Kieran McGeeney blamed poor execution on Armagh’s part for their loss to Tyrone. The Armagh manager says that his team missed three goals in the first twenty minutes of their All-Ireland senior football championship group stage loss to their neighbours and rivals. Geezer also hit out at pundits who have criticised his side for being too […]

2 years ago

Former Limerick hurler Tom Condon is buoyed by the form his ex-team-mates showed against Cork in the last round of the Munster Championship. Limerick were up against it coming into the game, and needed a win to stay alive. Condon always believed, however, and despite their middling form through the round-robin, he had faith that […]

2 years ago

Jose Mourinho confronted referee Anthony Taylor in the car-park after Roma’s loss to Sevilla in the Europa League final. The legendary Portuguese manager was incandescent over the English official’s performance and gave him both barrels, through English and Italian, while he tried to leave the Puskas Arena. Roma lost what was a high-tempered affair in […]

2 years ago

Former Limerick All-Ireland winner Tom Condon has called it a ‘gutsy decision’ by Clare to request to play the Munster final in Limerick’s back yard. It was confirmed on Tuesday afternoon that Sunday week’s Munster final will take place in the TUS Gaelic Grounds. Páirc Uí Chaoimh was the Munster council’s preferred destination but with […]

2 years ago

The Munster senior hurling final between Clare and Limerick will take place in the TUS Gaelic Grounds at 1.45 on Sunday June 11. The Limerick venue was confirmed following a meeting of the Munster Council on Tuesday. Surprisingly, the Gaelic Grounds came into the equation following a request from the Clare county board to have […]

2 years ago

Donal Óg Cusack says that while many see Davy Fitzgerald as ‘a bit mad at times,’ that, from his experience, there’s always ‘method to the madness.’ You could see a mixture of both on Sunday. Donal Óg worked alongside Davy as a Clare selector in 2015 and 2016 so, in terms of Davy’s hurling brain, […]

2 years ago

We’re joined by Armagh legend Enda McNulty and Carlow hurler Marty Kavanagh on today’s show. Kavanagh enjoyed one of the best days of his hurling career on Saturday, when he won the Joe McDonagh Cup with Carlow, as well as winning the man-of-the-match award. The St Mullin’s man took a break from the celebrations to […]

2 years ago

Kevin Moran had a sporting career the likes of which will never be seen again. To win two All-Irelands with the Dubs, to also win two FA Cups with Manchester United. Where would you get it? To play in La Liga, to have won an All-Star and a National Football League, to play in a […]

2 years ago

Limerick 3-25 Cork 1-30 Outside noise? Diarmaid Byrnes says that it doesn’t make a blind bit of difference to the Limerick hurlers. There was as much defiance in that man’s man-of-the-match winning performance as there was in the interview where he accepted his award. The Patrickswell man was pumped to the gills. Limerick had just […]

2 years ago

On a record-breaking day for Irish athletics, Sophie O’Sullivan’s barnstorming 1500m run was one of the main eye-catchers. Running for Washington track and field team, O’Sullivan smashed her own PB with a time of 4.08.06 which books her place in the NCAA finals in Austin on the weekend June 7-10. O’Sullivan, a daughter of Irish […]

2 years ago

It’s a do-or-die weekend in the provincial hurling championships. It’s not quite do-or-die in the football, but there are some exciting ties in store none-the-less. Taking pole-position on Saturday is the rematch of Ulster champions Derry and Monaghan (GAAGO), with Derry having come out well on top when they last met in the provincial semi-final. […]

2 years ago

One thing for sure is that Donegal were fired up on Sunday. Oisin Gallen punched the air when he scored the last point of the game, his fourth of the day and a point that put them five clear of Clare. Alongside him, Ciaran Thompson let a roar out of him. You look to the […]

2 years ago

Oisin Mullin will make his first start for the Geelong Cats AFL team this weekend. Having only moved Down Under back in December, his fast ascent to the Cats’ first-team is noteworthy. But the Kilmaine and Mayo footballer has played and impressed in four VFL games so far and the Geelong Cats management have called […]

2 years ago

This has really split the room. The GAA is planning to take the competitive element out of games and blitzes – football and hurling – for under-12s, in a bid to make the sport more inclusive, forgiving and ultimately, more focused on participation and enjoyment. To do so, Croke Park are banning finals, trophies, prizes, […]

2 years ago

A series of new rules will be trialled, in both hurling and football, in the Higher Education freshers third level competition later this year. The main changes affect the puck-outs, the kick-outs, and the hurling hand-pass. Hurling hand-pass The hurling hand-pass has become a bone of serious contention in recent times due to the increased […]

2 years ago

The Ireland U17s have qualified for the quarter finals of the European Championships, after a 4-2 win over Hungry on Tuesday night. A brace of goals from Wicklow 15-year-old Mason Melia and Luke Kehir inspired Colin O’Brien’s side, who went into the encounter knowing that only a win would suffice. The fact that they were […]

