Month: September 2021

TIPPERARY’S HOPE OF seeing Cathal Barrett and Patrick ‘Bonner’ Maher make a Championship comeback this summer will become clearer over the next 24 hours. The Premier are waiting anxiously for further news on the double injury blow to both Barrett and Maher in Sunday’s win over Limerick. Barrett hobbled off in the final minutes of the…

CORK ATTACKER PATRICK Horgan admits there could have been an argument made to take the players off the pitch at Cusack Park for a spell during the thunder storm that developed in the second half of Sunday’s Munster hurling championship tie. Clare’s John Conlon and Cork’s Damien Cahalane during Snuday’s game. The action after the…

TIPPERARY FORWARD PATRICK Bonner Maher is set for a long spell on the sidelines after tearing his cruciate in Sunday’s win over Limerick at Semple Stadium. It was confirmed this morning that a scan result has revealed the extent of Maher’s injury which will leave him sidelined for the rest of the 2019 season. A…

MONAGHAN FOOTBALLER DARREN Hughes has had his eight-week ban upheld for an incident in their All-Ireland first round qualifier against Fermanagh. The game on Sunday 9 June saw Monaghan run out 1-10 to 1-6 winners in Clones and they now face a Round 2 clash with Armagh on Saturday night at the St Tiernach’s Park…

LIMERICK AND TIPPERARY are set to play in front of a sellout crowd for Sunday week’s Munster senior hurling final with the public sale of tickets now having sold out. The eagerly-awaited clash at the LIT Gaelic Grounds on 30 June pits the reigning All-Ireland champions against the 2016 Liam MacCarthy Cup holders with huge…

Paul Tierney taking on the Wainwright Fells. Source: Inov-8 CORK NATIVE PAUL Tierney, who previously played senior hurling for his county, has this afternoon completed a record-breaking and gruelling trek in the UK. Having set off last Friday morning, Tierney scaled all 214 Wainwright Fells in the Lake District, which required him to cover a…

1. Mayo enter ‘do or die’ territory A MONTH AFTER their Connacht semi-final defeat to Roscommon, Mayo are set to come back under the national spotlight for this weekend’s away trip to Down.  They’ll be without promising young midfielder Matthew Ruane who suffered a broken collar bone in training last week. Seamus O’Shea and Tom…

PETER KEANE HAS named his team for this weekend’s highly-anticipated Munster Senior Football Championship final against Cork at Páirc Uí Chaoimh [throw-in 7pm]. The Kerry boss makes four changes from his side’s six-point semi-final victory against Clare two weeks ago at Cusack Park. James O’Donoghue picked up a hamstring strain against Clare and misses out on…

IN THE TUMULT of 1997, back in the days when reporters were allowed to bear witness and bring to life such scenes, the Irish Independent’s Vincent Hogan was on hand to record Ryan McHugh’s first experience of an Ulster title winning dressing room. Cavan had just beaten Derry to win their first Anglo-Celt Cup in…

FOR ALL THE excitement the Ulster and Connacht championships have thrown up in recent weeks, Leinster and Munster will run along expected lines this weekend – barring a seismic shock. Dublin are bidding to become the first ever side to win nine provincial titles in-a-row when they take on Meath at Croke Park on Sunday.…