Month: September 2021

WITHOUT USING IT as an excuse for their championship exit, James Horan bemoaned Mayo’s six-day turnaround between their win over Donegal and semi-final loss to Dublin. Horan’s side enjoyed a thrilling round 3 Super 8s victory over the back-to-back Ulster champions in Castlebar, which arrived on the back of a taxing qualifier run. Then they…

LEADING HURLING REFEREE Brian Gavin admits that he is ‘amazed’ at times with the lack of understanding of GAA rules. Brian Gavin during this year’s All-Ireland senior hurling final Source: James Crombie/INPHO Offaly native Gavin, who was in charge for this year’s All-Ireland senior hurling final, is hopeful that the new GAA referee handbook which…

MAYO GAA HAVE revealed that they spent €1.6 million on team administration expenses in 2016, nearly double their figurefrom 2015. The increase of nearly 46% in the cost of running teams is the most eye-catching figure in the Mayo GAA account details which were revealed today but the county board still recorded a surplus at…

FORMER HURLER OF the year Eoin Larkin has closed the book on a glittering 12-year career with Kilkenny. Larkin picked up his first senior All-Ireland medal in 2006, a year after his debut, and would go on to play a key role in the most dominant hurling team of all-time. The 32-year-old won eight All-Irelands,…

LAOIS GAA HAVE unveiled the new jersey that their county teams will wear for the 2017 season. The new Laois GAA jersey The announcement came as the Midlands County confirmed that they have entered into a three-year sponsorship deal with MW Hire that will last until 2019. Laois will have two new senior managers in…

Home Source: Donall Farmer/INPHO Zaur Antia will stay on as Irish boxing coach for the next 5 years Kilkenny’s 8-time All-Ireland winner Eoin Larkin announced his retirement Mayo GAA team expenses rose to €1.6 million this year but they still had a surplus Pat Hickey set to return to Ireland as bond money for passport…

FOXROCK-CABINTEELY MAY not be one of the names that immediately jumps to mind when you think of the top level of ladies club football in the country. The past few years has seen the All-Ireland senior series dominated by the same clubs over and over again, and Foxrock-Cabinteely captain Sarah Brophy is first to agree.…

THERE’S NO OTHER podcast in Ireland that could seamlessly integrate Planet Earth references into a conversation about sport quite like Second Captains. That’s something that presenter Eoin McDevitt has been committing to in recent episodes and the results have been predictably entertaining. Earlier in the year, while the Second Captains were recording episodes from New York,…

AMANDA CASEY IS a name that’s been floating around ladies football circles for quite a while at this stage. The 32-year-old midfielder has been pivotal for both her club and county for the past several years, and 2016 has been no exception as she donned the red of Donaghmoyne for the 18th year. Source: Ryan…

IRELAND CAPPED OFF a memorable November Series last weekend with a scalp over Australia to ensure we finish 2016 with a clean sweep of the Southern Hemisphere heavyweights. Later in the week we saw Brian Cody commit to another season in charge of Kilkenny, although some pundits feel this was an unwise move. Controversy surrounding…