As well as rounding up the games played across the county we get post match reaction from some of the players and managers involved in games across the weekend. That includes Paul McGuire (6:22) of Gortletteragh who spoke to Deniese O'Flaherty after their victory over Leitrim Gaels.

Seamus Gallagher caught up with Seamus Mallon (48:50) of Bornacoola and Richard McTiernan (46:59) of Drumkeeran after their clash as well as JP Kane (38:21), manager of Ballinaglera after their defeat to Dromahair.

Peter O'Reilly spoke to St. Mary's manager Dennis Connerton (15:50) after they defeated Melvin Gaels in Kinlough last Saturday evening.

After Kiltubrid's victory over neighbours Aughnasheelin, goalkeeper Noel Gill (27:04) spoke to Breifne Earley about his late match winning save.

Finally in the Ladies Football Championship, St. Francis manager Paul Martin (55:55) spoke to Seamus Gallagher after their opening day victory over Mohill.

We also feature reaction from JP Kane (25:44) and Martin McHugh () react to the clash between Ballinaglera and Aughnasheelin in the Intermediate Championship last weekend.

Martin McGowan (32:16) enjoyed a welcome relief to the games for Allen Gaels after two heavy defeats for the side in the opening rounds. He was on commentary duty for Ocean FM at the weekend covering the Leitrim Gaels V Melvin Gaels clash and he gives his views on the championship campaigns so far.

Aidan Rooney who's co-hosting with show with Breifne this week gives his thoughts on the games played last weekend having been at the Glencar / Manor game and previewing the games ahead for this weekend.

Finally we hear from some of the teams preparing for the first round of games in the Gotham Drywall Ladies Football Championships this Sunday morning with County Board Secretary, PJ Ryan (63:27) outlining the slight change to the Senior Football Championship.

We hear from Mellissa Hewitt (68:28) of Glencar Manorhamilton, Katie Duignan (71:01) of Ballinamore Sean O'Heslins, Elaine McGovern (74:15) of St. Josephs, Stephanie Reynolds (76:17) of St. Francis, Charleen Tyrrell (79:08) of Mohill, Shaylyn Ward (82:54) of Keeldra Gaels & Roisin Smith (86:09) of Fenagh St. Caillins.

Derek Kelleher caught up with Paul Maguire and Jack Heslin after Gortletteragh secured the Intermediate Championship on Sunday and confirmed their promotion to the Senior grade for this years Senior Championship. Derek also spoke to Annaduff manager Joe Cox after the game.

Seamus Gallagher is joined by Aughavas player Seamus Sweeney and manager Fintan McBrien as well as Cloone manager Enda McGann after Aughavas lifted the Junior Championship trophy after the neighbours clashed on Saturday evening.

Adrian Dockery joins Aidan Rooney and Breifne Earley for a chat ahead of the Leitrim minor's campaign which starts this evening in Sligo with the reward of a Connacht Final ahead for the victors.

Aidan, himself a former Sligo minor manager, gets in depth with Adrian about how preparations have been going in the Leitrim camp, with covid issues dominating the headlines.

We finish the show with a sneaky look forward to the opening rounds of the Senior Championship with throw-in in just over a week's time.

Derek Kelleher is proudly waving his Gortletteragh colours on the show this week as he previews the 2020 Intermediate and Junior Championship Finals which take place this weekend.

Leitrim Ladies manager Hugh Donnelly discusses the season so far for the ladies county senior side with their group top spot confirmed with their comeback victory over Clare last weekend. He discusses the impact of positional changes and the top scoring of former county goalkeeper Michelle Guckian, late sending off incidents against Clare and how the Ladies turned around their Championship form after a hugely disappointing 2020 campaign.

Derek chats about the Intermediate final with the rumours and mind games circulating both camps ahead of the Annaduff V Gortletteragh rematch from last years championship as well as taking a sneak peak at the Junior final and the club league finals scheduled for this weekend.

They chat about the planning and plotting for new performances in the centre after the cancellations of most of their programme for the last 16 months. Sarah discusses their focus for the last year or so during lockdown with investing in artists, commissioning work and remote collaborations with some local talent.

Sarah also discusses the development in the old courthouse building to accommodate the arts long into the future in the town and the new outdoor space which has been added to the facility.

Sarah and Mary also chat through the upcoming schedule of events for the next few weeks in the venue.

They chat about his experience of growing up in rural Ireland, making inroads in the food export in the middle east, far east and North America and dealing with the wonders of the communication technology in the 1970's and 1980's.

