IT’S HARD TO believe that a man who had the presence of mind and calmness to chip Paddy Cullen with a close-range free in the 1978 All-Ireland final would report feeling drained 10 minutes into the same game four years later. As Mikey Sheehy will attest to, strange things can happen to players and teams who […]
THE CORK AND Galway sides that will face off in Sunday’s Electric Ireland All-Ireland minor football final have been released. Patrick Campbell is named to start for Cork at full-forward, he scored 1-2 in the semi-final defeat of Mayo but departed the game early due to a back injury. The Nemo Rangers man has recovered in […]
THERE IS ONE personnel change to the Kerry team that will face Dublin in the All-Ireland SFC final on Sunday. 22-year-old Gavin White comes into the side at wing-forward and has been handed the captain’s armband, with Shane Enright the only absentee from the team that defeated Tyrone in the semi-final. There are just four […]
Click Here: Nigeria soccer tracksuit Let's start with an easy one. Which Kerry player kicked this iconic free in the 1978 All-Ireland final against Dublin? Pat Spillane Ger Power Mikey Sheehy Ogie Moran Who described Dublin as 'startled earwigs' after losing to the Kingdom in the 2009 All-Ireland quarter-final? ©INPHO/Tommy Dickson Stephen Cluxton ©INPHO/Lorraine O\'Sullivan […]
IN RECENT YEARS, sport and mental health awareness have been inextricably linked. Traditionally seen as an aggressively macho environment, the dressing room is now the setting of a new play penned by Cavan-born performer Alan Bradley. ‘Grounds for Concern,’ which focuses in particular on young Irish men and the challenges they often face in relation […]
DUBLIN BOSS JIM Gavin has named an unchanged team for tomorrow’s All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final against Kerry. The Dubs, who are pushing for a fifth straight All-Ireland crown, have lined out the same 15 that began the semi-final win over Mayo, though positional changes can be expected particularly in the forward lines. Cian O’Sullivan […]
KERRY WENT INTO the 2014 championship minus several experienced campaigners that put them way down in the All-Ireland pecking order at the outset of the summer. Eamonn Fitzmaurice was entering his second year in charge of the county when he lost Tomás Ó Sé and Eoin Brosnan to retirement the previous winter. At the start […]
TODAY’S THE DAY. With history on the horizon at Croke Park, Jim Gavin’s five in-a-row chasing Dublin and the county who came closest in the 1980s, Kerry, go head-to-head for the Sam Maguire. Should they succeed this afternoon, the Dubs would become the first team, in football or hurling, to win the All-Ireland five in-a-row. […]
DUBLIN’S BERNARD BROGAN, Eoghan O’Gara and Rory O’Carroll have all missed out on a spot in the matchday squad for today’s All-Ireland final against Kerry. The trio were all notable absentees from the Dublin bench for their semi-final victory over Mayo, having all previously featured in their side’s final Super 8s outing against Tyrone. But […]
1. Thrilling finale FIRST THINGS FIRST, those final 20 minutes were about as heart-stopping anything Gaelic football has offered up in recent memory. With history on the line, the 14 men of Dublin led by five on 55 minutes but Kerry had worked themselves into a one-point lead by the 74th minute. Three sons of […]