The new D. J. Carey could be living in Longford, Leitrim or Donegal, but we'll never know. These cookies do not store any personal information. Liam Griffin has said the GAA should be ashamed of itself over its failure in the promotion of hurling. Boards.ie | It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website. [...] If someone can market coloured gripe water, call it Coca-Cola and clean up worldwide, we should be able to sell hurling in Longford.[3]. To embed this post, copy the code below on your site, 600px wide For more information on cookies please refer to our cookies policy. Users are reminded that they are fully responsible for their own created content and their own posts, comments and submissions and fully and effectively warrant and indemnify Journal Media in relation to such content and their ability to make such content, posts, comments and submissions available. Longford GAA on the internet - for all your results, fixtures and news from GAA competitions across Co. Longford Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. The population of the county was 40,873 at the 2016 census. Help us to tell the stories behind the scoreboard. That decision was upheld by the Leinster Hearings Committee on Friday night but the DRA Tribunal then deliberated over the case and released their decision last night in a comprehensive 16-page document. Tap the button below on your phone to follow us! By clicking “Accept”, you consent to the use of ALL the cookies. They have several players with county senior experience. Sites: Longford won the National Football League in 1966, then the 1968 Leinster Senior Football Championship. The42 | The Longford SFC semi-finals scheduled for this weekend have been postponed due to two cases of Covid-19 among "active members of a GAA club" in the county. [5], National Development Plan 2010-2015, Our Game, Our Passion information page on, List of Gaelic games clubs in Ireland § Longford, All-Ireland Junior Ladies' Football Championships, http://www.hoganstand.com/Longford/Profile.aspx, "All Stars bright lights hide darker side of hurling", Longford County & Colleges - Roll of Honour, Structure of the Gaelic Athletic Association, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Longford_GAA&oldid=981289575, Gaelic games governing bodies in Leinster, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Father Manning Gaels (Drumlish/Ballinamuck), This page was last edited on 1 October 2020, at 12:13. They won the Lory Meagher Cup, for the first time, in Croke Park on 3 July 2010 and won on a scoreline 1 – 20 to Donegal 1 – 12. Longford County Council is the local authority for the county. Mickey Quinn, the former Essendon AFL player is one of their best-known figures, and he featured for the Longford senior side last summer alongside club-mates Pádraig McCormack, Daniel Mimnagh and Mark Hughes.