 Well it's a very good evening and welcome along to the score program for tonight coming up on the program in just a few moments time we'll be speaking to Mr Killian Duffy of on the pace notes as we look ahead to the Galway international rally. Brendan Kilcoins in studio we're going to preview this weekend's national football league action where of course the big game of the weekend from a Donegal point of view is coming from Healy Park in Oman Sunday. It's Donegal against Turul in the first of the big derbies of 2023. That match of course will be fully live here in Highland as from the two o'clock start on Sunday afternoon and we'll also be discussing women's soccer because it's a big period for women's football here in the northwest. There was a coaching workshop took place last night involving coaches and indeed numerous clubs from throughout the county and the FEI are coming to town next week as they will host the women's football conference here in Leonard Kenny. Paddy McDade who's head of women's football at Final Harps will be joining us on the show as well coming up later on in the program but we're going to start with motorsport because it is of course a very busy weekend. It's the start of the Irish rally at Tarmac championship where the the Galway international rally of course starts things off on Saturday and Sunday with two days of action taking place. Nine stages on Saturday six stages on Sunday and a bumper entry list to say the least far the Galway international rally. Fingers crossed we've got Killian Duffy on the line with us. Good evening Killian. We're not too bad Killian. Delighted to have you on the program. We haven't been speaking to you I don't think since June of last year. Oh no it's been a while right but the time has flown in and won't be long until next June again I'm sure. Yeah that's it. Well listen the the immediate thing for those that have an interest in this fascinating sport is of course the Galway international rally and as I said there Killian an absolutely stunning lineup for the first event of the year. A stunning lineup is for sure like it's it's just unbelievable. I think the only one really missing we'll say from top or five people that potentially could win the rally is Alastair Fisher but like the top 20 cars or five cars we've just I think a few less or five cars starting here than in Monte Carlo the first round the world championship like the competition the quality of the field here we've seen it as as they all say when Craig Breen came back in 2019 he didn't have it his own way so the Irish guys go as hard as as anybody on Irish roads and you know no matter where the driver comes from to race them like these guys are at the absolute top level of the sport and it's going to be a thrilling race it's it's going to be a tough event I think conditions are going to be quite favorable last year was was really really wet event but I think it's it might be slightly damp in the mornings and to start off but then it's going to be dry weather so it's going to be serious racing and it's very even hard to predict predict a winner and then you look back through the field and the class battles are fantastic like right right the whole way back through the field so it's it's more than just the race for the top five or ten positions as there's races for all the classes as well so I can't wait and I said it's going to be huge spectator numbers down there and with with anticipation of a great weekend ahead yeah how much pressure is there on the shoulders of Josh Moffat and Andy Hayes because these boys are going as the double championship winners from last year the one the national and the tarmac they're in a Hyundai i20 or five and they're the men to catch this year because they had a very impressive season last year how do you carry confidence into the following year or is there more pressure given that you're the champion do you feel Kelly I think he's that he's doing that much rallying Josh I don't think he feels huge pressure to be honest um like you know in rallying though it's a strange sport like you need you know although he had a great year last year he won you know both championships he was almost unbeatable um he was you know he played a real good game on several events he might mean quickest on every event but he was always there um you know he didn't have any great time lost didn't have any great moments he was picking up the points but like he had a lot of wins obviously as well that that he was um you know a fair bit ahead particularly in the national championship but I don't think so I mean he's not going to want to be there go to gollum and finish second probably in his own head he's still in the same car that possibly was outdated last year um you know compared to the the polos or the new Hyundai that his brother Sam is out in but um nonetheless like he's a lot of seat time he knows the car very well I mean Galway generally it can be shiny it can be slippy you know it's still going to be that way this weekend although it's not going to be wet uh full wet um but he knows the car quite well and particularly in those conditions it'll probably probably he'll start best I would say because as I said it's just he's so familiar with the car and what it's going to do in every type condition that it's going to be hard to bet against him to be honest yeah. Murray and Evans office is second in the championship last year starts at two Callum Devine who will be looking to impress in the polos at three Sam Moffatt, Desi Henry, Callum McCourt, Johnny Greer, Gary Jennings, Declan Boyle, Gareth McKeil the list goes on in relation to the to the Mount R5 cars but there's there's a lot of people enjoy seeing the R5s uh Killian but the entertainment category as we know is those two wheel drive modified cars and Galway can always throw up a couple of spins and a and a bit of entertainment but likes of Gary Kern and Kevin Eves, Jason Black, Connor Murphy they're all going to be ahead in the field we've ever