Month: September 2021

Click:shampoo for hair loss GO TOGETHER. THAT’S the message from the Camogie Association with the biggest day in their calendar year fast approaching. Captains from the six All-Ireland finalists. Source: Ryan Byrne/INPHO On Sunday, there are new winners in store in each of the three All-Ireland finals in Croke Park with silverware up for grabs…

AFTER JOE CANNING’S free deep into stoppage-time drew Galway level in the 2012 All-Ireland hurling final and forced a replay, it felt like a loss for the Kilkenny players. The rematch was three weeks away and having been seconds away from lifting the Liam MacCarthy Cup, the Cats found it hard to shake off the…

MOTIVATION IS A very personal thing. When Lisa Casserly was playing soccer for Ireland, that was all she wanted to do and though she was a club camogie player with Ballinderreen, it was a hobby. She smiles when thinking about a former Republic of Ireland teammate, who shared the experience of reaching the European Championships…

GERRY O’CONNOR HAS confirmed his resignation as joint-manager of the Clare senior hurlers, while Donal Moloney is understood to be intent on remaining in charge. O’Connor confirmed his departure to The Clare Echo and expressed his gratitude to the panel of players, management team, county board, supporters and his employers for their assistance during his…

The Essendon players leave the field after their loss. Source: AAP/PA Images CONOR MCKENNA’S ESSENDON are out of the hunt to reach the AFL Grand Final after their 55-point elimination final hammering by West Coast today at Optus Stadium.  After a desperately poor start, the Bombers threatened a comeback in a lively third quarter with…

WHERE DOES ONE start with Kerry camogie star Laura Collins? The fact that hurling is confined to North Kerry? The fact that everyone on her Kingdom camogie side is from one club bar one player? The fact that they’re contesting a second consecutive All-Ireland final after reaching the top table for the first time ever…

Killian Spillane celebrates scoring a point against Dublin. Source: Morgan Treacy/INPHO IN THE 1986 All-Ireland final, Pat Spillane scored a crucial goal into Hill 16 to propel Kerry to an eight-point victory against Tyrone. In last Sunday’s decider, it was his nephew Killian who raised a green flag into the same goals, almost steering the…

AFTER MAKING THEIR first-ever visit to Croke Park one to remember by lifting their first All-Ireland title in the 2017 Premier Junior final, Westmeath are primed for a return to HQ on the biggest day of the camogie calendar. Westmeath captain Mairead McCormack. Source: Ryan Byrne/INPHO Just two years later, Mairéad McCormack’s side find themselves…

KIERAN DONAGHY HAS been appointed as joint-manager of IT Tralee’s senior football team, while former Kerry team-mate Aidan O’Mahony is part of his backroom team. Donaghy, who will share management duties with Liam Brosnan, will take charge of a team for the first time following his stint as part of Micheál Donoghue’s Galway hurling coaching…

WITH TWO GALWAY teams in Croke Park on All-Ireland camogie finals day on Sunday, one immediately thinks of their 2013 heroics. Galway intermediate captain Laura Ward. Source: Ryan Byrne/INPHO That day the intermediate and senior sides left HQ with the Jack McGrath and O’Duffy Cups, the buses pointed towards the west as double-winning manager Tony…