Month: September 2021

PREPARE TO SEE a lot more of Kieran Donaghy on your screens this summer, with the Kerry legend announced as a Sky Sports pundit this morning.  The four-time All-Ireland winner joins the line-up for their GAA championship coverage after his inter-county retirement at the end of the 2018 season. Donaghy, Footballer of the Year in…

SKY SPORTS HAVE confirmed their live TV schedule for the 2019 GAA championship season, including the 14 exclusive games they’ll broadcast this summer. They’ve announced a total of 22 live fixtures, kicking off with exclusive action as Kilkenny and Dublin face off the the Leinster SHC on 11 May. Exclusive coverage continues in the Ulster SFC…

JOE CANNING COULD yet play a part in this year’s Leinster Hurling Championship as he prepares to step up rehab work following groin surgery. The Galway ace went under the knife earlier this month on the injury he sustained in the league semi-final defeat to Waterford and was given “a 14-to-16 week” recovery period. Micheal…

SENAN CONNELL RECKONS this year’s championship is Meath’s biggest in a decade as they bid to build on their spring promotion from Division Two. The Royals have been drawn on the opposite side of the Leinster Championship to Dublin and begin their provincial assault at home to Offaly on 12 June. Kildare, Connell says, were…

DUBLIN FOOTBALLERS CAN learn from Kilkenny hurlers’ failed five-in-a-row bid of 2010 as they seek to make history this year, says Cats legend JJ Delaney. The Sky Sports pundit was a key member of the Kilkenny team that lost to Tipperary nine years ago as they aimed to reach the unique milestone which the Dubs…

KILKENNY CAMOGIE STAR Grace Walsh believes that “a change needs to be made” to make the games more free-flowing and says that the last two All-Ireland finals “probably looked like crap” for supporters. Kilkenny and Tullaroan star Grace Walsh at the launch of the Beko Club Bua programme 2019. Source: Stephen McCarthy/SPORTSFILE The playing rules…

JJ DELANEY PREDICTS another meeting of Limerick and Galway in this year’s All-Ireland final, but says Clare’s year can only be regarded as a success by reaching the decider. The nine-time All-Ireland champion is looking forward to seeing Tony Kelly playing at centre-forward for the Banner when they open their Munster Championship campaign away to…

KERRY LEGEND KIERAN Donaghy expects his former team-mate Tommy Walsh to have a big season for the Kingdom alongside budding stars Seán O’Shea and David Clifford. Peter Keane’s men are 4/1 second favourites to land a first All-Ireland crown since 2014 this year, but will be expected to seal a seventh successive Munster title prior…

LAOIS NATIVE ZACH Tuohy will make his return to AFL action this weekend for his club Geelong as he completes his recovery from injury. Tuohy has been sidelined since undergoing knee surgery at the end of the 2018 season with his last appearance occurring in Geelong’s exit from the AFL finals against Melbourne Demons last…

DONEGAL CLUB NAOMH Colmcille will have their appeal against a proposed eight-week ban heard next Tuesday night. The Tir Chonaill outfit have been cited by county management for permitting a fundraising soccer tournament in aid of clubman Paul Dillon to be played on their grounds last February. According to the Donegal Democrat, the county’s hearings’…