ASK CONAL KEANEY what motivates him to keep plugging away with the club at 36 years of age and his answer is simple: “I just want to win.” Conal Keaney pictured at Clanna Gael Fontenoy GAA in Dublin ahead of the AIB GAA Leinster Senior Hurling Championship final. Source: David Fitzgerald/SPORTSFILE Keaney may well extend […]
A REWARD AGAIN for his individual excellence and a part of a collective breakthrough that his Monaghan camp had yearned for. Conor McManus picked up his third All-Star award last month after his attacking endeavours this year. He was part of a side that smashed through a barrier to land a coveted All-Ireland semi-final spot. […]
1. As Boca Juniors’ bus approached Estadio Monumental a couple of hours before kickoff, it turned down Avenida Monroe, a well-known gathering spot for River fans before games and not, as a rule, the route a visiting team would take. It was traveling quickly, flanked by police outriders. But as it slowed to turn a corner, […]
ALL-IRELAND CHAMPIONS Dublin scooped seven All-Stars, and captain Sinéad Aherne was named Senior Players’ Player of the Year, at the annual LGFA awards banquet in Dublin last night. Aherne — who was also named an All-Star for a brilliant seventh time — collected the top individual prize ahead of team-mate Lyndsey Davey and Cork captain […]
Click:West Hollywood head spa SEAMUS HICKEY HAS decided to go out at the top. The 31-year-old announced his retirement from Limerick duty this morning, just months after the county won their first All-Ireland hurling crown since 1973. The Murroe-Boher native made his debut for the Treaty in 2006, won Young Hurler of the Year the […]
ANTRIM HAVE CONFIRMED that Anthony Daly will act as an advisor to new senior hurling team manager Neal Peden in the coming season. The former Clare and Dublin manager will take a similar role to the one Liam Sheedy held for the past couple of years. Sheedy was recently appointed to the Tipperary hot-seat and […]
ON ST PATRICK’S DAY 2015, Ballyhale Shamrocks were crowned All-Ireland club champions for a record sixth time in what was Henry Shefflin’s last game at Croke Park. Henry Shefflin during the 2015 All-Ireland club final. Source: Cathal Noonan/INPHO That afternoon Shefflin lined out on a formidable half-forward line, flanked by TJ Reid and James ‘Cha’ Fitzpatrick, […]
FOR MANY CLUBS, it can take a campaign or two before they crack the code and get a run in the province. On Sunday, Kevin Cassidy recalled how Gweedore ‘drank ourselves silly’ in 2006 and applied those lessons after their county title victory in Donegal this year. The Gaeltacht club upset the odds by lifting […]
KERRY’S YOUNG ATTACKER star David Clifford is on course to feature for the county in next spring’s Allianz football league as he is not set to undergo a shoulder operation. It had been reported last month that the teenager would have to go under the knife and would be sidelined for the early months of […]
ROSS MCGOWAN WAS just 16 when Kilmacud Crokes last reigned supreme in Leinster eight years ago. Ross McGowan represented Dublin in the O’Byrne Cup in January. Source: Laszlo Geczo/INPHO He recalls following Kilmacud around Leinster as a supporter during their provincial campaigns of ’04, ’04, ’08 and ’10, which fuelled his desire to emulate his […]