County Championship Finals The Co. Championship Finals are to come off at Tuam on Sunday next, the 26th inst., and should result in very good contests. The hurling match which is timed for 1.30 should be very keen, as both teams – Claregalway and Derrydonnell – have shown great form in their matches this year, and the best judges of hurling who have seen both teams play, assert that it would be difficult to name the winner of Sunday’s match. The followers of Claregalway rely on the form shown by their team in the matches against Ahascragh, and particularly the last match when they defeated that formidable combination by two points and again on the easy win they got against Mullagh, who won the Co. Championship in 1907. Derrydonnell, on the other hand, has defeated such teams during the present year as Galway City whom they beat rather easy last May at Claregalway, and a few weeks ago they met and defeated Killimore, who a few weeks before had beaten Kilconieron, last year’s finalists. Therefore, granted fine weather on Sunday next, a splendid exhibition of the grand old game may be expected. On the same day the old rivals – Dunmore “MacHales” and Tuam “Stars” – meet in the County Football Final. The Co. Committee have arranged a special train from Galway to Tuam at excursion rates and it is hoped that all the city Gaels will avail of the opportunity of witnessing those two interesting matches. The train will leave Galway at 11.40 and Athenry at 12.15, arriving in Tuam at 12.45. Afterwards, again in the Connacht Tribune, there was a report of the County Final. A large attendance assembled at Parkmore racecourse, Tuam, on Sunday, to witness the final contests in the county hurling and football championships. The finalists in hurling were Claregalway and Derrydonnell and in football Tuam Stars and Dunmore McHales played an unfinished game. The weather was fine for the games, but bitterly cold to spectators. The field was neatly laid out, but the arrangement to prevent the encroachment of the spectators on the field of play could have been more perfect, and in this respect the crowd could valuably assist the gentlemen who under difficult circumstance, did their best to keep the touch-line clear. The attendance was good and a satisfactory “gate” was secured. The Tuam brass band was present during the evening, and under Mr. Gaffney’s conductorship, enlivened the proceedings with appropriate Irish airs. As to the games, the exhibitions, though Pat Heneghan was the eldest of the Heneghan brothers on the winning team. He was born in 1889 (exact date not given in Athenry Baptismal Records) 17
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