Antrim v Westmeath Very Div 1B National League Saturday 1st March 2025
Venue Pairc MacUilin, Ballycastle
This Saturday’s Very National League game between Antrim and Westmeath looks on paper; to be a straightforward affair but nothing is given in senior camogie. It goes like this, Westmeath were beat by Down, Down lost to Limerick and Saturday past, Limerick lost to Antrim.
Antrim are enjoying a good run of games and have had the benefit of playing in marvelous late winter sunshine and good pitches. Fr. McGuigan Park in Ahoghill was dry and reasonably firm under foot, whilst the dry gravel pitch in Ballyagran lived up to its Irish translation, meaning ‘ford mouth of gravel’. Both pitches percolated names that have stepped up to the challenge notwithstanding the journeywoman of the panel like Amy Boyle, Nicole McAtamney, Caitrin Dobbin and Lucia McNaughton to name a few, but the likes of Janey McIntosh, Caoimhe McNaughton and Saturday’s markswoman, Eavanne Martin now taking on bigger roles.
Mentors McCormick and Martin will be pleased with Saturday’s result and how the panel has developed through training and the essential bonding process that can be enhanced by travelling together as a group, such as the long journey to and from Ballyagran. Both mentors also know that they have a crop of headline players in the wings shaping up to be kneaded back into game time.
Will Antrim bring the weather to Ballycastle on Saturday, will they outperform Westmeath? Come along on Saturday and you can see for yourself, throw-in is at 2pm and Philip McDonald will be the match referee.