Wicklow chairperson urges public to get behind their clubs at championships time
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The Leagues are almost done and dusted, and now it's on to the fare that teams have really been training towards: the Championships.
The three main Gaelic Games organisations in Wicklow gathered together last Tuesday in Ballybeg House for the launch of this year's championships, all of which throw in shortly, but the Wicklow football championships will be the first to get underway. The football competitions' first rounds of action have been billed for a blockbuster weekend from Friday evening, June 11 onwards, and the excitement is already palpable.
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