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Player Profile – Charlie Mulligan Blackhall Gaels Minor Footballer

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Name: Charlie Mulligan

Team: Blackhall Gaels

Favourite Position: Corner Forward/ Wing forward

Most important skill of the game: Determination

What would you change about the game (if anything): I’d Get rid of the mark!

Any pre match rituals/superstitions? I always have some Weetabix before a game.

Toughest opponent (in training or from another team) Sean Lavin from our minor team for sure.

Team you most like to beat: Dunderry

Proudest Day in or out of Gaa: Beating Dunderry in the first round of last year’s Minor Championship!

Toughest or most disappointing day in Sport: Finding out that the Gaa was called off due to the pandemic.

Biggest influence on your career: David Clifford from Kerry.

Joker in the panel: Colin Byrne

Best trainer on the panel: I know it’s a cliche but all of the lads are top trainers in fairness.

Best fashion sense on the team: No one stands out unfortunately.

Best player played with or against: Daithi Martin (Kilcock Hurling)

One player from any other team you would like your team to sign: David Clifford Kerry

Player you most admire from another sport: Patrick Bamford, Leeds United

Other sports you play competitively or as a hobbie: Hurling

Favourite TV show to watch: The Office

Favourite food: Chicken wings

3 things you couldn’t live without: Gaa, Leeds United, Friends/Family

In 10 years time, I hope to be: An Engineer

What 3 people, alive or dead, would you invite to your dinner party? Messi, Patrick Bamford and The Gooch

Tell us something about yourself that most people wouldn’t know: I play the guitar

Blackhall Gaels player Leah Hartigan making waves in the Women’s National League

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By Robert Cox January 15th, 2021

Blackhall Gaels Gaa player Leah Hartigan has signed for the u19 WNL team at DLR Waves in Dun Laoghaire.

Leah, who plays in defence, has previously played for the club’s u17s and last season trained with the 1st team squad while also working alongside the coaching team.

Leah in action.

The club took to their Twitter page to welcome Leah back for 2021.

Best wishes to Leah and all at DLR Waves for the coming season.

Leah Hartigan in action for Blackhall Gaels in 2018.

Maynooth u14s produce Lazarus type comeback to qualify for Dublin Final

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Well done to the Maynooth Post Primary/Community College u14 boys footballers who beat Coláiste Eoin in UCD today to reach the Dublin A Final.

The lads trailed by nine points at one stage in the second half but turned the game on its head to win by three on a full time score of 4-11 to 4-08.

It turned out to be a mixed day for the school’s footballers as their senior boys team suffered heartbreak when conceding a late goal at home to St Aidan’s Whitehall in the Leinster Senior A Championship, ending their campaign for this year.

Leinster Senior A football Championship ‘Br Bosco Cup’ FT: Maynooth 1-15 St. Aidan’s Whitehall 2-13

Maynooth trailed by 1-07 to 0-06 at the break and after fighting back to eventually take the lead, they conceded the late goal to lose by a point.

Joe Breen honoured at Meath LGFA awards night

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The late Joe Breen from Blackhall Gaels Gaa club was posthumously inducted into the Meath LGFA Hall of Fame at the county’s annual awards night at Newgrange Hotel on Saturday night, November 2nd.

Joe was instrumental in helping set up Ladies Football in Blackhall Gaels, going on to manage them for a number of years, during a successful period for the club, including reaching a Meath SFC Final.

Sadly Joe passed away earlier this year and though he is a massive loss to his family, friends and everyone at the club, they will take solace from this lovely gesture from the County Board that will make sure Joe’s legacy lives on.

As well as been awarded the Hall of Fame, which his wife Theresa and her family collected on the night, Meath LGFA announced that as of from 2020 Senior clubs in the county will now compete for The Joe Breen Cup when they take part in the Meath Senior Football Championship.

A lovely gesture and fair play to Meath LGFA, I know the family will cherish this greatly.

Whitty and Regan among six Meath players nominated for the Champions 15 team

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Shane Whitty (far left) with his Blackhall Gaels team mates Hugh Smith and Stephen Morris.

Blackhall Gaels’ Shane Whitty and Kiltale forward Jack Regan have both been nominated along with four of their Meath Gaa team mates for the Champions 15 team 2019.

A collective of players from the Christy Ring, Nicky Rackard and Lory Meagher Cups will make up the All Star team.

The pair are joined by fellow their fellow County men Sean Geraghty (Captain), Shane Brennan, Damien Healy and Keith Keoghan, as the Christy Ring Cup winners head the list of nominees.

This is the first year that a selection of 45 players has been chosen from the Ring, Rackard and Meagher competitions with the new selection process introducing player and coach feedback.

Those selected were finalised by an independent selection committee of journalists and referees with all players competing in the Joe McDonagh Cup excluded as they were considered for the PwC Liam McCarthy Cup All-Stars.

The Champion 15 selection will be awarded as part of the PwC All-Stars event in Dublin’s Convention Centre on Friday November 1 with 20 counties featured across the extensive list of 45.

Christy Ring, Nicky Rackard and Lory Meagher Champion 15 Nominees:

Simon Doherty, Dean Gaffney, Caolan Rice (all Armagh), Diarmaid Carney (Cavan), Brian Óg McGilligan, Sé McGuigan (both Derry), Danny Cullen (Donegal), Stephen Keith, Dáithi Sands, Eoghan Sands, Caolan Taggart (all Down), John Duffy (Fermanagh), James Burke, Jack Sheridan (both Kildare), Darren Crowley, Ronan Crowley, Greg Jacob (all Lancashire), James Glancy, Declan Molloy, Enda Moreton, Liam Moreton, Gavin O’Hagan (all Leitrim), Shane Lawless (London), David Buckley (Longford), D Geoghegan (Louth), Shane Boland (Mayo), Shane Brennan, Sean Geraghty, Damien Healy, Keith Keoghan, Jack Regan, Shane Whitty (all Meath), Fergal Rafter (Monaghan), Cathal Dolan, Pádraig Kelly (both Roscommon), Gerard O’Kelly-Lynch, Keith Raymond, Joe Starr, James Weir (all Sligo), Damian Casey, Tiernan Morgan (both Tyrone), Willie Allen, John Collins (both Warwickshire), John Henderson, Stephen Kelly (Wicklow)