WHERE DOES ONE start with Kerry camogie star Laura Collins? The fact that hurling is confined to North Kerry? The fact that everyone on her Kingdom camogie side is from one club bar one player? The fact that they’re contesting a second consecutive All-Ireland final after reaching the top table for the first time ever […]
Killian Spillane celebrates scoring a point against Dublin. Source: Morgan Treacy/INPHO IN THE 1986 All-Ireland final, Pat Spillane scored a crucial goal into Hill 16 to propel Kerry to an eight-point victory against Tyrone. In last Sunday’s decider, it was his nephew Killian who raised a green flag into the same goals, almost steering the […]
AFTER MAKING THEIR first-ever visit to Croke Park one to remember by lifting their first All-Ireland title in the 2017 Premier Junior final, Westmeath are primed for a return to HQ on the biggest day of the camogie calendar. Westmeath captain Mairead McCormack. Source: Ryan Byrne/INPHO Just two years later, Mairéad McCormack’s side find themselves […]
KIERAN DONAGHY HAS been appointed as joint-manager of IT Tralee’s senior football team, while former Kerry team-mate Aidan O’Mahony is part of his backroom team. Click Here: shopskm Donaghy, who will share management duties with Liam Brosnan, will take charge of a team for the first time following his stint as part of Micheál Donoghue’s […]
WITH TWO GALWAY teams in Croke Park on All-Ireland camogie finals day on Sunday, one immediately thinks of their 2013 heroics. Galway intermediate captain Laura Ward. Source: Ryan Byrne/INPHO That day the intermediate and senior sides left HQ with the Jack McGrath and O’Duffy Cups, the buses pointed towards the west as double-winning manager Tony […]
SKY SPORTS HAVE announced that they will be broadcasting this year’s All-Ireland camogie and ladies football finals for the very first time. In a repeat of this year’s National League final, Kilkenny and Galway will go head-to-head this Sunday at 4.15pm in the camogie decider at Croke Park. The game will be shown on Sky […]
Click:PLC Splitter COLLINGWOOD DEFEATED GEELONG by 61-51 in today’s AFL first qualifying final at the MCG, which leaves the Pies just one win away from returning to a second successive Grand Final in two weeks. Geelong, who have Laois’s Zach Tuohy and Kerry’s Mark O’Connor in their ranks, must now come through a semi-final tie […]
Kilkenny co-captain Meighan Farrell. Source: Ryan Byrne/INPHO IT WAS SOMETHING Meighan Farrell always wanted to do. And when the opportunity came around, it was one she grabbed with both hands. Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam. A six-week trip with five friends, a break from the continuous, intense, year-long cycle of camogie back home in Kilkenny. It really […]
WHEN HIS EIGHT-month old baby, PhD studies, lecturing job and playing career with the All-Ireland club champions are factored into the equation, it’s a wonder Michael Fennelly has any spare time on his hands – let alone enough to take on the Offaly senior hurling job. Michael Fennelly at his unveiling as the new Offaly […]
THE OUTPOUR OF emotion afterwards showed just how much it meant. Galway captain Sarah Dervan. Source: Ryan Byrne/INPHO There were tears — of joy — cheers and warm embraces all around as Galway finally banished their All-Ireland semi-final demons and booked their Croke Park decider spot three weeks ago. In the process, Cathal Murray’s Tribeswomen […]