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6 | WINTER 2019 | www.ladiesgaelic.ie NEWS & SHORTS SHOW YOUR SKILLS CHALLENGE LGFA is a proud Member of the 20×20 movement which is championing women and girls in sport in Ireland. The movement's three goals: a 20% increase in participation, a 20% increase in media coverage of women's sports and a 20% increase in attendance at women's sporting events, can only be achieved with your help. 20×20 is now focusing on Skills and how the lack of visibility of women's sporting skill has lead to misconceptions. 20×20 wants to change that misconception and make women's sporting skills across all sports more visible. Together, we are asking all women and girls in Ireland at all levels and abilities across all sports to Show Your Skill by posting a 20 second skills video on social media using #CantSeeCantBe This will be the last big push for 20×20 before a very exciting 2020 so we'd like to see a lot of football skills appearing online as we close out 2019. Post your club's or your member's 20 second videos on social media using #CantSeeCantBe. SENIOR DCU stopped UL's bid for six in a row as the side managed by Peter Clarke and Pat Ring fended off the hosts in the Final to claim the Gourmet Food Parlour All-Ireland Senior Freshers title. UL, DCU, MICL and surprise package IT Tralee were seeded after the conclusion of the group stages, with all four sides continuing that form in seeing off UCD, NUIG, UL2 and DCU2 respectively in the quarter finals. In the semi finals, UL defeated their neighbours MICL 2-5 to 1-2, while DCU defeated IT Tralee 3-3 to 1-1. The Final went the way of DCU, who had TG4 All-Ireland winners Niamh Hetherton (Dublin) and Anna Rose Kennedy (Tipperary) in their ranks. Kennedy lifted the silverware for DCU following a 2-4 to 1-1 victory. INTERMEDIATE In the Intermediate section, UL (3) ensured that the host college would have a title after they defeated Munster rivals Waterford IT (WIT) in the final. It was a great win considering that UL (3) were bottom of their group after the initial stages. JUNIOR In the most competitive section of all, TUD Blanchardstown took the honours in the Junior grade, after 39 games were played. After the 24 group games were completed, it was UL (5), Galway Tech, MICL (2) and DCU (3) that topped each of the groups as top seeds. However, only DCU (3) were left standing by the time the semi-finals came around. The semi finals saw DCU (3) have too much firepower for NUIG (3), while two goals in the last minute helped the 2018 O'Connor Cup hosts TUD Blanchardstown to an unlikely 5-4 to 5-2 win over MICL. In the battle of the Dublin teams in the final it was the team with "infinite possibilities" on the back of their jerseys that saw off a strong DCU side to win the Junior Cup for the first time ever. Aimee Mackin demonstrates the hand pass on the LGFA Youtube Channel for 20x20's show us your skills competition