Month: September 2021

AHEAD OF THE spotlight being placed this week on the GAA club scene with the St Patrick’s Day All-Ireland finals, the Club Players Association have revealed that ‘substantial work’ has been done on their ‘proposed solutions to the fixture crisis’. The CPA have revealed in a statement that they are continuing discussions with ‘all the…

ANTRIM HURLER NEIL McManus has serious concerns about the impact Brexit will have on the GAA in the six counties. An All-Ireland club finalist with Cushendall in 2016, McManus believes GAA will suffer if a ‘hard border’ returns. “For the GAA in Ulster if it came to a situation where there was a hard border…

Tim Foley lifts the cup after Cistercian College Roscrea triumphed in 2015. Source: Dan Sheridan/INPHO THE CISTERCIAN COLLEGE Roscrea side that claimed the Leinster senior schools rugby cup in 2015 did not lack players who made waves in GAA and that trend is continuing. From that team Robert Wharton had won an All-Ireland minor football…

SENIOR HURLER CONOR Gleeson will be in action for the Waterford U21 footballers against Kerry in the EirGrid Munster semi-final tomorrow night. Waterford hurler Conor Gleeson. Source: Tommy Dickson/INPHO Gleeson emerged strongly for Waterford in last year’s senior hurling championship, lining out at wing-back when they lost out to Kilkenny in the All-Ireland semi-final replay…

POTENTIAL STARS OF the future are on show on Wednesday, as four teams battle it out for the right to contest the 2017 Croke Cup hurling final. St Kieran’s of Kilkenny are the holders, they’re going for four-in-a-row and they’ve won the All-Ireland Post-Primary Schools senior hurling A competition on a record 21 occasions. They face…

Our Lady’s, Templemore (Tipperary) 0-24 Kilkenny CBS 2-15 Jackie Cahill reports from O’Moore Park, Portlaoise FRESH FROM WINNING the Harty Cup for the first time in 39 years, Our Lady’s, Templemore, have booked their place in the Masita All-Ireland Post-Primary Schools All-Ireland senior A hurling decider. Brian McGrath produced some big moments, particularly in the…

Offaly 2-9 Laois 2-8 Paul Keane reports from Netwatch Cullen Park GOALS FROM CIARAN Farrell and Adam Mahon secured a battling victory for Offaly at Netwatch Cullen Park tonight and a first EirGrid Leinster U21 football final place in a decade. The Faithful bounced back from an early five-point deficit to dominate the majority of…

Cork 2-10 Limerick 0-10 Denis Hurley reports from Páirc Uí Rinn LAST YEAR’S BEATEN EirGrid All-Ireland U21 football championship finalists Cork are in the Munster final for a seventh year in a row after they came from behind to see off Limerick at Páirc Uí Rinn tonight. Trailing by two points, 0-9 to 1-4, at…

Kerry 1-18 Waterford 0-7 Tomas McCarthy reports from Fraher Field, Dungarvan CATHAL BAMBURY AND Killian Spillane fired Kerry into the EirGrid Munster U21 football final on 29 March as a stylish first-half performance overwhelmed a gallant Waterford in tonight’s semi-final at Fraher Field. Killian Spillane punches into the net for the first goal Source: Ken…

Donegal’s Stephen McMenamin with Tyrone trio of Ryan Loughran, Paul Donaghy and David Mulgrew. Source: Presseye/Lorcan Doherty/INPHO THERE WAS NO separating Tyrone and Donegal in the EirGrid Ulster U21 football championship tonight with Lee Brennan converting a ’45 to rescue a draw for the home side in extra-time in Healy Park in Omagh. Eoghan Ban…