Month: September 2021

CAVAN’S AISLING SHERIDAN enjoyed another impressive display for Collingwood this weekend as the Magpies continued their perfect start to the 2021 AFLW season. Sheridan picked up a brace of goals in the first and third quarters to help her side to a 7.6 (48) to 4.7 (31) win over Richmond. Collingwood now have three wins from…

Updated Feb 15th 2021, 12:06 PM THE SHORTLISTS FOR the Camogie Association/WGPA Players’ Player of the Year Awards have been announced today.  Denise Gaule, who scored 1-6 in December’s All-Ireland final, and her Kilkenny team-mate Grace Walsh have been nominated for Senior Player of the Year alongside Galway’s Shauna Healy, who was on the losing…

THE GAA HAVE named the Joe McDonagh Team of the Year and the Champion 15 selection after the 2020 season. The GAA/GPA McDonagh Cup team includes seven players from champions Antrim, who are represented in every outfield line of the field. Click Here: qld maroons jersey Beaten finalists Kerry have five representatives, while Carlow have…

ONE DREAM PARKED for now, “another step in the right direction” taken towards the other. Saoirse Noonan, one of the country’s top dual stars, will focus on soccer for the foreseeable after making the move to Dublin outfit Shelbourne from her hometown club of Cork City. Saoirse Noonan signed for Shelbourne last week. Source: Inpho…

IT’S THAT TIME on a Monday again as we look back on the weekend that’s been in the Australian Football League Women’s [AFLW]. Aishling Sheridan, Aisling McCarthy and Sinéad Goldrick were the pick of the Irish in Round Three. Source: PA Images/West Coast Eagles / Melbourne FC. Nine Irish stars featured in Round Three, which…

DUBLIN STAR CARLA Rowe has her heart set on defending her side’s TG4 All-Ireland senior championship this year – and feels the lure of a magical five-in-a-row could keep Mick Bohan’s panel unified in another uncertain season. Rowe was one of Dublin’s standout players as she helped her side to victory in December’s All-Ireland Final…

THE GAA HAVE reported a combined national deficit of €34.1m after the 2020 season was impacted hugely by the Covid-19 pandemic. The Association’s annual finance report was released today with Director-General Tom Ryan describing the past year as ‘very damaging to the Association from a financial point of view.’ Ryan believes ‘the after effects will…

DIRECTOR GENERAL TOM Ryan says the GAA accept responsibility for the failure to complete club championships in 2020, a decision that “weighed heavily” on him. 11 senior county finals have yet to be played after club action was suspended in October following a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases nationwide.  Writing in the GAA’s 2020 annual…

THE HEADLINE A few weeks back was a welcome sight: Kilkenny Ladies Gaelic adult team set for comeback. It was indeed “exciting news,” as the social media post from Kilkenny LGFA read, with the Cats in line to return to the inter-county scene in the near future having last competed in 2019. After a difficult year…

THE GAA HAVE rejected the idea that the decision to postpone the return of inter-county action was financially motivated. Speaking at the launch of the GAA’s annual report, director general Tom Ryan pointed out that the National Leagues are not major financial earners for Croke Park. “The league in itself doesn’t really have a huge…