ACFL Division 4

Hard luck to the Reserve team who were beaten by Grattan Óg on Friday evening last, 6-17 to 5-11. Gaels led 3-8 to 2-7 at half time, having squandered numerous chances and extended this lead to seven points in the second half before Grattans took over and ran out decisive winners. The team and scorers were as follows: Cody Lee, Leon Mckeon, Caelum McGee,  Sean McKenna, Tom McGee, Cian Murphy,  Sean Gibbons(0-2), Mark Hughes, Darren Farrelly(1-0), Kevin Whitney, Kevin Whelan (0-5), Ryan Crowe (0-2, 2f), Padraig O’Neill (1-0), Podge Gill, Oisín Kane (3-2)

Subs: James McCann, Seán Hourican, Declan Donnelly, Dawid Kallina, Ciarán Cooney. It is senior action next as our Division 2 team is away to Mostrim this Saturday at 7pm. Best of luck to the team and management.

 

Lotto

Our lotto draw took place in O’Reilly’s Bar, Drumlish on Monday last, June 2nd. The Jackpot was €2,400. Results are currently on the club website and social media and will be published in next week’s notes.

Thank you to all who support our lotto. Please play again on Clubspot by selecting the Fr Manning Gaels option or from the usual ticket sellers.

Longford

Well done to Enda McGahern and Paddy Collum who finished off the Tailteann Cup with a win against Carlow. A particular word of congratulations to our own Paddy Collum who has called time on an outstanding intercounty career which has seen him play 133 times in all competitions (37 Championship, 67 NFL and 29 O’Byrne Cup) and scoring 0-15 between 2012 and 2025. This is in addition to 7 Championship appearances at U-21 level and 9 at Minor (scoring two penalties on the way to winning the Leinster Minor Championship). Paddy has featured for Longford at every grade from U-13 up and all that is left now is the Masters – in a few more years! He retires with a Leinster minor championship, Hastings Cup, three O’Byrne Cups and an NFL Division 3 title. Paddy also represented Leinster in the 2016 Railway Cup. Enjoy the well earned retirement Paddy and we look forward to many more years out in Monaduff. Well done to Alex Karytinos and the Longford minors who won the All-Ireland ‘C’ final last weekend to lift the Séamus Heaney Cup. Alex was excellent all year at corner back

Sympathy

Fr Manning Gaels extends its deepest sympathy to the family and friends of Brother Sebastian (Eamon Davis, Ballinamuck) who passed away recently. Brother Sebastian was a renowned football coach and trained the Sligo minors to provincial succeas and an All Ireland final appearance in 1968. He later served as Chairman of Ballina Stephenites. Solas na bhFlaitheas air