DUBLIN BELIEVE THAT ”extravagant hyperbole” surrounds the exploits of their all-conquering senior footballers. The Sky Blues captured back-to-back All-Ireland crowns this year to make it four Sam Maguire Cup wins in six seasons. Dublin have also claimed the last four Allianz Football League crowns and their domination of the big ball code has been viewed in […]
Home Pat Lam guided Connacht to Pro12 glory earlier this year. Source: James Crombie/INPHO Connacht Head Coach Pat Lam will be leaving Connacht at the end of the season to become the new Head Coach at Bristol. Cork City striker Sean Maguire signed a new deal with the League of Ireland side that will see […]
RHODE ARE BIDDING to become the first Offaly club in 30 years to take home the Leinster SFC club title, and they’ll have to do it without two key players on Sunday. Anton Sullivan and Jake Kavanagh jetted off on the Defence Forces’ tour of the Lebanon last month, prior to Rhode’s semi-final win over […]
DUBLIN COUNTY BOARD CEO John Costello launched a scathing attack on the ‘targetting’ of Diarmuid Connolly on the field in 2016, but the player himself has no gripes over his treatment. Diarmuid Connolly was at the AIB GAA Leinster Football Club Championship Final Media Day. Source: Ramsey Cardy/SPORTSFILE Costello wrote in his annual report that […]
THOSE PLAYSTATION 2 fans among us will remember back to 2005 when one of the worst games imaginable was unleashed on the Irish public: Gaelic Games Football. Source: YouTube It wasn’t exactly a hit, and there was another effort made in 2007 to revive the franchise – but it wasn’t enough. Now though, the Irish […]
Former Cork camogie star Anna Geary, Hurler of the Year Austin Gleeson, and former Kilkenny hurler Jackie Tyrrell at Tuesday’s launch. ONLINE DEPARTMENT STORE Littlewoods Ireland will sponsor the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship and the Camogie National League for the next three seasons. Littlewoods was announced today as the GAA’s newest “top tier partner” in […]
MAYO FOOTBALL MANAGER Stephen Rochford has appointed former inter-county goalkeeper Peter Burke as a selector for 2017. Burke, a goalkeeping coach who has been working with the panel for the past six seasons, will replace Sean Carey in the setup after he called time on his involvement, according to the Mayo News. The Kiltimagh club […]
THE MAYO COUNTY Board’s public relations officer has lashed out at media organisations for attempting “to blacken Lee Keegan’s name” during the build-up to the All-Ireland final replay. Keegan’s tussle with Dublin forward Diarmuid Connolly attracted considerable attention from the media and supporters before, during and after both All-Ireland finals. The Mayo defender, who was […]
Click:SWISS Beauty Device Man United players Jesse Lingard and Phil Jones were in Dublin yesterday to open Lifestyle Sport’s flagship store on Mary Street. Source: Dan Sheridan/INPHO Home The GAA have announced a new sponsorship deal with Littlewoods Ireland for the next three years. A six-month notice clause in Pat Lam‘s Connacht contract is believed […]
Jackie Tyrrell at yesterday’s launch of Littlewoods Ireland’s partnership with the GAA and Camogie Association. Source: Stephen McCarthy/SPORTSFILE JACKIE TYRRELL’S LAST day out with Kilkenny was in a familar setting but with an unfamiliar outcome. He’d grown accustomed to marquee days in Croke Park, typically embracing that winning feeling after a thunderous battle in his […]