Laois team V Armagh

Laois manager Justin McNulty has named 14 of the 15 players that started last summer's All-Ireland Quarter Final with Dublin in his team to play Armagh at O'Moore Park this Saturday evening The only change from that side that lined out against Dublin is Donie Kingston returning to team, Kingston found the net for UCD midweek in the Sigerson Cup Eoin Culliton is in goal, Kevin Meaney is full back with Cahir Healy and Peter O'Leary in the corners John O'Loughlin is centre half back, Laois footballer of the year Conor Boyle is left wing back with...

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Westmeath GAA Championship Draws 2013

Westmeath GAA Championship Draws 2013. Senior Hurling Championship: Division 1 (First Round) Clonkill V Castlepollard Castletown Geo V Delvin Division 2 (First Round) Raharney V Crookedwood Lough Lene gaels V St Oliver Plunketts Top team from each group qualifies for Semi finals; second and third team quaify for Quarter final. Bottom team in each group play off with losing side relegated to Intermediate for 2014. Intermediate Hurling Championship. First Round: Raharney V Clonkill Ringtown V Turin Fr Daltons...

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Two Westmeath horses in Aintree entries

Last year's Irish grand national winner Lion na Bearnai, bred in Tubberclair in Westmeath, is among 84 entries for the Aintree Grand National on April 6th Castletown Geoghegan trainer Martin Lynch has also entered Oscar Time, who was second last year Willie Mullins has seven entries and Gordon Elliot has six The JP McManus owned On His Own is the early favourite for the race while the weights will be announced on Tuesday wee...

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Westmeath team V Louth

Westmeath manager Pat Flanagan has named his starting 15 to play Louth in the Division Two of the National Football League this Sunday (coverage on Midlands 103 with thanks to Heavins Expert Hardware) 1  Gary Connaughton 2  Mark McCallon 3  Kieran Gavin (Captain) 4  Kevin McGuire 5  Michael Curley 6  Paul Sharry 7  Doron Harte 8  Paul Bannon 9  John Heslin 10 Ger Egan 11 Callum McCormack 12 Kieran Martin 13 Ronan Foley 14 James Dolan 15 Denis Glen...

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Cesarewitch Sponsorship boost for Mullingar Greyhound Stadium

Mullingar Greyhound Stadium has received a boost ahead of hosting the first classic of the year, the Cesarewitch. The 600 yards race will be sponsored again by Gain, the classic will start on Saturday March the 16th and the final is on Sunday April 7th has a winner's prize of 8,500 Euro with a total prize fund of over 19,000 Euro.Mullingar Greyhound Stadium's Commercial Manager.Sean Fogarty says he's delighted that Gain have decided to renew their sponsorship and has thanked the company for their support in recent years. There will also...

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Racing News Thursday Evening

Vinny Grennan reports Thursday's race meeting at Thurles has been cancelled following the adverse weather in recent days. A statement from the Turf Club said 'The fixture for Thurles January 31st has been cancelled due to the present ground conditions at the venue and an adverse weather forecast in the coming days'. The Boylesports.com Tied Cottage will be the feature race on Sunday at Punchestown and the entries are headed by Sizing Europe. Henry De Bromhead's stable star has won his three starts this season and looks to be geared towards...

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AIT see off Carlow IT in Sigerson

Athlone IT have advanced to the second round of the Sigerson Cup with a 1-13 to 0-6 win over IT Carlow this afternoon Tubberclair's Alan Coffey scored 5 points for AIT while Roscommon midfielder Cathal Shine scored 1-2 Wexford attacker Ben Brosnan kicked four first half frees for IT Carlow Shine's goal came from a long range free that was fumbled to the net by Carlow back up 'keeper Tom Hughes, IT Carlow's corner back Joe Kinahan was sent off for an off the ball incident in the aftermath of the AIT goal while John Mulligan of AIT was shown a...

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Sunday Racing Review

By Vinny Grennan  Hurricane Fly was the star attraction on today's card as he very impressively won the Irish Champion Hurdle for the third year in a row at very prohibitive odds of 1/6 fav. The weather turned really nasty as the Foxrock venue was battered by atrocious weather conditions as wind, snow and sleet arrived just before the start of the race but that didn't deter the 2010 Cheltenham Champion Hurdle winner putting a breathtaking performance and stamp himself as a serious...

