KILKENNY LEGEND MICHAEL Fennelly is set to become the new manager for the Offaly hurlers. The eight-time All-Ireland winner has been recommended for the position by the county’s management committee for a two-year term with the option of a third year at the helm. Fennelly, who announced his retirement from inter-county hurling in 2017, is expected […]
KERRY STAR DEFENDER Paul Murphy has called for a bigger gap between the final Super 8s game and the All-Ireland semi-final, saying the current schedule doesn’t give “enough respect” to players. Click Here: rugby shirt for sale The Kingdom are facing into their first All-Ireland decider since 2015 this weekend after narrowly edging out a […]
– Congratulations to our prize winner, Lonan McDowell. Enjoy the game on Sunday! WHEN TWO TRIBES go to war… trying to get a ticket is Mission: Impossible. This year’s All-Ireland football final pairing could hardly have been scripted better: Dublin, chasing a historic five-in-a-row, up against their dearest rivals and the team with more incentive […]
IN HIS MIND’S eye, Jim Gavin can still picture the scene like it was yesterday. Jim Gavin at the All-Ireland final press night. Source: James Crombie/INPHO The year is 1990 and it’s a wet, miserable morning at the Curragh Camp in Kildare. An 18-year-old Gavin has just been dropped off in line by his parents to […]
THE PLOTTING AND planning will have started once the semi-final business was wrapped up. Earlier this month Dublin’s dismissal of Mayo and Kerry’s completion of their Tyrone assignment meant the final two for the 2019 All-Ireland football championship were confirmed. After getting this far, who will Jim Gavin and Peter Keane be looking to shut […]
BEFORE DAVID MORAN and Tommy Walsh carved out reputations in their own right, they were just the sons of famous fathers trying to make it big. Tommy Walsh, Sean Walsh, David Moran and Denis ‘Ogie’ Moran. Source: Inpho Denis ‘Ogie’ Moran and Sean Walsh, two mainstays of the great Kerry Golden Years side, won 15 […]
FORMER DUBLIN MANAGER Paul ‘Pillar’ Caffrey told a story recently that summed up Stephen Cluxton’s mentality. The Dublin netminder is chasing his seventh All-Ireland medal this weekend, and sixth as captain, but back in 2002 he was one of the greenhorns on the panel. On this particular afternoon, Dublin were due to take on Donegal […]
IF ENNIS WAS the setting for their low point this year, then it was also the location for something more promising. As the spring of sorrow for the Cork footballers unfolded, Cusack Park on 10 February was the game which plunged them firmly into a relegation battle. The nine-point loss to Clare that day was […]
DUBLIN WILL HAVE their shot at GAA history on Sunday afternoon in Croke Park, an appearance in the All-Ireland senior football decider where they will attempt to complete five-in-a-row. This particular run of final glories began in 2015 when they claimed victory by 0-12 to 0-9 against Kerry. It took them two attempts in 2016 […]
ON SUNDAY, GAVIN White will have the unique distinction of captaining Kerry in the All-Ireland final without having played a minute of league football for the county. The 22-year-old was called into the panel by Eamonn Fitzmaurice during the summer in 2016 and was absent for the following year’s league campaign due to Dr Crokes’ run […]