There will be some roar for John Conlon when he walks back into that wedding tonight. The Clonlara club-man put in an incredible display at centre back as, after leaving his brother’s wedding at 4.00 this afternoon, he inspired Clare to a famous win over Limerick in the Gaelic Grounds. It was some day for […]

2 years ago

Ted Walsh was joined by his daughter Katie and son Ruby as, after 40 years, he announced that this would be his last day on RTE’s racing coverage. The 73-year-old Kildare man sprung the news on his RTÉ colleagues during their coverage of Punchestown this Saturday. “There comes a time in everyone’s life when you’ve […]

2 years ago

RTE’s coverage of the Punchestown racing festival ran for just over three hours on Wednesday. And with Davy Russell and Ruby Walsh on the panel, butting heads, talking it through and, occasionally agreeing to disagree, you’d have to say that, for a finish, three hours wasn’t half long enough. To the enchanted viewer, it’s clear […]

2 years ago

Down won their second Ulster U20 Championship in three years when they beat Derry by 2-11 to 0-9 in Armagh’s Athletic Grounds. Conor Laverty’s side had been trailing their opponents by three points with 20 minutes to play but in a stunning final surge, they hit 2-5 without reply to leave Derry reeling. It keeps […]

2 years ago

Ronnie O’Sullivan has been knocked out of the World Snooker Championships after losing 13-10 to Luca Brecel. The Rocket had led by 10-6 at the beginning of Wednesday’s afternoon session but in a burst that shocked the world of snooker, the Belgian won seven frames on the bounce to knock the seven time champ out […]

2 years ago

Jamie Clarke feels that the art of going to the field with a bag of balls is being lost in the GAA, as strength and conditioning and gym-work come to dominate players’ evenings. Clarke gets the gym work done, and as a current Crossmaglen Rangers player, he certainly sees its benefits but, that being said, […]

2 years ago

It was the general consensus last year that, after his years of years, David Clifford deserved a break from football. That between Kerry and Fossa, he’d expended every late ounce of himself and, for a finish, that he had to be fed up with it. It would have made sense. But in speaking with Supervalu’s […]

2 years ago

We have a blockbuster of a show for you today. Jamie Clarke joins us in studio to discuss all the weekend’s action as well as his Armagh future. The Crossmaglen ace talks about his experience playing soccer with Newry City, his thoughts on a fast-changing club GAA scene and the prospect of playing for Armagh […]

2 years ago

Speaking on The Sunday Game, former Limerick hurler Shane Dowling has called out a Waterford hurling mentor for his collision with Gearoid Hegarty. Things were heating up in the second half when, along by the sideline, the Waterford mentor ran down from the stand before slapping Gearoid Hegarty in the chest. Hegarty and his team-mate […]

2 years ago

“This Limerick team have got to learn to behave themselves when the match is in the melting pot.” Limerick and Waterford was a game of trench warfare. Sparks flew all over Semple Stadium as, from the first minute to the last, both teams thundered into each other like two dogs fighting over the one bone. […]

2 years ago

Limerick 1-18 Waterford 0-19 A snapshot in time (45 minutes on the clock) Billy Nolan saves a Waterford penalty. Tom Barron gallops out of defence and floors Gearoid Hegarty, who’s six inches taller than him. William O’Donoghue and Kyle Hayes are lining him up – it’s worth mentioning that both are again, six inches taller […]

2 years ago

Kilkenny legend Jackie Tyrrell has suggested two radical rule-changes to increase the speed of hurling as a game. Donal Óg Cusack, on the other hand, reckons it’s just fine as it is. Comparisons with Gaelic football’s penchant for lateral passing and sideways passages of play has led Tyrrell to the conclusion that, from a hurling […]

2 years ago

Oh me, oh my, what a weekend. This is a GAA heavy weekend, with wall to wall games stretching right through from Saturday to Sunday, each bigger than the last. Keep up with all the action here. There are of course some predictable ties- the All-Ireland champions are back in action as Kerry […]

2 years ago

Matt Fitzpatrick has become the latest to hit out at his fellow professional golfers over their pace of play. It was one of the big sideshows of the US Masters recently when Patrick Cantlay, in particular, came under scrutiny for his deliberate routines. “The group in front of us was brutally slow,” said Brooks Koepka […]

2 years ago

The smile on his face gave it away that, like everyone else around him, Connacht Council president John Murphy was a Sligo man. And a proud Sligo man at that. Holding a regional board position like that obviously requires objectiveness and impartiality on a daily basis but this was a moment, as he presented the […]

2 years ago

David Coldrick is not part of this year’s panel of referees for the All-Ireland senior football championship, having failed the fitness test. Coldrick, who hails from the Blackhall Gaels club in Meath, has been one of the game’s most prominent referees in recent times. Having started out his career in 1994, Coldrick climbed the ladder […]

