Nothing to see here… Just Andrew Conway latching on to Peter O’Mahony like a koala to a branch Source: Alice Bolger Aboud/INPHO This poor steward took a tumble while trying to tackle a pitch invader at the Gonzanga and Blackrock college Leinster Schools Senior Cup Semi-Final Source: Gary Carr/INPHO Oregon’s Chris Boucher fouls Arizona State’s Tra […]
FORMER CORK HURLER Seanie McGrath is worried about the direction the game is headed, particularly the Munster SHC. Source: RTE Speaking on RTÉ’s Allianz League Sunday last night, the 1999 All-Ireland winner cited declining attendances and big Munster final defeats as reasons for his concern for the small ball code. Tipperary hammered Waterford by 21 points in […]
Click:ARCOTRONICS Capacitor WHEN MICHAEL CAHALANE was summoned by the Cork hurling management before half-time in Walsh Park yesterday afternoon, it represented a major personal milestone. Michael Cahalane (left) in action for Cork against Waterford yesterday. Source: Morgan Treacy/INPHO It was just over three years since his last senior league appearance for Cork, brought on as […]
WHEN TONY KELLY left Croke Park on 26 September 2013, he didn’t think he would be waiting three and a half years for the next time that he would grace the pitch. If you’d told him that his next outing there would be in his club colours of Ballyea on Friday in a St Patrick’s […]
Click:glitter cannon IT WAS PART of a two or three year plan, but Davy Fitzgerald has managed to bring top flight hurling back to Wexford on the first time of asking. Source: Lorraine O’Sullivan/INPHO The feel good factor has returned to hurling in the Model county and they’ll be plying their trade in the top […]
KERRY AND CORK HAVE named the starting teams for their respective EirGrid U21 semi-finals on Wednesday night. Kerry, the favourites to go all the way in Munster and the All-Ireland series, weren’t entirely convincing in their 1-17 to 2-8 win over Clare in the last eight. Kingdom boss Jack O’Connor has named an unchanged side […]
CORK’S BRIAN HURLEY could face another extended period on the sidelines after suffering a hamstring injury on club duty over the weekend. Hurley had only just returned after an eight-month layoff. Source: Cathal Noonan/INPHO The Southern Star is this evening reporting that Hurley sustained an injury similar to the one that kept him out of […]
AHEAD OF THE spotlight being placed this week on the GAA club scene with the St Patrick’s Day All-Ireland finals, the Club Players Association have revealed that ‘substantial work’ has been done on their ‘proposed solutions to the fixture crisis’. The CPA have revealed in a statement that they are continuing discussions with ‘all the […]
ANTRIM HURLER NEIL McManus has serious concerns about the impact Brexit will have on the GAA in the six counties. An All-Ireland club finalist with Cushendall in 2016, McManus believes GAA will suffer if a ‘hard border’ returns. “For the GAA in Ulster if it came to a situation where there was a hard border […]
Tim Foley lifts the cup after Cistercian College Roscrea triumphed in 2015. Source: Dan Sheridan/INPHO THE CISTERCIAN COLLEGE Roscrea side that claimed the Leinster senior schools rugby cup in 2015 did not lack players who made waves in GAA and that trend is continuing. From that team Robert Wharton had won an All-Ireland minor football […]