Updated Dec 5th 2018, 5:10 PM MARK STOKES WAS 18 when he was informed that hip surgery was his only option if he wanted to play GAA again. Former Tipperary minor footballer Mark Stokes. Source: Tommy Dickson/INPHO A dual underage star for Kilsheelan-Kilcash, Stokes played hurling and football with Tipperary from U14 to U16, and […]
ALL-IRELAND CHAMPIONS LIMERICK will host Tipperary in nine days’ time as the Co-Op Superstores Munster Senior Hurling League swings back into action. Limerick will travel to Tralee to face Kerry the following Thursday, while Tipp will host The Kingdom in Nenagh on 5 January. In Group 2, Cork and Clare will convene in Cusack Park […]
MANY OF THE rising stars in GAA discovered what clashes await them in the new year following the draws for the 2019 Electric Ireland Sigerson and Fitzgibbon Cups which took place on Wednesday. The reigning Sigerson champions UCD will take on Cork IT in their opening tie, while finalists NUI Galway have been paired with St […]
WHEN FOXROCK-CABINTEELY formed as a club in 2005, they didn’t have enough players to field an adult team. Fox-Cab captain Amy Ring and Mourneabbey’s Eimear Meaney. Source: Sportsfile. Here they are, 13 years later, after climbing all the way up the ranks from Junior E. The four in-a-row Dublin and Leinster champions are preparing for […]
LONG-SERVING DERRY forward and former captain Mark Lynch has called time on his inter-county career after 15 years on the senior scene. Citing family and work commitments, the 32-year-old Banagher man says that he’s heartbroken to step away, but feels that the time is right. The news comes as a blow to the Oak Leaf […]
DUBLIN GAA CHIEF John Costello has launched a typically robust defence of the achievements of their all-conquering senior footballers and management in his annual report that has been released today. Costello criticised pundits who have described Dublin’s players as ‘robots’ or ‘automatons’. The 2018 season saw Dublin once again sweep up a collection of honours […]
WESTMEATH FOOTBALLERS HAVE suffered a huge blow ahead of the new season following the news that John Heslin has decided to step away from the panel to focus on his college commitments. Click Here: mens gaa jersey Heslin, who was the team captain for the 2018 season, has informed the new manager Jack Cooney that he […]
BEFORE LAST YEAR’S All-Ireland club final, Mourneabbey manager Shane Ronayne pretty much had his mind made up that this was it. This comes as their fourth final in five years. Source: Oisin Keniry/INPHO Regardless of the result, he was finishing up. He had steered them to three Cork and Munster titles in-a-row but that All-Ireland […]
DUBLIN GAA SECRETARY John Costello has called on the government to use Nama land to develop more sporting facilities and prevent the capital from becoming “a city of concrete”. With greenfield sites becoming more and more scarce, sports clubs are under pressure to develop and provide playing space for a growing number of members. “Proper […]
SYDNEY SWANS, NORTH Melbourne and Essendon all had recruiters in attendance at last weekend’s AFL combine in Dublin with four young Irish prospects set to be brought to Australia next April at the NAB AFL Academy. Donegal’s Peadar Mogan with Armagh’s Rian O’Neill and Mark Barrett of Kildare were some of the players in action […]