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Replying To ohwow:  "Football has been played in Leitrim for centuries...there's your history

Football has one of the highest participation rates per capita in the country in Leitrim...there's your culture

Young boys and girls have plenty of role models playing with Leitrim to look up to e.g. Barry McNulty and the Ladies Connacht intermediate champions.

We don't need any psuedo sociological lessons on footballing matters from outsiders."
Well said. This can provide a springboard. Time to push on though and time for excuses is over. Best of luck in the Tailteann Cup. Love to all.

moros (Roscommon) - Posts: 1397 - 14/05/2026 12:55:29    2672946

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Replying To Gantric:  "I watched the final yesterday with some very shrewd Leitrim football men and we were not really impressed with either team,was exciting but the quality wasn't really there from either team, Galway ave gone backwards since they scrapped over the line to beat us. We then put together a Connacht team from the championship to date and ended up with 8 from Leitrim, 4 from Galway, 2 from Roscommon and 1 from Mayo. Its probably a fair reflection of the state of each team in the province.

Expecting a huge Leitrim crowd in Newry at the weekend, we will surely bring 10-12 thousand at least."
Another gem from Gastric. What time did the Moonshine run out?

ORIELMAN85 (Monaghan) - Posts: 1048 - 14/05/2026 17:51:42    2673018

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I noticed a recent video from leitrim gaa where they got the senior mens team to say a player that they idolised growing up. Not one of them said emlyn mulligan or declan darcy, or even barry mcnulty. It shows that they possibly looked outside the county when growing up to idolise a player. A mindset change is needed here for these youthful players to start idolising leitrim gaa players

Loughallenbanks (Leitrim) - Posts: 42 - 14/05/2026 18:45:02    2673028

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Will be interesting to see the line-up for Newry, wouldn't fancy being in Poachers position, how do you keep that much quality happy and give everyone a jersey. Looking forward to a game effort from Down that should make it somewhat of an interesting game. I'm hearing there are 12,000 tickets sold in Leitrim from very reliable football men in Leitrim.

Gantric (Leitrim) - Posts: 65 - 14/05/2026 20:30:35    2673041

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Replying To Loughallenbanks:  "I noticed a recent video from leitrim gaa where they got the senior mens team to say a player that they idolised growing up. Not one of them said emlyn mulligan or declan darcy, or even barry mcnulty. It shows that they possibly looked outside the county when growing up to idolise a player. A mindset change is needed here for these youthful players to start idolising leitrim gaa players"
The current crop are too young to remember declan darcy... And as for Mulligan, what's to idolize?

gaelsboy (Leitrim) - Posts: 766 - 14/05/2026 22:47:38    2673069

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