Leinster GAA plan membership ultimate double invoice in Croke Park

Leinster GAA is planning a membership soccer/hurling double invoice for Croke Park on the primary weekend of December however will likely be trying considerably anxiously at developments in Dublin and Kildare this weekend.

aas are bidding for back-to-back Kildare senior soccer/hurling doubles once they play Clane in Sunday’s soccer ultimate.

Their hurlers have already gained a fourth successive Kildare title – with an eight-point ultimate win over Maynooth final week – and at the moment are bidding to additional cement their authority within the county.

However after profitable the All-Eire intermediate title final February, Naas will now play within the Leinster senior membership championship the place they may very well be joined by their soccer counterparts within the weeks forward.

Naas play Shinrone, newly topped Offaly champions, in a quarter-final subsequent month with the winners then enjoying the Kilkenny champions or newly topped Westmeath champions Castletown-Geoghegan. The crossover of gamers is restricted although hurling captain Brian Byrne and James Burke stay concerned in each groups.

Double pursuit can also be effectively and actually alive in Dublin with Kilmacud Crokes and Na Fianna already by way of to the soccer ultimate and their hurlers concerned in semi-finals this weekend.

Crokes and Na Fianna contested final 12 months’s Dublin hurling ultimate which Crokes gained after extra-time and the champions play Ballyboden St Enda’s with Na Fianna assembly Cuala.

There may be solely minimal crossover between the senior soccer and hurling groups in each golf equipment, Conor McHugh and Donal Ryan sharing the load in Na Fianna, Brian Sheehy doing the identical with Crokes.

In Meath Ratoath are additionally pursuing senior success on each fronts with the footballers reserving one other ultimate towards Summerhill on Sunday week.

Earlier than that plenty of their gamers have a hurling ultimate with Trim, although the Meath champions should not within the Leinster senior membership championship.

The issue for Naas, Na Fianna, and Kilmacud Crokes in progressing on each fronts in all probability makes Leinster’s plans for a finals double invoice comparatively secure, greater than doubtless on a Sunday afternoon.

Leinster GAA additionally intends enjoying the membership senior hurling and soccer semi-final in Croke Park due to the understanding the venue holds towards opposed climate.

Doubles are nonetheless alive in three Munster counties, Clare with Éire Óg Ennis, Cork with St Finbarr’s and Tipperary the place Upperchurch-Drombane have been blazing a path, beating champions Loughmore-Castleiney, who in fact did the Tipp double in 2021 with nearly the identical group of gamers, in final weekend’s soccer semi-final, whereas they meet Kilruane McDonaghs within the hurling semi-final subsequent weekend. Of their respective quarter-final wins lately they’d 16 gamers concerned in each.

The ’Barrs have twice completed the double in Cork, 1980 and 1982, and have been common finalists when on the peak of their powers and have now made it again to each Cork finals for the primary time since 1993 with 5 gamers doubly engaged.

Ireland Óg have a hurling semi-final towards Sixmilebridge this Sunday with a soccer semi-final the next weekend as they search to place back-to-back titles collectively.

In Ulster Derry’s Slaughtneil are seasoned double champions and after selecting up a tenth successive hurling county title they’re within the combine for a soccer title with a semi-final towards Lavey arising.