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Antrim’s greatest team. The Antrim team who won the All Ireland Under 21 Football title in 1969, beating Roscommon in the final at Croke Park.
We launched the site back in May 2017 after two local papers which we worked for and who carried fairly extensive GAA coverage folded. After a discussion John and I came up with the idea of an online GAA forum dealing specifically with Gaelic games in Antrim in order to promote those games within our county and so the Saffron Gael was launched. Post it for desktop mac.
In the eight months we were in publication in 2017 we had 724,728 views on the site. In 2018 we had 1,373,793 views, in 2019 we had 1,638,846, in 1920, despite a reduced season we had 1,617,956 views and this year to date we have 166,459 views and we’re confident when the season commences we will match the numbers of previous years, further evidence that the site is extremely popular with Gaels in Antrim .
The site has had over 5,500,000 views to date which proves that there is a massive interest in what we are doing in Antrim and indeed much further afield.
In 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 we carried reports and photographs of the majority of ACF League and ACH League games and covered every hurling and football championship game played in Antrim and followed the winners of those championships on their Ulster journey. Last year there was no Ulster or All Ireland club series but hopefully that will resume in 2021 and if it does we will be there to bring you coverage. We extended our coverage to the Camogie and ladies football championships and will endeavour to cover as many championship games this year as is physically possible.
As you may gather such coverage is time consuming and involves quite a large team of photographers and reporters which in turn incurs a lot of expense. We are extremely grateful to clubs who have made donations to the Saffron Gael to date. Many of those clubs again donated in 2018, 19 and 20 and have pledged support again this year.
Today we make a special appeal to clubs who have not made a donation this year to do so. Your financial support is vital as we endeavour to continue our coverage of everything GAA related in the Saffron County.
GAA presentation evenings provided an excellent opportunity to make your donation to the Saffron Gael but with those cancelled in recent years we would ask you to contact us directly wto make your donation.
Again you can contact us and we will arrange to receive your donation at a time and occassion to suit you but we can’t emphasise enough the importance of your financial help.
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As with the clubs who have weighed in behind us with financial assistance, we extend our gratitude to those businesses who have given their financial support and without this support we quite simply could not continue.
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With the 2021 season on hold to date we have been busy publishing featured games from the past and we have already brought you a feature on the football managers from all three divisions for the coming season. We hope to bring you a similar feature on hurling management at our clubs soon and we would ask clubs to send us their hurling management teams for 2021
We do not want to put the sites content behind a ‘pay wall’ and feel it should be kept available to all GAA fans in the county and beyond. However we would appeal to those regular readers to contribute to the project by simply donating as little as £5 per month through the Pay/Pal donate button. That works out at £1.25 per week which we feel is very good value for money, considering the amount of coverage of our games that are available on the site. If you feel your club is not getting the coverage it deserves I would appeal to you to get in touch with your club PRO and ask them to get on board with this project. We endeavour to cover as many games as possible but it is not possible to get around them all so we welcome any content that is sent to us.
With Championship fever well underway in Antrim despite these uncertain times we are facing, there are huge stakes up for grabs in the Senior Hurling and Football quarter-finals this weekend.
On Saturday August 29th the Bathshack Senior Hurling Championship continues as the quarter-finalists of Naomh Eoin, Naomh Gall, Rossa and Cushendall look to book their ticket into the last four.
While on Sunday August 30th and Tuesday September 1st, the quarter-finals of the Northern Switchgear Senior Football Championship will get underway with Creggan, Naomh Eanna, Lamh Dhearg, Aghagallon, Cargin, Rossa, St Galls and Portglenone in the mix.
Naomh Gall v Naomh Eoin – Saturday August 29th
In our first game St Johns will take on local neighbours St Galls at the ‘Bearpit’ in Sarsfields with a 4pm throw-in. In Group One the Johnnies finished second behind last year’s county champions Dunloy on three points with a narrow 0-20 to 1-16 victory over Rossa in their opening game, then a draw away to Ballycastle and defeat at home to table-toppers Dunloy was how things stood.
While their opponents St Galls who reached the All-Ireland Intermediate final in 2018, finished third in Group Two with a 2-17 to 0-12 win over St Endas and suffered two losses to Loughgiel and Cushendall in their two-final round-robin games. This match has all the local bragging rights and huge permutations for who will get one last chance to continue their club championship journey for 2020!
O’Donovan Rossa v Ruairí Óg Cushendall – Saturday August 29th
O’Donovan Rossa square off with 2018 All Ireland semi-finalists Ruairi Og Cushendall to see who will progress in this year’s championship.
