Month: September 2021

KILDARE DEFENDER JOHNNY Byrne has opted to step away from their senior football squad ahead of the 2019 season.  The Allenwood player has cited ‘new challenges I’ll face in the coming months and goals to fulfil that will require 100% from me’ as the reasoning behind his departure, which he announced in a statement on…

DUBLIN BACK-TO-back All-Ireland winning duo Sinéad Aherne and Lyndsey Davey, and Cork captain Ciara O’Sullivan, will battle it out for the 2018 TG4 senior Players’ Player of the Year award. The 2018 senior Players’ Player of the Year nominees. The three-player shortlist was revealed by the Ladies Gaelic Football Association today, along with the intermediate…

AN 18-POINT win in a Munster hurling semi-final and the prospect of a provincial decider in a fortnight would generally indicate an extremely positive afternoon’s work. Shane Dowling is helped off the pitch by team doctor Kieran Breen. Source: James Crombie/INPHO Yet the ease at which Na Piarsaigh triumphed yesterday was clouded by the casualties…

Mattie Kenny celebrating last year’s Dublin senior hurling final victory. Source: Oisin Keniry/INPHO “WHETHER WE CAN hold onto him now I have my doubts, but he has been super for us and he owes us nothing.” Kieran Fitzgerald was tipping his hat towards the man who had steered Corofin to the title they had so…

A YEAR AGO Kieran Fitzgerald overtook clubmate Trevor Burke as the record Galway championship winner, but after winning his 13th county medal at the weekend he thinks this was one of the sweetest of them all, despite being sent off for the first time in his lengthy career. It took a replay for Corofin to…

IF MONAGHAN AND Scotstown goalkeeper Rory Beggan was feeling any pressure after the fleet of ex-players turned pundits coming out last week to criticise his selection on the All-Star team ahead of Dublin’s Stephen Cluxton, he didn’t show it in their Ulster club win over Burren on Sunday. Beggan contributed two points in the game…

FORMER MAYO LADIES football manager Frank Browne has been appointed as the new Dublin camogie boss. From Mayo football to Dublin camogie: Frank Browne. Source: Tom Beary/INPHO Browne, who steered the Westerners to the All-Ireland final in 2017, will take the reins from five-time All-Ireland winning goalkeeper David Herity. The Kilkenny man resigned from the…

ALL-IRELAND CHAMPIONS DUBLIN and their Leinster rivals Meath are set to meet in a challenge match to raise funds for seriously injured Liverpool fan Sean Cox.  Dublin manager Jim Gavin and Meath boss Andy McEntee. Click Here: custom rapid prototyping The Irish Independent first reported that Jim Gavin and Andy McEntee’s sides will lock horns…

WITH COUNTY AND provincial champions crowned across the length and breadth of the country, attention now turns to the business end of the All-Ireland ladies football club championships. Courtney, Goldrick, O’Sullivan and Ward will all be key for their respective sides. The Ladies Gaelic Football Association (LGFA) today announced the full fixture details of the…

Ballyboden St Enda’s 2-25 Clonkill 2-19 Paul Keane reports from Parnell Park BALLYBODEN ST-ENDA’S prevailed at the end of a tense and emotional evening at Parnell Park to take their place, as expected, in the semi-finals of the AIB Leinster club SHC. Yet the manner of the win which was achieved after extra-time was anything…