mentioned that only goal men as well Mark Alcorn and and John O'Donnell but this is a class and this is a section of the rally that that people love so does Killian. Oh it's going to be a brilliant race as well I mean you know going back to it and and the you know people on form last year I mean Gary Kern and probably you know he showed great speed last year didn't show didn't have all the luck really you know he had a lot of um mechanical issues and so on throughout the year so I think he never really got into a real confident stride but like the pace Kevin Eves was on on several events last year obviously Clarny Asterix just the the last event that ran in 2022 but even in Galway last year before he went off his pace was just incredible um but again there's a dark horse coming there Jason Black he's got a new 2.5 engine in the car he used to be in the two liter class um so I wouldn't just discount him either I think it will take him maybe an event to get into the car to get used to the more power and what you know what it does um and again as I said Gala being slippy it's it's it's not the easiest to get used to a new car um but it's going to be a good race and Connor Murphy showed great form last year um in the Clarny Asterix and also in the Curry Winter stages so I mean there's so many people our match fit although the winter for the modified guys was a lot shorter than the R5 guys like a lot of the R5 guys happened rallied in five months almost um so I'd say there was a right bit of testing done over the last week with guys just to get up to speed but unfortunately the first stage of the rally was a really freaky stage 13.8 kilometers called Coldwood and I just seen a notification going out this evening that it now will start at location 10 so it's only half the length now which is a bit disappointing because it was such a challenging stage and it would have separated people very early on particularly people that woke up early um you know it's it's just under seven kilometers now um but the on the plus side of that is guys that probably have a bad stage at least have only had a bad seven kilometers they're not going to have a bad 14 kilometers but um yeah it's going to be all action in Galway and um it's going it's going to be great weekend hopefully yeah what's the rest of the stages like will a lot of these be familiar to these crews or have they decided to shake it up yeah like Galway because there's so so many you know road networks down there that you can run stages in opposite directions um like the stage there um three on saturday was ran in the direct opposite direction last year as stage two is like Brady's yard that would have been traditionally ran years ago but there's different twists in at different directions the first one Coldwood I don't remember doing it um in a long time and then uh it's on this stage the first one is the Black Road I think it's one that probably the most famous Galway stage but again they've really mixed it up there's a new start to last year there's a new finish from last year the middle is the same it was really really tricky the Black Road like there's a lot of choppy surface and and and run and water even in dry conditions on it and then the the last stage of the rally was used I think back maybe 15 16 years ago and that's it that's a real fast stage tricky at the start and then it turns into a real real fast stage um but I think like if there was a race on if someone had to get time it'd be on the first stage the Black Road Sunday morning if there was a race on because the next one there's only limited time to be gotten it yeah time for the plug you'll be there you'll be following all the action end of stages killing it's a big year for you because you're you're and obviously you do what you do in the Irish Tarmac Championship but you've been stepping it up in the national championship for the year as well yeah I mean we had some great racing in 2022 and unfortunately we had no show we'd know um you know after the event we'd no show to you know to to give us a summary of the event um and I sort of thought about it there for probably since halfway through last year and then I decided to to see about getting a team together to do a proper 30 to 40 minute show on the Friday night after each national championship round this the Triton showers championship um so I have my team together um you know it's some familiar faces on on the camera work of some new people involved in the editing it's sort of a new team and we sort of didn't want to bite off more than we chew so we're just concentrating on the eight runs the of the Triton showers championship this year but it's shaping up when we're hoping to make a good few um you know improvements to the whole thing and and and the look of it visually you know the the um you know the posters and and the winners and and just make it hopefully a bigger deal of it um we're really excited by it um I think it it's been lacking rally's been lacking it I mean we all look back at the motor sport Ireland videos of the rpm here and we could still watch any of them and um I'm not saying that we're going to be on rpm standard within the first event but certainly our plan to to have it you know to a very very high standard within a couple of events um you know there's always going to be you can always work to be better um but it's just the facebook live is great facebook live is fantastic for you know this weekend everyone will tune in saturday sunday and then monday crews that were doing the rally and watch back but you know it's it's difficult to scroll back through the screen and and it all to be um you know it's difficult to find it on on facebook you have to scroll down so that was got got me thinking um to get involved in the show so I approached the Triton showers championship and I said well what's the what's the chances of getting the show so it was there was a bit of two and a fro one there and I was trying to make a work obviously you know clubs