2 years ago

Now, we can finally say it, the summer is here. The various championships have been fed to us in dribs and drabs over the last fortnight, not that it was a bad thing, but it’s all hands to the pump this weekend. Get ready, get set for a full-blown marathon of GAA action. Only trouble […]

2 years ago

Rory Gallagher’s celebrations came in for some scrutiny at the weekend. Manager celebrates when his team scores. Nothing out of the ordinary there. The only difference was that, as a born and bred Fermanagh man, Gallagher was celebrating against the county he played with, and a bunch of players he managed up to four years […]

2 years ago

Former Tyrone player Kyle Coney was gobsmacked by the decision to take Mattie Donnelly off with ten minutes to go in Sunday’s Ulster quarter final. The game was fraught with tension at that stage, well in the melting pot as Monaghan led by one and Coney couldn’t believe what he was seeing when Ruairi Canavan […]

2 years ago

The Championship is alive. Some might say that the provincial championships are dead, that they’ve lost their lustre and that the magic is gone, but it certainly didn’t feel that way in Healy Park, Omagh, on Sunday afternoon. By half five in the evening, the place was alive. This was Tyrone vs Monaghan, it was […]

2 years ago

Armagh 4-9 Laois 2-10 Aimee Mackin was once again the star of the show as the Armagh ladies put the heartbreak of last year behind them to win the National League Division Two title in Croke Park. It was last April when Shane McCormack’s team fell to a crushing 1-12 to 0-12 defeat to Kerry, […]

2 years ago

Monaghan 2-17 Tyrone 1-18 Ryan O’Toole was injured shortly after his match-winning goal in the Ulster senior football quarter final. He had quite a limp on him too, from what seemed like a dead leg, but as Monaghan’s physio and doctor combined to link him off the field, the one thing you couldn’t but notice […]

2 years ago

The Grand National didn’t go the way he wanted, but Aintree still gave Davy Russell the ending he long deserved. The 43-year-old from Youghal bowed out at the very top of the game as, in his final, final meeting as a national hunt jockey, he rode two Grade One winners. Fittingly, both Gerri Colombe and […]

2 years ago

The Aintree Grand National was interrupted and subsequently delayed by animal rights protestors on Saturday. Due to go off at 5.15, the white flag wasn’t raised until 5.35 as a small number of protestors slipped through the defence drills arranged by the Liverpool police. The police had been warned, and did plan for such commotion, […]

2 years ago

Another tasty weekend of action. The GAA championship is set for its second week of action, and you can follow all of it, and all of the talking points right here on our liveblog. After an incredible first week that saw New York beat Leitrim to seal their first ever Connacht championship, and Roscommon […]

2 years ago

Patrick Cantlay has responded to Brooks Koepka’s comments about his slow play at the US Masters. “The group in front of us was brutally slow,” said Brooks Koepka after his final round at Augusta. The four-time major champion had the misfortune – we’ve all been there – of having to sit and suffer behind some […]

2 years ago

From the Cork teams that won minor and under-20 All-Ireland football championships in 2019, Colm O’Callaghan was the only man that started against Clare on Sunday. Cork lost to Clare on Sunday, and, in the mean-time, questions about the pathway to senior inter-county football in the county have been asked. Injuries, it should be pointed […]

2 years ago

In Shane Curran, Davy Burke has a huge fan. The Kildare man has made a fantastic start to life as Roscommon manager this year, finishing in third place in Division One before taking out Mayo on Sunday, in the first round of the Connacht championship. Mayo were red-hot favourites coming into the MacHale Park showdown […]

2 years ago

Leitrim GAA have hit out at the criticism their players were subjected to after their Connacht championship quarter final loss to New York. Leitrim became the first county ever to lose to New York in the Gaelic football championship on Sunday when, after drawing a blank in the penalty shoot-out, they found themselves on the […]

2 years ago

The Rossies have arrived. And after their brilliant win over Mayo, what better man to have with us on our return to the studio than Shane Curran. The charismatic St Brigid’s club-man played in goals for club and county and is now a huge supporter of the county. Curran was hugely impressed with Roscommon’s desire […]

2 years ago

An animal rights group are reportedly planning to storm Aintree this Saturday, on the day of the most famous event in horse-racing. An undercover investigation by the mail on Sunday revealed the ‘Animal Rebellion’ campaign group’s plans to sabotage the race, which in effect, amount to a group of protesters breaking into the course and […]

2 years ago

Wexford chairman Micheál Martin has said he was proud of the reaction of the his county’s players to the racist abuse Lee Chin was subjected to on Saturday evening. It was in the closing stages of a benefit game for the paralysed Ryan O’Dwyer when, from the banks of the Carrick Swans pitch in Carrick-on-Suir, […]

2 years ago

Roscommon played like a team with a chip on their shoulder in their Connacht Championship quarter final win over Mayo, and their manager Davy Burke didn’t shy away from that fact after the game. The Kildare man says that his team felt ‘completely written off’ in the build-up. As history has so often proved, there’s […]

