Rory Beggan has form for it. Remember there last year when we were all just starting to hear about his rocket ship of a right foot and he ran up the field to score a point from play for Scotstown. By this stage we all know about Rory Beggan. He was the best goalkeeper in […]

7 years ago

Clonoulty Rossmore are a good team. They won a decent Tipperary championship, they’ve got some excellent players. Timmy Hammersely is a leader, his brother Conor is county standard. John O’Keeffe is a rock solid centre back and Enda Heffernan beside him is a serious goer. But they were playing Na Piarsaigh on Sunday. And Na […]

7 years ago

A first touch from the Gods. We shouldn’t really be surprised by anything Tony Kelly does with a hurley anymore. This is a man who’s made the amazing things the standard thing over the last couple of years. He’s sold the dummies, he’s shown off the first touch, he’s burned them with the pace, he’s […]

7 years ago

Crossmaglen are back and they won’t be going away anytime soon. They didn’t make it to an Armagh final for two years and they were calling it a drought. The people of Crossmaglen were worried, were experiencing withdrawal symptoms and it just didn’t feel right. They won minor championships though and there were young lads […]

7 years ago

The pride of Charleville left the pitch to a standing ovation. Darragh Fitzgibbon is only 21 years of age yet he already has an All-Star and two Munster senior championships won. He’s gone well so far, but there’s so much more to come. Hurling is the main game in Charleville and Darragh Fitzgibbon is their […]

7 years ago

Tony Kelly brings that hurley to bed with him. His father Donal is convinced of it. Then he gets up out of bed and the first thing he does every morning is go outside for a few pucks. At the crack of dawn, in a yard in Ballyea is where you’ll find him, zipping a […]

7 years ago

The county finals have come and gone. The best have been separated from the rest and now, after celebrating their county final wins like mad, they’re looking ahead to the winners from the other counties. Most of them have never played each other before and don’t know much about the team they’re going to be […]

7 years ago

Where did the it all go wrong? It’s not about being one of Ireland’s best 15 players in the year. Then we could have had Rory Beggan and Steven Cluxton on the same team. It’s not even about making it on an Ireland 15 if it was named in the morning. Then Michael Murphy or […]

7 years ago

They’re tough as nails up in the glens of Antrim. And Ciaran McKay is one of the toughest. He’s only a minor but he doesn’t know anything other than tough, brave and hard hurling. He was playing for Loughgiel Shamrocks in the Antrim minor hurling final against Dunloy last Sunday when he put his bare […]

7 years ago

Borrisoleigh is the place to be this Saturday. The lights will be on, Bishop Quinlan Park be buzzing and the legends of Tipperary and Kilkenny will return for one night and for one night only. The greatest rivalry the GAA has ever been lucky enough to witness will be rekindled in north Tipperary on Saturday […]

7 years ago

We had it good. There two Sundays ago, there was 15 county senior finals going on at the one time. Club’s Twitter pages like Tourlestrane’s and Kilcoo’s were being refreshed frantically by people who’d never even dreamed of setting foot in those places in their lives. They were GAA people though, and the GAA is […]

7 years ago

And then there were 17. The county championships are won and heading for the provincial championships now. Time flies when you’re having fun and club is bombing past us at 100 miles an hour. Is the best behind us, or is it yet to come? It’s probably a bit of both but here’s our ranking […]

7 years ago

The magical mystery tour is heading to the sunny south east this Sunday. Destination Waterford. You could have jumped into a car anywhere in the country the last few weekends and no matter where on this island you started your journey, you were hard done by if you had to travel further than half an […]

7 years ago

Oh so cheeky, Alan

7 years ago

Eddie Brennan thought that these days were gone. He’s won it all in his hurling career. Eight All-Irelands, 11 Leinsters, four All-Stars and a county senior title for Graigue/Ballycallan. But fast Eddie is 40 years of age now. He spends his summer Sundays on The Sunday Game couches these days. He manages teams like the […]

7 years ago

Stoke City have issued a statement, so has James McClean and they want that to be the end of it. Ever since he made the move across the water to England, James McClean has had to explain his reasons for not wearing a poppy on his jersey. He’s one of the few players in English […]

7 years ago

Just when you think you have him, he’s already gone. And you’ll never make that mistake again because it’s always worth Paul Mannion’s while. He took seven shots on Monday night, scored 1-6. If you let that stat sink in for a second it’s the only one you need to know from the Dublin senior […]

7 years ago

Open the gates and let them play. There’s something special about a game being played under lights. With everything else in darkness, the pitch and everything inside those four white lines becomes sacred. As if nothing else matters in the world for an hour and a half. The grass is greener than ever before and […]