Noel discusses his experience of being drafted into the US Army and almost getting dragged into the Cuban Missile Crisis a matter of weeks before his scheduled discharge after his two years of service.

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They chat about his love of the Irish language and his work promoting the language in Ballinamore. They touch on his involvement with the promotion of gaelic games and specifically hurling as well as other cultural activities through scór.

Tommy and Sean reminisce about their shared experiences threading the boards as part of the All Ireland winning Novelty Act with Sean O'Heslins.

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Co Hosts Derek Kelleher and Breifne Earley discuss the footballers chances in what is deemed to be a mismatch by most pundits on Castlebar on Sunday and what's required of this bunch of players to have the game judged a success from the Leitrim point of view.

Terry Hyland drops in to chat about the preparations for the side, he discusses injuries and the absences from the panel. Hyland talks about the impact of rule changes, covid and lack of time on his side's planning for this Connacht Semi Final.

He details his thoughts on where Leitrim need to focus in the medium to long term to be competitive on a consistent basis but wasn't to be drawn on his own medium to long term plans in the role.

Within the county We take a look at the Masonite Football Leagues and former Leitrim captain Gary Reynolds joins us to discuss his Carrigallen sides draw in Gortletteragh on Saturday evening as they prepare for the start of the Smyth Monumentals Intermediate Football Championship in just a few weeks time.

A former school teacher, chairman of Connacht GAA, long serving secretary of Leitrim GAA, formerly editor and current chairman of The Leitrim Guardian and veteran of countless drama productions amongst many other interests we felt he was the perfect person to share stories of interesting people around the county.

We asked and he answered and starting today he's going to be inviting some of the people around the county to join him on this weekly show. You can follow the show on Youtube, Spotify or join our Facebook group to get the latest episodes direct to your phone, ipad or computer.

Tommy's first guests are current Leitrim Person of the Year award winners Peter McHugh and Andy McGovern. The pair were nominated for the prestigious honour as part of their work for the Leitrim Association of People with Disabilities (LAPWD) over the years.

Andy McGovern is a novelist who is the old living person with Motor Neurone Disease having been diagnosed with the disease in the 1970's. Peter McHugh suffered a stroke while working at his tractor on his farm and lost his left arm after falling and getting entangled with the tractor shaft. Both men have been hugely influential in the development of LAPWD.

Former Connacht Champion Aidan Rooney (1:22) joins Breifne Earley to work through the last week including Sligo’s defeat to Mayo, Leitrim’s opponents in the upcoming Connacht Championship semi final before previewing Leitrim's chances in that game.

Maeve Quinn (13:43) joins the conversation to look back at the LIDL Ladies Football League Division 4 Final defeat to Louth and where Leitrim go from here with the Championship starting with a home clash with Fermanagh in the coming weeks. We also hear after match reaction from Leitrim Ladies captain Clare Owens (20:36) and manager Hugh Donnelly (23:50).

Leitrim Hurling manager Olcan Conway (32:36) speaks to Breifne ahead of his side’s opening Nickey Rackard Cup clash with Mayo this Saturday in MacHale Park, Castlebar. He discusses the injury situation at the moment in the squad and the competition format and what’s required for Leitrim to reach a Semi Final spot and ensure survival at this grade.

Within the county the Masonite Football Leagues continue and we catch up with Conor Sheridan (41:46) of Melvin Gaels and Niall Woods (52:19) of Gortletteragh after their wins last weekend over Leitrim Gaels and Allen Gaels in the top two divisions of the competition.

Aidan and Breifne finish the show with a look at the fixtures (63:29) for next weekend across the sports within the county's leagues and the hurlers and U20 footballers.

The club’s host Mary Blake is joined by retired librarian Hilda King, Orlagh Kelly of The Reading Room Bookshop in Carrick on Shannon and Michael Geoghegan to work their way through this first full length novel from the winner of The Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award.

This will be the last episode of the Book Club for this season as the panel take a summer break.

You can get all books covered in the series from The Reading Room Bookshop in Carrick on Shannon. Contact Orlagh at 071 9671580. You’ll even get 10% off the book when you mention the Book Club @ Leitrim Daily.

About ‘Shuggie Bain' by Douglas Stuart.

It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and soon she and her three children find themselves trapped in a decimated mining town. As she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves. It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest.

Shuggie is different. Fastidious and fussy, he shares his mother’s sense of snobbish propriety. The miners’ children pick on him and adults condemn him as no’ right. But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place.

Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. A counterpart to the privileged Thatcher-era London of Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty, it also recalls the work of Édouard Louis, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, a blistering debut by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important story to tell.

Aidan Rooney (2:30) takes a look back at some of the lessons learned from the winless route through Division 4 of the National Football League last month and where our senior side are currently ahead of a crunch Connacht Senior Championship Semi Final clash in just four weeks time.

We catch up with Leitrim Ladies (16:59) footballers Carla LeGuen (21:25), Charlene Tyrell (21:52) & Ailbhe Clancy (23:01) as they take on Limerick in the Semi Final of Division 4 of the Lidl National Ladies Football League on Sunday afternoon.

County Board secretary Declan Bohan (36:24) joins us to outline the format for the Masonite Football Leagues which kick off in a week's time for ten clubs with the remainder joining the action the following weekend.

Finally Daniel Beck (46:20), the captain of the reigning Championship holders Mohill, joins Aidan and Breifne to discuss the format of the league and the general excitement of players to just be back in action with a recharged battery after the longest off season break most will have had in their careers.

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This week's co-host Colin Regan (1:01) takes a look back at the National Football League defeat with Breifne Earley.

Leitrim manager Terry Hyland (3:02) joins the show to reflect on his side's reversal at the hands of Mickey Harte's Louth side in Carrick on Sunday afternoon. He talks about his experience of the game, what went wrong and the route from here for a side who saw their interest in the promotion hunt ended with that defeat.

One of the few bright spots was the return to action of Ryan O'Rourke (15:42) and we hear his thoughts after his return to the playing pitch after a long injury layoff.

Maeve Quinn (17:42) drops in to chat about the Ladies fine performance and big win over Louth in Ballinamore in their first League game of the season as they reversed a defeat to the same opposition last season as they pick up last season's efforts to get promotion from Division 4 which was cut short by the pandemic restrictions.

We also hear from Leitrim Captain Clare Owens (23:12) & Manager Hugh Donnelly (25:36) after the game.

Finally Colin and Breifne chat to Games Development Administrator Stephen McGurrin (41:25) about the roll out of the Turas programme across 16 of the counties clubs with over 400 youth coaches taking the first steps on their coach education journey.

Colin finished with a look forward (56:22) to the weekend's National Football League clash with Antrim and taking the positives from the current situation.

The club’s host Mary Blake is joined by retired librarian Hilda King, Orlagh Kelly of The Reading Room Bookshop in Carrick on Shannon and Michael Geoghegan to work their way through this first full length novel from the winner of The Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award.

We also find our which book has been selected for this month to be discussed in the next episode of The Book Club @ Leitrim Daily in June.

You can get all books covered in the series from The Reading Room Bookshop in Carrick on Shannon. Although closed due to covid restrictions they are facilitating an order and collect / postal service on all purchases. Contact Orlagh at 071 9671580. You’ll even get 10% off the book when you mention the Book Club @ Leitrim Daily.

About 'House of Glass' by Hadley Freeman

After her grandmother died, Hadley Freeman travelled to her apartment to try and make sense of a woman she’d never really known. Sala Glass was a European expat in America – defiantly clinging to her French influences, famously reserved, fashionable to the end – yet to Hadley much of her life remained a mystery. Sala’s experience of surviving one of the most tumultuous periods in modern history was never spoken about.

When Hadley found a shoebox filled with her grandmother’s treasured belongings, it started a decade-long quest to find out their haunting significance and to dig deep into the extraordinary lives of Sala and her three brothers. The search takes Hadley from Picasso’s archives in Paris to a secret room in a farmhouse in Auvergne to Long Island and to Auschwitz.

By piecing together letters, photos and an unpublished memoir, Hadley brings to life the full story of the Glass siblings for the first time: Alex’s past as a fashion couturier and friend of Dior and Chagall; trusting and brave Jacques, a fierce patriot for his adopted country; and the brilliant Henri who hid in occupied France – each of them made extraordinary bids for survival during the Second World War. And alongside her great-uncles’ extraordinary acts of courage in Vichy France, Hadley discovers her grandmother’s equally heroic but more private form of female self-sacrifice.

A moving memoir following the Glass siblings throughout the course of the twentieth-century as they each make their own bid for survival, House of Glass explores assimilation, identity and home – issues that are deeply relevant today.

Book Club Selection for June 2021:

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and soon she and her three children find themselves trapped in a decimated mining town. As she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves. It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest.

Shuggie is different. Fastidious and fussy, he shares his mother’s sense of snobbish propriety. The miners' children pick on him and adults condemn him as no’ right. But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place.

Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. A counterpart to the privileged Thatcher-era London of Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty, it also recalls the work of Édouard Louis, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, a blistering debut by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important...]]>The Book Club @ Leitrim Daily is in session for May 2021. Our Book Club panel met once again to share their thoughts on their latest selection, the best selling memoir from Hadley Freeman ’House of Glass’.

The club’s host Mary Blake is joined by retired librarian Hilda King, Orlagh Kelly of The Reading Room Bookshop in Carrick on Shannon and Michael Geoghegan to work their way through this first full length novel from the winner of The Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award.

We also find our which book has been selected for this month to be discussed in the next episode of The Book Club @ Leitrim Daily in June.

You can get all books covered in the series from The Reading Room Bookshop in Carrick on Shannon. Although closed due to covid restrictions they are facilitating an order and collect / postal service on all purchases. Contact Orlagh at 071 9671580. You’ll even get 10% off the book when you mention the Book Club @ Leitrim Daily.

About 'House of Glass' by Hadley Freeman

After her grandmother died, Hadley Freeman travelled to her apartment to try and make sense of a woman she’d never really known. Sala Glass was a European expat in America – defiantly clinging to her French influences, famously reserved, fashionable to the end – yet to Hadley much of her life remained a mystery. Sala’s experience of surviving one of the most tumultuous periods in modern history was never spoken about.

When Hadley found a shoebox filled with her grandmother’s treasured belongings, it started a decade-long quest to find out their haunting significance and to dig deep into the extraordinary lives of Sala and her three brothers. The search takes Hadley from Picasso’s archives in Paris to a secret room in a farmhouse in Auvergne to Long Island and to Auschwitz.

By piecing together letters, photos and an unpublished memoir, Hadley brings to life the full story of the Glass siblings for the first time: Alex’s past as a fashion couturier and friend of Dior and Chagall; trusting and brave Jacques, a fierce patriot for his adopted country; and the brilliant Henri who hid in occupied France – each of them made extraordinary bids for survival during the Second World War. And alongside her great-uncles’ extraordinary acts of courage in Vichy France, Hadley discovers her grandmother’s equally heroic but more private form of female self-sacrifice.

A moving memoir following the Glass siblings throughout the course of the twentieth-century as they each make their own bid for survival, House of Glass explores assimilation, identity and home – issues that are deeply relevant today.

Book Club Selection for June 2021:

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and soon she and her three children find themselves trapped in a decimated mining town. As she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves. It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest.

Shuggie is different. Fastidious and fussy, he shares his mother’s sense of snobbish propriety. The miners' children pick on him and adults condemn him as no’ right. But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place.

Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. A counterpart to the privileged Thatcher-era London of Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty, it also recalls the work of Édouard Louis, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, a blistering debut by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important story to tell.

The club’s host Mary Blake is joined by retired librarian Hilda King, Orlagh Kelly of The Reading Room Bookshop in Carrick on Shannon and this month's guest Michael Geoghegan from Aughacashel to work their way through this first full length novel from the winner of The Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award.

We also find our which book has been selected for this month to be discussed in the next episode of The Book Club @ Leitrim Daily in April.

You can get all books covered in the series from The Reading Room Bookshop in Carrick on Shannon. Although closed due to covid restrictions they are facilitating an order and collect / postal service on all purchases. Contact Orlagh at 071 9671580. You’ll even get 10% off the book when you mention the Book Club @ Leitrim Daily.

About 'The Art of Falling' by Danielle McLaughlin

Nessa McCormack's marriage is coming back together again after her husband's affair. She is excited to be in charge of a retrospective art exhibition for a beloved artist, the renowned late sculptor Robert Locke. But the arrival of two enigmatic outsiders imperils both her personal and professional worlds: A chance encounter with an old friend threatens to expose a betrayal Nessa thought she had long put behind her; and at work, an odd woman comes forward with a mysterious connection to Robert Locke's life and his most famous work, the Chalk Sculpture.

As Nessa finds the past intruding on the present, she realizes she must decide what is the truth, whether she can continue to live with a lie, and what the consequences might be were she to fully unravel the mysteries in both the life of Robert Locke and her own. In this gripping and wonderfully written debut, Danielle McLaughlin reveals profound truths about love, power, and the secrets that define us.

