Oranmore

Uh, looking at the intermediate semifinals, it's Menlough versus An Spideal, um, at 3:00 Saturday in Tuam Stadium.

It's a double header with the other intermediate semifinal, Caltryran, uh, versus Oranmore Maree.

Uh, Menlough An Spideal previously met, um, in the group.

Um, is it, is it a bit of a sore one to look ahead, Fiach? Obviously you were, Menlough did dump you out of the championship.

And we're probably seeing a different side to his game.

Probably one of his biggest strengths is man-marking, and probably hasn't been doing that yet.

He's probably going forward more so than, and we could probably see that probably against a Menlough, Calasran or an Oranmore.

Does Lons Spiddal's experience here just edge it, Diarmuid?

I have no doubt when I talk to your counterpart, Niall Armstrong, he'd be correcting me about saying you're slight underdogs because you did beat them and beat them well in the group stages, 127 to 114.

What can you take out with that game, or is it more what you would've seen from their semifinal against Oranmore Marie that will help your preparations?

Yeah, probably more from the semifinal against Oranmore Marie, to be very honest.

You know, um, look, uh, regarding that, um, that game, um, earlier on in the year, um, look, uh, we came out on top of it.

It was a great game of hurling, to be honest.

Yeah, they certainly will be as well, and we'll have more from Paddy Duggan on our website, galwaybam.ie, in a while.

Now let's hear from the Clarence Bridge manager, Niall Armstrong.

Uh, he will, will know a few of them, uh, from w- teaching in Carlos Sanchez College in Oranmore where he got them to an All-Ireland final before.

It's, and like two really good teams, and two teams will be looking at this and like, "Hmm, you know, okay, get over this and we can, we have a real, we have a real chance." Uh, I suppose for Sarsfields, like, you know, it shouldn't be underestimated, that group that they, or underestimated, sorry, that they, of the group that they topped.

You know, you're looking at Thomases, Oranmore, Mary and Castlegar there, uh, to top that, you know, group of eight is, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's no mean feat.

Um, like, they've been knocking on the door at these stages for the past four years.

Like, it's what, like semifinals in '22 and '23, and quarterfinals in '24 and '25.

There's Rim Cup's, uh, semifinalists as well.

Obviously the second teams, um, in there now.

Um, just given with the Premier Junior teams all first teams, Sarsfields and Atonry, 4:15 on Saturday in Climer, followed by Loughrea and Oranmore Mahon at 6:00 in Climer.

Double header there on Saturday.

On Saturday alone, we reckon about maybe 600 people turned up here altogether.

We had rescue services from Wexford, Waterford, Cork, Killarney, Donegal, Meath, Louds, literally Galway, Oranmore, just all over the country, these people giving up all volunteers, giving up their free time to come and try and help us bring Kyle home.

But it has absolutely been phenomenal.

And we're sort of tasked with, as the sort of coordinators of the operation, we're sort of tasked with looking after the safety of all of these people.

And then when they got to adult age, then they had to go and find a club.

So they went to Oranmore or they went to Monavale, like Climac Dade, you know, and or St. James's or Loch Ray or other clubs like that.

So now they have done Kellingales, you know, they have that to aspire to as an adult team.

Yeah, and I suppose as success comes, maybe some of those players might even come back into the fold as you go up the age groups.

we

started with the under 10 girls because, believe it or not, there's a lot of girls around this area who play Gaelic football, but they play with other clubs.

They've gone to like Oranmore, Monavay, Loch Ray, places like that.

So they're already playing there.

I'm just gigging then.

I'll be doing a wee mini tour, as I say, and then also doing It's a Wonderful Life, mostly, at Oranmore again this December.

So for any fans of It's a Wonderful Life, come on down and see it.

It's a very loving homage.

Wow.

and your show when was that again 14th of March 14th of

March yeah it's a Sunday at Oranmore

Oranmore yes and you're doing two back to back