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NI Fire and Rescue team will make a Firm bid for LGFA corporate title

2023 winners, AIB

THE NI Fire and Rescue team will be among the sides bidding to become LGFA 2024 Interfirms champions.

All roads lead to the GAA’s National Games Development Centre at the Sport Ireland Campus in Blanchardstown, Dublin, next Saturday, October 5, with 12 teams signed up to compete for the top prize.

In addition, 20 teams, including the NI Civil Service and two from Down company, Alternative Heat, have signed up to take part in a recreational blitz, where no matter what the level, experience or ability, teams will play lots of football, socialise with each other and have fun.

The teams competing in the competitive section of the LGFA Interfirms blitz will battle it out for the Cup and Shield titles on offer.

AIB, claimed another LGFA Interfirms Cup last year and will be gunning for top honours again.

Three-in-a-row winners from 2017-2019, AIB did not compete in 2022 but they were back with a bang in 2023 to get their hands on the silverware.

Zurich Insurance, Shield winners last year, will compete in the competitive blitz once again.

The teams who will aim for LGFA Interfirms glory are as follows:

AIB – Dublin

An Post Insurance – Westmeath

H&MV Engineering – Limerick

Irish Defence Forces – National

Irish Prison Service – National

Moate Community School – Westmeath

Boston Scientific – Galway

Navan Hospital – Meath

PWC (2x teams) – Dublin

Zurich Insurance – Wexford

Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service – Antrim

The following teams will take part in the recreational blitz:

Dublin Fire Brigade – Dublin

Ardscoil na Tríonóide – Kildare

Kevin’s CC, Dunlavin – Wicklow

PWC – Dublin

NI Civil Service – Antrim

Navan Hospital – Meath

Irish Prison Service (x 3 teams) – National

Intel – Kildare

Dundalk Institute of Technology – Louth

Baxter Healthcare – Mayo

Ardscoil Rath Iomghain – Kildare

APU – Cavan

Alternative Heat (x 2 teams) – Down

Activ8 Energies – Monaghan

Boston Scientific – Galway

Boston Scientific – Clonmel

Flogas – Louth