AGM reveals a New Chairman

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Patrick “Coco” McMorrow stepped down as chairman last Sunday night at the annual AGM. the famous hotseat will be taken up by none other than Eamon Deveany.

Best of luck to Coco in his retirement from heavy club duties and to Eamon going forward with Glencar manor into the future

Problems with the county set up

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Perhaps some Leitrim teams should allow amalgamations of junior and intermediate club teams to enter senior championship as they do in Kerry. It works great for them. It exposes these players to higher level of football and would improve them as players and improves the intermediate and junior championship as well. Its hard to pick a good intercounty player at intermediate level and then the first time he experiences senior football is at intercounty level. even clubs who already have a senior team players from their second/third teams could play for these amalgamations. Just a thought.

Hoganstands summary of Connaughts Club Semi Final- The “Willies” against the Galways Champions

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Connacht club SFC: Corofin thump Willies by 35 points

A job well done. Corofin’s Joe Canney celebrates a point with Ciaran McGrath.
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Corofin 7-20
Aughawillan 0-6

They say the bookies rarely get it wrong and, unfortunately for Aughawillan, that was the case in Carrick-on-Shannon as they were annihilated by a ruthless Corofin side.

The Galway champions were a staggering 1/100 with one bookmaker to dispose of their Leitrim counterparts and this they did in emphatic fashion to set up a Connacht final showdown with first-time finalists Ballintubber.

Michael Lundy scored a hat-trick of goals, Martin Farragher grabbed two, while Ian Burke and substitute Joe Canney bagged one apiece in the rout, with all of the goals coming in the second half after Corofin’s lead was a mere eight points, 0-11 to 0-3, at the interval.

Aughawillan actually registered the game’s first score through Ciaran Gilheaney, but that was as good as it got for Sean Pierson’s side as Corofin replied with points from Dylan Wall, Lundy and Gary Sice.

Gilheaney left the minimum in it again before a flurry of scores from Ronan Steede, Sice, Farragher and Greg Higgins eased the winners into a comfortable half-time lead.

The second half was a bloodbath as far as the locals were concerned with Farragher’s first goal opening the floodgates. In a devastating spell midway through the half, Farragher, Burke and Lundy (twice) raised green flags to stretch Corofin’s lead to 5-16 to 0-3.

Luddy completed his hat-trick before Canney added goal number seven with four minutes to go.

Corofin – T Healy; M Comer, K Fitzgerald, C Silke; C McGrath, A Burke, L Silke; D Burke, R Steede (0-3); G Sice (0-6, 2f), M Lundy (3-1), D Wall (0-3); M Farragher (2-1), G Higgins (0-1), I Burke (1-2). Subs: C Cunningham for M Comer, A O’Donovan (0-1) for D Burke, J Canney (1-1) for M Farragher, P Kelly for K Fitzgerald, B O’Donovan (0-1) for D Wall, A Lawless for C Silke.

Aughawillan – C Maguire; D McGovern, Michael Quinn, G McGovern; M Beirne, N Plunkett, S Quinn; S Fox, S Flanagan (0-1); R McTague, M Plunkett, P Dolan; C Gilheany (0-4, 2f), G Plunkett (0-1), M Quinn. Subs: S Gilheany for M Beirne, R Creamer for N Plunkett, K McTague for Morgan Quinn, F McTague for P Dolan, G Deane for G Plunkett.