championships they're all strapped for money so I mean I have have a lot of advertisers that from from over the years with facebook live so um I still have opportunities there for people to advertise in this show but I think once people see the first one I think it'll be it'll be even easier to to sell the advertising on it and to make to make it work and to make it cost effective both the championship and and the rallies um so yeah there's there's lots to look forward to it's um it's a it's a it's a it's a great year and um hopefully all the racing is is just as good as 2022 yeah so it's going to be a busy year you've got those programs and pieces for the national you're going to be there this weekend for the start of the tarmac championship but of course all roads are leading to donnie gall kill in it's always the big one come june yeah this is it this um I see amen amen has stood aside for the um for the donnie galls that's that's a pity I mean amen is I don't think there's a better club person in rally and the name McGee and the work he puts into it is just absolutely incredible like you could be in west quark you could be anywhere around the around the country and you will see him McGee so I mean whoever takes takes the place has a big job big role big shoes to fill and you know so hopefully hopefully we see him and involved in in in some way in the in the event because amen has a lot of support from around the country and as I said there's a lot of clubs that owe him favors for him traveling to events so hopefully hopefully it all all comes together and runs well for whoever takes it on okay who's your winner just finally then who do you think sunday uh and around air square a ticket the finish is going to be is it or and around the center of go I just got the connet connet hotel I think the ceremony starts tomorrow evening in air square so before I give the prediction I have to give a shout out to you three new listeners tonight to uh to lucy ben and Aaron they're tuned into Highland radio on their mother's phone here listening to this interview how you guys I think um it's hard to look uh I think it'll be there Josh Moffat or Callum Devine you know I think Sam is in the new high and I think it's going to be I think it's going to be a bit trickier you know he went to the modified last year so he's not just as much fit I don't think as the guys now I understood he has done two days testing but nothing makes up for seat time nothing makes up for rally time the feeling going out to that stage and the nerves you know from doing rallies and you know the more rallies you do the less nervous you are so I would predict for the overall win I'm going to say either Josh Moffat or Callum Devine I couldn't dare to pick the top three because that could be anyone from the top 20 really to be honest and then I would say in the modifies it's hard to look past Kevin Yves uh you know to be honest so it's going to be a great race I hope everyone can tune in on our on the personal Facebook page and uh yeah I can't wait I can't wait for Saturday morning it's an early start in Park Firm I think our first broadcast is at seven o'clock now rather than seven thirty so everyone's phones are going to be pinging for the weekend but we're well up for it yeah listen we're up for it too and we're looking forward to have a safe event killing in the best of luck with Galway and the rest of the year thanks very much Josh you mind yourself bye bye there you go that is Killian Duffy off on the pace note looking forward to what will be hopefully a busy weekend uh in Galway and have a safe one too right this is the score we're live across the northwest uh on air and we're live on our socials as well join us on facebook live and on youtube we're going to take a commercial break still to come on the program national football league gilly games plus we'll be talking dunigal women's soccer sport on highland is brought to you by michael murphy sports and leisure beat your personal best with new trainers from asics brooks and new balance or gear up for the gym with active wear 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latest yoga mats and blocks in store and online at michael murphy sports dot ie and you're welcome back to the score program here on highland time to talk a gillik football and i'm joined by one of our big match pundits and of course is brendan brendan you're welcome to the studio of highland once again good evening asheen so brendan uh week one done on the national football league uh what did you make a dunnig all's performance first of all last week ah yeah listen you'd have to say very encouraging it was we were somewhat worried in the first half at one six to three points down 20 minutes but i thought the lads wrote great resolve and clipped in with a few points before half time to give them a bit of hope going in at the break and come out in the second half i think and kicked four points in the bounce and you know i think i made a huge difference getting the crowd behind them the crowd got involved and they were engaged in the game then and you could feel the crowd feeding off the players and the players feeding off the crowd and that was enough to get them over the line and deservedly so and of course then we had the big finale with patrick super point at the end that we've seen the loop run coming in off the right wing left foot two or three passes and left foot over the bar and you know fantastic win and jack o'connor was a bit aggrieved by certain things like but dunnig all showed great resolve a lot of new players you know involved in the team and you know people saying kerry were short of good few which obviously they were you know when you take the two clifards and likes a gavin white paul ganey these kind of guys but by the same token dunnig all were short of good few players and regular stars there's a relatively new dunnig all team and you know you'd like some michael langan karen thompson rhyomy q one band these are all players that