JACK O’CONNOR MAY be without players due to the All-Ireland senior club football final and injury, but he has still been able to pick a Kerry team filled with minor winners for Wednesday’s EirGrid Munster U21 football quarter-final against Clare. Andrew Barry, Sean O’Shea and Conor Geaney all start for Kerry. Source: INPHO Dr Crokes […]
CHRISSY MCKAIGUE BUMPED into Paraic Duffy this morning into Croke Park. McKaigue was present for media duties ahead of Slaughtneil’s club football final battle on St Patrick’s Day, still enthused by having witnessed his club’s camogie side crowned All-Ireland champions yesterday. When one of the most passionate supporters of the Club Players Association met the Director-General […]
Home Clongowes Wood College and Belvedere College players react to the final whistle in their Leinster Schools Senior Cup semi-final this afternoon. Source: Gary Carr/INPHO Shane Duffy has been ruled out of Ireland’s World Cup qualifier against Wales later this month as he sustained a fractured metatarsal in Brighton’s 3-0 loss to Nottingham Forest over […]
TIPPERARY MANAGER LIAM Kearns believes that the controversial postponement of last Sunday’s planned Allianz Football League Division 3 clash has “compromised” the Premier County’s chances of promotion. Irate Longford boss Denis Connerton has already had his say on the issue and Kearns responded to his counterpart last night. Kearns says that he “empathises” with Connerton, […]
Updated 12.50pm BOTH TIPPERARY AND Limerick can call upon five senior football panelists for tomorrow’s EirGrid Munster U21 football quarter-final. Jack Kennedy and Brian Fanning are two players with senior experience. Source: INPHO Colm O’Shaughnessy is the most established senior player in the Tipperary U21 ranks, corner-back on the side that reached last year’s All-Ireland […]
KIERAN DONAGHY HAS been called up to Irish senior men’s basketball team panel. Donaghy in action for St Brendan’s Tralee. Source: Cathal Noonan/INPHO The veteran Kerry footballer is included in a 20-man squad for upcoming training sessions next month as head coach Pete Strickland prepares for the 2018 Small Nations tournament. Former Footballer of the […]
IT’S ALMOST SHOWTIME in Munster as the EirGrid U21 football championship begins this week. Cork begin the competition as holders, and are aiming to win the title for the sixth time in seven seasons. There are two quarter-finals down for decision on Wednesday, as a fancied Kerry team host Clare at Austin Stack Park in […]
DECLAN BROWNE IS preparing for his first taste of championship football as an inter-county manager. Tipperary football great Declan Browne. Source: INPHO Click Here: Olympique de Marseille soccer tracksuit You might remember the Moyle Rovers star tearing it up as a senior footballer with Tipperary during his playing days, and winning All-Star awards in 1998 […]
AS IF THE challenge of facing Kerry’s U21s tomorrow night wasn’t a tough enough assignment already, Clare will have to do so without Pearse Lillis as the Cooraclare man has been ruled out of the clash with a hand injury. Lillis picked up the injury while playing a hurling game for Ballyea over the weekend […]
CLARE’S BID FOR back-to-back Division 1 titles has suffered a blow with the news that Shane O’Donnell is set to miss the rest of the hurling league campaign. O’Donnell, who shot to prominence with a hat-trick in the 2013 All-Ireland final replay, has been ruled out “for a minimum of six weeks.” The news was confirmed […]