What some of these lads do will make you sick

8 years ago

The county championships are hotting up all over now. The men’s All-Irelands are over and the club game is taking over for the next few months. The club lads have been waiting patiently and training hard since April and they’ve been gearing up for these games for months. The county lads have all slotted back […]

8 years ago

Cork were tipped to walk it. The Rebels hurled Tipperary off Páirc Uí Chaoimh and all the way back to Thurles when the county’s collided in the Munster final but Tipperary showed up in Limerick when it mattered the most and they snatched it off Cork. Sadly, this was the last ever year of under-21 […]

8 years ago

Munster will have some bench in Glasgow. Munster are on their travels to Glasgow this Friday for a Guinness Pro14 clash with the Warriors. Johaan Van Graan’s men got their campaign off to a flier in Thomond Park last weekend when they thrashed the Cheetahs 38-0. There were a number of positives for the men […]

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But will Ballyboden improve on last year? Cuala were beaten by Ballyboden St Enda’s in the first round of Dublin Senior Hurling Championship 2017 and Boden made it two wins in two years over the county’s kingpins on Wednesday night. Through it all, you’d have to wonder how this Cuala team keeps on coming back […]

8 years ago

Winning is everything. And when you’re inside the bubble, it’s the only thing. You haven’t trained 85 times, half of them out on wet and soggy pitches to lose. You haven’t spent your evenings going from the gym to bed while your friends went from the pub to the nightclub, to lose. In reality, you […]

8 years ago

Carrick Swans have received plenty of bad press recently. The South Tipperary club didn’t fulfil their first round game of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship against Thurles Sarsfields back in April. That meant that the score difference in Group Three of the Tipperary SHC was null and void from that point onwards, and as luck […]

8 years ago

It’s only three weeks away now. The Ryder Cup goes to tee at the end of the month in Paris and it would be an understatement to say that Europe go into the competition as underdogs. It may be a home tournament but American golfers have been lording it in the majority of the majors […]

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It won’t be long coming around now. Hurling was the winner in the year 2018, but 2019 has all the ingredients to be an even more competitive hurling year. That’s because there are more teams than ever before at such an even level in hurling right now. Galway and Limerick will lead the betting markets, […]

8 years ago

The match on Saturday looks class

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It’s all turning a little bit ugly out west. The clouds began gathering over county Mayo more than a month ago now when 12 of the county’s senior ladies panel walked out the week of their championship clash with Cavan. A ‘player welfare’ issue had been highlighted as the cause for their parting and a […]

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Seamus Harnedy showed everybody

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It says a lot that Brian Fenton is suffering from the Cluxtons at the age of just 25. The Cluxtons was a disease first contracted by Dublin goalkeeper Steven Cluxton in 2014. The causes include a run of exceptional, standout performances for a sustained period of time leading to a string of man-of-the-match awards, individual […]

8 years ago

A dig for Dublin

8 years ago

Hardly ideal. The final round of group games in the Tipperary senior hurling championship took place over the weekend. 16 teams competed in four groups in Roinn One of the senior hurling championship in Tipperary this year. The top two teams would emerge from these groups into the quarter finals of the county championship – where they […]

8 years ago

What could these lads possibly have to improve on now? They’ve just won four All-Ireland finals in a row, Sunday’s one, their most convincing yet. Next year, the Dubs will begin their quest for a fifth in succession – that a feat that has never been accomplished in either hurling or football at a senior […]

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It was like something out of D’Unbelievables. Remember that famous episode where Johnny wasn’t able to decided on which sweet he wanted from the sweet shop. “Can I get two of dem and two of dem?…No, no no, one of dem and two of dem.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEwVpWFyy3M Video Credit: @Sceilig Youtube. Tomás Ó Sé had his […]

8 years ago

Classy as they come. The great tradition of the post-match banquet on The Sunday Game lives on. Had Tyrone won on Sunday, there would have been no interviews with player and manager from the winning team’s hotel, but Dublin weren’t to be denied a historic four-in-a-row much to the national broadcaster’s relief. On his last […]