will automatically get into that dunnig all team you would imagine well that would have been the perception and so it was great to see the young fallacy some of the new guys come in the likes of mark kern you know coming in a corner back connor donnell wing forward has been a revelation but we've seen that recently with them and then you had keela mccolligan you know at wing back coming up and kicking two or three was three points he kicked you know showing great courage and great belief in himself to do that so it's it's brilliant for patty car and his management team and i'm delighted for them that they have got that bounce kind of thing because you know there was a lot of pressure that wasn't there do and brought on to them and to be able to get a win against the all ireland champions on your home soil it certainly gives the whole county a lift and you know even you go you're going to healy park next sunday with renewed hope and can you carry that bounce now under sunday or you have to carry that bounce into sunday you know with the realization that you know you're going to be making a brick wall and in in oma so yeah because torona reeling off the back of you know the risk common defeat and you know there were comprehensively beaten in the end but that said there were within kicking distance with two or three minutes to go and the two caution of the win and conceded a late goal but you know we were talking you know torona conceded six goals in their last two games three goals in the second half against risk common then you know i was watching you know i watched the highlights and i watched the game uh you know torona plenty of defenders back and you know if you're a coach on the sideline and you're seeing these kind of goals conceded particularly the first and the second goal the third goal you can kind of excuse because they were chasing the game they were kind of up the field at the time but like it was terrible defending on their behalf now there was a couple of moments of genius from end of smith at number 11 for a scum and like his ball into mirtha for the first goal was sublime it was fantastic and you know he was involved in all three goals integrally involved in all three goals but you're not happy if you're a toron if you're involved with toron and conceding them type goals and you know toron will be reeling after that so you know that might be a good thing for dunny gall but that's dunny gall's you know dunny gall have to get their own house in order and they will certainly you know the i think they will get a bounce from the way and i think they'll get confidence football is a lot about confidence and you know dunny gall should garner a lot of confidence out of been able to compete against the carries and you know carry at five at the all-erland winning team they brought on four or five subs that would have played in the all-erland and you know i think that's good for young fellas i think it's good for management it it means that the team can trust the process it makes training a more enjoyable place this week but yeah it's a big ask to go in now to home again next sunday too and if mistakes happen there has been mistakes but you expect them at this time of the year and phubba paddy car mentioned it during the mechanic company mentioned it mentioned it again last week i don't know what off that one six maybe one four maybe came from mistakes so it's what did in that first half when you go to somewhere like heli park and oma you'll be really really punished for it absolutely and you know the first 20 minutes dunny gall you know you're looking at them you're thinking what the hell is going on here i think there was six or seven unforced errors turnovers that gave the ball to carry came up the field and you know there were there were led to carry kicked in relatively easy scores and you know you look at the goal that they got um you know by no means and you know you have to mention sean patten his kickouts were absolutely fantastic the whole day but you know that's a second time in very short space of games that they've conceded a goal like that and that's something that other teams will be kind of looking at and will we allow them to take the short and then put the big press on and get it but is it not part of the rusting us to the time of the year brendan you can say that but it wasn't rusting us when it happened up in clonus last year asheen you know and you know sometimes you have to evaluate these things and you know they have to be stamped out because you can't carry on at this level in division one football you can't carry on given goals like that and you have to be more clinical getting the ball out of them areas and you know we have the best kicker in the game in sean patten you know he's the best kicker in my mind in the in the country now so he is and you know it's about yeah of course you have to avail of that short option but he also has a big boot in him and when we get some of these langans and thompson's back at it to connor adonnel in a half forward line thought darrow boiled it brilliant at number eleven two and the 40 last week for dunny goll kicked a couple of brilliant scores in the first half but they're the kind of tools that dunny goll need to be losing and using and getting the maximum out of because patten can ping them from 60 70 yards yeah what sort of performance then is it going to need from dunny goll on sunday if they were to make it two ones on the bounce which would be a phenomenal start in the league yeah and listen i think we're going to need to score more um you know up front you look at you know a lot of the scores were coming from further out the field i thought we did well enough in the middle of field keelan and jason megeed did well enough in the middle of the field jimmy brennan did brilliant carry in the ball out from defense at times and relieved a lot of pressure for dunny goll last sunday but there wasn't enough good quality ball go into that inside line and you need your