Update: The Leinster senior football semi-final has been rescheduled for this Sunday at 3.30 in Mullingar.
There's a serious log-jam of fixtures on the horizon for Castletown after their Leinster senior football quarter final against St Loman's was postponed after heavy fog on Tuesday night.
Due to take place last weekend, the fixture was pushed out to Tuesday with Castletown having played a Leinster junior hurling quarter final against Moorefield on Saturday.
Castletown trounced the Kildare men by 32 points before the 320km round-trip to Mullingar on Tuesday, with many of their players and management having to take the day off work.
They were as good as at the venue when word of the postponement came through as chairman Paddy Flood told Balls, with some of them pulled into the service station in Enfield and others at the ground.
"Nobody can foresee something like that," he says of the fog.
"But the lads were even saying to me last night that they can't take anymore days off.
"If that match is re-fixed again for midweek, we're in trouble. Just can't get time off, lads under pressure."
The Castletown hurlers are due to play the Leinster semi-final this Sunday in Longford, with the Leinster football semi-finals scheduled for the following weekend.
It means that Castletown, with their ten dual players, may face two games this weekend - the hurling semi-final and the football quarter - though Flood feels the hurling should be pushed back to allow the football go ahead this weekend.
"The only solution I can see is that the hurling is pushed out. I don't know why they gave junior hurling precedence over senior football anyway last weekend." he says.
The rescheduling will be decided at a meeting of the Leinster council at 1.00 this afternoon, with a midweek fixture unappealing for many, particularly Castletown, given that it's a home game for St Loman's.
The Westmeath side would also be unlikely to agree to a mid-week fixture next week if the semi-finals are going ahead as planned, as it would give them a short recovery time if they won.
𝗥𝗘-𝗙𝗜𝗫𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗗𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗟𝗦
Details for the postponed AIB Leinster GAA Senior Football Quarter Final have been announced. Game will now take place this coming Sunday.
Full details can be read here ⤵️
— Leinster GAA (@gaaleinster) November 13, 2024
