Month: September 2021

SUCCESSFUL MINOR BOSS Peter Keane is set to be confirmed as Kerry’s new senior football manager next Monday night. The move will bring an end to Kerry’s hunt for a new man at the helm since Éamonn Fitzmaurice brought his six-season reign to a close in the wake of their exit in the Super 8s…

LOUTH HAVE TURNED to a former county underage manager to guide their senior football side for the 2019 season. The Louth players before their Leinster championship tie against Carlow this year. Source: Lorraine OÕSullivan/INPHO Wayne Kierans has been tonight confirmed at a county board meeting as the new Louth manager, taking over from Down great…

2018 ALL-IRELAND CHAMPIONS Limerick will face Davy Fitzgerald’s Wexford while Super 11s holders Clare will go head-to-head with Cork in this year’s semi-finals at Fenway Park. The action kicks off in Boston on Sunday, 18 November with the four sides doing battle for the Players Champions Cup at the home of the Red Sox. The…

JAMES HORAN’S RETURN as Mayo manager places him back in charge of a group he formed a strong emotional bond with during his first spell.  Source: James Crombie/INPHO In his four-year stint at the helm betweelon 2011 and 2014, Horan led Mayo to All-Ireland finals in 2012 and 2013, where they lost to Donegal and…

ALL-IRELAND INTERMEDIATE CHAMPIONS Cork lead the way in the nominees for the 2018 Camogie Soaring Stars Awards with 10 nominations while beaten finalists Down are close behind with nine. 10 for Cork, 9 for Down: Saoirse McCarthy and Sara-Louise Carr are both up for awards. Source: Laszlo Geczo/INPHO With the All-Star nominees announced earlier this…

REIGNING ALL-IRELAND CHAMPIONS Carnacon, without their eight suspended players, were 15-point winners last night in the Mayo SFC. The heavily depleted side beat Castlebar Mitchels on a scoreline of 4-10 to 0-7 in their re-fixed round 2 group clash at the Connacht Centre of Excellence in Bekan. Click Here: nrl jersey sale Eight players including…

Ballyea 1-21 O’Callaghan’s Mills 1-17 Eoin Brennan reports from Cusack Park, Ennis A SUPERB HAUL of 1-9 from Tony Kelly effectively steered Ballyea to their second Clare senior hurling final in three years when holding off the stubborn challenge of O’Callaghan’s Mills in Cusack Park, Ennis this afternoon. The 2013 National Hurler and Young Hurler…

FORMER ALL-IRELAND club football champions Crossmolina are heading to Mayo intermediate ranks after losing today’s relegation final to Davitts by 0-17 to 1-13. Crossmolina won the All-Ireland in 2001 and also reached the final in 2003. The three-time Connacht winners delivered five Mayo titles between 1999 and 2006, but now drop out of senior ranks. A…

Breaffy 1-13 Ballaghaderreen 1-10 Colm Gannon reports from Castlebar BREAFFY BOOKED THEIR place in the Mayo senior football championship final with a hard fought three point win over Ballaghaderren in Castlebar on Saturday night. Mayo star Aidan O’Shea lined out at full forward for most of the game and his tussle with fellow Mayo senior…

Ballintubber 1-12 Castlebar Mitchels 1-12 (After extra time) Colm Gannon reports from Elverys MacHale Park DEFENDING CHAMPIONS CASTLEBAR Mitchels and fierce local rivals Ballintubber will have to do it all over again after they could not be separated even after extra time in Elverys MacHale Park. Two Cillian O’Connor injury time frees sent this Mayo…