inside line tipping in with good scores with three four points apiece maybe getting an odd goal and we never really you know in my mind we didn't threaten that last sunday because with the work and getting a good supply of ball inside the scores were coming from deeper and so we need to be more clinical up there we need to get try and get the ball into that full forward line because we know the quality we have we know that jimmy can get score patrick you know kick the win and score him is fantastic kind of thing but he got he got no he wasn't really in the game so he wasn't he wasn't getting the service and you know he knows patrick knows well coming up against these two own defenders they're going to be dogged they're not going to give him much space so we have to find a way to get these guys involved in the game more and obviously furgal logan and brian to her will be telling their sets of players listen it's not a good thing to start your league campaign with two defeats and particularly when you lose to your neighbours dunny goll big time yeah and you know there's such a rivalry but in top between tyrone and dunny goll over the last 20 years so that's and particularly over the last 10 12 years and you know it it's a big ask for dunny goll to go in there but that's where you're at in division one every game is a clinker every game is tight and you look at the margins last weekend between all the teams like every game nearly went to the wire kind of thing right you know dunny who kicked a point level for you know in a ferocious battle down west and our mac him out on top against her own and you know the rosy's then just held out against her rosy's held out against her own our mac him out against monahan so you know every point that you can pick up is going to be crucial in this league and you know it's a brilliant bonus because not many people would have given dunny goll a huge chance of getting two points but it's going to be a slog the whole way through every game is going to be a big ask and that's what you need that's what you want if you want to compete for honours later on in the year you need to be testing yourself you need to be finding out is this guy good enough to play in this position can we improve the way we're defending can we get the ball out can we transition quicker from defence and they are the questions that dunny goll to be looking for answers for over the next few weeks yeah what about the rest of the games carry against monahan you would expect carry at home to to get that one you would expect carry at home to be reeling after last weekend and you know jack o'connor was a happy camper after the match you know you're looking monahan they're in a period of transition you know you're looking the some fantastic footballers like in connor mcmanus and what you call them david garland kicked nine points for ucd last night he's not even on the squad from what i'm here and kind of things so they have a lot of quality there but i think that carry would have too much for them down and trolley yeah jack macarons jack macarons is the guy that is the name yeah that shouldn't seem to me gallway against ross common this one's going to be tasty so it is beating all our and finalists up against their neighbors and ross commons a bit like dunny goll now they're going to that game with a lot of confidence against the their neighbors so they will they will indeed and you know gallway will be kind of kicking themselves they had me open and only for round i don't know kick that late score last weekend but ross common will be going crest of a wave to play gallway they've had some huge battles over the last few years and you know there's at the minute you'd have to say that i'd fancy gallway to go through kind of thing you know cormor looks to be playing really well on the edge of the squares few the balls he caught in there last week were phenomenal came out the field one ball shone kelly is playing really well had a good cigarsan campaign so matthew tearney got the goal for them last weekend they still have players to come back obviously shame watch after playing they all earn a final club find there a couple of weeks ago still hasn't returned to the squad i think he's traveling for a bit but you would think that gallway are a team that i feel are going to go well this year yeah and are my against male male coming to the athletic grounds for this one yeah another clinker like you know and did a big battle down in the hide last year so they had if i remember rightly and me oh just came out on top but our ma would will feel that were hard done by that day they played really well they have a lot of quality like the some quality quality forwards like you take andrew mernin grogan you know o'neill you take uh stefan cambo rory grugan connor turbot like there's so much quality like these are all top top years for our ma massive massive and they're on you know again they've they've failed they've made huge progress which they have they've consolidated themselves in the division one we saw what they were capable of when they destroyed donnie galleary in the championship last year so massive year for them cair McGeaney has done a brilliant job you have to give him great credit it's you know he's stuck with the task when things weren't going with him it's going to be a big ask against the one ulster ulster who's going to will also you could pick you could throw a blanket around our mad erie to ron donnie galle monahan down are going to be a queer detail i would imagine too with new management that seem to have you know really up their game so they have lavary has made a massive difference to them up there they're playing with a bit of confidence again and a down team playing with confidence always have to be taken into consideration so there are so many teams out there any one of them are capable of winning it and i think we'll learn more as the league goes on but we'll not see the true extent of where these teams are at because teams have