Sligo’s last game in Division Three was in Collooney

SLIGO were last in Division Three of the Allianz Football League in 2019 when Eastern Harps icon Paul Taylor was in charge.

Their previous experience of the third tier was a wretched one – seven games and seven losses.

Sligo’s relegation was confirmed in the fifth round, a defeat by Westmeath, and they were denied a consolation victory in the remaining rounds as they were beaten by Longford and Offaly.

That defeat to Offaly was by a one-point margin, 1-11 to 1-10, at Collooney’s Connolly Park on Sunday, March 24, 2019. Sligo finished with 14 players in that fixture due to a 51st minute red card for Niall Murphy. This game was Sligo’s last taste of Division Three – until last year’s Division Four breakthrough secured a return.

Sligo also played – and lost to – Laois, Louth, Down and Carlow in that 2019 campaign.

Sligo (v Offaly, AFL Division Three 2019): Eamonn Kilgannon, Paul McNamara, Peter Laffey, Mikey

Gordon, Darragh Cummins (0-2),

Adrian McIntyre, Eoin McHugh, Paul Kilcoyne, Gerard O’Kelly-Lynch (1-2), Neil Ewing, Sean Carrabine, Karl McKenna, Niall Murphy (0-3, 1f), Pat Hughes (0-1), Adrian Marren (0-1)

Subs used: Liam Gaughan (0-1), Luke Gilmartin

BALL ON THE GROUND: Geevagh’s Pat Hughes in action for Sligo during their Allianz Football League Division Three game against Offaly on Sunday, March 24, 2019, at Connolly Park. This was Sligo’s most recent game in the AFL’s third tier.

SLIGO GAA COUNTY SENIOR SQUAD 2024

38 PLAYERS (20 SLIGO CLUBS REPRESENTED): Aidan Devaney, Brian Callaghan, Daire O’Boyle, Brian Cox (CalrySt Joseph’s); Oisin Flynn, Sean Carrabine (Castleconnor); Eoin Carty (Cloonacool); Luke Towey, Alan McLoughlin, Joseph Keaney, Luke Casserly (St Molaise Gaels); Keelan Harte, Niall Murphy, Peter Laffey, Keelan Cawley (Coolera-Strandhill); Donal Conlon (Geevagh); Darragh Cummins (St Vincent’s, Dublin); Shane Deignan, Daniel Lyons, David Quinn, Evan Lyons, Lee

Deignan (Shamrock Gaels); Mikey Gordon (Easkey); Paul Kilcoyne (St Mary’s); Eoghan Smith, Cian Lally (Drumcliffe-Rosses Point); Jack Lavin (Ballymote); Conan Marren (Tourlestrane); Eddie McGuinness, Oisin McCann (Tubbercurry); Paul McNamara

(St John’s); Nathan Mullen (CoolaneyMullinabreena); Canice Mulligan (St Patrick’s); Patrick O’Connor (St Farnan’s); Alan Reilly (Curry); Pat Spillane (St Jude’s, Dublin); Dylan Walsh (Eastern Harps); Mark Walsh (Owenmore Gaels)