campaign. I think James has a fair idea by now of his strongest team, with McKernan at full back and Colgan at centre half back for the game in Kildare.

Regardless of what happens tomorrow, James has been impressive so far. The players have kept to a game plan, particularly in defence, and James has kept everything low-key and measured in his role.

Agreed James has impressed. He has been quite low key in the line, where people maybe expected him to be quite involved and animated. Maybe he has matured a bit, or maybe the rest of the management team have a calming effect on him, but he seems very assured at the minute. The defence have impressed, but lets not get carried away. Queens were poor, while Antrim didn't get going to the second half and had a dominant period where they scored 5 or 6 unanswered points. Hopefully we`ll see a stronger line up tomorrow in Celtic Park.

The Kildare match will give us a pretty clear idea of where we are, as they are among the favourites for promotion and will expect to make the last eight at least in the AI. If we can make an impact there, we will be up and running.

Kildare is a massive game for us. Our biggest in years. We won on our last visit there when we went as underdogs, but Kildare have improved a lot since then. McGeeney will have them up for this. But a win isn't beyond us at this stage.