16 TEAMS WILL go into the hat for the All-Ireland football qualifiers round 1 draw that takes place on Monday morning. The draw will be broadcast live on RTE Radio 1′s Morning Ireland and GAA.ie just after 8.30am. All the counties involved failed to reach their provincial semi-finals. Dates and venues for each game will […]
RYAN MCHUGH HAD just turned 20 when he put 2-2 past the Dubs in the 2014 All-Ireland semi-final. Dublin haven’t lost a championship game since and at 25 McHugh is now one of the seasoned campaigners in the Donegal squad. Nothing brought that fact home more than when Declan Bonner invited promising young forward Oisin […]
Click:electronic accessories shop near me JIM GAVIN WILL leave nothing to chance this evening in Portlaoise as Dublin welcome back their big guns for their Leinster SFC opener against Louth in O’Moore Park. The Dubs boss makes just four changes to the side that lifted the Sam Maguire in Croke Park last September. Stephen Cluxton […]
Westmeath 2-16 Kerry 1-21 Conor McKenna reports from Cusack Park, Mullingar KERRY CLAIMED VICTORY away to Westmeath in their second game of the Joe McDonagh Cup, with Fintan O’Connor’s side full value for their two-point win on Saturday afternoon at Cusack Park. Westmeath were flat on the day in complete contrast to their victory over […]
Meath 2-18 Carlow 0-9 Kevin O’Brien reports from O’Moore Park THIS ONE WAS a good deal more convincing than their first round win over Offaly, as Meath brushed off the Carlow challenge to advance into the last four of Leinster. The Royals play the winners of tomorrow’s Laois-Westmeath encounter in the semi-final, but they’ve got […]
Dublin 5-21 Louth 0-10 Kevin O’Brien reports from O’Moore Park DUBLIN’S DRIVE FOR Five bid began in convincing fashion in Portlaoise this evening. The four-in-a-row winners put five goals past a hapless Louth side on the way to a 26-point victory to seal a Leinster semi-final place against either Kildare or Longford. This was a […]
Tyrone 2-23 Antrim 2-9 Declan Bogue reports from the Athletic Grounds A DARK DAY for Antrim football, but nobody would have expected anything else in the lead in to this most facile of games, one that banishes forever the hoary notion that every team is vulnerable in the Ulster Championship. Such was the ease of this […]
Tommy Wogan and Andy McEntee shake hands after the game. Source: Bryan Keane/INPHO Kevin O’Brien reports from O’Moore Park THE MAN PATROLLING the sideline for Carlow last night was Tommy Wogan, with the selector standing into the hot-seat for suspended manager Turlough O’Brien. O’Brien was slapped with a 20-week ban for using “threatening conduct” towards […]
1. The strangest moment of Saturday’s FA Cup final came in the seconds after Manchester City’s sixth goal, when the camera cut from the mob of celebrating City players to Pep Guardiola, who was slumped on the bench with his head in his hands. Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola on the bench prior to the […]
Kevin O’Brien reports from O’Moore Park JIM GAVIN HAS defended Paul Mannion in the wake of his red card during Dublin’s Leinster SFC quarter-final hammering of Louth in Portlaoise last night. Dublin rolled in five goals during their convincing 26-point win to get their championship campaign up and running, but Mannion is facing a suspension […]