Month: September 2021

DUBLIN COUNTY BOARD CEO John Costello launched a scathing attack on the ‘targetting’ of Diarmuid Connolly on the field in 2016, but the player himself has no gripes over his treatment. Diarmuid Connolly was at the AIB GAA Leinster Football Club Championship Final Media Day. Source: Ramsey Cardy/SPORTSFILE Costello wrote in his annual report that…

THOSE PLAYSTATION 2 fans among us will remember back to 2005 when one of the worst games imaginable was unleashed on the Irish public: Gaelic Games Football. Source: YouTube It wasn’t exactly a hit, and there was another effort made in 2007 to revive the franchise – but it wasn’t enough. Now though, the Irish…

Former Cork camogie star Anna Geary, Hurler of the Year Austin Gleeson, and former Kilkenny hurler Jackie Tyrrell at Tuesday’s launch. ONLINE DEPARTMENT STORE Littlewoods Ireland will sponsor the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship and the Camogie National League for the next three seasons. Littlewoods was announced today as the GAA’s newest “top tier partner” in…

MAYO FOOTBALL MANAGER Stephen Rochford has appointed former inter-county goalkeeper Peter Burke as a selector for 2017. Burke, a goalkeeping coach who has been working with the panel for the past six seasons, will replace Sean Carey in the setup after he called time on his involvement, according to the Mayo News. The Kiltimagh club…

THE MAYO COUNTY Board’s public relations officer has lashed out at media organisations for attempting “to blacken Lee Keegan’s name” during the build-up to the All-Ireland final replay. Keegan’s tussle with Dublin forward Diarmuid Connolly attracted considerable attention from the media and supporters before, during and after both All-Ireland finals. The Mayo defender, who was…

Man United players Jesse Lingard and Phil Jones were in Dublin yesterday to open Lifestyle Sport’s flagship store on Mary Street. Source: Dan Sheridan/INPHO Home The GAA have announced a new sponsorship deal with Littlewoods Ireland for the next three years. A six-month notice clause in Pat Lam‘s Connacht contract is believed to be behind…

Jackie Tyrrell at yesterday’s launch of Littlewoods Ireland’s partnership with the GAA and Camogie Association. Source: Stephen McCarthy/SPORTSFILE JACKIE TYRRELL’S LAST day out with Kilkenny was in a familar setting but with an unfamiliar outcome. He’d grown accustomed to marquee days in Croke Park, typically embracing that winning feeling after a thunderous battle in his…

PETE McGRATH IS used to proving people wrong on the pitch. So when he stares you in the eye and insists Fermanagh have the personnel to win a first Ulster senior football championship, you’d be foolish not to listen. The Erne County haven’t been in a provincial decider since 2008 but they have been showing…

Ger Loughnane feels Brian Cody should have walked away Source: INPHO GER LOUGHNANE SPARKED quite a storm last week when he suggested that Brian Cody should have stepped down in Kilkenny in the wake of their All-Ireland final loss to Tipperary. The Clare All-Ireland winning boss pointed to legendary GAA figures Mick O’Dwyer and Sean…

Glen Rovers forward Patrick Horgan and Carbery Rangers attacker John Hayes Source: INPHO CORK SENIOR HURLER Patrick Horgan and former Cork footballer John Hayes landed GAA club awards last night after helping their respective clubs to win county senior titles this year. Horgan, part of the Glen Rovers team that lost out recently in the Munster…