Book Club Selection for May 2021:

House of Glass by Hadley Brennan

After her grandmother died, Hadley Freeman travelled to her apartment to try and make sense of a woman she’d never really known. Sala Glass was a European expat in America – defiantly clinging to her French influences, famously reserved, fashionable to the end – yet to Hadley much of her life remained a mystery. Sala’s experience of surviving one of the most tumultuous periods in modern history was never spoken about.

When Hadley found a shoebox filled with her grandmother’s treasured belongings, it started a decade-long quest to find out their haunting significance and to dig deep into the extraordinary lives of Sala and her three brothers. The search takes Hadley from Picasso’s archives in Paris to a secret room in a farmhouse in Auvergne to Long Island and to Auschwitz.

By piecing together letters, photos and an unpublished memoir, Hadley brings to life the full story of the Glass siblings for the first time: Alex’s past as a fashion couturier and friend of Dior and Chagall; trusting and brave Jacques, a fierce patriot for his adopted country; and the brilliant Henri who hid in occupied France – each of them made extraordinary bids for survival during the Second World War. And alongside her great-uncles’ extraordinary acts of courage in Vichy France, Hadley discovers her grandmother’s equally heroic but more private form of female self-sacrifice.

A moving memoir following the Glass siblings throughout the course of the twentieth-century as they each make their own bid for survival, House of Glass explores assimilation, identity and home – issues that are deeply relevant today.

The club’s host Mary Blake is joined by retired librarian Hilda King, Orlagh Kelly of The Reading Room Bookshop in Carrick on Shannon and special guest Rosemarie Donnelly of Blaney Bookworms in Castleblaney, Monaghan to work their way through this poetic and lyrical bitter sweet multi-generational family drama set in Tipperary in the 1970's.

We also find our which book has been selected for this month to be discussed in the next episode of The Book Club @ Leitrim Daily in April.

You can get all books covered in the series from The Reading Room Bookshop in Carrick on Shannon. Although closed due to covid restrictions they are facilitating an order and collect / postal service on all purchases. Contact Orlagh at 071 9671580. You’ll even get 10% off the book when you mention the Book Club @ Leitrim Daily.

About ’Strange Flowers’ by Donal Ryan

In 1973 Moll Gladney goes missing from the Tipperary hillside where she was born. Slowly her parents, Paddy and Kit, begin to accept that she’s gone forever. But she returns, changed, and with a few surprises for her family and neighbours.

Nothing is ever the same again for the Gladneys, who learn that fate cares little for duty, that life rarely conforms to expectation, that God can’t be relied upon to heed any prayer.

A story of exile and return, of loss and discovery, of retreat from grief and the saving power of love. 

Book Club Selection for April 2021:

'The Art of Falling' by Danielle McLaughlin

Nessa McCormack's marriage is coming back together again after her husband's affair. She is excited to be in charge of a retrospective art exhibition for a beloved artist, the renowned late sculptor Robert Locke. But the arrival of two enigmatic outsiders imperils both her personal and professional worlds: A chance encounter with an old friend threatens to expose a betrayal Nessa thought she had long put behind her; and at work, an odd woman comes forward with a mysterious connection to Robert Locke's life and his most famous work, the Chalk Sculpture.

As Nessa finds the past intruding on the present, she realizes she must decide what is the truth, whether she can continue to live with a lie, and what the consequences might be were she to fully unravel the mysteries in both the life of Robert Locke and her own. In this gripping and wonderfully written debut, Danielle McLaughlin reveals profound truths about love, power, and the secrets that define us.

They discuss her recent, award winning zoom film made with some of our older Leitrim residents about traditions and songs. Fionnuala has just been awarded a bursary from the Arts Council to do a research project into Leitrim singing and she chats to Mary about her plans for that.

The club host Mary Blake is joined by retired librarian Hilda King, Orlagh Kelly of The Reading Room Bookshop in Carrick on Shannon and the thoughts of author Kevin McManus are also included in the show.

Each of our panel members share their opinions on the show, it's four septuagenarian main characters, the picturesque setting and the plot lines where new murders crisscross with cold cases and all the intrigue and suspense that brings.

We also find our which book has been selected for this month to be discussed in the next episode of The Book Club @ Leitrim Daily on the first weekend of December and it's very different to this choice.

You can get all books covered in the series from The Reading Room Bookshop in Carrick on Shannon. Although closed due to covid restrictions they are facilitating an order and collect / postal service on all purchases. Contact Orlagh at 071 9671580. You’ll even get 10% off the book when you mention the Book Club @ Leitrim Daily.

Thursday Murder Club (Richard Osman): In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.

When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case. As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it’s too late?