SLIGO GAA SPRING LEAGUES BEGIN

SLIGO GAA’s adult season begins this weekend with games in the Divisional Spring Football Leagues. There are six competitions taking place – South DivisionWest Division Junior Spring League, North DivisionEast Division Junior Spring League, East Division Spring League, West Division Spring League, North Division Spring League and South Division Spring League.

Each competition is sponsored by JBG Security Ltd, a company led by Curry man Barry Gallagher. A Trojan work in his own club, Curry GAA, Gallagher is also an avid supporter of GAA activity in the county.

JBG Security is a specialist provider of security services and installations to both the domestic and the commercial communities across the north-west and midlands.

The JBG Security Spring Football Leagues, now in their third season, serve as a warm-up competition for club players prior to the start of the Sligo GAA Senior Football Leagues and while Sligo’s inter-county season is still ongoing.

These leagues are played on a divisional basis, a format that has reintroduced local rivalries between neighbouring parishes that are otherwise in different divisions of the county league or in different championship competitions.

There are six separate mini-league competitions with a senior league for first teams in each of the north, south, east and west divisions as well as two junior competitions where clubs from the north and east of the county combine in one and the south and the west combine in another.

All six competitions are run over the four weekends of April with a break on the first weekend of May – the Bank holiday weekend – and they will conclude on the weekend of May 11-12.

NEW SEASON: At the launch of the JBG Security Ltd Sligo GAA Divisional Spring Football Leagues were, from left, Sean Carroll (Sligo GAA chairperson), Barry Gallagher (Owner and Managing Director, JBG Security Ltd), Cormac Kearns (Sligo GAA treasurer).