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The crowd in O’Moore Park were gripped from the first minute to the last. Referee Joe McQuillan only had to issue two cards in the whole game. There was 3-41 scored in 70 minutes of enthralling end-to-end action, 3-23 of it from open play. Armagh and Roscommon brought their weapons to the gunfight and they […]

8 years ago

Check that man for altitude sickness

8 years ago

Karma bit him in the arse

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Don’t ever question Kerry’s production line. Joe Brolly made that mistake before. He made it way back in 2014. We sorted that small problem @JoeBrolly1993 pic.twitter.com/9dBTVXzUk4 — Tomás Ó Sé (@tomas5ky) September 23, 2014 Ever since, Kerry’s football factory has been putting in the long hours, the hard yards. As if the Derry pundit had […]

8 years ago

1854 days and counting. 30 games, still going strong. Five All-Ireland championships in a row. The Kerry minors, still absolutely unflinching. Galway put it up to them this time around, the Tribesmen did their level best but when it came down to it, Kerry just romped up through the gears and left the Tribesmen for […]

8 years ago

Diarmuid Connolly saw this coming. He saw it coming from miles away. Diarmuid Connolly has had a lot of teammates in his time as a Dublin player. He’s played alongside the country’s finest footballers for years and he’s trained alongside them too. He shared a dressing room with experienced leaders like Alan Brogan and Rory […]

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For the last few weeks, Mickey Harte will have been watching James McCarthy’s goal over and over again. That was the play that sank Tyrone when these sides met last back in July and Mickey Harte will have been studying it in great detail. GOAL! Great run by James McCarthy! pic.twitter.com/0m5MOnEGXJ — The GAA (@officialgaa) […]

8 years ago

They weren’t sparing the timber Stateside, that’s for sure. Tipperary Hurling Club Boston claimed the Boston Hurling Championship for 2018 on Sunday, when they defeated the Fr Tom Burke’s outfit in the final and now they’re preparing for the USGAA All-American Championship finals in Philadelphia this weekend. The sun was scorching over the Massachusetts turf on […]

8 years ago

This is it now. Listen, Tyrone are going into Sunday’s All-Ireland final as huge underdogs. We can’t even remember the last time the handicap was set to six points for a Sam Maguire decider, but that still doesn’t mean the bookies nail it every time. And if there’s any team out there you can trust […]

8 years ago

Get Ger Browne his hurley back. The bond between a hurler and their number one hurley is like nothing else. It’s not just any hurley, it’s their hurley. Sometimes, it’s love at first grip, other times, it can take a while to get used to it but when you eventually do and the stick goes […]

8 years ago

One of them scored a goal in club football last night

8 years ago

The boys of Limerick got the celebrating out of the way early and they were back to reality fairly lively. Reality for them is different now from what it was and it will probably feel like they’re still living a dream into the next few weeks, but the wild celebrations are over now and business […]

8 years ago

This is definitely not going to work out. There’s a better chance of a bag of Gaelic footballs being found in Kilkenny than there is each of these seven teams winning their respective county senior hurling championships in 2018. And Kilkenny did make it to the 2018 All-Ireland junior football final so there definitely is […]

8 years ago

Lucky they play a bit of football down in Cappoquin. It’s hard to explain how, it’s hard to explain why, but sometimes in games you’re just playing off instinct and when you’re playing off instinct you’re usually playing well. Killian O’Sullivan’s instinct took over down in Waterford recently. Cappoquin were out against Modeligo in the […]

8 years ago

A solid evening’s work for Kieran O’Hara. The 22-year-old goalkeeper was sent out on loan by Manchester United earlier this month and Macclesfield town were quick to snap up his services for the year. It’s already turning out to be a shrewd piece of business by the Silk Men with with the Manchester born youngster […]

8 years ago

It didn’t cost her any points because it was only a warning, but it’s more the principle of it all. It all seems a little bit unfair that Novak Djokovic was allowed to sit there on the side of the Flushing Meadows court for every single spectator in the crowd to see him in all […]

