Our very own Brid McGoldrick who is Longford Gaa’s vice chairperson and National Healthy club chairperson, opened the National GAA Healthy club Conference last Saturday in Croke Park, to over 500 people in inspirational fashion. It was a very proud moment for Killoe and Longford. Killoe Emmet Og Healthy club presented their project to clubs…
Our under 20 team captured the championship title on Sunday last, in this the inaugural year of this grade in Longford Football when we had a good win over a Mostrim/Sean Connollys amalgamation. Well done to trainer Kevin Dooner and his management team as well as the entire panel. This was a fantastic achievement following…
Our fabulous minor team captured the championship title on Sunday last to add to the league crown won earlier in the year, when we held on by a single point to defeat Carrick Sarsfields/St Dominics after a nail-biting contest. This is our second year in a row to capture the league and championship titles and…
All roads lead to Pearse Park next Sunday where our minor team are going for back to back championships where we face the mighty amalgamation of Carrick Sarsfields and St Domininc’s with throw in at 2pm. This is the curtain raiser to the senior final and is sure to be a very exciting game. We…
Our junior team captured the junior championship with a hard fought win over Clonguish in Pearse Park on Sunday. A goal from the ever dependable Andrew Thompson mid way through the second half proved to be the difference with our lads holding out for a tight 1-8 to 7 points win. We had fine performances…
All roads lead to Pearse Park this coming Sunday with our Junior team contesting the junior championship final against Clonguish at 2pm. We wish manager Kevin Dooner and all involved all the best in the game. Hopefully we will be celebrating on Sunday evening.Our seniors had a good win over Longford Slashers in the Leader…
Well done to our junior team who had a fine win over FR. Manning Gaels on Sunday last in the championship semi final. We now face Clonguish in the final on Sunday week next. Parish GAA video: There will be a parish video shoot in Emmet Park on Saturday 14th of September in conjunction with…
Our juniors had a good win over Longford Slashers on Wednesday evening last and now play Mostrim this Wednesday evening at home for a place in championship the semii final. Throw in is at 8.30pm. Our seniors rounded off their league campaign with a hard fought win over Mostrim on Friday evening in Emmet Park…
Our senior team played their final qualifier game on Sunday and came up short by a point to Dromard. We have thankfully qualified for the quarter final where we will meet Abbeylara in two weeks time. Hopefully we can put last Sunday behind us and kick on in the knock out stages. Our Juniors are…
We had no games last week. However we have a big week coming up with championship games for both our juniors and seniors. Our juniors take on Clonguish in Allen Park on Wednesday evening at 8.15pm while our seniors take on Dromard on Sunday at 1.30pm in Colmcille. Good Luck to both. Our club draw…
Our senior team had a good win away to Abbeylara in the league on Saturday evening last. Well done to all involved. Our Junior Championship game last week against Killashee was postponed. This Thursday evening our juniors open their championship when we welcome St Columba’s to Emmet Park at 8.15pm. Good luck to all involved. Our…
We got our championship campaign for 2018 off to a satisfactory start on Saturday evening last with a good win over Longford Slashers. We now face Dromard in our remaining group game which will be played on the 17th August 2018. This Wednesday evening our junior team start their championship campaign with an away game…
Congratulations to our county under 17 team who had a very impressive win over Dublin in the Leinster shield final on Saturday. The team was back boned by Killoe lads with Gerry Carberry managing the team and Jason Tully acting as selector. On the team we had Cian Dooner, Reece Leonard, Jonathon Borland, James Moran,…
Our reserve junior team had a super win in the Padraig Geraty cup final against Ardagh/Moydow on Wednesday evening last in Granard. Well done to team manager Kevin Dooner and all involved. It was great to watch such a blend of youth and experience gelling together to produce a fantastic game of football. Arguably the…
Congratulations to our under 14 team and management who had a great run at the national fèile at the weekend. After 4 straight wins we found ourselves in the semi final on Sunday after noon in Ashbourne against North London. Missed chances unfortunately cost us as we went down by two points to North London who…
Best wishes to our under 14 team and management as they had for the national fèile this weekend in Counties Down and Meath. We hope you play to your potential and being home some silverware. Unfortunately our senior reserve team fell to Clonguish in the league semi final on Friday evening. We wish Clonguish well…
Our senior reserves had a fine win over Longford Slashers in the Bertie Allen Cup on Friday evening last and have now qualified for the semi final. This is against Clonguish and will be played in Emmet Park this Friday evening at 8.30pm Good luck to the Longford team against Kildare this coming weekend. Well…
Hard luck to the Longford senior team against Dublin last Sunday in the Leinster championship. For certain periods of the game we were as good as Dublin but a lack of guile in front of goals and a few wayward decisions went against us before Dublin’s bench made a big difference late on. There are lots of…
Our 25 year anniversary celebrations for Emmet Park took place last weekend in glorious sunshine at Emmet Park, so different than the day we opened our facilities all those years ago. We had two magnificent days of entertainment on the pitches with games for all our boys and girls, men and women from under 8’s…
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the opening of our fabulous facilities at Emmet Park and to mark the occasion we have a weekend of festivities planned over the June Bank Holiday weekend. On Saturday we kick off at 11am with an under 10 blitz featuring 16 teams from all over Connaught, Leinster and Ulster. We…