7 years ago

All on county final day. Graigue Ballycallan are back. After three years down, they’re in the big time again. They fell at the final hurdle last year but they went one better this year. Now they’ve an All-Ireland club to look forward to with the promised land of senior hurling beckoning next year. Tell you […]

7 years ago

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Champions are falling left right and centre and stories are emerging. Nothing comes handy in club GAA and the best are being separated from the rest right around now. There’s a smell of real GAA in the air this weather. Club teams taking to the field on […]

7 years ago

Death, taxes and a Conor Power goal for Ballygunner. Ballygunner are back into the Munster semi-final again and Conor Power is still on fire. The Waterford champions were tested by Midleton, but they turned on the style when it came down to it. Conor Power’s goal was again a game-changer for them. With the Gunners […]

7 years ago

What a time of the year this is. There’s nothing like club GAA and if you were watching the Galway county final you know all about it. The reigning All-Ireland champions Corofin looked dead and buried, only to just come out alive, summoning iron will and nerves of steel right at the death. Listen to […]

7 years ago

Ballyhale Shamrocks aren’t no one man team. It was Kilkenny senior championship number 16 for Ballyhale Shamrocks on Sunday. Bennettsbridge came roaring back, but the Shamrocks were always in control. After four years out, Ballyhale are back on top and they’re back in a Leinster championship. There’s no James Cha now, Henry Shefflin is on […]

7 years ago

If at first you don’t succeed, just try again. That could be Killeedy GAA club’s motto. They won the Limerick Junior B hurling championship in 2005. But that was the end of the road for them. Just like it was for Junior B champions all over the country. Junior A, Intermediate and senior club championship […]

7 years ago

This one will have been sweet for Thomas Davis. The Dublin club football championships were changed at the start of the year and the Tallaght club were raging about it. First of all, the Dublin senior championship was altered from a 32 team straight knock-out competition to a 16 team competition. The remaining 16 teams, […]

7 years ago

Ding-dong. There’s tweedledum and tweedledee, there’s bacon and cabbage, there’s Kilkenny and Brian Cody and then, then there’s the siamese twins of mid-Tipperary, Thurles Sarsfields and Loughmore-Castleiney. It was back at the beginning of September when the Sars and the hurlers of Loughmore met for the first time this year in the mid-Tipperary hurling final. […]

7 years ago

There’s no rest for the wicked and there’s definitely no rest for GAA players. For some reason unbeknownst to man, the Wicklow senior football championship was still going on more than five months after the county team were knocked out of the All-Ireland football championship. In contrast to Monaghan, for example, who’s championship dreams didn’t […]

7 years ago

How many miles to Semple Stadium? For Peter Acheson, it’s going to be over 7000. But what’s 7000 miles when there’s a county final at stake? Moyle Rovers are back in a county final and Peter Acheson is coming home from Dubai for it. The south Tipperary club haven’t won one since 2009 and they’re […]

7 years ago

The Laois senior hurling final between Camross and Rathdowney-Errill didn’t pass without controversy. Camross won the game, but their 26th championship win was marred by the inquest that followed. A couple of minutes before half-time a few hurls were pulled by Camross players under the stand in O’Moore Park. Rathdowney-Errill’s Ross King ran towards the […]

7 years ago

Everyone wants to be a county minor. Every minor hurler in Laois is going to get their chance in 2018. There’ll be no more excuses, there’ll be no more players being left out in the cold because their clubs didn’t pick them or didn’t let them know. There will be chaos though. That’s because the […]

7 years ago

The Gaelic footballers of Amsterdam are coming back home. In what will be a first for the All-Ireland club championships, Amsterdam GAC will play against the Dublin champions in the first round of the Leinster Junior club championship this year. Never before has a rest of Europe team come over to Ireland to compete in […]

7 years ago

This lad will be some loss to Limavady. He’ll be some loss to Derry too. Callum Brown is heading Down Under. The 18-year-old has turned plenty of heads in Derry in the last couple of years but unfortunately for the Oak Leaf county, his exploits have earned him admirers from abroad too. The Sydney Giants […]

7 years ago

Graeme Souness will never get carried away. And he’ll do his best not to let anybody else get carried away either. Master of the dead-pan dig, Souness seems to relish cutting hyped-up folk back down to size. Liverpool fans are fairly hyped up at the moment. They’ve started the season like scalded cats, only losing […]

7 years ago

Brian Kerr has a soft spot for Xherdan Shaqiri. Brian Kerr’s description of Xherdan Shaqiri’s body shape has its place in history as one of the finest minutes radio has ever produced. “He’s a little chunky fella,” said the Drimnagh native before going on to christen the Swiss as ‘Barreller.’ That was ten months ago […]

7 years ago

65 played, 50 scored. Mo Salah has hit the half century of goals and it hasn’t taken him too long. He hasn’t been on fire this season, but in the last week or two, the flamboyant Egyptian has shown signs of a return to the type of form that saw him nominated for a Ballon […]

