IRELAND’S LATEST ADDITION to the Australian Football League Women’s (AFLW) Aisling McCarthy says she “couldn’t believe it” when she was picked in the 2018 Draft. Aisling McCarthy was Player of the Match in the 2017 All-Ireland intermediate final. Source: Ryan Byrne/INPHO The Tipperary star and 2017 Intermediate Player of the Year was watching on from […]
FOR THE MAJORITY of high-level sportsmen, it’s the defeats rather than the victories that will stick with them. Rory Beggan after Tyrone ended Monaghan’s season. Source: Oisin Keniry/INPHO While Rory Beggan admits he took his game “onto a new level” in 2018, the All-Star nominee was frustrated with his decision-making late in Monaghan’s All-Ireland semi-final defeat […]
THE TIPPERARY COUNTY board have ratified the appointment of former All-Ireland winning captain Tommy Dunne and former inter-county player and Kiladangan native Darragh Egan as coaches within Liam Sheedy’s backroom team. Sheedy has returned to the position of Tipperary senior hurling manager, eight years after leading the Premier County to the Liam MacCarthy Cup against Kilkenny […]
DONAL MOLONEY AND Gerry O’Connor will manage the Clare senior hurlers again for the 2019 season. O’Connor and Moloney have been in charge of Clare since October 2016. Source: Bryan Keane/INPHO The pair were formally ratified on Tuesday evening at a Clare county board meeting as the joint managers for next year’s campaign. It will […]
AIDAN O’ROURKE has officially ruled himself out of the running for the position of Roscommon senior football manager, the county confirmed on Tuesday. The former Louth boss was the County Board’s leading candidate to take over from Kevin McStay, however a phone call from O’Rourke has ended his involvement in the running. As a result, […]
WHEN LIAM SHEEDY last took charge of the Tipperary senior hurlers, Lar Corbett was the star of the show. The final game of Sheedy’s first tenure as Tipperary boss yielded an All-Ireland senior title in 2010, Corbett ransacked the Kilkenny defence for three goals in that epic decider. The news of Sheedy’s return to the […]
DUBLIN CAMOGIE GOALKEEPER Faye McCarthy has admitted “it was a surprise” to hear that recently departed manager David Herity was appointed as Kildare’s new hurling boss. Click Here: Portugal National Team soccer tracksuit Naomh Jude and Dublin camogie goalkeeoer Faye McCarthy at the launch of the AIB Camogie and Club Championships. This is AIB’s 28th year […]
“WE THOUGHT HE was gone.” When the news of Mike Curran’s accident in France filtered through to the tight-knit community in Waterville, Kerry, they feared the worst. Waterville’s Mike Curran. Curran was cycling in France on a stretch of road between Reims and Paris when he was struck by a speeding car. He was barely 10 […]
ON FRIDAY MORNING Peter Acheson will leave his home in Dubai, head to the airport and his flight is scheduled to touch down in Dublin at lunchtime. Peter Acheson celebrating Tipperary’s 2016 quarter-final victory over Galway, Source: Ryan Byrne/INPHO All going well he’ll back home in south Tipperary that afternoon and on the field training […]
THREE DECADES AFTER Meath lifted Sam Maguire after a victory over Cork that completed two-in-a-row, some of the legendary figures from both setups will convene on Friday night in aid of the Support Seán Cox fund. Colm O’Rourke and Stephen O’Brien in action in the 1988 All-Ireland final. Source: James Meehan/INPHO Meath defeated Cork on […]