Local ladies ‘Learn to Lead’ with LGFA

Two local ladies football stalwarts are set to take part in the LGFA’s ‘Learn to Lead’ female leadership programme for 2023.

Ursula Kilcoyne, St. Faithleach’s, and Celine Fee, St. Dominic’s, will be among 24 participants announced by the Ladies Gaelic Football Association last week.

Ursula and Celine will be participating in the coaching and administration strands of the programme respectively.

The ‘Learn to Lead’ programme was launched in 2019 and will be supported this year by Women in Sport funding through Sport Ireland. It was devised to develop the next generation of female leaders within ladies football.

LGFA President Mícheál

Naughton commented: “A key area of our Strategic Roadmap 2017-2022 was to define a model to promote Female Leadership across our Association.

“We are incredibly proud to reveal the identities of the participants, who hail from a diverse range of backgrounds and communities. the younger players who have come into the panel are doing well.

“They were already such well rounded and brilliant role models before the ‘Learn to Lead’ programme but they’ll be the first to confirm that they learned so much from it.

“We look forward to getting to know the 2022/2023 participants over the coming months and they will learn from the very best in the business in their respective strands.

“We wish each and every one of the participants the very best of good luck as they embark on their ‘Learn to Lead’ journeys”.

“The lads we have are mad to play for the jersey and that’s what we want. Lads like James Dillon, Darragh Finn, Padraig Brennan and Jack Dowling are new to all this and they are doing great,” he said.

“It’s a pity that we are without a number of experienced players but we just have to get on with it. Lads are not able to commit for one reason or another and that’s life.

“We could have won against Mayo and we were not happy with the draw as a group but it’s not the end of the world. We will be concentrating on our home matches and we will be hoping to win those starting with Louth on Sunday,” he concluded.

The Roscommon team who lined out against Mayo last Sunday was: Enda Lawless; Thomas Fleming, James Dillon, Eamon Mulry; Joe Brennan, Conor Cosgrove, Padraig Brennan; Darragh Finn (0-1), Jack Dowling (0-1); Adam Donnelly, Conor Mulry (0-1), Eoin Fitzgerald (0-3); Mickey Joe Egan (0-8, 6 frees), Brendan Mulry (0-1), Michael Brennan (0-1). Subs used Eamon Flanagan and Gearoid Egan.

CBS set for Connacht Final

CBS Roscommon will take on St. Attracta’s, Tubbercurry in the Mezzino Connacht

Post-Primary Schools

Senior ‘B’ Football Final this Saturday following a hugely impressive win over Garbally College in the semi-final played on Wednesday, February 1st.

Early goals from John McGuinness and Tadhg Lyons laid the foundations for a famous win which saw the Roscommon school topple the reigning Connacht champions.

Saturday’s decider, which throws in 12.30 pm at the Connacht Centre of Excellence, will see CBS attempt to repeat the successes of 2011 and 2015