Month: September 2021

AS IF THE challenge of facing Kerry’s U21s tomorrow night wasn’t a tough enough assignment already, Clare will have to do so without Pearse Lillis as the Cooraclare man has been ruled out of the clash with a hand injury. Lillis picked up the injury while playing a hurling game for Ballyea over the weekend…

CLARE’S BID FOR back-to-back Division 1 titles has suffered a blow with the news that Shane O’Donnell is set to miss the rest of the hurling league campaign. O’Donnell, who shot to prominence with a hat-trick in the 2013 All-Ireland final replay, has been ruled out “for a minimum of six weeks.” The news was confirmed…

ON FIRST ENCOUNTER with Mags D’Arcy, she comes across as a right joker. Wexford camogie star Mags D’Arcy. Source: Dan Sheridan/INPHO She’s that person in the room that everyone wants to talk to. The one that everyone wants to have a laugh with. And it’s no wonder. She’s a character. The Wexford goalkeeper won the hearts…

Dublin teammates Bernard Brogan and Michael Darragh MacAuley will be in opposition. 2016 ALL-IRELAND club champions Ballyboden St-Enda’s will take on 2014 county finalists St Oliver Plunkett’s-Eoghan Ruadh in the pick of the first round ties in this year’s Dublin senior football championship. The game will pit Dublin team-mates Michael Darragh MacAuley and Bernard Brogan…

LAST JULY BRIAN Hurley was in Cork IT’s grounds in Bishopstown, playing in a training game with the Cork senior footballers. They were getting set for relaunch their season in the qualifiers after being stunned by Tipperary in Munster. Cork footballer Brian Hurley. Source: Ryan Byrne/INPHO But Hurley’s season was about to come crashing to…

St Brigid’s, Loughrea (Galway) 0-19 St Colman’s, Fermoy (Cork) 1-13 Jackie Cahill reports from University of Limerick CONOR MOLLOY LED the way with eight points as Connacht champions St Brigid’s Loughrea overturned a five-point deficit to book a place in the All-Ireland Post Primary Schools senior hurling A semi-finals today. St Brigid’s, co-managed by Galway…

Kilkenny CBS 3-9 Presentation College Athenry 0-15 Kevin O’Brien reports from Abbotstown GAA Centre of Excellence KILKENNY CBS WILL take on Our Ladys Secondary School Templemore in the Croke Cup semi-final after a thrilling three-point victory over Presentation College Athenry today. The beaten Leinster finalists trailed by 0-9 to 1-3 at half-time, but posted 2-4 in a rip-roaring…

TIPPERARY HURLER MICHAEL Maher, a five-time All-Ireland senior hurling winner with the county, has passed away at the age of 87 after a long illness. Maher was part of Tipperary’s renowned full-back line – dubbed ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ – alongside John Doyle and Kieran Carey. A member of the Holycross-Ballycahill club, Maher enjoyed Liam MacCarthy Cup…

KILLIAN YOUNG GOT to witness some of the closing successful chapters of Maurice Fitzgerald’s playing days. Kerry selector Maurice Fitzgerald and defender Killian Young. Source: INPHO With his inter-county time with Kerry behind him, Fitzgerald was part of county winning sides with South Kerry and that overlapped with the start of Young’s senior career for…

DONAL ÓG CUSACK says the Cork squad had no other choice but to go on strike to remove Gerald McCarthy as manager in 2009. Cusack, who is the subject of the first episode in the new series of Laochra Gael on TG4 next Wednesday, was a central figure in the infamous stand-off between the Rebels and the…