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This Easter weekend is of pivotal importance in the young football careers of the U21s from both Westmeath and Roscommon. Both counties will contest their respective provincial finals at a time when football in each county is crying out for a lift. To win on Sunday would further enhance the growing reputation already being forged by quite a few representatives of each side and offer hope of better days to come at senior level in the future.

Paul Bealin has put his name forward for the vacant Dublin football job after quitting as Carlow manager on Monday night after just one year.

Luke Dempsey is being linked with the vacant football management job in Carlow.

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Carlow GAA are busy putting team management’s in place for the coming year. Dublin man Tom McKiterick will coach the under 21 footballers while Sean Adamson who has done Trojan work training the county minor football teams, will train the under 21 side. Jim Bolger, Dan McInerney, and Breffni Hannon, will act as selectors.

For the Kerrys, Dublins, and Tyrones of this world success is measured in all-Ireland titles. Provincial honours are little more than a stepping stone to greater things. It is hard to explain to somebody from the counties mentioned above exactly how much winning a first ever senior provincial title meant to the players and people of the Lake County.

Last week I wrote about the remarkable record and tradition that Éire Óg have established in both the Carlow championship and at Leinster and All Ireland level. Well on Sunday last, they began yet another club championship campaign in familiar fashion. An opening round win against Wicklow’s Kiltegan was the first step on what will hopefully be a long road. While the final victory margin was only four points, in truth it was a much more comfortable victory than this might suggest. A very strong first quarter set the foundation for this victory with one of Éire Óg's bigger names to the fore in this period. Simon Rae was back to his sparkling best in this opening quarter and was heavily involved in the opening up of a 1-4 to no score lead in the opening quarter. Indeed when Mark Kelly got the vital touch to a speculative Ber Hennessy ball for the first of his two goals, it looked ominous for the Wicklow champions. To their credit however, they fought their way back into the game and they scored the next four points to leave just a goal separating the sides. Éire Óg weathered this storm well with a pivotal moment being a great save by Michael Hennessy which prevented the Wicklow men drawing level. From this point, the Carlow champions demonstrated their ruthlessness and big game know-how by engineering the second goal of the game in first half injury time when Mark Kelly doubled his own goal tally for the day by finishing a full length move to the corner of the net. This gave them the cushion they needed and despite Kiltegan's best efforts, the margin never dipped below four points. Rae was again influential in the second half, scoring two fine points himself and setting Eric McCormick up for his side’s ultimately decisive, third goal. This was a good performance from the Carlow champions given that they had only won their own championship the previous Sunday. It's never easy to begin another campaign so soon after winning your own championship, but if there is one club capable of doing it it's Éire Óg.

More than 400 guests are expected to attend the 19th Carlow GAA awards presentation which will be held on Saturday December 6 at the Dolmen Hotel at 7.30pm. Sixteen individuals will be honoured for their outstanding contribution to Cumann Luthchleas Gael. There are six special awards up in recognition for outstanding work taking place in schools, organisations and clubs.

For the Kerrys, Dublins, and Tyrones of this world success is measured in all-Ireland titles. Provincial honours are little more than a stepping stone to greater things. It is hard to explain to somebody from the counties mentioned above exactly how much winning a first ever senior provincial title meant to the players and people of the Lake County.

For the Kerrys, Dublins, and Tyrones of this world success is measured in all-Ireland titles. Provincial honours are little more than a stepping stone to greater things. It is hard to explain to somebody from the counties mentioned above exactly how much winning a first ever senior provincial title meant to the players and people of the Lake County.