Month: September 2021

SCAN AN EYE back over the sporting tale of 2018 and some of the most vivid images that jump off the page revolve around hurling. It was an extraordinary season at a time of major change in the sport. A new round-robin structure in the provinces, the All Ireland semi-finals played on the same July…

Dublin 3-19  Dubs Stars 1-14 Kevin O’Brien reports from Pairc Barrog INSIDE FORWARDS OISIN Lynch and Conor McHugh posted 3-8 between them as Dublin enjoyed a comfortable 11-point victory in today’s Dublin Bus/Herald Dubs Stars football challenge this afternoon. In their final game of 2018, an experimental Dublin outfit had too much in the home of…

Dr Crokes 3-24 Kilcummin 1-08 TWO GOALS IN quick succession from Kieran O’Leary fired Dr. Crokes to O’Donoghue Cup success this afternoon over Kilcummin at Fitzgerald Stadium. Both sides came into the game riding high off the back of their progress through the All Ireland club championships – Dr Crokes gearing up for their semi-final…

Dublin 1-20 Dubs Stars 0-8 Kevin O’Brien reports from Pairc Barrog MATTIE KENNY’S YOUTHFUL Dublin side easily accounted for the Dubs Stars in today’s Dublin Bus/Herald Dubs Stars hurling challenge at Naomh Mernog. There were fine displays from Oisin O’Rorke (1-4), Daire Gray (0-3) and Davy Keogh (0-2) as Kenny continued his winning run as Dublin…

THE YEAR STARTED off in Australia as a professional sportsman and closes with him back in Ireland ready to immerse himself in the amateur game he grew up with. Ciaran Byrne moved to Carlton in 2013. Source: Carlton FC There was the soaring high of county final glory with his club and the shattering low…

“THIS GAME OF Gaelic football has been infiltrated by a load of spoofers and bluffers, fellas with earpieces stuck in their ear, psychologists, statisticians, dieticians…” RTE’s Pat Spillane. Source: James Crombie/INPHO Sunday Game pundit Pat Spillane was clearly a statistics sceptic back in 2013 and five years on, his scepticism has hardly subsided. But the…

NOVEMBER 2018 MARKED the centenary of the end of the First World War and next month, 21 January, will be 100 years on from the start of the Irish War of Independence.  The Irish War of Independence was the culmination of Ireland’s nationalists pushing for separation from the British, and a troubled few years at…

Coughlan, McLoughlin, Hickey and McCaffrey were amongst those to retire this season. Source: INPHO FOR SOME PLAYERS, the 2018 hurling season was particularly significant. A year where they decided at different junctures to call it a day, bringing the segment of their lives that revolved around inter-county hurling to a close. Here’s ten that cut…

THIS WAS CERTAINLY a year for the record books. From Ireland’s Six Nations Grand Slam success to that fairytale journey to a silver medal at the Women’s Hockey World Cup, there were several memorable moments to savour in 2018. The Limerick hurlers defied the odds to end a 45-year wait for the Liam MacCarthy Cup…

WHICH OF THESE hurling goals really caught your eye in 2018? Shane O’Donnell and Jonathan Glynn both hit superb strikes this year. Clare’s Shane O’Donnell, Galway’s Jonathan Glynn and Cork’s Conor Lehane all raised green flags with stunning efforts in the pick of superb finishes on the inter-county stage. Away from there though, Cuala’s Mark…