Month: September 2021

WATERFORD GAA HAS demanded that the GAA perform a U-turn on its recent move regarding the loss of wages benefit on the player injury scheme.  It was recently confirmed that loss of wages would not be covered by the GAA’s player injury fund in 2021. The fund has been in existence since 1929 and provides…

AFTER ANOTHER STELLAR season, Paddy Durcan’s 2020 concluded in less than ideal circumstances. The Mayo wing-back’s All-Ireland final lasted just 35 minutes. When his team-mates jogged out onto the Croke Park turf from the dressing rooms for the start of the second-half, Durcan wasn’t among them. A quad injury sustained in the early stages of…

DUBLIN’S SINÉAD GOLDRICK, Niamh McEvoy and Lauren Magee are heading for the AFLW finals with Melbourne after they edged a Round 8 thriller against Fremantle on Sunday. Meanwhile, Mayo sisters Niamh and Grace Kelly were both key players for the West Coast Eagles as they lost out to Richmond. Grace chipped in with a goal…

FORMER CLARE HURLER and manager Ger Loughnane is calling for Clare fans to help at a time of crisis. Loughnane is calling on supporters to join Club Clare to financially assist the county’s hurling teams.  “We are in disarray, so much so that the gap between us and our main competitors is widening at a…

STAR PLAYERS FROM Tipperary, Cork and All-Ireland SHC champions Limerick are among those who have been honoured in the 2020 Munster GAA awards. Limerick’s Cian Lynch caps off an impressive season with John Kiely’s Liam MacCarthy winners by picking up the Senior Hurler of the Year award while Tipperary’s Conor Sweeney accepts the Footballer of…

FOUR-TIME ALL-Ireland winner Sean O’Sullivan has been ratified as manager of the South Kerry division for the 2021 Kerry county SFC. The Cromane clubman replaces John Shanahan as manager of a side that reached the final in 2017 and were last crowned winners in 2015. They lost out to St Kieran’s in the 2020 quarter-finals.…

ALL-IRELAND HURLING champions Limerick have unveiled their new county jersey ahead of the 2021 season. The O’Neill’s strip, which was launched on Wednesday morning, features the names of 65 Limerick clubs across the front and back.  Adult jerseys start at €70 while the children’s version costs €35. Be part of the team Access exclusive podcasts,…

NEIL MCMANUS HAS opened up about how a defibrillator from the Cushendall GAA field helped save his father’s life after he suffered a heart attack in 2015. Neil McManus is an ambassador for the GAA Community Heart Programme. Source: David Fitzgerald/SPORTSFILE Speaking at the launch of the GAA’s Community Heart Programme, an initiative around defibrillator awareness, McManus spoke…

DUBLIN STAR SINÉAD Goldrick has been ruled out of this year’s AFLW Finals after undergoing surgery for a hamstring which she picked up in Melbourne’s victory over Fremantle last weekend. A report on the Melbourne Demons website reads that scans on the injury later confirmed that Goldrick had torn the hamstring tendon. The Dublin defender…

ZACH TUOHY HAS returned from injury for Geelong ahead of their AFL Round 2 clash with Brisbane at home on Friday. The Laois native missed his side’s opening round defeat to Adelaide after previously picking up a back injury in February.  The AFL website writes that Tuohy has been recalled to the starting team for…