Brought to you by BoyleSports Excitement is reaching fever pitch with the Cheltenham festival only around the bend. It’s the Olympics and the World Cup all in one as the stars of the equine world descend on Pretsbury Park for the biggest four-day festival on the planet. This year promises to bring with it an […]

3 years ago

For two years, as Graham Canty once remarked to him, Brian Hurley was like a car parked up in the garage. Injuries kept him in there but looking back now, fit and all as he is, the Castlehaven club-man sees the bright side of his hamstring hell. Two years out and a number of false […]

3 years ago

Robbie Hennelly’s transfer from Breaffy to Raheny has been approved. The Mayo goalkeeper has been living in Dublin for the guts of the last decade and that is the reason he has requested to transfer. In a recent episode of the Mayo Football Podcast, Hennelly, 32, said that the long commute home for training has […]

3 years ago

There’s hurling, there’s football, there’s something for everyone. In yet another barnstorming weekend of GAA, no fewer than six games will be shown live on television. The hurling league is always slow to get going but the football has already shot into the sky, and we’re set for a super Saturday night with two Division […]

3 years ago

Defence starts in attack and Jamie Carragher feels that from top to bottom, from Nunez to van Dijk, Liverpool are nowhere near as good defensively as they have been in years gone by. The loss of the Sadio Mane’s energy has obviously reduced their cability to press. From there, the team has fallen like dominos. […]

3 years ago

Fitness is one thing. A lack of options is another. With Sean O’Shea, David and Paudie Clifford rested, and with Paul Geaney and Stephen O’Brien out, the early rounds of the League presented the perfect platform for Kerry’s fringe players. But Darran O’Sullivan doesn’t think any of them have done enough so far. The likes […]

3 years ago

The LGFA has revealed that it is ‘committed to the inclusion’ of transgender women in their sport. They have also said that they ‘will not tolerate any harassment or discrimination’ of said transgender players.  Players that this rule applies to can make an application to the newly set-up Transgender Application Committee (TAC).  Ratified on Wednesday, […]

3 years ago

It’s often we criticise referees, it’s rare that we praise them. But this is a time for praise. And Pol van Boekel deserves lots of it. According to the rules, the Dutchman could have booked Mohammed Kudus when the Ghanaian took off his shirt in celebration of his goal against Sparta Rotterdam on Sunday night. […]

3 years ago

Cork 2-10 Dublin 0-18 Lee Gannon and Ian Maguire were both sent off in a thrilling Division Two National League clash between Cork and Dublin. Cork had led in the early stages of the game, inspired by the brilliance of Brian Hurley, but Jack McCaffrey and James McCarthy came onto edge it for Dublin in […]

3 years ago

How many of the Sigerson Cup’s most successful teams can you name? UCC won the 2023 renewal, and it moves them up the roll of honour. In the below quiz, we give you the number of titles won by a college, you tell us which college it is. The quiz should display naturally but if […]

3 years ago

At the age of 31, John ‘Bubbles’ O’Dwyer has retired from inter-county hurling. The Tipperary forward won two All-Irelands, in 2016 and 2019, an All-Star in 2014, and is widely regarded as one of the most gifted stick-men ever to have played the game. The Killenuale club-man burst onto the scene in 2010, as a […]

3 years ago

The UCC players charged out of the dressing room before the 2011 Sigerson Cup final against against UUJ. Adrian Greaney had them jumping out of their collective skins. The Kerryman was ruled out of the game through injury but, as team captain, he still had a contribution to make. Emotion can be a great motivator […]

3 years ago

UCC and UL will contest the Sigerson Cup final on Wednesday night. UCC are the kingpins, they have won the competition 23 times, but despite having never won the competition before, UL are the favourites. They lost last year’s final to NUIG and that gives them a wrong to right. Here are the five biggest […]

3 years ago

There really is no love like a mother’s love. There was an emotional moment after Sunday’s McCrory Cup final when Omagh CBS’ Tomas Haigney was congratulated by his mother Deirdre. The wing back had just won the game, kicked two points, and been named the man-of-the-match when he caught up with his mother after the […]

3 years ago

TUD 1-11 UCC 0-13 Roisin McCormick was the TUD hero, not once but twice, as the Dublin college won their first ever Ashbourne Cup title. The Antrim star nailed two pressure frees, one at the end of normal time, and one at the end of extra-time, as she sealed a famous win for the underdogs. […]

3 years ago

The Ashbourne Cup camogie weekend has been rocked by UL’s elimination on the week of the competition. It had seemed as though the Limerick college had pulled off a miraculous feat in their final group game, when they beat Maynooth by 34 points. They had finished the group on the same number of points as […]

