NIALL BURKE HAS praised the Galway management team for how they’ve handled the returns of Johnny Glynn and Joseph Cooney to the squad for the championship. Glynn is based in New York but has commuted home for the past two summers while Cooney recently returned from a stint in Australia. The pair’s return has been […]
Mairéad Seoighe. Source: Tommy Dickson/INPHO IT HAD BEEN settled already, but it all became real for Galway star Mairead Seoighe last Friday when her move to AFLW side North Melbourne Tasmanian Kangaroos was announced at the CrossCoders trial camp in Athlone. And even more real when the club officially published the news this morning. Up […]
AS OPENING PHASES to a championship season go, the 2019 version has not unfolded in a pleasing manner for anyone invested in Waterford hurling. Edged out by a point last Sunday week against Clare, the homecoming to Walsh Park culminated on a low note with defeat in their first tie in Munster. Three days ago […]
LONGFORD MANAGER PADRAIC Davis has bemoaned the system that prevents USA bound Darren Gallagher from playing against Kildare next Sunday despite the midfielder not being set to fly out from Ireland until late June. Gallagher was a central figure in Longford’s league campaign, on the scoresheet in every game and finishing with a total of […]
“I’M A BIT nervous about it,” says Boidu Sayeh. “I haven’t done anything like it before. This’ll be new for me.” The Westmeath GAA star is referring to an annual conference for the Federation of Irish Sport taking place today at the Helix Theatre in DCU. This year, the topic is inclusivity in Irish sport, […]
CAPTAIN DIARMUID O’CONNOR returns as Mayo make three changes for Saturday’s Connacht semi-final against Roscommon in Castlebar. O’Connor, one of the stars of their league final win over Kerry in the spring, missed the opener against New York but is named at wing-forward for the last four clash. Experienced defender Chris Barrett is drafted in […]
Kerry 1-16 Clare 0-11 KERRY SET-UP a Munster minor football championship final meeting with Cork after an eight-point defeat of Clare in tonight’s clash in Tralee. Emmet O’Shea’s goal handed the hosts a 1-8 to 0-3 lead at the interval, with Dylan Geaney, Kevin Goulding and Jack O’Connor also on target. Click Here: sydney roosters shirt […]
WESTMEATH’S 2004 CREW will gather later this summer to mark the 15th anniversary of their famous Leinster final replay victory over Laois. Paidi O’Se celebrates the 2004 Leinster semi-final victory with John Keane and Gary Connaughton. Source: INPHO In 2014, a decade on from the only provincial title in their history, the county board organised […]
2018 ALL-IRELAND FINALISTS Tyrone have made one personnel change to their starting team to face Antrim in their Ulster SFC quarter-final clash. There’s a place in the last four at stake at the Athletic Grounds in Armagh tomorrow evening [throw-in 6pm, live on BBC Two Northern Ireland], with Mickey Harte’s side hoping to build on […]
AT THE END of every season, James McCarthy will sit down and reflect on the year. Six times since 2011, he has finished the year as an All-Ireland champion. On three occasions, he’s been selected on the All-Star team and can count himself extremely unlucky not to have won at least four. But that doesn’t […]