Month: September 2021

GARRYSPILLANE ARE LIMERICK Premier intermediate hurling champions after their 2-12 to 0-12 win over Bruff today in Kilmallock.  Ex-Limerick boss TJ Ryan was in charge of the victors, while his brother David captained the side from full-back and another brother Donie top-scored with 0-8. TJ’s son Colin starred at midfield for the winners. Garryspillane dropped down…

Duhallow 3-13 Castlehaven 0-16 John O’Shea reports from Páirc Uí Rinn DUHALLOW ARE NOW one game away from winning their first Cork senior football championship crown since 1991. In what has been an epic trilogy overall in this semi final tie between themselves and Castlehaven, it is the men from the North Cork region that deservedly…

Ballintubber 0-12 Breaffy 1-8 Colm Gannon reports from MacHale Park WHEN IT CAME down to the winning moment of this game, Diarmuid O’Connor was the man who came good and kicked the winning score at the end of hard fought local derby in MacHale Park. Ballintubber battled back from conceding a goal early on and…

JOURNEYS THROUGH THE Clare hurling landscape. Kevin Sheehan has been through a few and can appreciate the varying directions they can take. He can remember the days when Ballyea toiled away in the junior club hurling ranks in the 90s, battling for recognition. He ploughed away as they climbed up over the next decade or…

Clonoulty/Rossmore 0-23 Nenagh Eire Og 2-13 Shane Brophy reports from Semple Stadium, Thurles CLONOULTY/ROSSMORE ENDED a 21 year wait for their fourth Tipperary senior hurling championship title after finishing strongly to defeat favourites Nenagh Eire Og at Semple Stadium today. The West Tipperary side struck the last four points, four from the stick of Timmy Hammersley…

CARNACON CONCLUDED A difficult campaign by hammering Knockmore to take the Mayo ladies SFC title this afternoon. Eight players from the club departed the Mayo panel during the summer, kicking off a lengthy dispute which saw the club fine, and the players suspended on grounds of bringing the game into disrepute. The reigning All-Ireland champions…

MULLINGAR SHAMROCKS ARE champions of Westmeath for the first time since 2012 after dethroning Leinster finalists St Loman’s today. Goals from Paddy Fagan and  Dennis Corroon in either half helped Shamrocks end the Loman’s dominance in Westmeath on a scoreline of 2-12 to 1-11. They’ll face Kildare champions Moorefield in the Leinster club championship next…

Ballyea 1-20 Cratloe 1-14 BALLYEA WOULD PRODUCE a remarkable 13 point second half turnaround to complete their second Clare senior hurling title in three years in front of 7,040 in Cusack Park Ennis this afternoon. Niall Deasy’s 13 point haul from placed balls was copperfastened by the 55th minute clinching goal for Martin O’Leary as Ballyea,…

Kilmacud Crokes 1-20 Ballyboden St Endas 2-17 (aet) Stephen O’Meara reports from Parnell Park ANTHONY DALY’S KILMACUD Crokes came into today’s Dublin Senior Hurling Championship final as favourites against Ballyboden St Endas, having taken out double All-Ireland champions, Cuala, in the semi-final. Joe Fortune and Anthony Daly embrace after extra time. Source: Oisin Keniry/INPHO Boden, however, in…

IT WAS A busy day of club football in Ulster. Crossmaglen ended a three-year wait without the Armagh SFC title with a 0-24 to 1-15 victory over Ballymacnab.  Blistering last quarter by ⁦@crossrangers⁩ coming from 3 behind to win by 6. Ballymacnab boys must be dizzy. Great game of realfootball pic.twitter.com/QVZz8ZvL6h — Joe Brolly (@JoeBrolly1993)…