AFTER DELIBERATING OVER whether to extend her inter-county football career into a 23rd year, Cora Staunton will relay her decision to Mayo management in a meeting on Thursday evening. The four-time All-Ireland winner has spent the last number of weeks considering her future and will now announce her plans for 2017 ahead of Mayo’s opening league […]
Fitzgerald Stadium and Elverys MacHale Park are two of the stadiums shortlisted. Source: INPHO THERE WILL BE a major chance for the GAA to upgrade some of its stadiums if Ireland’s bid to stage the 2023 Rugby World Cup bid is successful. It was announced last November that there are 12 venues on the long […]
THE GAA HAVE rejected suggestions that the National Games Development Centre in Abbotstown is essentially a centre of excellence for Dublin GAA teams. The centre opened at the National Sports Campus in Dublin last April but Director General Páraic Duffy insists that it is a national facility. Duffy pointed to evidence that it is being […]
ATTEMPTS WILL BE made to curb the practice of inter-county GAA players being paid to play in the USA during the summer months and stop the exodus of players after their county’s opening provincial games. A motion to next month’s GAA Congress will seek to prevent players travelling Stateside as long as their counties are […]
THREE LIVE GAA games will be broadcast simultaneously on television for the first time this spring as part of eir Sport’s 23-game package in the Allianz football and hurling league games. The broadcaster – which was rebranded from Setanta Sports last summer – announced its 2017 springtime GAA package which features five ‘triple-headers’. The action […]
DCU are aiming to reach a third successive Sigerson Cup final this year. Source: PressEye/Jonathan Porter/INPHO DCU 3-10 Queen’s University 0-3 Orla Bannon reports from The Dub, Belfast DCU THRASHED QUEEN’S University with three second-half goals in Belfast easing them through to the quarter-finals of the Sigerson Cup. The 2015 champions, chasing a place in […]
GOALSCORING SPREES WERE key as NUI Galway recorded victories in the Fitzgibbon and Sigerson Cup today. The Galway college’s hurlers defeated St Pat’s 4-14 to 1-11 in the Fitzgibbon Cup group stages while their footballers saw off Trinity College by 4-12 to 1-7 in the Sigerson Cup. Clare senior defender Conor Cleary and Galway senior […]
Home Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt was at the Six Nations launch in London today and is confident Johnny Sexton will be fit for the Championship. Schmidt’s rival coach Conor O’Shea has called on his Italy side to end debate over relegation. Robbie Brady looks set to complete a €10.5 million move back to the […]
Cork 0-19 Clare 0-15 Cork ensured a Co-Op Superstores Munster Hurling League final meeting with Limerick this Sunday, after finally pulling away from hosts Clare to maintain their perfect start to 2017 in Sixmilebridge this evening. In a rather lacklustre contest played in blustery conditions, the sides were level on eight occasions by the turn […]
DUBLIN’S SINÉAD GOLDRICK believes that inter-county ladies footballers, are victims of ‘inequality’ when Government funding is being dished out. And Goldrick insists that the money on offer for female players should be on a par with their male counterparts. It was announced recently that the Gaelic Players Association is due to receive €1.6m from Sport […]