Team news: Old Leighlin and Tourlestrane reveal All-Ireland semi-final selections

All-Ireland Ladies Junior Club Football semi-final

Sunday November 18

Old Leighlin (Carlow) (H) v Tourlestrane (Sligo); McGrath Park, Bagenalstown, 1pm

No Carlow team has ever contested an All-Ireland Club final but that could change as Old Leighlin prepare for their junior semi-final clash with Tourlestrane.

Old Leighlin got past the challenge of Dublin’s Castleknock in the Leinster junior final replay and have teenager Rachel Sawyer in a rich vein of form.

Aoibhinn Gilmartin is another forward and Carlow county player who will need close watching by the Tourlestrane defence.

But the Sligo representatives will go into this one with confidence themselves after defeating Naomh Anna Leitir Móir to deny Galway a provincial clean sweep in the senior, intermediate and junior grades.

Katie Walsh is a proven inter-county forward and despite Sligo’s relegation from Division 2 of the Lidl NFL this year, she was named in the second tier’s Team of the League.

Old Leighlin team and squad: 

1	Nicole Hanley	Old Leighlin
2	Roisin Maher	Old Leighlin
3	Anne Roche	Old Leighlin
4	Philomena Murphy	Old Leighlin
5	Eleanor Meaney	Old Leighlin
6	Ellen Atkinson	Old Leighlin
7	Michelle Dermody	Old Leighlin
8	Muireann O Sullivan	Old Leighlin
9	Caoimhe O Neill	Old Leighlin
10	Rachel Sawyer	Old Leighlin
11	Shauna O Neill	Old Leighlin
12	Niamh Forde	Old Leighlin
13	Aoife Roche	Old Leighlin
14	Aoibhinn Gilmartin	Old Leighlin
15	Emma Brennan	Old Leighlin
16	Ella Meaney	Old Leighlin
17	Eleanor Purcell	Old Leighlin
18	Amy Hanley	Old Leighlin
19	Laura Regan	Old Leighlin
20	Gemma Carpenter	Old Leighlin
21	Orla Sawyer	Old Leighlin
22	Eimear Meaney	Old Leighlin
23	Roisin Ryan	Old Leighlin
24	Annmarie Meaney	Old Leighlin
25	Laura Kearney	Old Leighlin
26	Niamh Bambrick	Old Leighlin
27	Amy Monahan	Old Leighlin
28	Ciara Farrell	Old Leighlin
29	Michelle Purcell	Old Leighlin
30	Maggie Forde	Old Leighlin

Tourlestrane team and squad

1	Colette Walsh	Tourlestrane
2	Sarah Brennan	Tourlestrane
3	Laura Walsh	Tourlestrane
4	Sinead Mooney	Tourlestrane
5	Edel Meers	Tourlestrane
6	Shauna Henry	Tourlestrane
7	Catherine Marren	Tourlestrane
8	Aisling Egan	Tourlestrane
9	Nikki Brennan	Tourlestrane
10	Anna Corcoran	Tourlestrane
11	Grainne Carty	Tourlestrane
12	Tara Walsh	Tourlestrane
13	Sarah Cunney	Tourlestrane
14	katie Walsh	Tourlestrane
15	Laura Surlis	Tourlestrane
16	Laura Higgins	Tourlestrane
17	Molly Kennedy	Tourlestrane
18	Shauna Walsh	Tourlestrane
19	Ellen Bailey	Tourlestrane
20	Rebecca O’Hara	Tourlestrane
21	Catherine Brennan	Tourlestrane
22	Katie Molloy	Tourlestrane
23	Catriona Flynn	Tourlestrane
24	Tiffany Murtagh	Tourlestrane
25	Elizabeth Grier	Tourlestrane
26	Laura Durkin	Tourlestrane
27	Rachel Walsh	Tourlestrane
28	Ciara Henry	Tourlestrane
29	Catriona Mooney	Tourlestrane
30	Leonie Gaughan	Tourlestrane