Month: September 2021

ALL-IRELAND CHAMPIONS Limerick will begin their 2019 league campaign with a trip to Wexford in their Division 1A opener. John Kiely’s side are back in the top flight for the first time in eight years and they’re set to take on Wexford according to the list of provisional hurling league fixtures that have been released today. …

NIAMH MALLON CONSIDERS herself fortunate that her day job has a direct connection with her favourite pastime. The 23-year-old Down star has been a key contributor once more in the return of the red and black to Croke Park for the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland intermediate camogie championship final against Cork on Sunday. Mallon scored nine…

TYRONE LEGEND OWEN Mulligan has labelled Jonny Cooper as the “Sergio Ramos of Dublin” in the wake of the county’s latest All-Ireland victory. Cooper has suffered a championship defeat just once in his Dublin career and collected his fifth Celtic Cross on Sunday at the age of 28. The Na Fianna man is one of…

Kerry, Galway, Dublin and Donegal all collected silverware DUBLIN ARE ALL-IRELAND SFC champions for the fourth year in succession after Sunday’s 2-17 to 1-14 victory over Tyrone. Football might have been hurling’s poor relation this summer, but there were certainly some memorable moments along the way. As we reflect on the 2018 inter-county season, it’s…

KEVIN MCSTAY HAS decided to decline the Roscommon GAA chairman’s invitation to remain in charge of the county’s senior football team for the remainder of his two-year term. After three years in the position, McStay has this evening announced his resignation from the role, and stated that he is retiring from senior inter-county football management. …

THE ALL-IRELAND final day experience may not be novel but this one does have a special twist. There are eight senior medals stacked up in Aoife Murray’s trophy cabinet and away from the September afternoons of triumph, she’s had a few occasions where Cork have departed empty-handed at the close of a long campaign. Cork…

THERE’S PLENTY IRISH interest to keep an eye as the 2018 AFL finals series began today but there was disappointment for Meath’s Conor Nash as his Hawthorn side lost out to Richmond. Conor Nash, Zach Tuohy and Mark O’Connor are all focused on the 2018 AFL Finals. Source: PA The first qualifying final saw Richmond…

LOSING THE LIBERTY Insurance All-Ireland senior camogie championship final by one point, having led with just seconds of regulation time remaining, is difficult to take. Having to watch from the sidelines, after being ruled out through injury, only adds to the acrid taste that lingers from the experience. Claire Phelan. Source: Oisin Keniry/INPHO “It was…

LIMERICK ALL-IRELAND winner Richie McCarthy has become the latest member of their squad to be hit with a cruciate setback. Click Here: sydney roosters jersey Richie McCarthy (left) celebrating Limerick’s All-Ireland final victory. Source: James Crombie/INPHO The Limerick senior hurling team management have confirmed this morning that McCarthy tore his cruciate in a club game…

Source: Robin Alam 1. “IN JULY, A huge family reunion in Youngstown brought McCullough, Briggs, Smith and Comer together for the first time. All of McCullough’s parents in one place, reflecting on nurture versus nature, what is inherited versus what is taught and the many different forms of parenthood. It was both the culmination of…