Month: September 2021

TOMÁS MCCANN BURIED a goal from a 13-metre free with the last kick of the game to hand Erin’s Own, Cargin a one-point Antrim SFC semi-final win over St Gall’s. Cargin’s match-winner Tomas McCann Source: Antrim GAA After a thrilling game of football, Cargin edged into the final on a scoreline of 2-17 to 4-10.…

TWO OF CORK’S back-to-back All-Ireland champions and one of beaten finalists Kilkenny’s star players will battle it out for the title of senior Player of the Year. Dalton, Sigerson and Cotter all made the cut. Rebels duo Chloe Sigerson and Orla Cotter and Kilkenny stalwart Anne Dalton have all been nominated for the Camogie Association/WGPA…

CIAN LYNCH DOESN’T drink, so it’s fair to say he probably remembers more of Limerick’s Liam MacCarthy Cup celebrations than a fair few of his team-mates.  “I see too much,” he laughs.  Source: Cian Lynch/INPHO The 22-year-old is unique in that he is a teetotaler and a devout Catholic, attending mass on a weekly basis at…

1. Exit for the All-Ireland champions in Parnell Park That losing feeling when the stakes are highest has become unfamiliar to the Cuala hurlers. Their comeback fell just short in the Dublin semi-final yesterday against Kilmacud Crokes, marking a first knockout defeat since November 2015 when they lost the Leinster final against Oulart-the-Ballagh and the…

PETER KEANE HAS been tonight appointed as the new manager of the Kerry senior footballers on a three-year term. Kerry All-Ireland minor winning boss Peter Keane. Source: Inpho Keane’s appointment was officially confirmed tonight at a meeting of the Kerry county board. His management team of Donie Buckley, Maurice Fitzgerald, Tommy Griffin and James Foley…

BRIAN CODY HAS been confirmed as the Kilkenny senior hurling manager for 2019, the country announced on Monday night.  The 64-year-old has been in charge of the Cats since 1998 and is the county’s longest serving and most successful manager. Cody has won 11 All-Ireland hurling titles over the last two decades, collecting 15 Leinster…

A NEW MANAGEMENT team in place and already the talk of the ultimate target in Gaelic football crops up. Kerry chairman Tim Murphy is delighted with the new team. Source: INPHO Kerry installed Peter Keane as their new senior boss last night on a three-year term with Donie Buckley, Maurice Fitzgerald, Tommy Griffin and James…

GALWAY SENIOR LADIES are on the lookout for a new manager after Stephen Glennon stepped down from his position following two years in charge. The news was confirmed in a lengthy statement this morning, in which he cited family, work and college commitments as some reasoning. Glennon has brought the Tribeswomen on a huge amount…

THE POSSIBILITY OF a ‘one-punch fatality’ is a logical progression with the current run of on-pitch violence throughout the club game, insists former Tyrone All-Ireland winner, Enda McGinley He has significant experience with such events in working as a Clinical Specialist Physio in the Trauma and Orthopaedics ward in Craigavon Hospital and has warned where…

65 DAYS AFTER a vacancy arose in the Kerry football hotseat, it was filled last night in Tralee. Fitzgerald, Griffin, Keane and Buckley will all be involved with Kerry. Source: INPHO Word had filtered out last week that Peter Keane was to be the new boss and speculation flared over his backroom team before it…