Month: September 2021

JOHN MAUGHAN’S APPOINTMENT as Offaly’s new senior football manager was officially ratified this evening. Maughan was recommended last month by the four-man committee tasked with spearheading the search, and that proposal was rubber-stamped at Tuesday’s county board meeting. The Crossmolina man previously managed his native Mayo to three All-Ireland finals (1996, 1997 and 2004) and…

DUBLIN MANAGER MICK Bohan is hoping that last Sunday’s A versus B training game will be the hour that gives his side the edge to claim back-to-back TG4 All-Ireland ladies senior football titles for the first time in the county’s history. Bohan is yet to reveal his starting team for Sunday’s decider against Cork –…

AFTER COMPLETING FOUR-in-a-row, the All-Ireland champions Dublin have 12 players nominated for the 2018 GAA-GPA PWC All-Star awards with 11 counties in total having players included. Con O’Callaghan, Paul Mannion and Dean Rock have all been nominated. Source: James Crombie/INPHO The 45-player shortlist has been released today for this year’s awards which recognise the star…

THERE WILL DEFINITELY be a Dublin winner in the 2018 Footballer of the Year race after three members of the triumphant All-Ireland side have been nominated for the accolade. Defender Jack McCaffrey, midfielder Brian Fenton and forward Ciarán Kilkenny are the trio in the running for the honour which is part of the 2018 GAA-GPA…

THE BRIGHTEST EMERGING talents from Dublin, Kerry and Tyrone have all been shortlisted for the Young Footballer of the Year accolade as part of the 2018 GAA-GPA PWC All-Star awards. Dublin’s Brian Howard, Kerry’s David Clifford and Tyrone’s Michael McKernan are the trio in the running after the nominations were chosen yesterday. Howard, a senior…

TWO FORMER ROSCOMMON footballers will be involved in the process to select a new manager to lead the county in 2019 after Kevin McStay’s departure last week. Roscommon are on the hunt for a new football manager. Source: Tommy Grealy/INPHO After three years in the role, McStay announced his resignation and his decision to retire…

LEITRIM’S COUNTY STADIUM is the latest GAA ground that will undergo a name change with consumer finance business Avantcard set to become the title sponsor of their base in Carrick-on-Shannon. The development will see the stadium known as Avantcard Páirc Sean Mac Diarmada. The sponsorship will run for the 2019-2021 seasons and sees the Carrick-on-Shannon…

“NOT A CHANCE.” That was Mick Bohan’s response on numerous occasions as he was hounded time and time again about the prospect of his Dublin ladies football team starring in a TV documentary as they chased All-Ireland glory in 2017. The 2017 All-Ireland senior champions. Source: Morgan Treacy/INPHO The three years prior had brought nothing…

SEVEN COUNTIES ARE represented in the Electric Ireland GAA Minor Star Awards Football Team of the Year for 2018. All-Ireland champions Kerry, who secured their fifth title in succession, at the grade have four players on the team while runners-up Galway have three included. Players from Kildare, Monaghan, Derry, Dublin, Meath and Wicklow also make up the selection.…

Source: Laszlo Geczo/INPHO WHEN KIERAN DONAGHY waged war on the Mayo full-back line in the 2014 All-Ireland semi-final replay in Limerick, Irish rugby legend Paul O’Connell was in the Gaelic Grounds to watch the chaos unfold.  As it happened, O’Connell found himself sitting alongside Kerry hero Eoin ‘Bomber’ Liston. An iconic full-forward in his own day,…