To win just once is the famous line. There’s even a song made about Mayo’s desperate desire to win an All-Ireland final. The nearly men of Gaelic football have been knocking on the door for the last ten years and though they famously haven’t beaten it down yet, Mayo for Sam and all that comes […]

7 years ago

Naomh Eanna play in their first ever Wexford senior final on Sunday. In 2015, they won the intermediate title and this year they’ve progressed even further. He’d been in underage finals the whole way up along and despite winning at under-12, he went on to lose finals at under-14, 16, minor and under-21 level. That […]

7 years ago

Tom Morrissey realises that moments like these have to be savoured. He’s mature enough to know that Limerick won’t win an All-Ireland every year and so neither he, or his Limerick teammates have even passed a glance to next year yet. Limerick city, Limerick county has been hopping since August 19 and it will stay […]

7 years ago

Didn’t it do the world of good for him? A couple of tweaks to his game transformed Daniel Kearney in 2018. He was always a live-wire midfielder. The nippy, clever lad in the middle of the field who was well able to get onto the ball and was good to give a pass. In 2018, […]

7 years ago

TG4 have two games on Sunday. They’ll be showing the Donegal county final, between Gaoth Dobhair and Glenties live and that’ll be followed by deferred coverage of the Clare senior hurling final between Cratloe and Ballyea. All in all, there are 19 senior county finals taking place across the country this weekend, six of them […]

7 years ago

He’ll miss some of Kerry’s National League campaign. David Clifford has been absolutely lording it for East Kerry in the Kingdom’s Senior Football Championship this year. The Fossa club man, alongside his brother Paudie, has been cutting through defences and scoring for fun over the last few months. Last Sunday in Austin Stack Park, the […]

7 years ago

While the rest of us were tucked away, the hurlers of Sligo couldn’t have been more alive. There was a double header of Sligo senior hurling semi-finals on Wednesday night. The first of the games threw-in at 7.30 in the Sligo Centre of Excellence up in Strandhill and it saw Coolera/Strandhill take on Easkey. These sides […]

7 years ago

It’s one of the biggest Irish race courses

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Winning both is a rare feat. Slaughtneil have mastered it in recent years in Derry while in Tipperary, the great Loughmore-Castleiney did the double in 2013. St Finbarr’s conquered football and hurling and football back in the 80s in Cork while in Dublin, St Vincent’s have managed it on more than one occasion. This year, […]

7 years ago

#LetCathalPlay is doing the rounds in Wexford. Naomh Eanna will play in their first ever county senior hurling final this Sunday when they take on reigning champs St Martin’s in Wexford Park on Sunday. As thing stand, the men of Gorey are going into the biggest game in their club’s history down a key man, […]

7 years ago

Keith Andrews is sick of Martin O’Neill clinging to the same tired, old excuse. Just like he always does, O’Neill played the ‘don’t have the players’ card in the aftermath of Ireland’s hapless and jaded 1-0 defeat to Wales in their third group game of the Nations League. Like our last thronging by the same […]

7 years ago

Chris Sutton played under Martin O’Neill for four years. The English striker was at Celtic between 2000 and 2004 when O’Neill was the manager and he claims that, contrary to the most common criticism of the current Republic of Ireland manager, he was always well informed on his role going into any game. With the […]

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A tidy player. Ireland hosted Wales in their third game of the Nations League on Tuesday night and there was a lot riding on it. A loss here would almost ensure Ireland’s relegation from division two to division three in the Nations League and they would then drop from second to third seeds in the […]

7 years ago

How can you defend against that? Some players just have it all. The speed, the strength, the brains, the spacial awareness, the skill. David Clifford has it all and he showed every one of Gaelic football’s great skills and qualities off on Sunday afternoon down in Tralee. Clifford didn’t start well in the Kerry semi-final […]

7 years ago

Proper order. Don’t fight in car-parks if you can’t do the time. Ballyholland and Downpatrick won’t play a part in the Down senior football championship for 2019. The bizarre thing about the Division 1 fixture of the Down GAA All County Football League was that it had been abandoned the week previous after some unsavoury scenes […]

7 years ago

Look no further, people of Limerick. Treaty Triumph was launched on Wednesday in Limerick city and it will fill many a stocking Shannonside this December. A 168 page annual, Treaty Triumph brings Limerick’s year of years to glorious life with a memory-jogging, chronological pictorial record of their 2018, starting with the Munster League, going all the […]

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Geelong weren’t happy with him. The Dingle man returned to West Kerry recently, and he played for his club in their Kerry SFC quarter-final win over Austin Stacks. Mark O’Connor played a key role in that victory from midfield, despite the fact that his afternoon ended early due to a black card. However, with the […]