3 years ago

The Sigerson Cup semi-finals take place in a blockbuster double-header in Netwatch Cullen Park on Wednesday evening. DCU take on UL in the first semi-final, which throws in at 6.15, while TU Dublin take on UCC in the second, which throws in at 8.00. The Sigerson Cup has been in the eye of the storm […]

3 years ago

Darran O’Sullivan is eager to debunk the myth that, throughout his Kerry career, he was riddled with injuries. The man didn’t miss a Championship game for ten years, it should be said, so he did dodge bullets for a long time. But when the injuries did eventually hit, they hit hard and it was in […]

3 years ago

The Irish women’s team will host France in Tallaght stadium in a big send-off ahead of the World Cup. There were hopes that the game would take place in the Aviva Stadium but due to ‘scheduled pitch redevelopment work,’ that is no longer a possibility. With the game now set to take place in Shamrock […]

3 years ago

Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano will fight in Dublin on May 20 in an eagerly anticipated re-match. Taylor defeated Serrano via a split decision in Madison Square Garden last April but the pair will go toe-to-toe again. Serrano defeated Erika Cruz in New York on Saturday night to confirm the re-match with Taylor, who is […]

3 years ago

Willie Mullins had three odds-on favourite beaten at the Dublin Racing Festival at the weekend yet, if there’s anything sums up his dominance of the Irish National Hunt scene, it’s the fact that he still won all of those races. Hotshots Lossiemouth, Blue Lord and Facile Vega were all turned over under Paul Townend in […]

3 years ago

St Clare’s was thronged for the football, not quite as busy for the hurling. Streams of students made the ten minute walk from DCU down to the GAA grounds where, on both nights, the breeze was so sharp that it would have cut you in two. There were as many girls as boys among them, […]

3 years ago

Kieran’s already in Australia and Shane is on the way out to him. It means that, in two weeks time, Stephen will be one of only two Bennett brothers left in Ballysaggart. He’s currently the last remaining Bennett brother on the Waterford panel. Truth be told, he didn’t think he’d last this long. It was […]

3 years ago

Sponsored by LiveScore Bet #ad Oh-me-oh-my. The UEFA Champions League hasn’t disappointed us yet, not this year, not ever, and the whole thing is just about to kick up a notch. The knock-out stages begin next week and, as ever, we have four exciting first leg round of 16 clashes in store. Chelsea and Spurs are the […]

3 years ago

Patrick Horgan has said that he was disappointed with how he was treated by the Cork senior hurling management team last year. Cork didn’t hit the heights in 2022 and, somewhere along the way, the 34-year-old forward became one of the fall guys as he was dropped for their two All-Ireland qualifier games against Antrim […]

3 years ago

Darran O’Sullivan reckons Tyrone are among the leading candidates for relegation from Division One in 2023. The Red Hand were trounced by Derry in the McKenna Cup final a fortnight ago and while there was an improvement, they were still a long way off the mark in their National League pipe-opener against Roscommon. All looked […]

3 years ago

The CCCC have ordered for the All-Ireland club football final to be replayed. Representatives from Glen and Kilmacud Crokes attended a meeting in Croke Park on Monday night, where the full CCCC (Central Competitions Control Committee) convened to discuss the game that divided the country. The Dublin champions defeated the Derry champs by 1-11 to […]

3 years ago

Shane Lowry is on the hunt for a new caddie. The Offaly golfer has split with Brian ‘Bo’ Martin, his bagman of four and a half years, and is now against the clock in his search for a new one. The golf season regular really kicks into gear this month and next, with Lowry competing […]

3 years ago

In an era of obsessives, of nailing the one percenters, where all bases are covered… Padraig O’Hora is more of a laidback Luke. That’s what works best for him. He loves inter-county football, enjoys every second of it, and is as determined as anyone to achieve success for Mayo but, that being said, his view […]

3 years ago

It’s been quite a while, huh? It’s hard to believe it but it’s been more than six months since Kerry beat Galway in last year’s All-Ireland senior football final. The wait is finally over. It’s not like we’ve been standing on ceremony in the meantime, what with club games to beat the band over the […]

3 years ago

Kilmacud Crokes are set to launch a counter-objection to the GAA over the All-Ireland senior club football final. The game had an extremely controversial finish on Sunday when Crokes ended the day with too many players on the pitch. Glen have since lodged an objection to the association, on the basis of a breach of […]

3 years ago

Andy McEntee responds with a laugh. “100% correct,” he says, when asked if the saga he and Robbie Brennan went through in 2005 was similar to what Watty Grahams Glen and Kilmacud Crokes are going through now. McEntee and Brennan won a county senior title that year, as St Peter’s Dunboyne team-mates, but the cup […]

3 years ago

Having won a first AFL grand title with the Geelong Cats in September, Mark O’Connor was back home in Dingle a fortnight later. He was chasing a success of a different kind. O’Connor slotted straight into the heart of his home club’s senior football team, and starred in their quarter final win over Dr. Crokes. […]