to try out a few things they have to try out players through the national league and that's a risky business in division one but if you can't if you can't sort of have a look at things that you want to do in this stage in the league you don't get a chance to do that later on yeah reports obviously link and jim mcginnis with training down as well with connor laverly sort of dampen them down we understand he may have taken a session but he's not part of the the management of the back room team but anyway moving into division two quickly mickey hartz louth lost by a point to claire last week it's their first home match but rory gallehor's coming to rd for this one but it's still the game you would expect derry to win ah you will jan you can see how tuned in and focused derry are like getting their glen boys back playing a week out from playing in our larlin club finally shows you the intent they have they you know they were far too strong obviously for limrick last week kicking 17 points against four you would expect there that rory gallehor's going to have these boys hoppin and you know they're one of their main intentions for the spring is to get back to division one and they're going to put another focus on that they know the dubs are in the division two you know so that's going to be a battle division two is very competitive this year mead have improved look pretty decent last weekend cork have improved kildare there so division two is really competitive too so rory gallehor's going to have a full focus over these number of weeks of course he's going to be trying new things and trying new players but he's going to have a full focus on getting his team to division one and i expect them to come with a victory against louth right if you were in commentary with me at heli park at home on sunday the first question about it one of the first question was asked you how's this one going to go today who's going to win it but you're not in commentary so i'm going to ask you that now brendan you're going to ask me anyway three or four days out yeah listen and donnie galle will take a lot of pleasure from you know from obviously from the victor of a carry but i think you know toron are going to be reeling from the from from the defeat against russ carman it's a huge ask i wouldn't rule out a draw so i wouldn't on sunday donnie galle are going to have to come with the same level and for the full 70 minutes because if they give the toron you know that kind of six point lead area in the game toron won't throw that up yeah okay listen brendan thanks for coming on and joining us tonight on the score brendan killed coin there with a look at the alliance national football league action and just to remind you once again toron against donnie galle uh on at heli park in almost sunday two o'clock so through one time we'll be live from 145 mark mccuse on commentary for the big one as the two neighbors collide early in the league elsewhere maxi curtains donnie galle ladies are in action there down in trolley at austin stacked park they are ticking on carry on saturday donnie galle still looking for their first one two defeats to start for donnie galle they now go to the kingdom there's a 12 noon start there it's very early on saturday for that one the troen ladies are also playing this weekend that is on sunday the fifth of february and they are away from home in division two as they play leash the new national hurting league division two b season gets up and running on saturday donnie galle have an opening tie against slaggle two o'clock is the throw in time at the adonal park tom comac will have updates here in highland from that game also this weekend in league action toroner playing london also in division two b that one starts later at seven on saturday and dairy are in action on saturday in division two a as they play carry so then we're going to go for a quick commercial break joining us in studio next is head of women's development at fun harps patty 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development at fun harps and is also the chairman of the uh ulster schools you're welcome to the studio patty thank you ashen are you not i'm not too bad patty good to have you in and it's good to talk about women's football because it's it's a busy period in the county for women's football before we talk about what's happening next weekend maybe you'll tell us how things have progressed because it was last year that it was announced that fun harps and the dunagall women's league and the any shown women's league had all all come together and it's to bring football into the future for dunagall obviously there's teams now in the national league at under 17 and under 19 level so how has i suppose that merger been since and how has women's football been developing in the county yeah i suppose in all aspects of the game there's lots of stuff going on um would it be ourselves at fun harps national league or whether it's in the local leagues in the schools a lot of positive going on i suppose it's all with the irish team qualifying for the world cup in australia next year too there's even more interest so that's all good stuff um it's been flat out to be honest we had loads of assessments um for the girls that weren't involved nationally before um so obviously the dunagall women's league had played for the last four years in the national league but now it matters with them and the shown women's league bringing us forward for the players in dunagall and the surrounding areas um but now it's been good we've 35 players between the under 17s and under 19s and so obviously i'll just point the girls to usheen but you know those girls are for the future as well and i would advise them never to give up and so we can build on in the future yeah there was a workshop held last night obviously with the aim of developing it developing women's football within the county and taking boxes ahead of this conference which is taking place next week and i'll be looking at the