Month: September 2021

THE INVOLVEMENT OF divisional and college teams in the Cork senior football and hurling championships could be set for a major overhaul at the county’s annual convention next weekend. Motions are set to be brought forward which if passed would remove divisional sides from the equation and prevent college teams from fielding non-Cork players in…

“I DON’T THINK there are words to describe or explain exactly what it could mean.” This is it. A fifth stab at that elusive All-Ireland senior club crown. Eimear Meaney. Mourneabbey have come agonisingly close over the past four years. Now five in-a-row Cork and Munster champions, they’ve fallen just short in the All-Ireland final…

Mourneabbey (Cork) 1-13 Foxrock-Cabinteely (Dublin) 1-7 Emma Duffy reports from Parnell Park  AFTER FOUR YEARS of hurt and heartbreak, Mourneabbey are finally All-Ireland senior club champions. The five in-a-row Cork and Munster champions finally put three painful decider defeats (2014, 2015 and 2017) and a semi-final defeat (2016) to bed as they beat Dublin’s Foxrock-Cabinteely…

Two Mile House 1-8 Shamrocks 0-10 Kevin Egan reports from Tullamore Two Mile House of Kildare held firm in the face of a late rally from Shamrocks of Offaly in a competitive Leinster Intermediate club final this afternoon, as the Kildare club added a second provincial title to the junior crown they won five years…

Clontarf (Dublin) 8-14 Emmet Óg (Monaghan) 2-5 Daire Walsh reports from Parnell Park REPUBLIC OF IRELAND women’s international Siobhan Killeen grabbed an astonishing haul of 5-4 at Parnell Park to propel Clontarf towards an historic All-Ireland Ladies Intermediate Club Championship Football title win. They finished with all of 27 points to spare over Emmet Óg…

1. Mourneabbey’s long wait for All-Ireland glory finally ended FINALLY. AT LAST. 2018 champions: Mourneabbey. Source: Laszlo Geczo/INPHO Those were the words thrown around over and over as the final whistle sounded in Parnell Park and Mourneabbey were crowned All-Ireland champions after four years of hurt and heartbreak. Cork and Munster champions the last five…

“UNBELIEVABLE,” AN ELATED Doireann O’Sullivan grinned when asked how much it meant to her, and that feeling as the final whistle sounded. Bríd O’Sullivan with the cup. Source: Laszlo Geczo/INPHO “I don’t think you can put it into words. First feeling definitely was relief. Five years at it now, we finally got over the line…

File photo of Laois defender Stephen Attride. Source: James Crombie/INPHO Kevin O’Brien reports from O’Moore Park THERE WAS A slight sense of anti-climax in Portlaoise last night as one of the most dramatic rule-change packages in the history of Gaelic football had a low-key start in the opening round O’Byrne Cup clash between Laois and…

THE FINAL FOUR.  We’re down to back-to-back champions Dublin, 11-time winners Cork and Connacht rivals Galway and Mayo in the TG4 All-Ireland senior championship, with Croke Park hosting the semi-finals on Sunday, 25 August. The last four meeting of arch-rivals Dublin and Cork was confirmed last weekend, and now we know who’s joining them in…

All-Ireland winning captain Anthony Daly and his Clare team-mates of the 1990s feature prominently in this week’s episode. EPISODE THREE OF Behind the Lines, our sportswriting podcast available exclusively to The42 Members, is available now. In case you’re unaware of the thrust of the show – each episode features a long interview with one of the…