Month: September 2021

CORK’S MARK KEANE and Derry’s Anton Tohill have become the latest Irish players to make the move to Aussie Rules after Collingwood confirmed they have signed the duo. Derry’s Anton Tohill and Cork’s Mark Keane are heading to Melbourne. Source: INPHO The Melbourne-based club announced the recruit of the duo who had been heavily linked…

DUBLIN FOOTBALL STAR Paul Mannion isn’t a fan of the proposed new rule changes for Gaelic football. The GAA’s standing committee on playing rules revealed earlier this month the five rules that they believe should be experimented with in the sport. A restriction in handpasses, a plan to have all sidelines kicked forward, the introduction…

IT’S COUNTY HURLING final week and enough has occurred since his last appearance with Ballyboden St-Enda’s for Simon Lambert to appreciate this build-up. Ballyboden collected six titles between 2007 and 2013, Lambert a Dublin hurler at the time and a lynchpin in their run of club success. Now it’s almost three years since he was…

KERRY’S MARK O’CONNOR is set to miss the remainder of his club Dingle’s county senior football championship campaign after his AFL side Geelong stated they cannot permit it as ‘it’s a breach to his contract’. O’Connor returned home after the close of the 2018 AFL season and featured in Dingle’s county quarter-final win over Austin…

TRIBUTES ARE POURING in for 2009 All-Ireland winning captain Darran O’Sullivan following his retirement from inter-county football on Tuesday. O’Sullivan is now the fourth Kerry player to retire since the end of their 2018 championship campaign, joining a group which includes Kieran Donaghy, Donnchadh Walsh and Anthony Maher. The four-time All-Ireland winner was renowned for his…

LEADING REFEREE CONOR Lane says that the reaction in refereeing circles to the proposed new rules in Gaelic football has been “very positive”. The 2018 All-Ireland SFC final man in the middle hasn’t been involved in any of the trial matches thus far but says that the feedback has been optimistic. Recently, the GAA’s standing committee…

“WAS THERE? I don’t listen to social media,” was 2018 All-Ireland SHC final referee James Owens’ initial tongue-in-cheek response when the sideshow in the build-up to the decider came up in conversation. The sideshow was of course James McGrath’s omission and his subsequent resignation. The day after it was announced that Wexford native Owens would…

IN AN EVENTFUL off-season that saw James Horan and Liam Sheedy reappointed as county managers, the news that Stephen Rochford is set to join Declan Bonner’s backroom team in Donegal may be the most surprising of the lot. Former Mayo manager Stephen Rochford Source: James Crombie/INPHO Rochford declared back in mid-August that he was remaining…

FOR THE MOST part, Galway enjoyed a successful season in 2018. Click Here: cheap newcastle knights jersey They went through their first top flight league campaign in seven years unbeaten up until the final defeat to Dublin. Kevin Walsh’s side won back their Connacht crown and advanced to the Super 8s where they enjoyed a victory…

AS HE ATTEMPTS to stifle the impact of Nenagh Éire Óg in the battle to be crowned Tipperary senior hurling champions, John O’Keeffe can reflect on his previous input into the development of some of their rising stars. In a former career O’Keeffe, the Clonoulty-Rossmore captain and Portlaoise-based garda, worked for the Tipperary county board…