Club Championships 2025/2026

zetecescort

Ennis on top the last few minutes but wides killing any momentum.

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124031301#Comment_124031301

It really was only for a few minutes.

PTH2009

Ballygunner need to kick on now as the record in the All Ireland series is terrible

Wont be easy with the prospect of Ballyhale (possibly St Martins who won't show any fear) coming down on the line in a few weeks

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124031486#Comment_124031486

Na Piarsiagh were as bad when they were the leading team in Munster a few years before hand. St. Thomas and Slaughtneil were in a similar boat. Only Ballyhale in recent times have turned provincial dominance into similar All Irelands.

PTH2009

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124031549#Comment_124031549

1 AI final Apperernce out of 5 attempts

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124031651#Comment_124031651

In terms of titles NaP are 1/4, Thomas 2/7 and Slaughtneil 0/6.

It doesn't seem a particularly Ballygunner problem. Frustrating for supporters though which I know well as a Na Piarsiagh fan.

windy shepard henderson

Ballygunner looked like in their prime tonight, a bit like NAP in their hayday

blowitupref

All Ireland Senior Football

Semi Finals (3rd/4th January)

St Brigids (Roscommon) v Kilcoo (Down) or Scotstown (Monaghan)

St. Finbars (Cork) or Dingle (Kerry) v Ballyboden (Dublin) v Athy (Kildare)

Final (17th/18th January)

All Ireland Intermediate

Semi Finals (3rd/4th January)

Strokestown (Roscommon) v Cuchalainn (Cavan) v Glenullin (Derry)

Aghabullogue (Cork) or An Gaeltacht (Kerry) v Tubberclaire (Westmeath) or Sallins (Kildare)

Final (10th/11th January)

All Ireland Junior

Quarter Final (6th December)

Clogher (Tyrone) v Tara (Britain)

Semi Final (3rd/4th January)

Kiltimagh (Mayo) v Clogher (Tyrone) or Tara (Britain)

Ballymacelligott (Kerry) or Buttevant (Cork) v Grangenovlin (Kildare) or Fighting Cocks (Carlow)

Final (10th/11th January)

lawrencesummers

I will never for the life of me be able to figure out why they can’t pull back the fixtures / make up two weekends and get the Club All Irelands finished before the new year.

This fascination of having hurling and football on separate weekends could change to hurling Saturday - football Sunday except where there is a club in both which very very rarely happens like Ennis this year.

Just run it all off before Xmas and let the players have the holiday FFs.

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124033943#Comment_124033943

I thought that was always going to be the end goal when the spilt season came in. I must have picked it up wrong.

Loafing Oaf

fighting cocks, that's a mad name for a gaa club

EagererBeaver

They'll have a longer drive to Dr. Cullen Park then Grangenolvin will, in Grange's first away game of the Leinster championship!

PTH2009

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124033943#Comment_124033943

Yep take this year the All Ireland Club Hurling Semi Finals on the weekend before Xmas (20th/21st Dec) with the Football semi's on first weekend in January

Imagine like you said they pull a few weekends back and do Triple Header AI Club Hurling Finals Saturday 20th Dec & Triple Header AI Club Football Finals Sunday 21st Dec (vice versa each year) and truly end in the one calender year

Imagine your club winning an All Ireland Christmas week. Be very merry indeed

HurlingBoy

It's crazy not get these played off before Xmas. Even TG4 Interviewer was trying to get soundbites from Ballygunner manager and players in Interview's afterwards but they weren't biting saying they were happy to be there. The mental toll on players going the whole year round will lead to burn out. I know it's only affecting a small number of players but still can't see the logic in this.

giveitholly

Very easy have the club finals before Christmas,just shorten the intercounty season by at least 2 weeks. But people don't want that either

Loafing Oaf

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124034341#Comment_124034341

Inter-county season already very concentrated. You'd nearly need to ditch a stage if you wanted to do that

lawrencesummers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124034341#Comment_124034341

you don’t need to shorten the intercounty season, just play the club games on back to back weekends. Same for every club and you only need to change if a dual club make it through.

The same can be said for most counties senior championship.

giveitholly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124034527#Comment_124034527

A lot of counties play their championships on back to back weekends,remember a lot of clubs are dual so play every weekend as it is. How would a county like Cork get their championships played any quicker when every weekend available is already used up?

lawrencesummers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124034541#Comment_124034541

simple.

Play both hurling and football every weekend and dual clubs can be accommodated if necessary.

4 separate clubs played the SFC and SHC finals this year. As happens most years. No reason they can’t be played on the same weekend. That’s one weekend taken back already.

giveitholly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124034671#Comment_124034671

OK,I think I misunderstood you,are you talking about playing the provincial club championships every week? Counties use every weekend available to them to get their championships run off to meet deadlines.If that is the case then yes I agree with you.

dxhound2005

Scotstown will be either battle hardened or worn out. They played extra time in the Monaghan final against Inniskeen. A half of football in the Ulster club against Newbridge in conditions so bad that the game was abandoned. Extra time and penalties in the rearranged fixture, also in bad conditions. Kilcoo had a handy run out against Erne Gaels on 22 November.

Looking at the fixtures chart for the year, there is not much room for Counties to run things off much earlier. Especially since replays of finals seems to be the way e.g. Fermanagh SF final. Given the choice I think players would rather play in January than the Sat/Sun before or after Christmas.

https://www.gaa.ie/article/gaa-master-fixtures-for-2025-published There is a mistake where they list Week 50 twice, and no Week 52.

lawrencesummers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124034684#Comment_124034684

no reason both county and provincial club championship couldn’t be run off over the same weekends for hurling and football.

In Munster last weekend it was Hurling next weekend football. No club is in both. No reason this weekends fixtures couldn’t have been played last weekend.

dxhound2005

The good thing with the inter county is that every date is known months in advance. There is usually a bit of an outcry trying to get the dates at the start of the Football Championship changed depending on who is in the League Finals. But the CCCC never gives in to those campaigns.

Probably the same for the Provincial Club? Nobody knows in advance which counties will be represented in the Hurling and Football finals. Better to stick to the pre arranged calendar, than to change things round according to results.

giveitholly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124034823#Comment_124034823

County championships could not be played over the same weekends,way too many dual clubs. Take either Ennis or Loughmore as examples,how are they supposed to play two matches every weekend?

PTH2009

Are there no games on the weekend of the 13th/14th Dec ?

Would of been an ideal weekend for the Hurling Semi finals but would only give the Leinster winners a week to prepare

Billy Ocean

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124037133#Comment_124037133

Could have played Loughrea Slaughneil, playing the other would be completely unfair, Ulster football final is on that weekend.

bucketybuck

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124037133#Comment_124037133

I remember when there used to be plenty of crying about making club players tog out in the bog arse of December. Now it seems like we are right back where we started.

At least the pitches are better now I suppose.

Loafing Oaf

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124037133#Comment_124037133

Is mid-December ever an 'ideal' time to play high-level amateur sport outdoors? Marginally better than January I suppose…

kksaints

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124034164#Comment_124034164

It's basically a crossroads on the road between Carlow and Wexford with a pub of the same name

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124037271#Comment_124037271

At this stage in the competition everyone is using county grounds with floodlights and you would hope good pitches.

The issue was to try get the bulk of players playing in the summer.