7 years ago

Matty Forde loves his golf. When he retired from the Wexford county team seven years ago now, one of his main aims was to get that handicap lower than the 11 it was then. He played golf, hit many a fairway over the years that followed but in the last two, he’s barely struck a […]

7 years ago

Colm Parkinson was only joking. But it tells a lot about Aaron Kernan’s mentality and it says a lot about Crossmaglen that Kernan didn’t really get the joke. For the first time since 1994, Crossmaglen went into the 2018 Armagh senior football championship having gone two years without contesting the county final, having spent two […]

7 years ago

Three live games. It’s not ideal for the players but it suits TG4 just fine. The Dublin senior football final between Kilmacud Crokes and St Jude’s takes place on the Bank Holiday Monday evening at 5.00 and it will be shown live on Telifís na Gaeilge. Waiting around all weekend for a game on Sunday […]

7 years ago

Scoil Bhríde Raghnallach 3-7 Swords Educate Together NS 2-9 It can be a fine line between agony and ecstasy. The agony and the ecstasy. Joy for Scoil Bhríde Raghnallach… what a game it was against Swords NS pic.twitter.com/rTHovcOYHj — SportsJOE (@SportsJOEdotie) October 23, 2018 There was nothing between Scoil Bhríde Raghnallach and Swords NS in […]

7 years ago

St Oliver Plunkett’s NS Malahide 4-19 Scoil San Treasa Mount Merrion 0-5 What a team these lads are. St Oliver Plunkett’s NS Malahide were absolutely unstoppable in the Sciath na nGearaltach final in Croke Park on Tuesday afternoon. The highest praise you could possibly pay to the Malahide school is that they were up against a […]

7 years ago

The Sciath Chlanna Gael final was an absolute thriller. St Canice’s Finglas and Scoil Chrónáin Ráth Cúil played out an enthralling draw at the Allianz Cumann na mBunscol finals at Croke Park on Tuesday morning. With a strong breeze at their backs, the Rathcoole school led at the half-time interval but they were clawed back […]

7 years ago

Sunday night and they were going bananas down in Gorey. Well, here was Gorey's main street earlier welcoming home the County Champions. #CountyChamps #OnThisDay #buzzing 💚💚@NaomhEannaGAA @Love_Gorey @GoreyGuardian @OfficialWexGAA @officialgaa @RTEgaa @gaaleinster @AIB_GAA @HSwexford @hoganstandgaa #Gorey #Wexford #SundayFunday pic.twitter.com/nCPxNCZg66 — Mark Redmond (@RedmondMr) October 21, 2018 Sunday was a historic day in the town’s history […]

7 years ago

Gaelscoil Bhrian Boróimhe 2-13 Rolestown 2-12 The game of the day. It was some sight to see managers and selectors patrolling the sidelines and giving instructions to their players through Irish. It was an even better one to see the 10, 11 and 12-year-olds respond to the calls of ‘seas suas,’ ‘lean ar aghaidh’ agus […]

7 years ago

Marino CBS 3-15 Cáisleán Druimní 2-7 One of the games of the day. Marino CBS and Cáisleán Druimní played out a thrilling game in their Division One Sciath Kitterick final at the Allianz Cumann na mBunscol finals in Croke Park on Monday. The Marino lads were wearing the St Vincent’s colours and it’s clear from […]

7 years ago

Donabte Portrane 5-5 Scoil Uí Chonaill 1-5 Alex Young was the hatrick hero as Donabate Portrane powered to a comfortable victory in the Corn Matt Griffin decider at the Cumann Na mBunscoil finals at Croke Park. The deadly half forward with the flowing hair took every chance that came his way in a man-of-the-match display […]

7 years ago

St Columba’s, Glasnevin 3-1 St Mary’s Bancroft 0-5 Goals won this game for St Columba’s Glasnevin. For much of the Corn Pádraig Ó Fogartaigh decider, St Columba’s Glasnevin were hanging on. By the end of it, they’d mastered the art of closing out a lead. The northside school got off to an absolute belter of […]

7 years ago

This has to be the best bet of the GAA year

7 years ago

“I’ve always said it about him, he must have a third lung”

7 years ago

Cian Lynch and whatever comes into his head first. From Conor McGregor to takeaways, Limerick hurler Cian Lynch is presented with a load of random topics and he responds with whatever comes into his head first. Turns out that himself and Aaron Gillane are the only two same aged fellas in Patrickswell while he’s big […]

7 years ago

Even though it’s all about winning, it’s not ALL about winning. Cratloe is a hurling area, always has been. The village won county hurling titles before it even saw a football. The footballers came over from the west around 20 years ago and now Cratloe enjoys a kick-around as much as it enjoys a puck. […]

7 years ago