for IDPA competition which offers shooters a fun, safe, and challenging format to practice and test their gun handling skills through defensive-based scenarios. Today IDPA stands as the fastest growing shooting sport in the United States with over 20,000 members from all 50 states and 54 foreign countries. IDPA's 321 affiliated clubs offer weekly and monthly matches as well as host major championships.the forties and early fifties to be one of the great ones that never succeeded in winning an All-Ireland. In 1944 in Ennis, this team was beaten by a single point by the greatest Cork team of modern times, which won four All-Irelands in a row. To make matters worse, the winning point was disputed as the referee had previously blown for a free.

Galway had no luck in these matters, as those of you who remember last year’s semi-final against Wexford will recollect. According to local folklore, this bad luck came as a result of a curse laid by a parish priest in south Galway in times gone by. It seems that he rounded on a group of hurlers who were leaving Mass early to travel to a