ESSENDON HAVE ANNOUNCED the signing of Ross McQuillan on an international rookie deal, with the Armagh native agreeing on a contract until the end of 2021. The 20-year-old will join Tyrone’s Conor McKenna in the red and black. He’ll relocate to Australia in October before full training starts with the squad on 25 November. An impressive athlete, […]
CONOR HAYES DOESN’T think Davy Fitzgerald is the man to take Galway forward and instead wants the county board to appoint a Tribe native to replace Micheál Donoghue. Fitzgerald has yet to make a call on his future with Wexford and has been heavily linked to 2017 All-Ireland champions since Donoghue’s surprise departure last month. […]
TERENCE ‘SAMBO’ MCNAUGHTON has hailed the appointment of Darren Gleeson as the new Antrim senior hurling boss. Gleeson only retired from inter-county hurling at the end of 2017 and was involved in the Antrim set-up in the two years since. Liam Sheedy, who was on board in an advisory capacity, introduced Gleeson as coach with […]
DUBLIN AND KERRY star forwards Con O’Callaghan and Sean O’Shea have claimed the PwC GAA/GPA Player of the Month awards for August and September respectively. The individual accolade caps an incredible week for 23-year-old O’Callaghan, who was instrumental through Jim Gavin’s side’s Drive for Five mission, which they completed with a six-point win over the Kingdom […]
THERE WAS DISAPPOINTMENT for Irish duo Zach Tuohy and Mark O’Connor as their AFL side the Geelong Cats missed out on a place in the 2019 Grand Final. Geelong suffered a 19-point defeat to Richmond in the first Preliminary Final today, with the winners rallying back from a 21-point half-time deficit to seal a 12.13 (85) […]
AT THE LAUNCH of the Gaelic Players Association’s 2018 annual report today, CEO Paul Flynn unveiled four motions that will be voted on by inter-county players at their AGM tomorrow in Dunboyne Castle. The GPA expect around 70 players to attend the AGM and will take a vote on the following motions: Introduction of a […]
ALL-IRELAND CHAMPIONS Corofin have booked their place in the Galway SFC semi-finals while finalists Dr Crokes began their Kerry campaign with a 17-point win. An Ian Burke goal helped the back-to-back All-Ireland holders to a six-point win over Mountbellew-Moylough. The six-in-a-row Galway champions will now progress to the final four of the competition where they will […]
Six-month-old James Ryan from Mayo with the Dublin ladies after their three-in-a-row win at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin Source: James Crombie/INPHO Full flight! Ireland’s Andrew Conway in action against Scotland’s Sean Maitland Source: Craig Mercer/INPHO Derrygonnelly celebrate winning the first county senior football final of the year Source: Tommy Dickson/INPHO Sister Act: Alison Miller congratulates her sister, […]
TYRONE HAVE ADDED former Antrim star Kevin Madden to their backroom team ahead of the 2020 inter-county season. Now a highly regarded coach, Madden will work under Mickey Harte having previously spent two years at Derry as assistant manager to Damian Cassidy. At club level, he worked with ex-Saffron boss Liam Bradley at Glenullin, where […]
TIPPERARY CLUB THURLES Sarsfields have outlined how “extremely unfair” it is that their ladies football and camogie teams are facing into two huge championship matches in four hours this Sunday. With eight dual players affected, the camogie side face Kilruane McDonaghs in the intermediate championship semi-final at 2pm, while the footballers are contesting their intermediate […]