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Irish Times
14-05-2025
- Sport
- Irish Times
Teams involved in Leinster camogie finals will play under protest in skorts if not allowed wear shorts
The four teams involved in Saturday's Leinster camogie finals will play under protest in skorts should they not be allowed wear shorts. The Leinster senior double header at Netwatch Cullen Park involving Kilkenny v Wexford in the senior final and Carlow v Laois in the intermediate decider is set to be the latest battleground in the controversy between players and the Camogie Association. All four teams will take to the field in shorts but will step back from their protest if their games are threatened with abandonment. A statement from all four panels states: 'This weekend, following months of training and preparation, we are scheduled to go head to head for Leinster titles. Today we come together, united, to make an almost impossible choice because camogie authorities refuse to do so. READ MORE 'We will be togged out in shorts at Netwatch Cullen Park on Saturday and we want our choice to be respected. However, if the current outdated rule is enforced we will change into skorts solely to ensure the games are not abandoned. We will play the games under protest. 'As part of this protest we do not consent to any photography or video to be taken of the matches themselves should we be forced to wear skorts. We call on the Leinster Council to ensure this is enforced, and we ask both the media and supporters to respect our position. 'We have made this decision based on the belief and trust that players will be listened to and heard. We expect camogie delegates will vote for choice at Special Congress on May 22nd, and that no further protest will be necessary. We stand steadfastly with our fellow players in demanding that choice.' Their stance comes just days after the Munster senior camogie final between Cork and Waterford was postponed because both squads said they would be wearing shorts.
Irish Independent
05-05-2025
- Sport
- Irish Independent
Five-star show as St Mary's Drogheda girls book Leinster Finals date
Drogheda Independent Today at 06:30 Louth champions St Mary's Drogheda Girls have now reached their first-ever Leinster Finals in the Large Schools section of the FAI Primary 5s following their success at the North Leinsters in the MDL Grounds in Navan last Thursday. Along the way Colm Hanlon's charges topped their group ahead of their counterparts from Meath, Westmeath and Longford and then a superb volley from Veronica Jhuboo secured victory in the decider against Holy Family (Westmeath). ST MARY'S: Aoibhe Doyle, Lena Kozicka, Robin Feeley, Florrie Levins, Veronica Jhuboo, Julia Kowalska, Mollie Smyth, Emilly Skibinska.
Irish Daily Mirror
04-05-2025
- Sport
- Irish Daily Mirror
Louth barmaid in Meath increases price of pint for talk of Joe Sheridan's goal
A Louth barmaid in a Meath pub has launched the first salvo in the build-up to this year's throwback Leinster Final. GAA fan Mary Lynch, 36, is so fired up that she has already banned talk of hero Meath footballer Joe Sheridan because of his controversial winner against Louth 15 years ago. Mary, from Stabannon, near Dundalk, is so sick of hearing about Sheridan's dodgy goal in the 2010 Leinster Final that she is hitting punters with a €2 fine for uttering his name. She has vowed in the run-up to this year's clash that the Joe tax will be added to the price of a pint for anyone who dares to mention him in popular Lynch's pub on Main Street in the famous Meath town of Slane. Mary gave the thumbs up beside a red and white Louth flag in her Stabannon Parnells GFC jersey and said: 'It's my local team Stabannon's top, it's not Meath, obviously.' She said: 'Now that Louth and Meath are playing in the final, I have heard nothing else but Joe. I am a Louth woman and proud. I have decided that any customer who mentions Joe Sheridan in this pub, it's €5 more for the craic. I know that all I will hear is Joe. Sure, the banter will be good.' Louth fans in 2010 screamed 'daylight robbery' when Meath beat the Wee County on a score of 1-12 to 1-10. That match on Sunday, July 11, became infamous for a controversial late winner by Meath player Sheridan. The 6'2' Seneschalstown clubman retired in 2013 before making a county comeback in 2017, but big Joe is now fully back on the minds of Louth supporters. They accused him 15 years ago of diving over the line and throwing the ball into the net. It was a tumultuous end to the tense inter-county derby clash when Louth were playing in their first provincial final since 1960 and aiming to win it for the first time since 1957. Joe's winner caused such outrage that Louth manager Peter Fitzpatrick appealed to supporters after they invaded the pitch to remonstrate with referee Martin Sludden, who got a Garda escort for his own safety. Fitzpatrick said afterwards: 'It's a disgraceful decision by the referee. I thought he threw the ball into the net. I asked the referee, 'Why did you give that goal?'' He added: 'It was pure daylight robbery. I'm very, very annoyed.' On TV, pundit Pat Spillane said: 'A pure dive. It was like an American football touchdown.' RTÉ commentator Ger Canning said: 'The ball was thrown over the line. The goal should not have stood.' There were even calls for Meath to offer Louth a replay. Furious fans still haven't forgotten their heartbreaking loss and, now, after losing two Leinster Finals in a row to Dublin in 2023 and 2024, they are hoping it is third time lucky so they can forget the disappointment of 2010. Mary told the Irish Mirror: 'It's great craic, a bit of banter, but it's serious to me because I want Louth to win, I've never seen Louth win. Light the candles for Louth, we haven't been in the Leinster Final for 15 years and I have never seen them win it. I'm 36. 'I was going to make the fine €5, but I had to reduce it to €2. Three of us got caught with a fiver each as soon as I put the jar out, so we realised it was too much. 'I put in the first fiver. The money will go to Tidy Towns and maybe we'll raise more with €2 fines. If I had started the fine jar on Sunday night, there would've been €100 in it quickly. We'll see how much is raised. I came up with a rule that a fine doesn't have to be paid just for saying the name 'Joe'. Some people were talking about Joe Dolan and saying that was a fine. So I wrote a rule on the jar." The rule states: Anyone to mention JS [Joe Sheridan], it's a €2 fine. It has to be in the context of sport or the 2010 game. The winnings will go to Tidy Towns, but Mary jokingly wrote: 'Money raised goes to me celebrating Louth winning – and Tidy Towns. Hon Louth.' She has worked at the popular Lynch's bar in Slane for years – but still lives in her beloved Louth. Mary explained: 'My father bought the pub 30 years ago. I was working for the last final, but I warned him there's no way that I am working for this one. Everybody wants to go to the game and, sure, everybody wants Louth to win. We're the Wee County.'
