GAA in Britain

[inisceithleann]

Terrific win for St. Peter's tonight over John Mitchel's in the Lancashire Senior Championship, 2-10 to 0-07. Oisin beat St Ann's in the other game 3-15 to 3-10. Looks like the Championship is wide open this year.

[Zulu]

What's the standard like in Britain these days? I'd imagine that clubs have seen an increase in members and that teams would be a good deal stronger this year than in previous years, would that be fair to say?

[BennyHarp]

I see all the British teams opened with wins in the U14 Feile competition in Derry against Irish opposition - good on them, some big scores rattled up!!!

Fridays games
Moneymore  1-2 4-1 Warwickshire (Girls)
Desertmartin  1-3 6-2 Gloucestershire 
Drumsurn  1-4 2-8 Yorkshire   
Muff  0-1 6-19 Warwickshire 
Lissan  2-1 4-9 Hertfordshire 
Moneymore  0-0 8-15 South London 
Dungiven B 1-3 2-5 Lancashire 
Coleraine  1-3 2-13 North London 

Saturday - so far
Drumsurn  0-3 5-11 Warwickshire 
Ballerin  0-0 3-12 Lancashire
Muff  0-6 3-6 Yorkshire

[the colonel]

Why no inclusion of the Scotland Boys BennyHarp?

Won all three group games with two big scores in them and running out of steam in the semi final to eventual Div 6 winners

[John Martin]

South London won div 5. It meant a lot to them and they were all wearing their medals today in school.

[BennyHarp]

Why no inclusion of the Scotland Boys BennyHarp?

Won all three group games with two big scores in them and running out of steam in the semi final to eventual Div 6 winners

Im not the official reporter - just commenting on the scores i saw! Good on ye for pointing it out

[southdown]

I see Lancashire won the Junior All-Britain, still no reports on any of their games so far which is strange.

New club in Liverpool have started training Wolfe Tones), I know one or two of the lads orgainising this, next season should be interesting.

[Brendans abu]

I see Lancashire won the Junior All-Britain, still no reports on any of their games so far which is strange.

New club in Liverpool have started training Wolfe Tones), I know one or two of the lads orgainising this, next season should be interesting.

probably turn up in the next day or two

Best of luck to the new club, definately enough players in Liverpool to sustain a new club.

Busy week in the Senior Championship with every club playing 4 games in the next 11 days.

[Puckoon]

I see Lancashire won the Junior All-Britain, still no reports on any of their games so far which is strange.

New club in Liverpool have started training Wolfe Tones), I know one or two of the lads orgainising this, next season should be interesting.

LANCASHIRE 0-16 LONDON 1-6
IT was a red letter day for the red rose of Lancashire at Pairc na hÉireann on Sunday, taking two major trophies back up the M6 to the north-west.

After Oisin CLG of Manchester defeated Fulham Irish in the Ladies Provincial final, the county panel claimed the All-Britain Championship thanks to a seven-point victory against London.

Corner-forward Eoin Meeney was unflappable all afternoon from set-pieces, landing a total of eight points as Lancashire ground London into submission.

Lancashire's early dominance helped to establish a seven-point lead in the opening 20 minutes. The early ball into space proved fruitful on a number of occasions and scores from Richie Coss and Stephen Molumphy attested to their direct play.

Coss almost grabbed a goal on 10 minutes as London failed to deal with a bouncing ball, allowing the cornerforward to shoot from 10 yards only to be denied by the advancing Joe McHugh.

However Lancashire were racking up chances and with Meeney landing two frees in the space of a few minutes a gap was beginning to emerge. London fought for supremacy in the middle of the field but long-range efforts from the half-forward line were dropping short into the arms of Lancashire keeper Joe Sheehan.

An excellent strike from 30 yards out by Meeney yielded a gap of seven points, after which London staged a fight-back as the half came to a conclusion. Barry Lynch curled over their opening score of the game after a neat passage of play presented the half-forward with the opportunity to point, before tenacious full-forward John Paul O'Donnell produced a fine shot from distance that sailed over the bar.

