Ballintubber 0-6 Tourlestrane 0-5 Mike Finnerty reports from Enniscrone DESPITE SCORING JUST once from open play, Mayo champions Ballintubber did just enough to squeeze past Tourlestrane in today’s Connacht club senior quarter-final at a windy Enniscrone. As expected this game was a cagey and tactical affair with the winners struggling to break down Eamonn O’Hara’s […]
The Nire 1-18 Adare 0-12 Paraic McMahon reports from Gaelic Grounds DOMINANT FROM START to finish, The Nire were deserving winners over an Adare side competing in the Munster club championship for the third year in succession. The Nire did everything in numbers whether it was forcing turnovers, runners off the ball or providing options […]
THE LEINSTER CLUB SHC semi-final pairings are starting to take shape following victories for the Wexford and Offaly champions on Sunday. A brace of first-half goals from David O’Brien, coupled with another from Conor McDonald, sent Naomh Éanna on their way to victory over Laois side Camross in O’Moore Park. That result sees them safely through to […]
MONAGHAN ALL-STAR goalkeeper Rory Beggan kicked a point from play to help his side Scotstown progress to the Ulster SFC semi-finals on Sunday. Beggan – who proved to be a controversial choice for All-Star this year – finished with a tally of 0-2, including a free, as his side narrowly got the better of Burren to […]
WATCHING KATRINA PARROCK slot the ball into the back of the net for Wexford Youths in the Women’s FAI Cup final on Sunday, you would think she has been playing at this level all her life. The 28-year-old walked away from camogie in 2017 having enjoyed a stellar career in GAA, being an integral member […]
KILDARE DEFENDER JOHNNY Byrne has opted to step away from their senior football squad ahead of the 2019 season. The Allenwood player has cited ‘new challenges I’ll face in the coming months and goals to fulfil that will require 100% from me’ as the reasoning behind his departure, which he announced in a statement on […]
DUBLIN BACK-TO-back All-Ireland winning duo Sinéad Aherne and Lyndsey Davey, and Cork captain Ciara O’Sullivan, will battle it out for the 2018 TG4 senior Players’ Player of the Year award. The 2018 senior Players’ Player of the Year nominees. The three-player shortlist was revealed by the Ladies Gaelic Football Association today, along with the intermediate […]
AN 18-POINT win in a Munster hurling semi-final and the prospect of a provincial decider in a fortnight would generally indicate an extremely positive afternoon’s work. Shane Dowling is helped off the pitch by team doctor Kieran Breen. Source: James Crombie/INPHO Yet the ease at which Na Piarsaigh triumphed yesterday was clouded by the casualties […]
Mattie Kenny celebrating last year’s Dublin senior hurling final victory. Source: Oisin Keniry/INPHO “WHETHER WE CAN hold onto him now I have my doubts, but he has been super for us and he owes us nothing.” Kieran Fitzgerald was tipping his hat towards the man who had steered Corofin to the title they had so […]
A YEAR AGO Kieran Fitzgerald overtook clubmate Trevor Burke as the record Galway championship winner, but after winning his 13th county medal at the weekend he thinks this was one of the sweetest of them all, despite being sent off for the first time in his lengthy career. It took a replay for Corofin to […]