Irish Daily Mirror
30-04-2025
- Sport
- Irish Daily Mirror
Irish pub adds €2 to price of pints if punters mention controversial GAA moment
A Meath pub's barmaid from Louth has launched the first salvo in the build-up to this year's throwback Leinster Final. GAA fan Mary Lynch, 36, is so fired up that she has already banned talk of hero Meath footballer Joe Sheridan because of his controversial winner against Louth 15 years ago. Mary, from Stabannon, near Dundalk, is so sick of hearing about Sheridan's dodgy goal in the 2010 Leinster Final that she is hitting punters with a €2 fine for uttering his name. She has vowed in the run-up to this year's clash that the 'Joe Tax' will be added to the price of a pint for anyone who dares to mention him in popular Lynch's pub on Main Street in famous Meath town Slane. Mary gave up the thumbs up beside a red and white Louth flag in her Stabannon Parnells GFC jersey and said: 'It's a my local team Stabannon's top, it's not Meath, obviously.' She said: 'Now that Louth and Meath are playing in the final, I have heard nothing else but Joe. I am a Louth woman and proud. I have decided that any customer who mentions Joe Sheridan in this pub, it's €5 more for the craic. I know that all I will hear is Joe. Sure, the banter will be good.' Louth fans in 2010 screamed 'daylight robbery' when Meath beat the Wee County on a score of 1-12 to 1-10. That match on Sunday, July 11, became infamous for a controversial late winner by Meath player Sheridan. The 6' 2' Seneschalstown clubman retired in 2013, made a county comeback in 2017, but big Joe is now fully back on the minds of Louth supporters. They accused him 15 years ago of diving over the line and throwing the ball into the net. It was a tumultuous end to the tense inter-county derby clash when Louth were playing in their first provincial final since 1960 and aiming to win it for the first time since 1957. Joe's winner caused such outrage that Louth manager Peter Fitzpatrick appealed to supporters after they invaded the pitch to remonstrate with referee Martin Sludden, who got a Garda escort for his own safety. Fitzpatrick said afterwards: 'It's a disgraceful decision by the referee. I thought he threw the ball into the net. I asked the referee, 'Why did you give that goal?'' He added: 'It was pure daylight robbery. I'm very, very annoyed.' On TV, pundit Pat Spillane said: 'A pure dive. It was like an American football touchdown.' RTE commentator Ger Canning said: 'The ball was thrown over the line. The goal should not have stood.' There were even calls for Meath to offer Louth a replay. Furious fans still haven't forgotten their heartbreaking loss and, now, after losing two Leinster Finals in a row to Dublin in 2023 and 2024, they are hoping it is third time lucky so they can forget the disappointment of 2010. Mary told the Irish Mirror: 'It's great craic, a bit of banter, but it's serious to me because I want Louth to win, I've never seen Louth win. Light the candles for Louth, We haven't been in the Leinster Final for 15 years and I have never seen them win it. I'm 36. 'I was going to make the fine €5, but I had to reduce it to €2. Three of us got caught with a fiver each as soon as I put the jar out, so we realised it was too much. 'I put in the first fiver. The money will go to Tidy Towns and maybe we'll raise more with €2 fines. If I had started the fine jar on Sunday night, there would've been €100 in it quickly. We'll see how much is raised. I came up with a rule that a fine doesn't have to be paid just for saying the name 'Joe'. Some people were talking about Joe Dolan and saying that was a fine. So I wrote a rule on the jar." The rule states: anyone to mention JS [Joe Sheridan], it's a €2 fine. It has to be in the context of sport or the 2010 game. The winnings will go to Tidy Towns, but Mary jokingly wrote: 'Money raised goes to me celebrating Louth winning – and Tidy Towns. Hon Louth.' She has worked at the popular Lynch's bar in Slane for years – but still lives in her beloved Louth. Mary explained: 'My father bought the pub 30 years ago. I was working for the last final, but I warned him there's no way that I am working for this one. Everybody wants to go to the game and, sure, everybody wants Louth to win. We're the Wee County.'