Naomh Éanna in Hightown will be the host for the game and there is no bigger task for Rossa who go into this tie as underdogs. Colly Murphy’s men will relish this occasion and can count themselves very unlucky not to top Group One. On the opening day they suffered a narrow one-point defeat to neighbours St Johns, they then drew 1-15 to 0-18 at home against Dunloy in a highly controversial finish. The Rossa men travelled up to the North Coast of Antrim and came away with a massive 4-14 to 1-15 win over Ballycastle on Sunday August 23rd. While Cushendall who have become the benchmark for Antrim Hurling, racked up the scores in Group One to prove their championship quality. Led by talisman Neil McManus they beat Ballycastle in the opening round 1-15 to 0-9 at Pairc MacUilin. With Sambo McNaughton back at the helm, they got their second win with a 2-16 to 1-8 win over Rossa at Ruairi Og. In their final group game a solid 5-27 to 0-5 win over Ballycastle had ‘The Dall’ set up nicely for the commence of the next round which throws-in on August 29th at Sarsfields in Belfast.
Live updates will be available on the Official Antrim GAA Twitter page.
LamhDheargv St Mary’sAghagallon – Sunday August 30th
Turning our attention to Sunday August 30th at 2pm, when Lamh Dhearg face St Mary’s Aghagallon in the first game of the Northern Switchgear Senior Football quarter-finals.
The Hannahstown outfit topped Group One with six points and are unbeaten in three games. These wins came from a 1-11 to 0-11 win over St Johns in Round One, a 2-9 to 1-9 victory over Rossa and 3-9 to 0-9 win over St Johns again.
Lamh Dhearg will be hopeful to take Cargin’s crown from them this year and with Antrim Football captain Declan Lynch leading the charge will fancy their chances. The Red Hands were beaten by Rossa in their final group game but already have one eye on the next round.
While in Group Three of the Senior Football Championship, St Marys Aghagallon currently sit second on six points but will face an almighty test this Sunday. In their group Aghagallon recorded a 1-13 to 0-12 win over St Brides, they suffered a three-point defeat to last years Senior Football Champions Cargin. They then racked up wins over Glenavy, St Brides but tasted narrow defeat to Cargin by a single point again.
Live updates will be available on the Official Antrim GAA Twitter page.
Creggan v Naomh Eanna – Sunday August 30th
The 2017 Senior Football Championship finalists Creggan take on the 2019 All-Ireland Intermediate finalists Naomh Eanna on Sunday August 30th at 2pm in Dunsilly.
Creggan Kickhams finished top of Group One on six points with wins over Portglenone and Aghagallon respectively to put them in pole position to progress.
Meanwhile in Group Four Naomh Éanna finished second behind St Galls on a points difference. A 0-13 to 2-4 victory over Gort Na Mona kick-started their championship season. This was followed with a huge two-point win over St Galls in their second game, but a three-point loss was suffered to St Galls in the reverse fixture.
Cargin v O’Donovan Rossa – Tuesday September 1st
The final two quarter-finals ties see last year’s senior champions Cargin travel to Ahoghill to take on Rossa with a 6.45pm throw-in.
Cargin have been absolutely flawless in Group Three winning all their games and finishing with a mighty 12 points. They beat Glenavy 3-14 to 0-4 in the opening round, and followed this up with wins over Aghagallon and St Brides as well as securing each reverse fixtures points. The current and defending county champions are certainly a team on red-hot form.
Their opponents Rossa go into this contest with confidence after their recent 0-16 to 1-11 win over Lamh Dhearg, and drawing to local neighbours St Johns twice in the round-robin. Can Rossa be the under-dog team to halt Cargin’s charge to lift another SFC title?
Naomh Gall v Portglenone – Tuesday September 1st
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The final semi-final spot will be up for grabs between St Galls and Roger Casements Portglenone on Tuesday September 1st. St Galls overcame a tough Naomh Eanna side 1-11 to 1-08 coming away with the vital points to currently sit top Group Four. Along the way they beat Gort Na Mona by 10 points, but suffered defeat to their Hightown counter-parts.
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The band is back together for St Galls who look to kick on in this year’s championship. Their opponents Portglenone aren’t strangers to big games. Who can forget their epic trilogy with Lamh Dhearg in last years competition? Casements haven’t really hit their heights of last year, they lost their opening game by three points to St Marys Aghagallon, tasted defeat again by three points to Creggan but smashed Aghagallon in the reverse fixture 4-13 to 3-7. A narrow two-point win over Creggan boosted their championship dreams with the knock-out round approaching next week.
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The Antrim Senior Football and Hurling Championship will hope to bring the spark that fans have seen in last years’ competitions. Who can book their spot into the last four and take one step closer to lifting the coveted championship trophies for 2020?