REIGNING ALL-IRELAND CHAMPIONS Carnacon, without their eight suspended players, were 15-point winners last night in the Mayo SFC. The heavily depleted side beat Castlebar Mitchels on a scoreline of 4-10 to 0-7 in their re-fixed round 2 group clash at the Connacht Centre of Excellence in Bekan. Eight players including Cora Staunton and former Mayo […]
Ballyea 1-21 O’Callaghan’s Mills 1-17 Eoin Brennan reports from Cusack Park, Ennis A SUPERB HAUL of 1-9 from Tony Kelly effectively steered Ballyea to their second Clare senior hurling final in three years when holding off the stubborn challenge of O’Callaghan’s Mills in Cusack Park, Ennis this afternoon. The 2013 National Hurler and Young Hurler […]
FORMER ALL-IRELAND club football champions Crossmolina are heading to Mayo intermediate ranks after losing today’s relegation final to Davitts by 0-17 to 1-13. Crossmolina won the All-Ireland in 2001 and also reached the final in 2003. The three-time Connacht winners delivered five Mayo titles between 1999 and 2006, but now drop out of senior ranks. A […]
Breaffy 1-13 Ballaghaderreen 1-10 Colm Gannon reports from Castlebar BREAFFY BOOKED THEIR place in the Mayo senior football championship final with a hard fought three point win over Ballaghaderren in Castlebar on Saturday night. Mayo star Aidan O’Shea lined out at full forward for most of the game and his tussle with fellow Mayo senior […]
Ballintubber 1-12 Castlebar Mitchels 1-12 (After extra time) Colm Gannon reports from Elverys MacHale Park DEFENDING CHAMPIONS CASTLEBAR Mitchels and fierce local rivals Ballintubber will have to do it all over again after they could not be separated even after extra time in Elverys MacHale Park. Two Cillian O’Connor injury time frees sent this Mayo […]
A COUNTY FINAL day with a difference. Abbeyside-Ballinacourty have grown accustomed to showings in football finals in Waterford. Getting to sample county hurling final day is still something of a novelty so they will savour heading from their base in the eastern part of Dungarvan today, across the bridge and into Fraher Field in search […]
1. Good knock Good knock. Looking forward to the rematch. — Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) October 7, 2018 2. Never. Leave. Early. 3. Back in action. Click clack, he’s back! Good to see the big lad back in action against a tough Connacht side. #play6please 😆 pic.twitter.com/oFfQC0z9Ng — Josh van der Flier (@joshvdf) October 1, 2018 […]
Clonoulty-Rossmore 0-19 Toomevara 1-10 Fintan O’Toole reports from Semple Stadium A FIRST FINAL place since 2011 confirmed and the chance to end a county senior title wait that has dragged on since 1997. It was a good afternoon’s work for Clonoulty-Rossmore in the first game in the Tipperary senior hurling semi-final double-header today, a merited […]
Cratloe 1-14 Kilmaley 0-16 Eoin Brennan reports from Cusack Park, Ennis CRATLOE WILL FACE Ballyea in this year’s Clare senior hurling final after clinging on for a minimum victory over intermediate champions Kilmaley in Cusack Park this afternoon. 19 wides apiece told its own story of a nervy low-scoring affair in admittedly blustery conditions that […]
Nenagh Éire Óg 2-18 Thurles Sarsfields 2-15 Fintan O’Toole reports from Semple Stadium THURLES SARSFIELDS HAVE lorded Tipperary hurling in recent times, claiming seven of the last nine county senior titles and aiming to complete five-in-a-row this season. But they were dethroned in Semple Stadium today, taken down at the semi-final stage by a Nenagh […]