Another point by O'Donnell from a free saw London begin to build some momentum, yet at the other end Meeney was keeping his nerve to add two further points from frees.

The St. Peters marksman lobbed over the final score of the half to send Lancashire into the change of ends five points to the good.

Just as they did in the opening half, Lancashire started the better of the two sides at the restart and were duly rewarded through a super point by Nathan Plant from a tight angle.

A good passage of direct play presented the advancing Molumphy with the chance to tuck over another score from 20 yards out, before McHugh produced another fine save to acrobatically tip over Willie Ahern's goal-bound shot.

Molumphy and Meeney added three further points between them as Lancashire retained a vice grip on the scoring and with a quarter of the game remaining they looked good to hold on for victory.

The remainder of the game saw London push forward in an effort to claw themselves back into contention, yet they were made to work for every yard by a resolute blanket defence.

Their best attacks came through set pieces, and a scramble in the goalmouth from a dropping free needed some firm blocking to deny O'Donnell a goal from five yards out.

Yet moments later London did raise a green flag as John O'Connor's 40-yard free dropped over Sheehan and into the back of the net.

Two more O'Donnell points brought London's total to nine, however time ultimately ran out on their fight-back leaving Lancashire to celebrate a fine team performance and the title of Provincial champions.

Lancashire: J Sheehan, A Doyle (B Carson), J Gibney (J O'Hagan), D Fitzpatrick, S Gallagher, S Molumphy (03), M Moore, R O'Donoghue, L Coyne, C O'Connor, J McDermott, N Plant (0-1), E Meeney (0-8), W Ahern (0-1), R Coss (0-3, B Colton).

London: J McHugh, S Pratt, B Sweeney, R Scullion (G Horan), B O'Mahony (J Power), M Keane, K Wynne, J O'Connor (1-0), F Callopy, B Lynch (0-1), M Falvey, M O'Donoghue, N Gallagher ( S Og Lavery), JP O'Donnell (0-5), E McInerney.


From the irish post.

[inisceithleann]

Good win for St. Peter's over St. Brendan's this evening, 1-14 to 0-04 in the Senior Championship. St. Lawrence's and John Mitchel's easily beat St Ann's and Oisin respectively as well.

[Brendans abu]

We beat Oisins yesterday in the Senior Championship, good to get a win after a disaster of a second half against Peters.

[carnaross]

Recent Results in Yorkshire:

Sunday, July 11 - Yorkshire Under 21's (9 - aside)
Bros. Pearse 0-01, St. Benedicts Harps 5-09

Sunday, July 18 - Yorkshire Junior League Final
John F. Kennedy's 2-07, St. Benedicts Harps 0-11

Wednesday, July 21 - Yorkshire Senior League
Young Irelands 1-05, Hugh O'Neill's 1-05

Thursday, July 22 - Yorkshire Senior League
Bros. Pearse 0-07, St. Benedicts Harps 2-13

[BennyHarp]

Best of luck to Lancashire juniors v Kerry on Saturday night at Old Bedians!  I'd hope a large crowd from all over the north of England will make an effort to get over and lend them their support!

[Derby GAC]

Hello,

Gaelic football is starting again in Derby nearly 17 years after it was last played.

A group of lads are meeting every Sunday at 11am and Thursday at 7pm at the Football pitches at Darley Playing Fields. (On Sunday's we can be found on the pitch nearest the bridge to get to Haslams Rugby Club).

EVERYONE is welcome whether you have played before or not. A number of the players already training have never played before so you will not be alone. If you have never played it before or never heard of the sport you will not be alone.

If you would like more information on our Gaelic team please visit our temporary website on http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=141964832495019&v=wall&ref=ts
Hope to see you soon. Sean Hopkins

[Rossfan]

Are ye having a closed Season over there boys?
No word from ye since mid August.