7 years ago

The lads have done it again. Dundalk IT hit the headlines last year when they went retro. The Louth college marked their return to the top table of college’s football with a beautiful blast from the past. While all of the other colleges and even counties were outdoing each other with modern jerseys and all […]

7 years ago

The Munster boys are shifting tin all over UL. Munster’s pro14 campaign is in full swing at the moment and the lads are in full flight in the gym. Next up is Gloucester at Thomond Park on Saturday and Johann van Graan’s men are lifting it out of it in preparation. Fresh from a draw […]

7 years ago

Who did this lad think he was? Rena Buckley is one of the greatest, most inspirational and highest achieving GAA players this country has ever been lucky enough to have. You think of ladies football or camogie and she’s always the first name that springs to mind. You realise this woman has won 18 All-Ireland […]

7 years ago

Acheson is home, for now anyway. Tipperary football has lost a number of soldiers in the last few years, but no loss has affected the Premier County as greatly as the loss of Peter Acheson. Not long after he captained Liam Kearns’ side to the All-Ireland semi-final in 2017, the Moyle Rovers club man moved […]

7 years ago

Wicklow GAA are behind the eight ball now but they only have themselves to blame. Rathnew and St Patrick’s couldn’t be separated in their Wicklow SFC final in Aughrim on Sunday afternoon. It looked as if the country men of Rathnew were about to score their seventh title in ten years, only for St Pat’s […]

7 years ago

The way they won the Limerick final is an absolute joke

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They thought they had it. Kilanerin were moments away from creating history on Sunday afternoon, only for Wexford hurler Simon Donohue to step up and kick two crucial scores to earn a draw for Shelmaliers in the Wexford SFC final. All over, a 2-11 apiece draw between @kilaneringaa and @shelmaliers in the @tdsupplies senior football […]

7 years ago

Some finishers. TG4 decided on Roscommon, it was a good decision. The Rossies’ county final was broadcast live on Sunday afternoon and the clash of Clann Na nGael and St Brigid’s didn’t disappoint. Two forgotten men of Roscommon football showed their class on opposite ends of the Hyde Park field in the decider. For St […]

7 years ago

Only four years ago, Bennettsbridge were a junior club in Kilkenny. Now, they’re only one win away from their first Kilkenny senior hurling title since 1971. The Bridge defeated 2013 and 2015 champions Clara in a 51 point thriller in Nowlan Park on Sunday afternoon. The bookies couldn’t separate them, with both sides priced at […]

7 years ago

Once St Jude’s got going, they were unstoppable. After eight minutes of St Vincent’s Dublin senior football semi-final clash with St Jude’s, you could have been forgiven for thinking Vinnies were going to coast it. In hot pursuit of their third title in a row, the Marino outfit got out of the blocks like scalded […]

7 years ago

The Kerry semi-final had absolutely everything. Missed penalties, red cards, wonder-scores, heroes and villains. It’s a good thing then, that East Kerry and Dingle will put on another show next weekend after they couldn’t be separated this time around. A late, great Tom O’Sullivan point levelled it up for Dingle at the death, a replay […]

7 years ago

Championship days. The draws for the 2019 All-Ireland senior hurling and football championships took place on RTÉ on Thursday night. Yes, the 2018 season has only just finished up. Yes, we’re still basking in the glory of the great year that was and yes, we’re looking past the pre-season dead rubbers, the National Leagues and […]

7 years ago

Eve O’Brien sat down and she had a few things to get off her chest. A few things that the majority of camogie players in Ireland will agree with. The All-Ireland camogie final was a disappointment this year. The Cork and Kilkenny rivalry in camogie is akin to Tipperary’s and Kilkenny’s between 2009 and 2014 […]

7 years ago

Speaks voluemes about the man

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Where does that leave the rest of us? Brian Fenton is taking the piss at this stage. He’s never lost a championship game for Dublin in his four years on the panel. For two of those years, he’s been shortlisted for the Footballer of the Year award and the general consensus is that over the […]

7 years ago

Rathdowney/Errill lost the Laois county final on Sunday. The loss of their best player and the best player in Laois, Ross King, to a facial injury after 25 minutes of the game proved a telling blow as the 2014 champions went on to lose by two points. Jordan Walshe, a key man for one of […]

7 years ago

The three women are being punished for loving camogie as much as they love football. For ten years, Kilkenny woman Helen Murphy has played for Tara camogie club in London. For nine, she’s kicked football for Kingdom Kerry Gaels. Tara camogie are a proud club. They’re going for a historic tenth title in a row […]