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On the Inside Line Today

On the show today we have live commentary from Blackwater as Wexford host Offaly in the quarter finals of the Walsh Cup We’ll also have regular updates from Westmeath against DIT and Laois versus Antrim Irish basketball legend Timmy McCarthy and Athlone Town defender Brian McCarthy are in studio from 3.30pm A look back on Tullamore’s All-Ireland Junior Cup Semi Final win in Cork yesterday, former Ireland number 8 Noel Mannion will discuss Robbie Henshaw’s Wolfhounds debut, Dan van Zyl on Leinster youths InterPro win, Dave Connellan...

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Three Midlands Golds at National Boxing Finals

It's been an excellent day for Midlands boxers at the National Novice Finals with three gold medals collected at the National Stadium Spartacus Gym Tullamore teenager Grainne Walsh, who plays for Shamrock Rovers in the Womens National League, won the women's light welterweight title with a 16-10 victory against Siobhan O’Leary of Corpus Christi There was a welterweight double for Portlaoise boxing club, Caroline Holland defeated Rachel Carey in the women's final While the men's gold went to Christian Elihal, he won the fight of the...

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Upcoming Live GAA on Midlands 103

Sunday January 27th Walsh Cup Quarter Final Wexford  V Offaly – Blackwater –  2pm - Commentary Walsh Shield Laois V Antrim – Rathdowney - 2pm - Updates – Sponsored by Peigs Bar, Portlaoise Westmeath V DIT – Kinnegad - 2pm - Updates – Sponsored by Eugene O’Neill, Castlepollard Tuesday January 29th Sigerson Cup Athlone IT V Carlow IT – Athlone –  2pm – Updates Saturday February 2nd National Football League Division...

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All-Ireland Hurling Championship proposals

For Congress 2013 - Liam Mac Carthy Cup 2014 - 15 Teams Munster Championship – as is currently; 5 counties Cork, Tipperary, Limerick, Waterford, Clare One quarter final, two semi-finals, Munster Final Leinster Championship – 10 Counties Laois, Antrim, Carlow, Westmeath, London in a “qualifying” group ·        Played on a round robin basis ·        Each team plays four games ·        Top two...

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‘The Beautiful Game’ – A Football Blog

By Dave McArdle Uefa Euro 2020 Uefa have released some fascinating news this afternoon after revealing that Euro 2020 will be hosted in 13 different cities across Europe. While this may, at first glance, seem like a logistical nightmare and highly expensive for fans – it also throws up the exciting possibility that Ireland (should they qualify) may be able to play European Championship games on home soil. Uefa have confirmed that 13 different cities in 13 different countries will be...

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Leinster Colleges Football Draw

The draw for the quarter and semi finals of the Leinster Colleges Football Championship were made at Midlands 103's studios this evening Quarter Finals (Saturday 9th February)  Athlone CC V St Mary's Edenderry Marist, Athlone V Knockbeg College Colaiste Eoin V Good Counsel College St Peters Wexford V St Pats, Navan Semi Finals (Saturday 23rd February)  Athlone CC or St Mary's Edenderry V Marist, Athlone or Knockbeg College Colaiste Eoin or Good Counsel College V St Peters Wexford...

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Offaly team V Wexford

Offaly hurling manager Ollie Baker has named his starting 15 to play Wexford in the Bord na Mona Walsh Cup this Sunday afternoon  Kinnitty's James Dempsey is in goal, last year's captain David Kenny is full back with Pat Camon and David King in the corner back positions  Kevin Brady is centre half back, Derek Morkan is right wing back with Lusmagh's Sean Gardiner on the left wing  Dermot Mooney and Rory Hanniffy are in midfield  Shane Dooley is selected at...

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“The Hard Yards"

By Podge O’Donnell Sometimes maybe.. Being a big fish in a small pond can pay off! For me, the take away point from proceedings so far this week has to be that, playing rugby at the highest level is more important to where you play it.  This was evident, not only from Declan’s Kidney’s 39 man training squad named last week, but also, the team he has chosen to take on the English Saxon’s tonight. It was much speculated during the week that Connacht and Buccaneers Robbie Henshaw...

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Wedmesday morning headlines

SOCCER Donegal's Carl McHugh played his part as Bradford knocked Aston Villa out of the league cup to reach Wembley for next months Final. Villa won last night's semi final second leg 2-1 but Bradford won 4-3 on aggregate. That means the league two side are the first team from the fourth tier to reach a major final since 1962. Shay Given, Ciaran Clark and Stephen Ireland all started the game for Villa. Tonight Swansea host Chelsea in the second semi final second leg. The...

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