Click:autoclave free pvb laminating machine BACK IN MAY, Kevin Walsh admitted he would step aside as Galway boss once things started to go “downhill.” Kevin Walsh chats with Shane Walsh on the field before the Mayo game. Source: Ryan Byrne/INPHO The two-time All-Ireland winning midfielder led the Tribesmen to two Connacht titles during his five-year […]
THE FINAL ROUND of All-Ireland SFC qualifier action did not disappoint, with the remaining Super 8 spots decided over the weekend. Mayo, Tyrone, Meath and Cork all prevailed to join provincial winners Dublin, Donegal, Roscommon and Kerry in the business end of the championship, with three of the four Round Four qualifier clashes televised. In […]
WE’RE IN FOR a super weekend of GAA action and in welcome news for fans across the length and breadth of the country, all games will be televised despite clashes. From the opening round of Super 8s clashes to All-Ireland SHC quarter-finals, it’s going to be a busy one with six live games down for […]
CYRIL FARRELL BELIEVES Laois’s victory over Dublin yesterday proves that the Leinster SHC should be expanded to six teams. Eddie Brennan’s side will compete in Leinster next season but face a difficult task to avoid an immediate return to the Joe McDonagh Cup. Carlow lifted the second tier title in 2018 and suffered four defeats […]
A DECORATED KILKENNY All-Ireland winner and a Galway native who had been a stalwart in Dublin senior colours. At the final whistle in Portlaoise yesterday, Eddie Brennan and Niall Corcoran embraced each other after helping mastermind as joyous an afternoon as Laois hurling has known for quite some time. The local consensus was that this […]
A TRIO OF players with recent senior experience have been named to start for the Clare side that take on Cork on Wednesday night in the Bord Gáis Energy Munster U20 hurling championship semi-final. Centre-forward Diarmuid Ryan was a regular in the Munster senior championship this season while midfielder Aidan McCarthy started in the recent […]
THE SIGHT OF Andy Moran warming the bench for the full 70 minutes in Limerick on Saturday night gives an indication of Mayo’s increased strength in depth this season. The 2017 Footballer of the Year had already set-up Fionn McDonagh’s goal when he was whipped off before half-time in the previous round against Armagh. Conor […]
CORK HAVE THIS evening named their starting team for Wednesday’s Bord Gáis Energy Munster U20 hurling championship semi-final clash against Clare at Páirc Uí Rinn. Manager Denis Ring has made two changes to his side for the last four showdown, with Ger Millerick and Sean Twomey drafted into the starting XV from last week’s quarter-final […]
TAKING TO THE field in Croke Park last Sunday week was a milestone for Matthew Whelan. He had been a member of a Laois minor football squad that won the Leinster title there in 2005 but had carved a senior sporting identity as a hurler. Trips up to Dublin to GAA headquarters had been missing […]
TYRONE FOOTBALL BOSS Mickey Harte has issued an apology in relation to a video that emerged of some of his players singing a rebel song as a band parade passed their bus after an All-Ireland qualifier last Saturday. Tyrone defeated Cavan in a Round 4 tie and were en route home from that match in […]