2 years ago

Wexford are fighting for their Liam MacCarthy lives. How did it come to this? From a bright start against Galway in the first round, where they scored two goals in the first four minutes, from there, things have gone way down the glen for the Model County. They lost that opener to Galway by six […]

2 years ago

What a weekend! There was hurling, there was football but of course, we have to start with the hot topic of the weekend – the clash of Donal Óg Cusack and Joanne Cantwell on The Sunday Game. We didn’t actually have to – but we did feel it was worth talking about. Analysing the analysts […]

2 years ago

Niall Mitchell was Westmeath’s hero as they rose from the dead, roared back to life and, on a miraculous afternoon, staged an incredible comeback win over Wexford. You talk about super-subs – Mitchell’s contribution is why the very term was coined. The Clonkill/Downs forward always rises to the big occasion, whether it’s hurling or football, […]

2 years ago

Noel McGrath hailed his brother John’s resilience after Tipperary’s draw with Limerick in the Munster championship. Having come on as a sub, John won the free and then levelled the match with the last puck of the game. The Loughmore-Castleiney player had missed a crucial free against Cork last week, but he bounced back here […]

2 years ago

You could cut the tension with a knife in The Sunday Game studios. Joanne Cantwell and Donal Óg Cusack got stuck into it on this Munster championship Super Sunday. Anthony Daly and Joe Canning were the first to arrive on the scene. It all started when Cantwell decided to take Óg Cusack up on his […]

2 years ago

Keep up to date with all the action here. We will have updates on Sunday’s big GAA championship games right here. Tune into the blog below. Sunday is a Munster hurling championship special with the four big guns in action. Cork and Clare will light the touch paper in Cusack Park, Ennis, followed by […]

2 years ago

If things were different, then Katie Taylor could easily be heading to the World Cup in Australia this summer, as part of the Irish women’s soccer team. She played for Ireland at under-17 and under-19 level, before going onto make 11 appearances for the senior team between 2006 and 2009. But as the Bray woman […]

2 years ago

In what would make for the most dramatic of twists, Limerick could be knocked out of the All-Ireland hurling championship this weekend. Although unlikely, it’s not impossible and, with a little push from Cork and Tipperary, the Treaty’s four-in-a-row dream could end in Thurles. Sunday is a huge day in the Munster championship as, with […]

2 years ago

Offaly 1-21 Wexford 0-22 Adam Screeney put on an exhibition of shooting as Offaly held off Wexford to win the Leinster under-20 hurling final by two points. The Kilcormac Killoughey sensation scored 1-12, from all ranges and angles, as he helped the Faithful overcome Charlie Mitchell’s second half dismissal to edge what was a gripping […]

2 years ago

GAAGO are on overdrive this weekend. The streaming service has six exclusive games across Saturday and Sunday, including the two big openers in the All-Ireland senior football championship on Saturday. It all kicks off down in Fitzgerald Stadium in Killarney, where Kerry host Mayo in their Group One opener at 3.00. The GAAGO season package […]

2 years ago

Emma Duggan is back. The people of Meath will be glad to know. The Dunboyne star endured something of a torrid start to the year, with a torn quad setting her back for the guts of four months. The Royals suffered in her absence, only just surviving in Division One but for Duggan herself, the real […]

2 years ago

Rory Gallagher has resigned as Derry senior football manager. Gallagher missed Derry’s Ulster final win over Armagh, having ‘stepped back’ due to serious allegations from his former wife Nicola. His assistant Ciaran Meenagh replaced him on the line on Sunday, and will now assume the role for the rest of the year, as a statement […]

2 years ago

This Armagh team have now lost the two most important games they’ve ever played on penalty shoot-outs. Last year’s All-Ireland quarter final defeat to Galway scratched the surface, but this Ulster final loss to Derry will have cut a hell of a lot deeper. It will be a while before they get over it. It […]

2 years ago

Ken McGrath laid out the cold, hard facts on Monday evening and for Waterford hurling people, they make for painful listening. But the truth hurts and sometimes, reality is the only wake-up call for a sleeping giant. Waterford have won one of their last sixteen Munster senior hurling championship games. They have now lost six […]

2 years ago

Derry have done back to back. Armagh’s Jamie Clarke joined on this week’s show to discuss an Ulster final that had everything, from black cards to goals, to drama, and eventually saw his home county lose out on penalties. The Crossmaglen star was full of praise for Derry for their courage and bravery in snatching […]

2 years ago

Ciaran Whelan summed it up in six words. ’24 games to eliminate four teams.’ What sort of a round-about, cotton-wool-wrapped, second-chance-saloon of a competition is that? Obviously, the qualifiers are fairly predictable, and the quarter finals will be incredible – but the next month will be so lifeless. Because nobody’s life is on the line. […]

2 years ago

Ask that man for the lotto numbers, QUICK! Jack Crowley’s late, great drop-goal sealed a momentous win for Munster over Leinster and also embellished a bold prediction from Greg O’Shea. Munster hadn’t beaten Leinster in a knock-out game since 2014 but the former Munster, Ireland under-2o and Ireland Sevens player sensed something in the air […]

