Month: September 2021

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…

Click: 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”…

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,…

THE GAA HAVE confirmed that there will be an opportunity to review proposals regarding the experimental Gaelic football rule changes before the start of the 2019 national leagues. Five new rule changes were debated at an Ard Chomhairle meeting in Croke Park at the weekend, and are set to be experimented during the pre-season competitions and the…

ONLY WHEN THE semi-final business was completed, did Declan Browne start to consider the jam-packed county final Sunday that was in store. In mid October the Graigue-Ballycallan team he coaches surmounted their last four Kilkenny intermediate hurling assignment on a Saturday afternoon. The following day he was back cheering on his homeplace in Tipperary as…

EDDIE BRENNAN ADMITS he’s facing a “huge challenge” as he begins his senior inter-county management career in charge of Joe McDonagh outfit Laois. Brennan spent much of 2018 working as a pundit with The Sunday Game, and operating as a coach with Killnaule who won the South Tipperary championship in July. And on the field,…

New man: Willie Maher. ALL-IRELAND SENIOR CLUB hurling champions Cuala have announced Tipperary’s Willie Maher as their new manager.  Click Here: offaly gaa jerseys The successful Premier county underage boss succeeds Mattie Kenny in the role, after he took over the Dublin hurlers earlier this month.  Kenny guided Cuala to back-to-back All-Ireland senior club titles…

TWO DEADLY FORWARDS have scooped the October and November Croke Park/LGFA Player of the Month awards. Doireann O’Sullivan and Amy Ring. Both preparing for the All-Ireland senior club final in Parnell Park on 8 December, Mourneabbey and Cork star Doireann O’Sullivan was recognised for her efforts this month while Foxrock-Cabinteely captain Amy Ring took October’s…