Month: September 2021

SKY SPORTS HAVE announced that they will be broadcasting this year’s All-Ireland camogie and ladies football finals for the very first time. In a repeat of this year’s National League final, Kilkenny and Galway will go head-to-head this Sunday at 4.15pm in the camogie decider at Croke Park. The game will be shown on Sky…

COLLINGWOOD DEFEATED GEELONG by 61-51 in today’s AFL first qualifying final at the MCG, which leaves the Pies just one win away from returning to a second successive Grand Final in two weeks. Geelong, who have Laois’s Zach Tuohy and Kerry’s Mark O’Connor in their ranks, must now come through a semi-final tie against West…

Kilkenny co-captain Meighan Farrell. Source: Ryan Byrne/INPHO IT WAS SOMETHING Meighan Farrell always wanted to do.  And when the opportunity came around, it was one she grabbed with both hands.  Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam. A six-week trip with five friends, a break from the continuous, intense, year-long cycle of camogie back home in Kilkenny. It really…

WHEN HIS EIGHT-month old baby, PhD studies, lecturing job and playing career with the All-Ireland club champions are factored into the equation, it’s a wonder Michael Fennelly has any spare time on his hands – let alone enough to take on the Offaly senior hurling job. Michael Fennelly at his unveiling as the new Offaly…

THE OUTPOUR OF emotion afterwards showed just how much it meant.  Galway captain Sarah Dervan. Source: Ryan Byrne/INPHO There were tears — of joy — cheers and warm embraces all around as Galway finally banished their All-Ireland semi-final demons and booked their Croke Park decider spot three weeks ago.  In the process, Cathal Murray’s Tribeswomen…

BY THE TIME Sinéad Millea came into the Kilkenny senior camogie panel, the county was coming to the end of one of the longest winning runs in the history of the sport. Sinéad Millea in action for Kilkenny in the 1999 All-Ireland final. Source: Donna McBride/INPHO It was 1991, and the Cats were six-in-a-row All-Ireland…

Kerry 0-11 Limerick 0-8 BIRTHDAY GIRL PATRICE Diggin scored five points and won player of the match honours, while Sara Murphy backed up a powerful defensive effort with a massive score of her own as Kerry, a county with only one adult club, secured a historic Liberty Insurance All-Ireland junior camogie championship title at Croke Park.…

Westmeath 1-11 Galway 1-9 AN INCREDIBLE SECOND-HALF comeback which epitomises their meteoric rise through the ranks, Westmeath were crowned All-Ireland intermediate champions at Croke Park this afternoon just two years after winning their first-ever camogie title. Premier Junior champions in 2017, Johnny Greville’s side now progress to the senior ranks after a two-point win over…

Galway 3-14 Kilkenny 0-17 Player of the Match Niamh Kilkenny was immense for Galway. Source: Bryan Keane/INPHO A FIRST ALL-IRELAND title since 2013 for Galway, and a third consecutive September decider defeat at Croke Park for Kilkenny as the Tribeswomen lifted the O’Duffy Cup in front of a record-breaking crowd of 24,730. As the old…

– Emma Duffy reports from Croke Park IT MUST BE pretty difficult to sum up the feeling of winning an All-Ireland title. Victorious Galway manager Cathal Murray. Source: Bryan Keane/INPHO After his side produced an incredible display to get their hands on the O’Duffy Cup for the first time since 2013, Cathal Murray, like many…