Across the Four Lakes Podcast

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Young Clonmore footballer, Oisin Doyle,  may be the holder of junior and intermediate football championship medals but he has had injuries which have kept him out of important club and intercounty games. 
Back to full fitness now he and Clonmore are looking forward to competing at senior level for the first time in over 20 years. 
They meet the holders, Éire Og in their opening game in what is the toughest of groups. Yet  these are exciting times for players and supporters and the first match cannot come around quickly enough

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On Sunday Carlow had their hopes of All-Ireland football glory ended by Louth in Parnell Park. It was a bitter pill to swallow. 
Here, Sara Doyle talks about the disappointment but says it has been a good year for the county where they gained promotion from Division 4 and in the process won the league final. She says the Carlow team enjoyed a close bond and continue to remain positive. 
She took up football when she was quite young and was encouraged by family members. In her early twenties,  the St Brigids club footballer has enjoyed a tremendous career where she has been selected on the Team of the Year in consecutive seasons while at one stage during the 2024 season she led the Zucar Golden Boot Award.
Photo: Pat Ahern Photography

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In Parnell Park, despite having a narrow advantage on 45 minutes Carlow were eventually beaten by Louth who go on to play Fermanagh in the All-Ireland JFC final in Croke Park. 
Back home the senior hurling championship is one game away from the semi-final stage. Pat Ahern was at the fourth round games and was in Dublin on Sunday to witness Carlow's disappointing day. 
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Éire Og player, Megan Townsend, has broken into the Carlow senior football panel this year and has featured in all their league and championship games. 
On Sunday they travel to Parnell Park to play Louth in the All-Ireland JFC semi-final. Carlow are hungry for success. They have lost four semi-finals in a row and are determined to take that final step to Croke Park this weekend. 

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In recent years, Carlow have suffered heartbreak at the penultimate stage and dreams of playing in Croke Park on All-Ireland ladies football Sunday have been dashed. 
They face Louth  in the All-Ireland Junior Football semi-final in two weeks time. Both sides have beaten each other already this season so there is nothing between them. 
Clíodhna Ní Shé looks back on a poor show last time out against Fermanagh and is hopeful they have learned enough and will produce a performance which will see Carlow take their place in the final in the Field of Dreams. 

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Tinryland's Mark Mullen has experienced the disappointment of losing a senior football county final. So near and yet so far against Palatine two years ago.  
He captained the SETU Carlow Freshers Football  team this year that contested an All-Ireland final this   while he went on to play for Carlow in the Leinster under 20 football championship. 
He was called into the Carlow senior football set-up for the Tailteann Cup and while he didn't get game time,  he enjoyed the experience and took a lot of positives from it. 
Tinryland may have come in for criticism for their style of play over the last two years but Mark does not agree. 

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Marc Carpenter was only 17 years of age when he was invited to join the Carlow senior football panel. He enjoyed a long career with the county and was a key figure of the great O'Hanrahans team of the early 2000s.
He is still playing and is determined to help put structures in place which will help his club get back into senior ranks. 
It is all go for Marc who runs the well known Carpenter Undertakers while Carpenters Pub on Barrack Street continues to do well. 
He is very much a family man with his three children all involved in sport. 

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On Saturday in Netwatch Cullen Park, Carlow came from six points down in the second half to beat Dublin and get their All-Ireland camogie intermediate championship aspirations back on track. 
Sisters Rachel and Anna  Breen  played in the number 3 and 6 positions respecitvely as they anchored  a defence who only conceded one point in the second half.
Carlow face Kildare, Kerry and Antrim in consecutive weeks with a place in the knock-out stages at stake. 

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Down the pecking order at the start of the season,  Aaron Power was called into the Carlow senior football panel before the Tailteann Cup game against Wicklow. He was a little nervous but was made feel at home by the players and the management team. 
He didn't get any game time but he loved the experience. 
The O'Hanrahan net minder played with the Carlow under 20 footballers this year and is hopeful he can hold on to the position for next year when the fight for places will be intense. 
He featured with  the Freshers footballers in SETU Carlow in the league and championship this year but there was disappointment for him when they lost the final narrowly to Mary Immaculate from Limerick.  

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Brothers, Adam and Ben McCarron, are ideally placed to talk about penalty shoot-outs. While Adam has missed a penalty in a shoot-out he has never been on a losing team when the game has gone to penalties. 
His brother, Ben, is the goal-keeper and very much the fall guy when it comes to penalty shoot-outs. It is down to second-guessing and doing the sums if the keeper is to have any chance at all. 
Living in Killeshin, they were never tempted to change clubs and leave their beloved Éire Og whom they have been playing with for as long as they can remember. 
Both are useful soccer players and are currently playing with Hanover Harps.