3 years ago

Watty Grahams Glen were given a get-out-of-jail-card and, as things stand, it looks like they’re going to play it. Over to you, members of the CCCC. Glen are well-entitled to play it, it’s their card to play, but whatever way you look at it, whether you’re in or out, neutral or biased, betting or hedging […]

3 years ago

Watty Grahams Glen have lodged an objection to Croke Park over the result of Sunday’s All-Ireland club football final. Kilmacud Crokes had won the game by 1-11 to 1-9 but it all kicked 0ff shortly after the final whistle. That was when it became clear that, in defending Glen’s last attack, the Dublin champions had […]

3 years ago

McIlroy and Reed have always had a testy relationship. Having been blanked by Rory McIlroy on the driving range at the Emirates golf club in Dubai, it is being reported that former US Masters champion Patrick Reed threw a tee in the Northern Irish man’s direction in disgust. The Texan had acknowledged McIlroy’s caddie Harry […]

3 years ago

The only way the All-Ireland club football final will be replayed is if Watty Grahams Glen lodge an objection to the GAA. Kilmacud Crokes breached Rule 6.44 (b) (i) of the GAA’s Official Guide by finishing the game with more than 15 players on the pitch but, according to the Irish News, the GAA will […]

3 years ago

Brolly is on the case. After the late drama in Sunday’s All-Ireland club football final between Kilmacud Crokes and Watty Graham’s Glen, Joe Brolly feels that the ‘honourable course’ is that the game will be replayed. Rule 6.44 (b) (i) was breached in the dying moments of the game when the Dublin champions defended Glen’s […]

3 years ago

Watty Grahams Glen chairman Barry Slowey has confirmed that his club will seek clarification from the GAA over the late drama that unfolded in Croke Park in the All-Ireland club football final. The drama of course being the fact that Kilmacud Crokes defended Glen’s last attack with sixteen players, as you will see in the […]

3 years ago

There was some confusion in the aftermath of the All-Ireland club football final as Kilmacud Crokes appeared to defend Glen’s last roll of the dice with 16 men. Conor Ferris had just denied Conor Glass with a sensational injury-time save and, as the ball went out for a 45, it meant that the Derry side […]

3 years ago

Ballyhale Shamrocks 1-22 Dunloy 1-15 An Eoin Cody masterclass inspired Ballyhale Shamrocks to a record ninth All-Ireland club hurling championship. The 22-year-old was the difference, he was the inspiration as, in an otherwise tame display, the Shamrocks were matched in all corners by their Antrim opponents. Cody was the only man Dunloy couldn’t catch, he […]

3 years ago

Jacqui Hurley has been announced as the new host of The Sunday Game. Hurley will replace Des Cahill, who has headed RTE’s chief GAA highlights show for the last 14 years. “It’s a childhood dream,” is how the Cork woman described it. It’s an absolute privilege to take on such an iconic role and follow […]

3 years ago

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3 years ago

Shane Cunningham feels that the term ‘super-club’ undermines some of the hard-work being done by coaches and volunteers in Kilmacud Crokes. The Crokes’ captain rallies against the notion that, due to their high membership figures, they have it easier than other clubs. He points to difficulties in organising pitches, for example, and also asks the […]

3 years ago

In many ways, for both Ballyhale Shamrocks and Kilkenny, Adrian Mullen plays like something of a quarter-back. The Shamrocks’ own Tom Brady. The 22-year-old has played the hurling of his life this season, there’s no doubt about that and, from start to finish, he’s made the midfield position his own. It culminated in an All-Star […]

3 years ago

Emmett Bradley was the best player on the pitch when Watty Grahams Glen beat Maigh Cuilinn in the All-Ireland semi-final. Connor Carville says that, if you beat him in a game of darts, he’s the type of lad that wouldn’t talk for the next 20 minutes. Michael Warnock is one of the oldest players on […]

3 years ago

Whenever his father Patrick called, usually of a Monday or a Tuesday, Joey Holden knew that, unless he had his homework done, there was no point in picking up. Patrick wanted to talk hurling and that was that. Who played well and who didn’t. How they stayed looking at this lad and how they didn’t […]

3 years ago

Nobody’s too old for a snow-ball fight. Rathmore’s All-Ireland intermediate champions were given a fine welcome home on Monday evening, a bunch of club-mates bringing them right back down to earth with the belt of a few snow-balls. The snow was heavy in Kerry over the weekend and, standing as they were on the back […]

3 years ago

Can you name the 33 County senior football champions for 2022?

3 years ago

Bring it on. Laochra Gael returns to our television screens this spring for the programme’s 21st series and, with more legends having come and gone, the line-up is as good as it’s ever been. As usual, the programmes will air at 9.30pm on spring Thursday nights, with the 21st season led by Galway hurling icon […]

3 years ago