Month: September 2021

Kevin O’Brien reports from Croke Park Click Here: Cheap Adidas Stan Smith GAA CONGRESS HAS passed a motion which strictly prohibits players or members of team management from betting on the outcome of a game they are involved in. Motion 1 adopts the rule that anyone who is part of a county side who places…

Source: Paimages IT’S BEEN ANOTHER busy week of sport. Here’s how you reacted… Cillian Whelton sees a big problem with BT Sports’ deal to broadcast live FIFA 17 matches. They will win more than what Dundalk got for winning the league of Ireland for gods sake! Cathal O’Connor summed up Leicester City’s decision to sack title-winning…

Kevin O’Brien reports from Croke Park THE CONTROVERSIAL SUPER 8 motion has been passed at GAA Congress this morning. From 2018, Pauric Duffy’s plans to restructure the All-Ireland senior football championship will come in on a three-year experimental basis. The new format will introduce a round robin group stage at the All-Ireland quarter-final stage which will…

Kevin O’Brien reports from Croke Park THE ALL-IRELAND finals in both football and hurling are moving from September to August on a temporary basis for the next three years. Motion 5 passed with an overwhelming majority, meaning the All-Ireland finals in both codes will be played before the last Sunday in August on dates to be determined…

Kevin O’Brien reports from Croke Park GALWAY HAVE WITHDRAWN a motion that sought to allow the county’s minor, U-21, and intermediate hurling teams compete in the Leinster provincial championship. Galway County Board chairman Pat Kearney withdrew the motion after receiving assurances that the GAA will set-up a workgroup to help them tackle the problem after Congress…

Mary Immaculate College 3-24 IT Carlow 1-19 John Fallon reports from Pearse Stadium CHAMPIONS MARY IMMACULATE College from Limerick retained their Fitzgibbon Cup title with a deserved success in Salthill. DJ Carey’s IT Carlow came up short but the win was a memorable day for Mary I manager Jamie Wall. He was on the Mary…

Kevin O’Brien reports from Croke Park THE ALL-IRELAND senior football championship underwent its most radical overhaul today since the introduction of the qualifiers back in October 2000. A trilogy of motions to reform the championship structures were passed by Congress today in Croke Park by receiving the necessary two-thirds majority. It includes the introduction of…

Joe McMahon, Joe Sheridan and Ian Ryan are amongst those who have spoken out. Source: INPHO IT’S BEEN A day of significant change in Gaelic football, a new All-Ireland football championship format to be introduced from 2018 for a three-year period. But there’s been a heated reaction from current and former inter-county players. They’re not…

KILKENNY’S SENIOR HURLERS have been here before. A stuttering League campaign sees them staring at the possibility of another relegation playoff, and the prospect of Division 1B hurling next year. As it was in 2015, when three successive defeats to Dublin, Galway and Tipperary plunged Brian Cody’s men into a shootout with Clare, which they…

Donegal’s Michael Murphy and Neil Gallagher. Source: Cathal Noonan/INPHO MICHAEL MURPHY HAS seen a bunch of Donegal teammates shuffle off into retirement since last summer bur there’s a sense that the departure of Neil Gallagher last week had a greater impact on the senior captain. Since Donegal’s championship exit against Dublin last August, the retirements…