CORK ALL-IRELAND football winner Aidan Walsh is set to miss out on the Rebels’ upcoming All-Ireland preliminary quarter-final after sustaining a finger injury over the weekend. Cork’s Aidan Walsh. Source: Laszlo Geczo/INPHO Cork GAA today confirmed to The42 that Walsh had undergone successful surgery on the work-related injury, but could not give a time frame for his […]
1. The all-Connacht tie of the round THE PICK OF the round 4 qualifier draw this morning was undoubtedly the Connacht showdown between Mayo and Galway. It’s the first time the neighbours will meet in a knock-out championship game (where defeat would spell the end of the loser’s season) since the 1999 provincial decider. Tempers […]
2018 ALL-IRELAND CHAMPIONS, 2019 Division 1 National Hurling League winners and now, 2019 Munster champions. Limerick turned on the style yesterday as they recorded a 12-point victory over Tipperary to lift the Munster crown at the Gaelic Grounds. Hitting form and gathering momentum at the right time as they now prepare for an All-Ireland semi-final, they’re […]
ARMAGH’S SEASON CONCLUDED at the weekend with a narrow one-point defeat to Mayo and promising midfielder Jarlath Og Burns will spend the rest of the summer playing football in the US. Conro Whelan, Jarlath Og Burns and Austin Gleeson. Burns, who shone during an impressive rookie campaign with the Orchard, had his sanction approved to […]
THE GAA HAVE confirmed fixture details for the All-Ireland hurling quarter-finals and the opening two rounds of the Super 8s. On Sunday 14 July, the two hurling quarter-finals will take place as a double-header at Croke Park. Kilkenny play the winners of Cork/Westmeath at 2pm while Tipperary face Dublin/Laois at 4pm. It’s the first time […]
KEVIN MCMANAMON FIRMLY believes that if he hadn’t utilised sports psychology, he wouldn’t still be playing for Dublin today. The St Jude’s club man met his sports psychologist in 2010, a year before his famous goal against Kerry in the All-Ireland final. The mental training he did helped the forward deal with his pre-game anxiety, […]
ANTRIM TEEN CAMOGIE player Róisín McCormick is recovering well after she was left unconscious following a collision in an All-Ireland intermediate championship game against Westmeath on Saturday. McCormick had just gathered the ball in the second half of the fixture in Kinnegad when she was challenged by two Westmeath players. She was treated on the […]
WATERFORD AND LIMERICK have advanced to the last four of the Munster U20 football championship this evening after respective one-point wins over Clare and Tipperary. The Treaty County remarkably battled back from eight points down to secure an unlikely victory over Tipp in Thurles. The home side led 1-10 to 0-05 at the beginning of […]
Dublin 4-21 Longford 0-7 Seamus Morris reports from Pearse Park DUBLIN CRUISED TO a facile win over Longford in the U20 quarter-final in Pearse Park. The visitors dominated this game, scoring at ease. It was the second successive year that Dublin hammered Longford at this grade. Dublin raced into a 1-7 to 0-0 lead after […]
CORK HAVE MADE two changes to the side that lost out to Kerry in last month’s Munster final ahead of this weekend’s All-Ireland Round 4 qualifier against Laois. Cork’s Kevin O’Donovan, Sean White and Liam O’Donovan. Source: James Crombie/INPHO The Rebels introduce Thomas Clancy and Kevin O’Driscoll to the starting line-up in place of Tom […]