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Finally, a line looks to have been drawn in the sand. It was four months ago when the Mayo ladies saga first came into the public sphere. On July 10, 12 players left the Mayo panel just days before they would take on Cavan in the first round of the championship. “We have stepped away […]

7 years ago

If the column is there to be dodged, this fella will dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge all over it. It’s actually rare that he gets injured during a match or during a training session. Strangely enough, it’s always in the intervening days between the two that disaster strikes and he’s forced to walk into […]

7 years ago

If they had a choice. The hand a hurler catches the ball with is in direct correlation with the hand they have on top in their grip of the hurl. Those who hold the hurl with the right hand on top catch with their left hand and vice versa. That’s the only hint you’re getting. […]

7 years ago

Anthony Daly and Ryan O’Dwyer couldn’t but get on well. Two all-in-or-nothing characters, half-hardheartedness isn’t in either of their psyches. The pair first crossed paths in 2011. Before that, O’Dwyer was playing with Tipperary. A Cashel man, the Dublin based secondary school teacher was a Tipperary senior hurler and footballer when he decided he just […]

7 years ago

He returns a champion. They worship their fighters in Dagestan and Khabib Nurmagomedov is the biggest warrior they have. Dagestan is a republic of Russia. It’s an ethically diverse place in the North Caucasus region that has a population bordering on three million. Khabib Nurmagomedov has put the Republic of Dagestan on the map over […]

7 years ago

Conor McGregor could be in a spot of bother now too. The Las Vegas Nevada State Athletic Commission are set to file complaints against both Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov for their actions as part of the brawl that followed the Russian’s victory over the Dubliner in the lightweight decider at UFC229. With Khabib completely […]

7 years ago

Cian Lynch doesn’t drink. It wasn’t something he was told to abstain from, he just never saw the point in it himself. While his teammates and classmates were tasting their first drink at 16, 17 or 18 years of age, it just wasn’t something he was tempted by. He’d spend his evenings training away with […]

7 years ago

The DCU lads are divils for this

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Now we’re hurling. Reigning All-Ireland champions Cuala bit the dust, last year’s Leinster finalists Kilcormac Killoughey are gone and Thurles Sarsfields’ five-in-a-row bid in Tipperary was ended. We had some weekend of hurling and here’s the round-up. Tipperary (Senior semi-finals) Thurles Sarsfields’ five-in-a-row bid in Tipperary was stopped in its tracks by a Michael Heffernan […]

7 years ago

Cuala will be back. It takes a special team to win once, it takes a truly great team to win back to back. Over the last three years, Cuala won Dublin, Leinster and All-Ireland club titles for two years in a row. This team’s winning streak came to an end on Sunday, when Anthony Daly’s […]

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There were two big games in Kilkenny on Saturday. James Stephens took on Erin’s Own in Ballyragget in the county senior quarter-final with a spot in a semi-final against Ballyhale Shamrocks the prize. Meanwhile, Glenmore were up against last year’s beaten finalists Graigue Ballycallan in the intermediate quarter final in Ballyhale. Erin’s Own 0-14 James […]

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The Underdogs will be up against it, that’s for sure. The TG4 Underdogs will take on Dublin in a challenge game under the lights in Parnell Park on October 19. The game will be broadcast live on GAA Beo on TG4 with the ball being thrown in at 7.45. The Underdogs began their journey […]

7 years ago

The first of the county finals are taking place this weekend. TG4 will be up in Monaghan for the senior football final on Sunday and that’ll be followed by deferred coverage of the Offaly senior hurling final. In total, there are seven county finals taking place on Sunday. Longford are the only other county having […]

7 years ago

This has hair standing on the back of necks. Almost two years on from his last fight in the Octagon, Conor McGregor’s eagerly anticipated UFC comeback is finally upon us. It was in November of 2016 when McGregor defeated Eddie Alvarez to become the UFC’s lightweight champion and during his break from the game over […]

7 years ago

These lads are ready. After months of build-up, months of hard-training and weeks of trash-talk, Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov are ready to fight. Both men made weight, the Russian tipping the scales on the button at 155 lbs while Conor McGregor was half a pound lighter. McGregor made everybody wait a while at the […]

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The jersey they’ll be wearing all over the capital city in 2019. Brian Fenton ramped up the hype last week when he posed for a photo in the new Dublin jersey, only for the jersey itself to be cruelly blocked off. 🆕️👕🔜 pic.twitter.com/8hFkfL9Vey — Dublin GAA (@DubGAAOfficial) October 1, 2018 Well all of the waiting […]

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