8 years ago

Duffer didn’t give a damn about that though. As long as he was doing a job for the Republic of Ireland on the pitch, it didn’t really matter that he was singing God Save The Queen at the top of his lungs. It didn’t even matter if he may have wanted to represent England instead. […]

8 years ago

Brian Kerr feels there’s something missing here. Declan Rice played three games for the Republic of Ireland senior team in the last year. He’s played countless underage games on Republic of Ireland teams in the last few years. The 19-year-old London born defender seemed so at home in the Ireland camp. He kissed the badge, […]

8 years ago

Sam Allardyce has been out of work since May. He’s switched from the sideline to the studio in the mean-time but now it looks like the 63-year-old Dudley native wants to get back into the big time. He’s had enough of analysing games on Talksport and now he wants to get back into the thick […]

8 years ago

Just give Enda Mallon the ball. Derrynoose defeated Collegeland 1-13 to 0-11 points in the Armagh Junior football championship recently but none of those 24 scores were as slick as the referee’s outside of the boot belter from 45 yards out. Armagh referee Enda Mallon was in charge of the game in Derrynoose and even […]

8 years ago

Cathal Dunbar was nearly back in Redmond Square when he stood over the sliotar. Gorey outfit Naomh Eanna went into their Wexford SHC group game with Oulart The Ballagh as slight underdogs. The underdogs left Wexford Park on Sunday evening with their ears pricked and their tails wagging. Perennial champions Oulart the Ballagh were dethroned […]

8 years ago

Some bits are crucial. The Limerick senior hurlers were poised for 2018. Their season began back in January in front of 1500 spectators in the Gaelic Grounds when they defeated Laois before going onto win every single one of their Division One B group games. Their journey began well before then, however. Winning is a […]

8 years ago

He walked away before a punch was even thrown. It was an easy evening’s work for heavyweight boxer Efe Ajagba on Friday evening. The Nigerian Super-Heavyweight boxer was awarded a win via immediate disqualification after his opponent Curtis Harper walked out of the ring just after he’d heard the dinging of the opening round bell. […]

8 years ago

This is a three horse race, not a two horse race. Ever since Declan Hannon lifted the Liam MacCarthy Cup on the steps of the Hogan Stand last Sunday, debate has been raging about the end of season All-Star awards. In one of the most open hurling years in a long time where a whole […]

8 years ago

Liam Rushe doesn’t remember the last time that he was placed under a drinking ban. You’ll hear club players all over the country curse the beer bans they’re imprisoned by and while there undoubtedly are a number of clubs still living in the past, chances are that some of these lads are just too committed […]

8 years ago

Class idea, but no good if you’ve a belly

8 years ago

They’re up the walls down in Carlow. The Irish National Hunt season has been tipping along for the last few weeks but it only really gets into full swing with the Listowel festival in early September and the Grade One James Nicholson Chase in Down Royal at the beginning of November. So for now, it’s […]

8 years ago

Are you an expert or a spoof?

8 years ago

A more balanced view of the whole season, that’s for sure. We’re all be guilty of letting the All-Ireland final cloud our judgement on the year as a whole and picking a skewed All-Star team as a result. It’s only natural, really. It’s the last game, it’s the most important game and it’s no surprise […]

8 years ago

Every single member of The Sunday Game panel nominated Galway’s Padraic Mannion as their Hurler of the Year. But when you consider that Gearóid McInerney was the common consensus from the experts’ panel the year previous, only for Joe Canning to win the award, it goes to show that the lads’ opinions aren’t always gospel. […]

8 years ago

Marginal gains. With more of an emphasis being placed on the science of human performance in an ever-evolving GAA world, diet has become one of the key components in the life of a GAA player. Being conditioned requires work. On the field and in the kitchen. Not only county teams, but club teams all over […]

8 years ago

It was Limerick’s year. Are you a fair-weather supporter or have you been there since day one? Are you one of those fans who’s been aching every year since 1973 or did you hop on the bandwagon after Limerick beat Cork in the semi-final? This is one for those nursing sore heads after a few […]

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