1999 National League

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1999 National League

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Details

Location

Belfast, Casement Park

Year

1999

Date

Transmission 01/11/1999

Length

54sec

Audio

sound

Format

DVC

colour

Source

Digitised as part of the UTV Archive Partnership Project (ITV, Northern Ireland Screen and PRONI)

Courtesy

Department for Communities, ITV, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

Rights Holder

ITV

It is illegal to download, copy, print or otherwise utilise in any other form this material, without written consent from the copyright holder.

Description

Report on the 69th staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland. 

Set in Casement Park - the principal Gaelic games stadium in Belfast - which serves as the home for the Antrim team, who are off to a winning start against Leitruim, in division 2A , giving new manager, Brian White, "another boost". 

Also features a short interview with a player.  

Notes

The winning team of the 69th staging was Derry.

Gaelic football is an Irish team sport. It is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by kicking or punching the ball into the other team's goals (3 points) or between two upright posts above the goals and over a crossbar 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) above the ground (1 point).

Credits

A UTV Production 

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