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Screen winning u14 A last night following on from Ballerin winning A2 the night before. Good to see a couple of new names appear and u16 could be similar from what I've heard

Ballerin would be a new name but wouldn't put Screen in that bracket two years ago they won Under 14a and their b &c teams from memory won their respective championship. For under 16 Magherafelt and Slaughtneil probably the front runners ,Ballinderry & Screen  probably next  up along with  Castledawson and Lisaan

Who is on that Lavey management team, I think its Shay Murrin who is in the stand.

Black haired fella and another a bit older lad with grey hair on the sideline?

Heard some absolute rubbish about the ref working for Conor Doherty being shouted and resulting in that 13 yard free.

Also whole load of watch pointing at the end of the first half after Lavey got turned over, I presume the argument was injury time should only be allowed if we are attacking.
The same at the end of full time where they felt more time should have been allowed for them to score another two pointer? Despite time being up.

Grey haired man looked very like Paddy Campbell from Donegal/Steelstown

That must have been an enjoyable game for the neutral and it looked as if it Lavey were going to take it at the end but thankfully  we held out , hopefully the three week break will give us a chance to get some key players back to fitness

Did get to any games this weekend with work commitments unfortunately. Anyone stand out and stake a claim?

Best players I seen over weekend bar the regulars faces:
Conall Higgins
Paddy Mc Larnon
Oisin Doherty
Cahal Mc Kaigue
Damon Gallagher

As bad as Dungiven were I think Joe Dillon deserves a mention too.

Just mentioning players who haven't had run with Derry seniors that I know of.

Dan McAteer The number 12 from Steelstown was impressive I thought ,

Magherafelt were very impressive ,and still have Shane Heavron to come back in (who was togged out and did a decent warm up ) Finn McEldowney and Dan Higgins both went off injured in that game , Dungiven never got going at all against Bellaghy with Mark Diamond very good at midfield  , Glen looked impressive in spells with  Banagher getting  a couple of goals to keep them in it to half time time

Great evenings entertainment dungiven fully deserved their win and as my amigo Ryan O said, some great blocks on show, v high standard overall

Got second half of Lavey Bellaghy another great game some great two pointers from both teams. Knew he was good but log on to see Oisin Mulholland scored 1-20 for Lavey

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1-20 out of 3-23 is unbelievable kicking! Few 2 pointers in that?

Sounds like its set up for a big final!

Was he on the Derry minor team last year?

Funny I was wondering that myself and checked back, he was on the panel ok but was on the bench for the three teams I saw named

At 1 point each after around 15 minutes it didn't look like it would take off. Magherafelt will regret the 2 quick goals in the second half.
A lot of overcarrying let go.
Lavey Bellaghy ht in extra time 3-21 to 1-22 to Lavey.

Yep it was a slow burner quality maybe not the best at times but it was still tense and absorbing,Emmett og McKeever was very good for Dungiven and in Paddy Higgins they have an excellent target man who is hard to contain

Great game of championship football tonight between Dungiven and Magherafelt in the minors semi final with Dungiven finishing strongly to win 2-14 to 1-11

The Agency season 2 definitely a level up from season 1.

Aye looks like season 1 was purely laying ground. Season 2 is very good so far - 6 episodes in.

The 2nd series was absolutely a lift on a very good 1st series. Fassbender is brilliant and the end of it is unreal. Series 3 well set up!!!

Watched both seasons of the Agency over the last fortnight , First season was very good second season was superb, Fassbender is exceptional in it

Bellaghy Lavey
Dungiven Mfelt

Sneil Glenullin
Banagher Swatragh

In the top two minor champos. Few tasty ties there.

On the same subject as above how long would it take for one person to have a contact with each club and get results to put up on Derry socials. Would give teams and competitions so much more exposure

Looking forward to that Dungiven Magherafelt game next week both teams posted big scores last night 

What way is minor championship done? And who are favs to get to final

Dungiven Magherafelt could be a fine semi with Bellaghy v Ballinderry/Lavey in the other one, with apologies to those I excluded. Have I covered myself well enough 😄

Magherafelt won All Ireland Feile at this age possibly so could be hard stopped

Magherafelt will take a bit of beating but Dungiven and Bellaghy are very strong this year also

We ended up most of the day yesterday in the Sunflower, a trad session going on inside and outside  and no music blaring out over speakers ,it was our first time in it and there was a real good  vibe about(cheap beer too )

Was probably the pick of the venues for me on Thursday too. The pepperoni pizza helped too 

The  Pizzas sure did hit the spot  ok

We ended up most of the day yesterday in the Sunflower, a trad session going on inside and outside  and no music blaring out over speakers ,it was our first time in it and there was a real good  vibe about(cheap beer too )

We were up at it yesterday as our young lad was playing at the gig rig in Corn Market  it probably surpassed my expectations in terms of the crowds and atmosphere , they played for a couple of hours in Whites Tavern after , (Maddens and Kelly's were also packed with a lot of musicians playing )

Went to Newbridge Kilrea game there thought it might be pre championship warm up with two teams who meet again in 4 weeks.

Turns out it was two half teams. Newbridge flying first half actually looked like Kilrea wouldn't score. Turned into a game in 2nd half with only 1 in it at a stage. All out just go for it stuff from Kilrea.

As a neutral attending this game its great to have hopefully unbiased opinion. Not a dirty tackle, few hard enough hits. No verbals between players.

The game ended with I reckon 6 yellow cards, a black card, a red after the final whistle. I think the ball was moved to 13 yard frees about 4 maybe 5 times.


When are Derry GAA going to step up with the standard of refs we are using, do we learn nothing from watching the like of Sean Hurson and Paul Faloon. Not a massive fan of Martin Mc Nally but he was superb on Sunday, mainly because he was invisible. The game is so fast players will get on with it any niggling will quickly fizzle out.

There was only one show in Newbridge this evening and unfortunately for double championship winners Newbridge and Kilreas 22man squad, he was wearing blue.

I wasn't at the game on Friday night but whenever I read about the ball being brought forward 4 or 5 times and the number of cards given out it wasn't hard to guess who the referee was