photographs that i've seen online on the socials uh that you had a good turnout for that is that the first of the workshop's party or is it sort of like a non-going thing that you've been hosting yeah they're having it throughout the country usheen so we're supposed they started with us which which was great for people in dunagall and it was an interactive workshop led by nilo reagan who is um is the head of coach education in irland and still take by trevor scanan too and and brian dorian and you know it was really really interesting uh you people there from all different walks um there'd be elite football there'd be schools football there'd be club football um players teachers parents even you know just just genuine interested in the development of women's football and a lot of good conversations um we actually had a good format for it where we actually had to try and work out the solutions first and then look at the problems so you know a lot of really good stuff looking at education for example the structures within the game the environment but all of it obviously leads back to the players themselves which is the most important thing that the players are being serviced and they've been looked after do you feel in that that you're mucking the strides uh for women's football in the county that you hoped at this stage so early on well that was one of the key things you had when we joined up with the allman's league and the showman's league was the pathway for the players was very important that the players knew that if they were joking up joining a local club and then they might play um county for the different leagues and whatnot playing the gainer cups and then progress to national league or also it's very important that and there we need to look on as well is the players have nowhere to go after say under 16s or something like that that we have to look at can we build the structures better for them because lots of players are still interested they might be at the league level but they still want to play football that's very important yeah from a fun harps point of view you're representing the county now under 17 and under 19 obviously preparations how have it been ahead of the league start when these get up and run them so our first game is the fourth and fifth of march so 17s are on the fourth and 19s kickoff on on the on the fifth um it's been a lot of work and we just started training actually last week which has been fantastic um myself personally just trying to secure sponsors things that got there um just quick shout out to our main sponsors like access construction hidden gallery um for under 19s we're still looking for main sponsor for under 17 so anybody listening to commercial at funharps.ie and we also have our um we've a sponsor michael hane so thanks to john and sander up in about michael hane's for the sponsorship and we also uh i'll pack away i was on the phone to john before i come up today so so we're still working on that we're also looking for player sponsorship so um an individual sponsor for each player so anybody is interested keep an eye on our social media account for that there as well i'll be much appreciate it because it's a big money to run it you know we're going to be down in cork we're going to be in gallway we're going to be in dublin and so on so we need all the help we can get you know yeah and i see next weekend as well uh paddy james scott he's under 17 arland manager is that right he's going to take a training session one of your teams james going to take um the majority of our 17s plus a few of our 19s for a session on the sunday morning um down at down in like a few another kenny and and it's great to get somebody like james scott and he's up in the county on time with the emergent talent he's no stranger to these parts um and and he's fantastic coach and he's really good around the gears and um our gears are going to get a great opportunity to show their skills in in front of people come from all over the country i mean i just got an email before come up here um there's a waiting list for this weekend so i'll tell you how much interest there is locally and nationally for this event yeah how did this all come about that the fea decided to hold their conference and let our kenny paddy um they have it throughout the country um so i suppose we're getting a return and i suppose they've recognized to that the efforts are they made up here um in the northwest um for gears football so um it's absolutely fantastic to get the opportunity and hopefully it's going to grow the game even more in this county and and nearby yeah what can we expect from the from the conference next week because obviously the senior team manager's coming very puke's going to be in in town in the there'll be a lot of interested people to see what the what these speakers are going to say and try to be given some advice or some direction from them yeah well very probably listen to her is excellent i'm just just giving really good advice and obviously likes of amber barrett karagrant rome mclaughlin working under them and um they're all obviously trying to make her squad for next summer so i'm really looking forward to her and what she's going to say i'm but she's really really progressive and really looks at the at the players um not just at the league level but she's also looking how can we develop them at underage level as well and uh just looking down through the list as well to see that listen there's various things in the workshop here maybe um patty you may tell us what what what else the talks are about because it's not just all about veer pute yeah well we have the director football come down mark cannon and i listened to him recently up in dublin i'm going to meet him up there for all the head coaches for the league of ireland and for the underage structures and um he is an english guy who who's been based over with the english fa for a while and has been some different clubs and he's played himself professionally