Kevin O’Brien reports from Parnell Park AFTER YESTERDAY’S SEMI-final win over Portlaoise, the danger for Kilmacud Crokes is complacency setting in ahead of the provincial final against tiny Longford club Mullinalaghta. The Dublin champions are 1/5 with most bookmakers to defeat Mickey Graham’s Mullinallaghta, who have a club membership of just 155 compared with Kilmacud’s 4,000-odd numbers. […]
QUALIFYING FOR A first Munster senior final sparked huge excitement in Miltown Malbay but when they got there they discovered the scale of the challenge at that stage of the competition. Landing at the Gaelic Grounds for yesterday’s decider saw the West Clare club collide with the might of Dr Crokes, seven-time winners and nine-time […]
THE CONTRAST WAS stark. When the Munster club football final ended yesterday, the Dr Crokes reaction was noticeably muted. They were provincial champions and glad of their latest success but there was no great outpouring of emotion. It was a marked change from the hurling equivalent the previous Sunday in Munster, a seismic afternoon for […]
FIVE YEARS AGO the Burke family were at the heart of a historic All-Ireland breakthrough for Galway club St Thomas. Click Here: Russia soccer tracksuit John Burke was on the sideline directing operations with five of his sons – Cathal, Darragh, Sean, Kenneth and David – all starting while the youngest Eanna came on as […]
FAMILIAR FACES ON the victory podiums in Munster and Connacht. The two provinces both concluded senior club football matters yesterday afternoon. There was a sense of business as usual in the Gaelic Grounds and at MacHale Park. In Limerick the 2017 All-Ireland champions Dr Crokes motored away to the Munster accolade with a controlled performance […]
THE CURTAIN COMES down on the ladies football year the weekend after next with three All-Ireland club titles up for grabs — and the LGFA have confirmed all of the fixture details. A general view of Parnell Park. Source: Laszlo Geczo/INPHO On Saturday 8 December, there’s an intriguing double-header on the cards in Parnell Park, […]
Kevin O’Brien reports from Parnell Park LAST SUNDAY WAS the latest chapter in Pat Burke’s eventful football career. The 35-year-old corner-forward scored three points, two from play, as Kilmacud Crokes squeezed past Portlaoise and into the Leinster club SFC final. Cathal Finn challenges Pat Burke for the ball. Source: Ryan Byrne/INPHO It’ll be his fourth […]
KERRY COUNTY BOARD chairman Tim Murphy has accepted that players who were omitted from Peter Keane’s 2019 Kingdom squad should have been informed of the decision by management. Kerins O’Rahillys delegate Dan Walsh raised the issue at a county board meeting on Monday night, with Murphy admitting “a few things fell through the cracks” in […]
ALL-IRELAND CHAMPIONS Dublin will begin their league defence with a home tie against Donegal in 2019. Dublin secured their first-ever Lidl Ladies National League Division 1 crown earlier this year, and will be looking to retain that title when they start their campaign by hosting the Ulster side in February. Donegal, who reached the All-Ireland […]
CONAL KEANEY WILL leave any decision on his Dublin future until after Sunday’s Leinster club hurling final against Ballyhale Shamrocks. Ballyboden St Endas’ Conal Keaney is pictured ahead of the AIB GAA Leinster Senior Hurling Championship Final where they face Ballyhale Shamrocks on Sunday, December 2nd at Netwatch Cullen Park. Source: David Fitzgerald/SPORTSFILE Ballyboden St Enda’s, […]