3 years ago

Shane Carthy had to put in a hell of a lot of effort to make it to the Bronx on Sunday. But it was all worth-while for the Dubliner, who kicked a late, great point off his left foot to send the game to extra-time. Having got there, New York went onto beat Leitrim in […]

3 years ago

Roscommon 2-8 Mayo 0-10 The Enda Smith Diarmuid Murtagh double-act inspired Roscommon to a famous win over Mayo. Murtagh and Smith were simply sensational as Davy Burke’s side ground their way to a hard fought victory. The conditions were poor and, as a result, the scoring was low but due to their hunger and heart, […]

3 years ago

Limerick 2-20 Kilkenny 0-15 Limerick were missing Declan Hannon, William O’Donoghue and Kyle Hayes on Sunday. They are some of the best three players in the country but in this Allianz League final, their absence didn’t make a blind bit of difference. It was much the same in the same final against Tipperary. That day, […]

3 years ago

New York 0-15 Leitrim 0-15 (New York win 2-0 on penalties) After 22 unsuccessful attempts, New York have finally done it. For the first time ever, they’ve won a match in the Connacht senior football championship. The Exiles have had close shaves, near-misses and extra-time defeats to beat the band in the past but there […]

3 years ago

The championship is here! It’s not even Easter yet, but the championship has officially arrived, and as strange as it is to come this early – we’re delighted to sink our teeth into the action. What better place to start than in the Ulster championship, one of the most, if not the only, competitive provincial […]

3 years ago

Rory McIlroy is pretty confident in Ireland’s chances at the Rugby World Cup. Shane Lowry, meanwhile, is cock-of-the-walk. It’s Augusta Thursday and in their pre-round press conference, Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry were both asked for their thoughts on the Irish rugby team’s chances at the 2023 World Cup. Ireland are the World number one […]

3 years ago

Are Galway getting the best out of Shane Walsh? Galway had a disappointing end to a positive League campaign when Mayo defeated them by 0-14 0-10 in the Division One final. Mayo started much the brighter, with James Carr and Paddy Durcan kicking them into an early lead and while Galway did battle back, the […]

3 years ago

Cavan’s Jack McKenna was taken off after 19 minutes of their Division Three final win over Fermanagh. Cavan won the game by 0-16 to 1-7 but McKenna’s early substitution was a big talking point afterwards. Was it overly harsh by Graham? A late addition to the team, McKenna’s evening ended when he was called ashore […]

3 years ago

Abdoulaye Doucouré was given a straight red card during Spurs’ 1-1 draw with Everton on Monday night. The Mali international left referee David Coote with no choice when he raised his hands into the face of Harry Kane. One moment of madness was all it took. Tension ratcheted up within a matter of seconds when Kane […]

3 years ago

Captain Niall Murphy was the hero for Sligo, hitting 1-4 as they defeated Wicklow by 2-10 to 0-14 in the Allianz League Division Four final. Paul Kilcoyne scored the other goal as Tony McEntee’s side edged Oisin McConville in what had been dubbed the ‘Crossmaglen final.’ Despite the wet conditions, it was a fine spectacle […]

3 years ago

It’s League final final weekend. The All-Western division One final inevitably takes centre stage, when Mayo take on their neighbours and old rivals Galway. But from Division One right back to Division Four, there are four belters of games in store. Keep up to date with all the action in our live-blog below. The […]

3 years ago

Anthony Finnerty may have played in two All-Ireland finals for Mayo, and there may have been a time when he was Mayo through and through. But things can change. He’s firmly in the Galway camp now. He won’t go as far as wearing a Galway jersey this Sunday, at the Allianz League Division One final […]

3 years ago

Sean Finn says that Limerick’s training camp in Portugal earlier this month was extremely enjoyable, and played a key role in preparing them for for the season ahead. It was at the beginning of March – after the Galway game and before the Westmeath game – when Limerick jetted off to Portugal and Finn says […]

3 years ago

There’s a buzz in Mayo. There’s always a buzz in Mayo, it should be said, but it feels a little different this time. The spine of the team is younger, the management is new and the form well, from a League perspective anyway, it’s been as good as ever. Cillian O’Connor hasn’t been as active […]

3 years ago

It’s the week when the amateurs become professionals. Some will say that, when it comes to county GAA players, they’re full-time professionals anyway but that’s for another day. A training camp might be a trip to Portugal, or it could be a trip to Carton House, and many teams will be getting ready to head […]

3 years ago

The general consensus was that, despite losing, Ireland played well in their 1-0 loss to France in the Euro qualifiers. Stephen Kenny’s team restricted the World Cup finalists to four shots on target in the whole game and, far from a park-the-bus-job, had some decent attempts on goal themselves. They had some promising moments throughout […]

3 years ago

Kellie Harrington has released a statement to say that she is “all about about community, inclusivity and diversity.” The statement comes on the back of the raft of criticism that has come her way since an interview she took part in on Monday. In the interview, which was broadcast on Off The Ball, Harrington refused […]

3 years ago