so he was really interested i think he's really going to help football and are not just for women for men's football as well he's got some really really fantastic ideas so he's going to be very interesting as well for people up here um we also have um idin glacing we have orlahearn who is um a product of of nile oregon he was telling us last night he's um one of the few women who maybe had their license in 2016 have restructured the whole thing since then nile oregon has really driven um unbelievably um he was talking about female coaches having their license and stuff you know you've gone from maybe 10 in 2016 to over 300 currently so that just shows you how much has progressed not even for the players but also for women coaches as well which is really important i mean you can um it's hard it is really hard to get women's coaches and we talked about that last night and that was one of the main things was how how can we get people more and people interested what are some of the the hurdles that they were faced with so obviously things like um finance and work commitments and family obviously commitment is the big one so is there a big shortage there it definitely is yeah but there's definitely a trend and a lot more getting interested which is good so it's on the up hopefully yeah okay so lesson overall it's an exciting time for women's football and done a goal party there's a lot going on at the moment you can hear there you know and uh i was even at a schools game today you know and um from valet colleges i teach up there and and some of our first years today it was the first time we actually even played an organized game of football and i'm running with head boots shin couch looking for bits and pieces but you know what that means a lot to those girls and that's what's about it's back to the player and them getting the experience whether it be the elite level or will be the grassroots level we need to look after all these girls get them playing football okay listen paddy we we appreciate calling under the studio this evening to join us here on the score and we wish you and everybody involved in women's football the very best and uh enjoy the conference next weekend we make it speaking to somebody maybe from uh from the fei next thursday but it's a big event it's a good one to have in the county and i'm sure everyone will enjoy it thanks appreciate it thank you cheers there you go that's paddy mcdayd who is head of women's development at and harps talking about women's football and of course that conference which is coming out next week against the weekend after it's the 11th and 12th okay we'll take another quick commercial break we'll have more on the score after these sport on highland is brought to you by michael murphy sports and ledger you'll find everything you need to stay motivated this year in store and online with free next day delivery on orders over 85 euro at michael murphy sports dot jump 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of the other football fixtures soccer wise in the northwest this coming weekend it's the sixth round of the irish senior cup and just one of the northwest sides is an action and that is institute the dairy side are taken on baliclair comrades that game is on saturday afternoon while in the league championship derg view are on the road on saturday as they play donnella there is of course a program of games taking place saturday and sunday in the donnelly gall junior league some of the standout games in group b of the brian mccormick cup in the leirikini area rathmore and seltick's playing fanat united at 7 30 on saturday and in the the ulster junior cup i'll just correct myself that game of fanat and rathmore and seltick is actually friday tomorrow night friday the third then on saturday there's an ulster junior cup fixture it's a quarter final castle finseltick are away to monah and town that game starts at 5 30 on saturday the winners will play alia in the semi-final the draw of course was met last night the winners that game will take on any shown opposition there's also games in division one and division two of the donnelly gall junior league on saturday moving on to sunday there's a limited program there is another brian mccormick cup game in group b of the gedoree area kill mccrannan seltick are playing kj rovers there's also a handful of games to take place in the likes of division one just one game in division two and on the top flight is capri rovers against saint catherine's there's a full program of matches down in and shown on sunday eight game or eight teams involved in four ties in the premier division among them the leaders maval seltick are taking on a cock hill youths there's also games in division one and division two as well it's going to be a busy weekend two on the athletics front on saturday in boston the new balanced grand prix two fin valley athletes will be competing mark english and roshine flanagan will be competing in the 800 and the 3000 meters and crampfords kealan mcfadden is going to be running stateside this weekend as well he's in boston too and he will be taking on the junior international mile then on sunday two dunagall clubs are in spain for the european club cross country championships letter kinny ac are competing in the senior women while fin valley will race in the junior women and there's also national masters indoor championship action on sunday afternoon in athlone so certainly a very busy weekend on the athletics front and as always patsy mcgonagall will be keeping us up to date with all the action there and that is it from the score program for tonight if you missed any of the show you will of course be able to recap on the sports section of our website our next bulletin is tomorrow morning after the 30 news with priss ashmore don't forget our feature match this weekend dunagall against tarot and hilly park and oman sunday starts at two full-life match commentary here on highland what's left of your thursday enjoy and have a good one