Month: September 2021

THE IRISH EXODUS to the Australian Football League Women’s (AFLW) continues, with Tipperary’s Aisling McCarthy picked up in the 2018 Draft. Click Here: melbourne storm team jersey Tipperary dual star Aisling McCarthy. Source: Donall Farmer/INPHO 22-year-old McCarthy, the 2017 Intermediate Player of the Year, has joined the Western Bulldogs, having travelled to Australia in September…

HIS NAME WAS floated as a contender for vacant managerial posts in Waterford and Tipperary in recent times but neither was ever a viable option for Brendan Cummins to pursue. Brendan Cummins (centre) was at the launch of the Amanda Stapleton benefit match yesterday. Source: Piaras Ó Mídheach/SPORTSFILE He heard he had been nailed down…

FORMER TIPPERARY ALL-Ireland hurling winner Paddy Stapleton has described as ‘humbling’ the reaction to the fundraising efforts his family have embarked upon in aid of his sister Amanda, who was recently diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour. Former Tipperary hurler Paddy Stapleton in Borris-Ileigh yesterday. Source: Piaras Ó Mídheach/SPORTSFILE The response from former Tipperary team-mates…

A DINGLE OFFICIAL has been handed a proposed eight-week ban arising out of the brawl that erupted in Sunday’s Kerry county senior football semi-final. Dingle triumphed in the last four tie against East Kerry at Austin Stack Park to set up a county final meeting with Dr Crokes next Sunday afternoon but the game was…

AFTER LOSING THE Cork SHC final to Imokilly, the last thing Conor Lehane and his Midleton team-mates wanted to do was return to training the following week.  Midleton and Cork hurler Conor Lehane at the launch of the AIB Camogie and Club Championships. This is AIB’s 28th year sponsoring the AIB GAA Football, Hurling and…

IRELAND’S LATEST ADDITION to the Australian Football League Women’s (AFLW) Aisling McCarthy says she “couldn’t believe it” when she was picked in the 2018 Draft. Aisling McCarthy was Player of the Match in the 2017 All-Ireland intermediate final. Source: Ryan Byrne/INPHO The Tipperary star and 2017 Intermediate Player of the Year was watching on from…

FOR THE MAJORITY of high-level sportsmen, it’s the defeats rather than the victories that will stick with them.  Rory Beggan after Tyrone ended Monaghan’s season. Source: Oisin Keniry/INPHO While Rory Beggan admits he took his game “onto a new level” in 2018, the All-Star nominee was frustrated with his decision-making late in Monaghan’s All-Ireland semi-final defeat…

THE TIPPERARY COUNTY board have ratified the appointment of former All-Ireland winning captain Tommy Dunne and former inter-county player and Kiladangan native Darragh Egan as coaches within Liam Sheedy’s backroom team. Sheedy has returned to the position of Tipperary senior hurling manager, eight years after leading the Premier County to the Liam MacCarthy Cup against Kilkenny…

DONAL MOLONEY AND Gerry O’Connor will manage the Clare senior hurlers again for the 2019 season. O’Connor and Moloney have been in charge of Clare since October 2016. Source: Bryan Keane/INPHO The pair were formally ratified on Tuesday evening at a Clare county board meeting as the joint managers for next year’s campaign. It will…

AIDAN O’ROURKE has officially ruled himself out of the running for the position of Roscommon senior football manager, the county confirmed on Tuesday. The former Louth boss was the County Board’s leading candidate to take over from Kevin McStay, however a phone call from O’Rourke has ended his involvement in the running. As a result,…