Waterford senior ladies football team open their Division 3 league
campaign with a testing tie against Tipperary on Sunday next 31st January
in St Molleran’s GAA grounds with a 2:00 throw –in. Both teams had contrasting
fortunes last season with Waterford winning the All Ireland Intermediate series
and reaching the League final. Tipperary on the other hand have been going
through a transition stage for the past two years and results did not go their
way. Under a new management set-up hopes are very high in the premier county to
do well in the league and they should be in the running for the Intermediate
title next September.
The Deise ladies have made a later than usual return to training
following on their phenomenal success last year and there are a number of new
faces being introduced into the panel by manager Pat Sullivan. Waterford this
season will be captained by Sinead Ryan of the Ballymacarbry club and club
loyalties will be put to one side as both counties feature a number of players
from the famed Nire valley club.
This game will be close; Tipperary played their best football in the
league when narrowly losing to Waterford in the corresponding fixture last
season in Ardfinnan on a scoreline of Waterford 2-12 Tipperary 3-5. Throw In,
in St Molleran’s Carrick Beg is at 2:00 with Cathy Forde in charge of
proceedings.
Post Primary Success for Munster team
The Munster post primary team had a well deserved win in the Lidl Post
Primary blitz on Saturday last. Playing in soft underfoot conditions Munster
set about their task from the word go and in the round robin section of the
competition recorded good wins firstly against Ulster by 1-6 to 0-2, then
Connacht by 4-8 to 0-2 and finally they defeated Leinster by five points 2-2 to
0-5.These results qualified them for another tilt with Connacht and in a tense
final came out on top by 8 points on a score-line 2-7 to 0-5.
Waterford had seven representatives on the panel: the Murray triplets
Katie, Aoife and Emma from the Comeragh Rangers club, Chloe Fennell, Aisling
Mullaney, Rebecca Casey from the Stradbally club and Megan Dunford from the
Abbeyside club, with Emma Murray having the proud honour of captaining the
side.Well done to all concerned.
Lidl announce major sponsorship for Ladies Football.
Croke Park was the venue on Thursday last for the official launch of the
exciting new sports partnership launch between LGFA & Sponsors LIDL. A
three year deal has been agreed between LIDL and the LGFA. This deal will see
LIDL invest €1.5 million in year 1, 2016. LIDL General Manager J P Scally in
his address expressed his delight at this development and looks forward to
promoting Ladies Gaelic Football. LGFA President Marie Hickey welcomed LIDL
onboard in what she said is the highest ever level of profiling for Ladies
football. She thanked her team who had worked so hard to make this deal
possible. Lidl will now sponsor the National Leagues, the Post Primary schools
competitions and Gaelic for Mothers and Others.
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