Draws are made for Sligo GAA club championships
SENIOR
SLIGO GAA conducted the draws for five of its adult championships – Senior Football, Intermediate Football, Junior ‘A’ Football, Junior ‘B’ Football and Senior Hurling – on Thursday night of last week at the premises of Homeland Plus store, Deepwater Quay.
The draw, the details of which are outlined below, was shown live on Sligo GAA’s official YouTube channel and also broadcast on Ocean FM.
HOMELAND SENIOR FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
GROUP ONE: Coolera-Strandhill, Calry-St Joseph’s, St Mary’s, Curry, Tubbercurry
GROUP TWO: Drumcliffe-Rosses Point, Tourlestrane, Geevagh, Coolaney-Mullinabreena, Shamrock Gaels
HOLDERS: Tourlestrane; RUNNERS-UP 2020: Drumcliffe-Rosses Point; PROMOTED FROM INTERMEDIATE 2020: Curry
CONNACHT GOLD INTERMEDIATE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
GROUP ONE: Enniscrone-Kilglass, Tourlestrane ‘B’, Eastern Harps, St Farnan’s, St Molaise Gaels
GROUP TWO: Castleconnor, Easkey, St John’s, Ballymote, Bunninadden
HOLDERS: N/A; RUNNERS-UP 2020: St Molaise Gaels; PROMOTED FROM JUNIOR ‘A’ 2020: Tourlestrane ‘B’
CONNACHT GOLD JUNIOR ‘A’ FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
GROUP ONE: St Molaise Gaels ‘B’, Cloonacool, St Patrick’s, St Michael’s
GROUP TWO: St Mary’s ‘B’, Shamrock Gaels ‘B’, Owenmore Gaels, Coolaney-Mullinabreena ‘B’
HOLDERS: N/A; RUNNERS-UP 2020: Owenmore Gaels; PROMOTED FROM JUNIOR ‘B’: Coolaney-Mullinabreena
CONNACHT GOLD JUNIOR ‘B’ FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
GROUP ONE: St Michael’s ‘B’, St Farnan’s ‘B’, Eastern Harps ‘B’, Ballymote ‘B’
GROUP TWO: Calry-St Joseph’s ‘B’, Easkey ‘B’, Castleconnor ‘B’, Drumcliffe-Rosses Point ‘B’
GROUP THREE: Coolera-Strandhill ‘B’, St John’s ‘B’, Tubbercurry ‘B’, Enniscrone-Kilglass ‘B’
GROUP FOUR: St Patrick’s ‘B’, Shamrock Gaels ‘C’, Owenmore Gaels ‘B’, Curry ‘B’ HOLDERS: N/A; RUNNERS-UP 2020: St Farnan’s
SENIOR HURLING CHAMPIONSHIP
GROUP ONE: Naomh Eoin, Coolera-Strandhill, Tourlestrane
GROUP TWO: Calry-St Joseph’s, Western Gaels, Easkey
HOLDERS: Easkey; RUNNERS-UP 2020: Naomh Eoin
TOURLESTRANE’S bid for a sixth consecutive title will see them taking on the team they defeated in last year’s final, Drumcliffe-Rosses Point, in Group Two’s round-robin phase. Tourlestrane should have enough in their collective locker to take one of this section’s semi-final berths. As for who might join Tourlestrane in the last four, Coolaney-Mullinabreena may finally get their act together.
Expect the leading two in Group One to be Coolera-Strandhill and St Mary’s, so this would leave Calry-St Joseph’s, Curry (the 2020 Intermediate champions) and Tubbercurry out of the reckoning.
INTERMEDIATE
AS usual, this grade’s initial favourites are the previous campaign’s beaten finalists and the team that has come down from the top tier. Therefore, step forward St Molaise Gaels (Intermediate runners-up in 2020) and Eastern Harps (who were playing Senior last year). Both are in Group One, along with two sides from west Sligo, Enniscrone-Kilglass and St Farnan’s, plus Tourlestrane’s second XV (Junior ‘A’ champions 12 months ago). Group Two, also a fiveteam section, features last year’s beaten semi-finalists, Easkey and Bunninadden, with Castleconnor, St John’s and Ballymote completing the line-up.
JUNIOR ‘A’
OWENMORE Gaels, who fell to Tourlestrane’s second XV in last year’s decider, will consider themselves more than capable of securing a semi-final spot from Group Two, with their opponents comprising of three second XV selections (St Mary’s, Shamrock Gaels and Coolaney-Mullinabreena).
Group One is the Junior ‘A’ version of the Group of Death because one of the first teams of Cloonacool, St Patrick’s and St Michael’s will miss out on the knockout stages. Cloonacool and St Patrick’s were last year’s beaten semi-finalists. Also in Group Two is St Molaise Gaels’ second XV.