DEFENDING CHAMPIONS ÁRDSCOIL Rís of Limerick are set to face Cork’s Midleton CBS, as the quarter-final draw for the Dr Harty Cup was made this evening. Tipperary All-Ireland minor winning captain Brian McGrath Source: Donall Farmer/INPHO 2015 champions Thurles CBS will face fellow Tipperary school Our Ladys Templemore, after they overcame Abbey CBS in an all-Tipp second […]
Munster 2-20 Leinster 2-16 By Jackie Cahill at Semple Stadium, Thurles Munster’s Paraic Maher celebrates with Dan McCormack after the game. Source: Tommy Dickson/INPHO AARON SHANAGHER’S LATE goal sealed victory for Anthony Daly’s Munster in this evening’s GAA Interprovincial hurling final at Semple Stadium, in front of 592 spectators. Rising Clare star Shanagher was introduced […]
12 NOMINEES FROM across a wide-range of sports are in the hunt to pick up the RTÉ Sports Person of the Year award. The winner, which has been chosen by a public vote, will be announced on 17 December when the RTÉ Sport Awards take place. All-Ireland winners Seamus Callanan, Brian Fenton, Denise Gaule and Bríd Stack have […]
The Na Piarsaigh and Patrickswell players before the 2015 county senior hurling final Source: Keith Wiseman/INPHO THE REIGNING ALL-Ireland senior club hurling champions have been pitted in the same group as the current county kingpins in next year’s Limerick senior hurling championship. The draws were made for the 2017 group stages last night with Na […]
McGeeney and O’Rourke claimed an All-Ireland title together in 2002. Source: INPHO KIERAN MCGEENEY WILL need a new assistant manager in 2017 after Aidan O’Rourke has stepped away from the role with Armagh. O’Rourke has cited ‘pressures of time’ for his reason for departing from the position. “I wouldn’t be devoting the time that the […]
WEDNESDAY OF LAST week in a Dublin hotel and it’s the business end of the Philips Sports Manager of the Year Awards lunch. The gathered worthies of Irish sport have just polished off their desserts when Minister of Sport Patrick O’Donovan is ushered onto the stage. “I’m sorry I’m late,” says O’Donovan, boyish, rosy-cheeked and […]
Anthony Daly with Cian Dillon, Noel Connors and Shane Fives after last night’s win. Source: Tommy Dickson/INPHO ANTHONY DALY HAS thrown his weight behind an idea to give the gate receipts to charity from the GAA Interprovincial football and hurling championships. The Clare man last night managed Munster to defeat Leinster in the hurling decider […]
ALL-IRELAND CLUB champions Ballyboden St-Enda’s have turned to former Dublin footballer John O’Brien as their new manager. Andy McEntee has taken over as the new Meath senior football boss and brought his spell with the Dublin club to an end with this week’s Division 1 football league final victory. O’Brien has previously represented Dublin at […]
THE SHORTLIST FOR RTÉ Sports Person of the Year is packed with worthy contenders. Today, Fintan O’Toole argues why Denise Gaule deserves to be on the shortlist. Source: Ryan Byrne/INPHO WHEN KILKENNY LIFTED the O’Duffy Cup in 1994, they hardly reckoned on Noreside that they would be waiting 22 years to claim the title again. […]
David Breen celebrates Na Piarsaigh’s All-Ireland club triumph. Source: Cathal Noonan/INPHO ON ST PATRICK’S Day last, David Breen finally hit the hurling jackpot. He’d been frustrated in his efforts to bag an All-Ireland medal with Limerick, a couple of shattering semi-final losses to Clare in 2013 and Kilkenny in 2014 the closest he came. Click […]