Month: September 2021

1. Ballygunner rewarded at last Perseverance is rewarded. Ballygunner are no strangers to big Munster club hurling days, the issue has been in grasping silverware. This bunch of players have lost finals in 2015 and 2017, a few are knocking around from the 2005 and 2009 reversals, while in total the club has suffered eight…

Gaoth Dobhair 4-11 Crossmaglen Rangers 0-16 Declan Bogue reports from Healy Park, Omagh FOR THE FIRST time ever, Gaoth Dobhair have made it to an Ulster club final where they will meet Monaghan’s Scotstown. And any questions of their credentials in this first foray into Ulster were met with an emphatic trouncing of Crossmaglen Rangers,…

St Martin’s (Wexford) 2-10 Thomastown (Kilkenny) 1-6 ST MARTIN’S OF Wexford are Leinster senior club camogie champions after they put an end to Thomastown’s provincial three-in-a-row bid. Second-half goals from Linda Bolger and Chloe Foxe helped the Wexford champions to a seven-point win in a repeat of the 2017 decider. Thomastown were reduced to 14…

Limerick 38 Cork 30 John Fallon reports from Fenway Park ALL-IRELAND CHAMPIONS Limerick rounded off a glorious year by capturing the Aer Lingus Fenway Hurling Classic. Limerick never trailed in the final as they built on a blistering start to finish as they added the Players’ Champions Cup to their trophy cabinet. Limerick led by…

WHEN BALLYGUNNER REACHED the Munster club hurling summit for the first time in 2001, Fergal Hartley was at the heart of the action as a centre-back powering his team to victory. Ballygunner players celebrate their Munster title victory. Source: Morgan Treacy/INPHO There’s been no shortage of frustration and suffering since then in the Waterford club’s…

KERRY GAA IS in mourning following the death of legendary Radio Kerry broadcaster Fogarty who sadly passed away over the weekend. Fogarty was inducted into the McNamee Awards Hall of Fame in 2016, while he previously refereed two All-Ireland semi-finals and played twice for the Kerry seniors before injury cut his career short. Since news of…

JUST 90 SECONDS into the 2016 AIB All-Ireland club football final, Colm Basquel danced through the Castlebar Mitchels defence and fired a screamer to the net. The stunning score put Ballyboden St Enda’s into a lead they would ultimately hold onto and they picked up their first ever club title that afternoon. Over two and…

IT STARTED OUT against Ballygunner back in 2011 and ultimately it was the same opponents that brought the run to an end seven years later. Na Piarsaigh took their first steps on the Munster senior club hurling circuit in November 2011, winning a semi-final tie by 3-9 to 0-12 against Ballygunner in Walsh Park. That…

Stephen O’Keeffe was joint captain for Ballygunner’s victory. Source: Morgan Treacy/INPHO TALES FROM THURLES on club afternoons for Stephen O’Keeffe. In 2009 he was a teenager between the posts as Ballygunner fell short by a pair of points in a Munster final against Newtownshandrum. Another final in 2015 in Semple Stadium with O’Keeffe in goal…

2018 HAS BEEN an unforgettable year for Rory Beggan. Source: Ryan Byrne/INPHO The Monaghan netminder picked up his first All-Star earlier this month on the back of his finest campaign in the Farney colours. Beggan was solid between the posts, showed off his arsenal of pin-point kick-outs during the summer, while also posting 0-18 from…