2 years ago

The sun is out, it’s championship time. The grass is green, the sun is shining – this is what it’s all about. There are big championship games on Saturday and Sunday, across hurling and football. Keep up to date with all of the action right here in our live-blog. Fixtures Saturday Munster SHC […]

2 years ago

John Conlon says he was shocked two years ago when, after years of playing in the forwards, Brian Lohan asked him how he fancied centre back. Conlon, Lohan and Clare haven’t looked back –  he’s been a mainstay at six ever since. The Clonlara player seemed to discover something of a new lease of life […]

2 years ago

Derry manager Rory Gallagher has released a statement through his solicitors. The statement, received by Fermanagh’s Impartial Reporter newspaper, reads as follows: “I have been made aware of a social media post by my estranged wife Nicola Gallagher in which she has made a number of very serious allegations against me. “Our marriage broke down […]

2 years ago

Super-sub JJ Twamley was the hero of the hour as Wexford knocked reigning All-Ireland champions Kilkenny out of the under-20 hurling championship. The Naomh Eanna forward changed the game with a sensational 55th minute goal which, for a finish, was the difference between the teams. Having been subbed on, only to be subbed off against […]

2 years ago

For Conor Meyler, the challenge isn’t the training, the challenge is actually the resting. The Omagh St Enda’s club-man is perhaps the perfect exponent of the obsessive and dedicated modern inter-county player. He wears a tracker watch on his wrist and trains like a demon. He’s even more obsessive than most players, however, in that […]

2 years ago

RTÉ group head of sport Declan McBennett was given a grilling by Caitriona Perry on Tuesday night’s RTÉ news. The broadcasting of GAA games so far this championship has been a topic of huge controversy in recent days and RTÉ are right in the middle of it. Between them, RTÉ and GAAGO are the only […]

2 years ago

Virgin Media have issued a statement on the back of the recent debate surrounding GAA broadcasting. Unrest has been in the GAA air these past few weeks over the coverage of our games. It all came to a head on Sunday night when, from the RTÉ studios in Donnybrook, former Cork goalkeeper Donal Óg Cusack’s […]

2 years ago

There were two head-high hits in the hurling at the weekend – but there were no red cards issued. Both Cillian Kiely and Darragh Fitzgibbon were taken out of it by what Donal Óg Cusack has labelled as ‘cheap shots,’ but both of the men responsible got away with yellow cards. Speaking on The Sunday […]

2 years ago

In Donal Óg Cusack and Jackie Tyrrell, you will do well to find two more passionate hurling men. Put them on a panel together and what you have is magic. Donal Óg was on one on Sunday night. There is no other way of saying it. RTÉ are his paymasters and Declan McBennett, it would […]

2 years ago

Ellen Clifford, the mother of Kerry footballers David and Paudie, has passed away. Mrs Clifford (nee O’Shea) has passed away after battling an illness. She is the mother of David, Paudie and Shelly and a wife of Dermot, who is a former referee and the chairman of Fossa GAA club. A minutes silence was held […]

2 years ago

The Liverpool fans booed God Save The King at Anfield, ahead of their Premier League clash with Brentford. On the day of King Charles’ Coronation, it was ‘strongly suggested’ to all home clubs to play the anthem by the Premier League. Liverpool only did so ‘reluctantly,’ according to reports. Boos rang around the Merseyside ground […]

2 years ago

Casement Park’s eagerly anticipated refurbishment work is said to be starting in 2024, at little to no cost, it has emerged, to the GAA. The Belfast GAA stadium was closed in 2013, in the mean-time becoming something of an eye-sore in the area as well a stick to beat the GAA with. After years of […]

2 years ago

There are two huge hurling games on GAA GO this Saturday. Dublin vs Wexford is arguably the game of the Leinster championship – it could be a case of winner stays in the championship – but it won’t be broadcast on free-to-air television this weekend. As was the case for last weekend’s Gaelic Grounds thriller […]

2 years ago

Kevin Nolan had the world at his feet in September 2011 when, as a 23-year-old, he won man-of-the-match in one of the most memorable All-Ireland finals ever. It was the day Dublin toppled Kerry, ended a 16 year famine and Nolan was one of the heroes. He kicked a point that day that will go […]

2 years ago

Jason Foley reckons he wouldn’t be where he is today, as the Kerry full back, if it wasn’t for the things he learned at Lios Tuathail athletic club. As a youngster, Foley was one of their finest young athletes. He says himself that speed wasn’t his strong point at the very beginning, but it wasn’t […]

2 years ago

Former Dublin footballer Kevin Nolan joined us on this week’s show. The Kilmacud Crokes man has one of the most illustrious CVs in the GAA, having won every honour there is to win in Gaelic football, apart from Footballer of the Year. Nolan’s career, from an inter-county perspective, was more quality over quantity however as […]

2 years ago

The draws for the group stages of the All-Ireland senior football championship and the Tailteann Cup have been made. There are some very eye-catching draws in store, and you can see them all below.  Group Two of the Sam Maguire is shaping up as something of a group of death, while Group One, with Mayo […]

2 years ago