SLAUGHTNEIL’S PROGRESS TO an AIB All-Ireland senior club football final – and their presence in the hurling semi-final against Cuala on 25 February – has left GAA fixtures-makers with a sizeable potential headache to consider. Should Derry stars Slaughtneil advance to the hurling decider, it will scupper plans for the traditional St Patrick’s Day double-header, […]
TWO DOWN, FIVE to go in the group stages of the Allianz Football League. It’s still early days as the four divisions take shape but we’ve already been provided with some early-season clues as to how the various counties are shaping up. Kildare, Louth, Waterford and Wexford are the only teams boasting 100 per cent […]
Click:electronic components shop TYRONE WERE HANGING on by the end on Saturday night in Croke Park but they put in one hell of a fight. Tyrone’s Niall Sludden was man-of-the-match on Saturday night. Source: Tommy Dickson/INPHO Dublin may have gone 31 games unbeaten but they really had to grind out this result. Up to the […]
WE’RE DOWN TO the last eight as the race for 2017 Fitzgibbon Cup glory hots up. There are four games down for decision this week, with holders Mary Immaculate College defending their crown against NUI Galway in the first of the quarter-final fixtures on Tuesday afternoon. At the Mardyke, UCC host DCU and then on […]
REIGNING ALL-IRELAND hurling champions Tipperary face a repeat of last year’s Munster decider when they head to Walsh Park to face Waterford. It’s the first time the counties have crossed paths since Tipperary’s destruction of Waterford at the Gaelic Grounds last July. Cork’s Saturday night home tie against Dublin and Clare’s entertaining of Kilkenny on […]
DAVY FITZGERALD BRINGS a media spotlight with him wherever he goes, and his arrival in Wexford likely means the county’s hurlers will be under more scrutiny that they’ve experienced in recent years. Source: Ryan Byrne/INPHO That’s not an issue for Lee Chin, who says the Wexford camp felt energised after the appointment of the 2013 […]
COMING BACK FROM the jaws of defeat is often the hallmark of great teams. As if we needed a reminder, Dublin displayed all the qualities associated with a side at the top of their game against the men from Tyrone on Saturday night. Dean Rock helped Life Style Sports Launch the new PUMA Evo Touch […]
LEE CHIN IS no stranger to trying his hand at different sports. Hurling is his first love, but the 24-year-old is also a talented Gaelic footballer and was a dual player with the Wexford seniors in 2013. Chin is off to Canada as part of AIB’s ‘The Toughest Trade’. Source: Ramsey Cardy/SPORTSFILE On one occasion […]
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick 4-18 NUI Galway 1-16 Jackie Cahill reports from MICL Grounds LIMERICK’S AARON GILLANE continued his rich vein of scoring form, registering 2-10, as holders Mary Immaculate College cruised into the semi-finals of the Fitzgibbon Cup today. 2-10 in the Fitzgibbon Cup today for Limerick’s Aaron Gillane. Source: Ken Sutton/INPHO Mary I […]
UCC 1-18 DCU 0-16 Denis Hurley reports from the Mardyke UCC WILL COMPETE in the finals weekend of the Fitzgibbon Cup for the first time since 2014 after they emerged from a battle in their quarter-final with DCU at the Mardyke today. UCC’s Seamus Kennedy under pressure from DCU’s Jason Byrne. Source: Cathal Noonan/INPHO The […]