PETE McGRATH IS used to proving people wrong on the pitch. So when he stares you in the eye and insists Fermanagh have the personnel to win a first Ulster senior football championship, you’d be foolish not to listen. The Erne County haven’t been in a provincial decider since 2008 but they have been showing […]
Ger Loughnane feels Brian Cody should have walked away Source: INPHO GER LOUGHNANE SPARKED quite a storm last week when he suggested that Brian Cody should have stepped down in Kilkenny in the wake of their All-Ireland final loss to Tipperary. The Clare All-Ireland winning boss pointed to legendary GAA figures Mick O’Dwyer and Sean […]
Glen Rovers forward Patrick Horgan and Carbery Rangers attacker John Hayes Source: INPHO CORK SENIOR HURLER Patrick Horgan and former Cork footballer John Hayes landed GAA club awards last night after helping their respective clubs to win county senior titles this year. Horgan, part of the Glen Rovers team that lost out recently in the Munster […]
The UCD team celebrate their Sigerson Cup triumph. Source: Presseye/Declan Roughan/INPHO SOME OF THE leading GAA players in the country discovered their early season assignments in 2017 when the draws for next year’s Sigerson and Fitzgibbon Cup took place. Footballers like Dublin’s Jack McCaffrey (UCD), Donegal’s Ryan McHugh (UUJ) and Galway’s Damien Comer (NUI Galway) […]
KERRY DOMINATE THE quarter-final line-up of the 2016 Munster Colleges Corn Uí Mhuirí competition after the group stages concluded today. Reigning champions St Brendan’s – who also won the Hogan Cup in Croke Park in last April – finished top of Group C and are joined by fellow Kingdom outfit IS Killorglin. Tralee CBS topped […]
Home Stephen Kenny has enjoyed a frutiful year with Dundalk FC this year. Source: Lorraine O’Sullivan/INPHO Ireland assistant coach Andy Farrell has been appointed the Lions’ defence coach for next summer’s tour of New Zealand. Tipperary hurling legend Mick Roche has passed away at 73. Dundalk boss Stephen Kenny picks up the Philips Sports Manager of the […]
2015 FOOTBALLER OF the Year Jack McCaffrey has yet to discuss a potential return to the Dublin senior squad with manager Jim Gavin for next season. McCaffrey missed this year’s championship as he spent 11 weeks in Africa as part of his medical studies and to do some travelling. But McCaffrey admits that he would […]
Ryan McHugh in action against Jonny Cooper in August Source: Lorraine O’Sullivan/INPHO IT WAS AGAINST Dublin that Ryan McHugh burst to prominence, bagging a brace of goals in that seismic victory for Donegal in the 2014 All-Ireland semi-final Source: Ar an taobh líne/YouTube He found the net again against Dublin in August, once more in […]
MOST PEOPLE IN Ireland are aware of the curse of the Mayo GAA football team. But it’s not the kind of thing you’d expect to see pop up on Countdown on Channel 4 of an afternoon. But on Tuesday’s show, guest panellist Colin Murray started into the daily story and told the viewers all about […]
A LEADING GAA official has hit out at the black card rule in Gaelic football, claiming it has failed players, match officials and administrators. In his annual report to county convention – which takes place next Tuesday 13 December – Tyrone secretary Dominic McCaughey has heavily criticised the black card, which has been in place […]