CORK LEGEND BRIEGE Corkery has ended an exile of almost two years to return to the champions’ panel for tomorrow’s Liberty Insurance All-Ireland senior camogie championship semi-final with Tipperary at Semple Stadium. Corkery hasn’t played for the Rebels since the 2016 All-Ireland final defeat to Kilkenny and last donned the red jersey when the Leesiders […]
Ciara Mageean came agonisingly close to winning a bronze medal in which event at the European Athletics Championships? INPHO 400 metres 800 metres 1500 metres 5000 metres Shane Lowry spearheaded the Irish challenge at the US PGA Championship. How many shots adrift of eventual winner Brooks Koepka did he finish? PA 5 6 7 8 […]
GALWAY HURLING MANAGER Micheal Donoghue has named his starting team to face Limerick in the All-Ireland senior hurling championship final on Sunday. Gearoid McInerney has recovered from injury to start at centre-half back for the Croke Park showdown (throw-in 3.30pm, live on RTÉ / Sky Sports) as the Tribesmen look to make it back-to-back titles. […]
GALWAY AND KILKENNY have shown their hand for their 2018 All-Ireland minor hurling final showdown in Croke Park on Sunday (throw-in 1pm, live on TG4). The Tribesmen are reigning champions — they beat Cork in last year’s decider — and are contesting their third final at this grade in four years. They’ve made one change […]
BEFORE THE BRIGHT lights of All-Ireland final day, there are always those moments of hardship. At the outset of 2017, Limerick were trying to get things going as the John Kiely era began. Their first afternoon out on their home turf saw Cork arrive to the Gaelic Grounds. It was January hurling, it was a […]
TIPPERARY LADIES FOOTBALL manager Shane Ronayne will be on taxi duty tonight, on the eve of his side’s crunch relegation final against Cavan in the TG4 All-Ireland senior championship. In order to accommodate Tipp dual star Orla O’Dwyer, the relegation clash was scheduled for Sunday in Virginia, but Ronayne has taken it upon himself to […]
BRIEGE CORKERY WILL not be the only player who has recently become a mother striding into battle in the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland senior camogie championship semi-finals at Semple Stadium today. Kilkenny’s Anne Dalton in action. Source: Tommy Dickson/INPHO While the Cork legend makes a dramatic comeback after an almost two-year absence from the big time […]
LIMERICK SKIPPER Declan Hannon admits he’s thought about what he’d say if he’s tasked with making an historic All-Ireland-winning speech tomorrow, but insists his mind is on the task at hand. And the Treaty camp know they have a huge challenge in front of them in dethroning defending champions and much-fancied Galway. Hannon is one […]
Click:EPCOS B43564-S9588-M003 400V 5800uF CapacitorKilkenny 1-10 Galway 1-7 A GOAL IN the 48th minute by Katie Power finally separated Kilkenny from a Galway side that left nothing in the tank but for a third consecutive season, bowed out of the All-Ireland senior camogie championship at the semi-final stage. Kilkenny will be hoping that the trend […]
Cork 0-21 Tipperary 0-9 A SECOND-HALF power play by Cork ensured that their place in the All-Ireland senior camogie final was assured with a quarter of an hour remaining. The 12-point margin does scant justice to Tipperary’s efforts however, and it was probably a combination of tiredness creeping in from their work-rate and Cork stepping […]