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crafty (Galway) - Posts: 183 - 18/10/2020 20:33:25 2298917 Link 0 |
Yes because no gaa club team in Ireland is two small villages joined up. Considering Corofin's pick and giant cachement area this is a bananas post. kazoochka (Galway) - Posts: 330 - 18/10/2020 21:05:48 2298934 Link 3 |
Just to clarify about the 2 villages thing as a lot of people do not seem to understand. GAA clubs in Galway like most of the country are formed around parishes. In rural Galway most parishes have at least 2 x Roman Catholic churches. Historically this relates to population and the fact that each church area did not have the population to sustain a parish priest AND a curate. So the parish priest would be located near one church (e.g. Moylough) with the curate in the other church in the parish ( e.g. Mountbellew). This is replicated all over the county. Kilkerrin / Clonberne, Caltra/Ahascragh, Monivea/Abbeyknockmoy, Ballygar/Newbridge, Corofin/Belclare, Dunmore/Garrafrauns. All these are SINGLE parishes. As the relative populations in all these parishes is getting smaller ,if anything, there is no need or benefit to splitting the parishes. Probably the exception to the above list is Corofin/Belclare , but even in Corofin the population is not as big as the catchments of Clareglaway, Oranmore, Salthill, Moycullen or Barna so I think where possible it is good to keep with the traditional parishes/clubs. Regarding Mountbellew / Moylough , the parish has always played together . The records show that "Mountbellew" won the county championship in 1974 while "Mountbellew-Moylough" won it in 1986 , giving some people the impression that there was an amalgamation in the intervening years. Not so , what actually happened around that time was a club decision to change its name to reflect the actual parish name, but no change to the club or parishes geography happened. anotheralias (Galway) - Posts: 137 - 19/10/2020 09:42:27 2299029 Link 0 |
It used to be people giving out about the size of Corofin and now that Mountbellew beat Corofin you are giving out about the size of Mountbellew...ah stop!! Ayeartilmonday (Galway) - Posts: 63 - 19/10/2020 10:53:47 2299073 Link 1 |
By the way its not just a North galway thing. I forgot to mention Peterswell/Kilchreest, Leitrim/Kilnadeema, Abbey/Duniry, Kilconnell / Aughrim, Fohenagh/Killure, Ballymacward/Gurteen, Oranmore/Maree , and i'm sure there are more. Of course there may be exceptions. Tuam/Cortoon are the same parish with separate mens GAA club. Not sure if there is any other instance of 2 clubs with catchment areas completely inside 1 parish? anotheralias (Galway) - Posts: 137 - 19/10/2020 16:20:08 2299250 Link 0 |
Carnmore hurling club is the hurling club for Claregalway parish. renoir (Galway) - Posts: 35 - 20/10/2020 12:31:01 2299555 Link 0 |
Relegation final put back until Spring. Doubtful it will go ahead now at all. Stripsandbanners (Galway) - Posts: 31 - 22/10/2020 15:30:35 2300252 Link 0 |
Any chance this getting rattled off pre xmas. I know I'd like it off my mind ASAP if I was involved Sportsfanatic90 (Westmeath) - Posts: 31 - 17/11/2020 07:22:23 2310482 Link 0 |