THE NUMBER OF 2020 county finals around the country that have yet to be played, has been described as ‘the one festering sore’ from this year by the GAA. The inter-county senior championships were wrapped up at the weekend but several counties are still waiting to complete their flagship senior competitions since the club action […]
THE GOVERNMENT HAS today announced new restrictions aimed at tackling the spread of Covid-19. The restrictions – which come into effect on Christmas Eve and will be reviewed on 12 January – may not have a considerable impact on the sporting calendar that was already in place. Non-contact training in pods of up to 15 […]
THE END OF the line was reached in anti-climactic fashion. 14 seasons as a Wexford senior hurler and the last day out for Éanna Martin was spent watching the TV footage on a mid-November Saturday afternoon as Tony Kelly unleashed his magic for Clare. It had been a strange stop-start season. Injury struck last winter, […]
A MAN IS standing on a bridge in Limerick, peering over the edge. Goalkeeping coach Noel Considine. Source: Noel Considine He’s jobless, homeless and down to his last €3. It’s Christmas Eve, 2013, a day he usually spends out shopping with his partner and his son. It’s their little annual custom. But today, he’s alone and […]
Denise Gaule, Sarah Dervan and Grace Walsh have been included in our team of the year. Source: Photojoiner/Inpho THERE WERE SOME head-scratching moments to suffer through here. The camogie championship came to a dramatic conclusion last Saturday night, as Kilkenny banished the hurt of three consecutive All-Ireland final defeats to reign supreme again. It took […]
THE LEINSTER MFC and MHC finals have been postponed until further notice due to the new Level 5 restrictions. Leinster GAA have confirmed that inter-county minor and U20 games are unable to take place after 27 December. Offaly are set to contest both minor deciders, with the hurling clash against Kilkenny initially fixed for 2 […]
Updated Dec 26th 2020, 9:44 PM Click Here: USA Rugby Shop IT’S SO IMPORTANT to normalise talking about mental health. I think we have this culture, especially in Cavan, where people just say, ‘Ah, I’m grand,’ or, ‘I’m okay…’ ‘How are ya keeping?’ ‘I’m grand.’ We need to spend that extra couple of minutes talking […]
THE CHRISTMAS ADVERT for a popular chain of stores depicts an extraordinary historical event. A special game of football took place during World War 1 in 1914. Source: Sainsbury’s Youtube Channel The day is Christmas Eve, 1914 and the setting is the Western Front of World War 1. It’s often referred to as the Christmas […]
Updated Dec 28th 2020, 9:30 PM RONAN MCCARTHY HAS been reappointed as Cork senior football boss for a further two-year term, the Rebel County have confirmed. McCarthy’s initial three-year term concluded after Cork’s Munster final defeat to Tpperary and he will now stay in place until the end of the 2022 season. McCarthy has added […]
Updated 16.15, 29 December Click Here: qld maroons rugby store BRENDAN BUGLER HAS been announced as the new manager of Offaly senior hurling side Birr. The two-time All-Star retired from inter-county duty with Clare in 2017 and he most recently worked as coach with Wexford. Birr were beaten finalists in 2019 and remain among the […]