Antrim camogie

[johnnycool]

Agree with you on that.

The last five All Ireland junior finals have featured the Ulster winners - Eoghan Rua (2021) Bridini Oga (2022 & 2025) and Granemore (2023 & 2024) - with Ulster clubs winning it 4 times.

Clearly the grading isnt working if that is the case. There should be more of a push of counties upwards into Intermediate.

The senior club is a bit beyond the counties outside of Antrim, Derry & Down at the moment but that wont always be the case unless counties are pushed on.

Down senior winners have only been in Ulster senior club the last three years and should have been in it much earlier but winning intermediate was a big pull for a certain club with a lot of sway in the camogie board

[Na Glinntí Glasa]

Would there still be much of a gap between Clonduff and Portaferry in the Down championship?

Also can someone explain how Niamh can play for Sarsfields during the year whilst playing for Galway yet come back to play championship for Portaferry?

Ive wanted to get my head around being allowed to register for two clubs in one season - regardless if she never fields for the Galway club in the league or championship

[johnnycool]

Would there still be much of a gap between Clonduff and Portaferry in the Down championship?

Also can someone explain how Niamh can play for Sarsfields during the year whilst playing for Galway yet come back to play championship for Portaferry?

Ive wanted to get my head around being allowed to register for two clubs in one season - regardless if she never fields for the Galway club in the league or championship

Yeah,
   There'd be a big enough gap between Clonduff and Portaferry even with Niamh fielding.
The two Carr sisters and Paula O'Hagan would still be their main spine even if there's plenty of miles on their clocks, but they do have good players on the periphery and for me they've improved due to the exposure to playing Loughgeil and Slaughtneil in Ulster.

Liatroim would be the next strongest team and then there's a fair drop off till ourselves and Ballycran.

Girls getting pregnant and going off to play rugby for Ulster and professional golf have fecked us up, but hey ho.

As for Niamh being eligible to play for Galway when registered as a Sarsfields player and then transferring back to Portaferry once the IC camogie is over is a big loophole which Down Camogie board (hint to my previous statement about a club with a lot of sway) went to Croke Park about last year but lost out as it's not clearly against the rules.
That loophole may well be closed now though, we will see how this pans out later on in the year.

[Na Glinntí Glasa]

I couldn't get my head around how its permitted at all. I have previously sat on the THDC in Antrim and have dealt with transfers a fair bit. The rules around them and how strict they are always made me wonder how there was a way to do this at all.

Between sanctions to and from America and transfers back from Australia its all tight and hard to get away with doing something that isn't allowed.

If there is a loophole previously it left it open to being completely abused by players wanting to play for stronger counties if they were working or studying away from home. Whats to stop a county doing all they can for a really good player to get to a uni in the south on a scholarship and then them play for them during the all ireland.

Its open to being abused badly.