Month: September 2021

Glanmire (Cork) 1-22 Tourlestrane (Sligo) 3-11 KATE HANNON SCORED 0-11 and scooped the player of the match award as Cork’s Glanmire won their first ever All-Ireland junior club title with victory over Tourlestrane at Duggan Park in Ballinasloe. It was all Hannon versus Katie Walsh in the first half and although the Sligo county star…

Offaly 1-16 Laois 2-16  THE LAOIS HURLERS got off to a winning start under new boss Eddie Brennan with a win over Offaly in the Walsh Cup on Sunday. The sides traded scores throughout the opening phases, with Laois holding a slender one-point lead after 23 minutes. Offaly then edged into the lead with a goal…

Shane Mulligan lifts the trophy. Source: Oisin Keniry/INPHO Kevin O’Brien reports from Bord na Mona O’Connor Park THERE WON’T BE a cow milked in Mullinalaghta tonight, but that doesn’t mean the farmers are let off the hook.  Earlier this week, centre-forward James McGivney said that no matter what happened in the Leinster final against Kilmacud…

OUTGOING CORK COUNTY board secretary Frank Murphy believes drawn All-Ireland semi-finals should go to a replay rather than have extra-time played ‘in fairness to players’. Long-serving Cork county board secretary Frank Murphy is stepping down. Source: Donall Farmer/INPHO Murphy has made his remarks in his last report to Cork’s annual county convention, which will take…

JIM MCGUINNESS FLIES out to North Carolina tonight as he begins the next chapter of his coaching career in the soccer world. Former Donegal boss Jim McGuinness. The former Donegal GAA manager is stepping into his first managerial position in his adopted sport at United Soccer League (USL) Championship side Charlotte Independence, where he has…

A MEMBER OF the Whelehan family will be back in charge of four-time All-Ireland winning club Birr next season with Barry Whelehan having being appointed as the Offaly club’s new senior hurling boss. The Whelahan brothers celebrating their 2001 Leinster club final victory. Source: INPHO Congratulations and best of luck to Barry Whelehan who has…

WHAT A GOAL. It was a huge weekend of ladies football action as new champions were crowned in the All-Ireland senior, intermediate and junior club competitions. Mourneabbey ended five years of hurt and heartbreak as they finally got their hands on the Dolores Tyrrell Memorial Cup on Saturday night while it was two out of…

MULLINALAGHTA HAD FIVE starters on the Longford team that went down by 19 points to Dublin in this year’s Leinster semi-final – Patrick Fox, Donal McElligott, David and James McGivney, and Rian Brady. Kilmacud’s Cian O’Sullivan and Paul Mannion were key members of the Dublin outfit that day in June and would go on to…

TYRONE GOALKEEPER NIALL Morgan will line out for Dungannon Swifts in a League Cup semi-final tonight after getting permission from manager Mickey Harte. Morgan, who has recently played for Dungannon, has been drafted into the starting line-up for the clash with Linfield at Stangmore Park due to a goalkeeper crisis in the Swifts. The42 understands however,…

Click:home decoration design platform EIGHTEEN-TIME ALL-IRELAND winner Briege Corkery has committed to the Cork camogie team for the 2019 season. Corkery returned to the squad ahead of their All-Ireland semi-final against Tipperary in August after an almost two-year absence which included giving birth to her son Tadhg at the end of March. She was introduced…