Month: September 2021

CILLIAN O’CONNOR could become the top scorer in All-Ireland SFC history this weekend as Mayo take on Kerry in the Super 8s.  O’Connor, still just 27, travels to Killarney just four points shy of Colm Cooper’s all-time scoring record. Legendary forward Cooper, who retired aged 33, scored 23-283 in his 85 championship games for the…

2018 WAS AN historic year for Waterford Camogie, and for Beth Carton.  Waterford star Beth Carton. Source: Dan Sheridan/INPHO The Déise featured in the All-Ireland quarter-finals for the first time ever, while their scoring sensation Carton capped the journey with a first camogie All-Star for the county. It was an incredible journey, one on which…

Eirgrid Munster U20 Football Championship Semi-Final: Kerry 0-18 Limerick 1-3 Jason O’Connor reports from Austin Stack Park KERRY BEGAN THE defence of their Munster U20 Football title with an expected but underwhelming victory this evening, as the Shannonsiders put in a much more creditable effort than last year’s outfit, who suffered a 28-point drubbing in…

HAVING STARTED ALL four of Laois’s round-robin games in the Joe McDonagh Cup, defender Joe Phelan was disappointed to discover he’d been left out of the team for the final against Westmeath.  “It was tough at the time getting dropped for that match,” Phelan admits.  Despite being one of the elder statesmen on the Laois…

TWO IMPORTANT OPENERS either side of the Irish sea in two days.  Armagh’s Aimee Mackin. Source: Laszlo Geczo/INPHO Armagh open their All-Ireland championship campaign against Cavan tomorrow, but they’ll be without the services of one of their leading stars. Caroline O’Hanlon is tied up, captaining Northern Ireland at the Netball World Cup in Liverpool with…

PETER HARTE HAS been cleared to play for Tyrone in tomorrow evening’s Super 8s meeting with Roscommon (5pm).  The influential forward was black-carded late in the Round 4 qualifier win over Cavan last Sunday — his third black card this summer, having already picked up two against Donegal and Longford.  That meant he was due…

THE WEXFORD HURLERS have received a huge boost ahead of their All-Ireland SHC semi-final following the news that Aidan Nolan has had his two-match ban reduced. Nolan was ruled out of their incredible Leinster final win over Kilkenny for using ‘abusive language towards a referee’ in their previous round-robin clash with the Cats, which led to…

KERRY HAVE NAMED one change in the side that won the Munster SFC final, as they prepare to face Mayo in their Super 8s opener this Sunday at Fitzgerald Stadium [throw-in, 4pm]. Micheál Burns comes in to replace Jack Barry after coming on in the provincial decider against Cork where Kerry managed to hold on…

THE ROSCOMMON TEAM for tomorrow’s Super 8s opener against Tyrone at Dr Hyde Park (5pm) shows one change from their win against Galway in the Connacht final. Hubert Darcy has been named to start in the half-forward line for Anthony Cunningham’s side in place of Conor Devaney, who limped off with an injury in the…

Cork 5-23 Waterford 0-07 CORK WILL FACE Kerry in this year’s EirGrid Munster U20 Football Championship decider following a facile win over Waterford in Clonakilty this evening. Keith Ricken’s side produced a workmanlike display, which included a three-goal blast during the second quarter to confirm their victory before the half-time whistle sounded. Two additional second-half…