SHC 2026

[Genocide Organ]

Senior
Clough-Ballacolla v Portlaoise
Camross v Ballyfin
Ballinakill v The Harps
Rathdowney-Errill v Abbeyleix
Borris-Kilcotton v Rosenallis

PI
Rathdowney-Errill v Clonaslee St Manman's
Clonad v Colt-Shanahoe
Clough-Ballacolla v Mountmellick


Intermediate
Slieve Bloom v Borris-Kilcotton
The Harps v Ballypickas
Clough-Ballacolla v Trumera

Toughest call was R/E v Clonaslee... We shall see.

Not entirely convinced by B/K, either.

[SCFC]

Clough-Ballacolla v Portlaoise - C-B
Camross v Ballyfin - Camross
Ballinakill v The Harps - The Harps
Rathdowney-Errill v Abbeyleix - R-E
Borris-Kilcotton v Rosenallis- B-K

[Verbal]

Apologies!

Senior
Clough-Ballacolla v Portlaoise - C/B
Camross v Ballyfin - Camross
Ballinakill v The Harps - Harps
Rathdowney-Errill v Abbeyleix- R/E
Borris-Kilcotton v Rosenallis- Rosenallis


Premier intermediate
Rathdowney-Errill v Clonaslee St Manman's - R/E
Clonad v Colt-Shanahoe - Clonad
Clough-Ballacolla v Mountmellick -CBallacolls


Intermediate
Slieve Bloom v Borris-Kilcotton -B/K
The Harps v Ballypickas- The Harps
Clough-Ballacolla v Trumera- Trumera

[Laoisred]

Can't see Portlaoise or Ballyfin troubling either CB and Camross in the SHC. The last 3 games are more interesting in my opinion. Harps and Ballinakill could be tighter than some people think. Ballinakill will be praying for more rain, heard they had a good battle with St. Mullins last week. You'd never know though Harps are the form team. R/E should have enough for Abbeyleix and I think Borris will be too good for Rosenallis. Scully out puts a little more pressure on Dunphy and Quinlan for scores but they should have too much firepower for Rosenallis who rarely score heavily. They are minus Cosgrave too for 'that' pull so that makes it harder for them. 

[Border Rail 26]

Senior

I think ballacolla by 5 but week after the picnic and with no pressure on they could be vulnerable to a slow and boring game which might give portlaoise a sniff.

Camross by whatever they want. Il guess 20.

Everyone has a lot of time for ballinakill and they will bring everything against the Harps but hard to see them keeping it up for a full game. It has been a couple of weeks since Justin Duggan threatened a hat trick and The Harps are the form team in lots of ways so should win by 7/8 after a battle.

The sunday games are a bit closer i think but rathdowney came out swinging the last day and will want to put a lot of pressure on borris. I have a feeling they'll come through with some comfort in the end. Rath by 8.

I would give rosenallis a chance as borris without scully are a bit weakened. Im going to go for a tense and low scoring draw that knocks borris out.

Rathdowney and the harps would be some tasty 1/4 final and the winner would have some cut off ballacolla or camross.


Senior B

Clonad and ballacolla to win in close games. Could go any way I guess.
I think rathdowney will win the relegation match easily enough.

Inter

Slieve bloom by 7 and the Harps by 5.
I think the gap between inter and senior B is as close as it has ever been.

[Laois345]

Any players willing to step into county panel this year?
I always thought dan delaney is class act just needs to keep fit and injury free
Joe corby is another looking good
ben o meara of ballinakill?
thoughts?

Ben O'Meara didn't make the county u20 panel this year. Perhaps he didn't want to? He's a decent hurler, but is he really senior inter-county standard?

This isn't correct. He was on the panel and walked away from it, as did several others due to the management setup. Several others did also not go in to the county at all over it.

[Genocide Organ]

Any players willing to step into county panel this year?
I always thought dan delaney is class act just needs to keep fit and injury free
Joe corby is another looking good
ben o meara of ballinakill?
thoughts?

Ben O'Meara didn't make the county u20 panel this year. Perhaps he didn't want to? He's a decent hurler, but is he really senior inter-county standard?

This isn't correct. He was on the panel and walked away from it, as did several others due to the management setup. Several others did also not go in to the county at all over it.

That's true, a few lads never went in or dropped off - which is why I say maybe he didn't want to be there. Still, I doubt he would have made the starting team.