Month: September 2021

BRIEGE CORKERY WILL not be the only player who has recently become a mother striding into battle in the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland senior camogie championship semi-finals at Semple Stadium today. Kilkenny’s Anne Dalton in action. Source: Tommy Dickson/INPHO While the Cork legend makes a dramatic comeback after an almost two-year absence from the big time…

LIMERICK SKIPPER Declan Hannon admits he’s thought about what he’d say if he’s tasked with making an historic All-Ireland-winning speech tomorrow, but insists his mind is on the task at hand. And the Treaty camp know they have a huge challenge in front of them in dethroning defending champions and much-fancied Galway. Hannon is one…

Kilkenny 1-10 Galway 1-7 A GOAL IN the 48th minute by Katie Power finally separated Kilkenny from a Galway side that left nothing in the tank but for a third consecutive season, bowed out of the All-Ireland senior camogie championship at the semi-final stage. Kilkenny will be hoping that the trend of the unlucky Tribeswomen…

Cork 0-21 Tipperary 0-9 A SECOND-HALF power play by Cork ensured that their place in the All-Ireland senior camogie final was assured with a quarter of an hour remaining. The 12-point margin does scant justice to Tipperary’s efforts however, and it was probably a combination of tiredness creeping in from their work-rate and Cork stepping…

KILMACUD CROKES LIFTED the All-Ireland sevens hurling trophy on home soil after defeating Tipperary’s Portroe in this evening’s senior final in Stillorgan. Managed by Anthony Daly, Crokes powered their way to the title with a 4-17 to 6-08 win in the 2018 decider, after an entertaining day’s action in the tournament traditionally played on the…

IT’S HARD TO believe now, but there was a time in the not too distant past when the Galway hurlers were seen as a soft touch. Mentally weak. David Burke after Galway’s one-point All-Ireland semi-final defeat to Tipperary in 2016 Source: Tommy Dickson/INPHO They outplayed Kilkenny in the opening half of the 2015 All-Ireland final, leading by…

1. “To be a Monaghan person last week was to think a lot about potential, even without realising you were doing it. All our lives, All-Ireland finals have been a thing that happened to other people. Friends, cousins, spouses, people at work – every year around this time, there’d be someone to send a text…

1. It takes practice and precision to make the sweet science feel this good I can't even imagine how high these guys were when they created this masterpiece pic.twitter.com/8M5njSPJMF — Mario (@MMLe0) August 15, 2018 Source: Mario/Twitter 2. Inside the peloton, with David O’Doherty  cycling drugs confessional autobiographies where they try to show how, under…

IN THE 58TH minute of yesterday evening’s All-Ireland senior camogie championship semi-final between Cork and Tipperary in Semple Stadium, legendary dual star Briege Corkery made her return to the inter-county scene. Briege Corkery (file pic, 2015). Source: Cathal Noonan/INPHO The 17-time All-Ireland winner hadn’t donned a Cork jersey in either code in almost two years…

Galway 0-21 Kilkenny 0-14 Declan Rooney reports from Croke Park GALWAY CLAIMED A third All-Ireland minor title in four years as ten points from Donal O’Shea and a strong second half showing from Jeffrey Lynskey’s side saw them overtake Kilkenny for victory. Despite trailing by four points early on Galway recovered well and with Diarmuid…