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  • PlayXPlay is here! The new weekly sports show hosted by Jenny Murphy

    PlayXPlay is here! The new weekly sports show hosted by Jenny Murphy

    Welcome to PlayXPlay, our new weekly show hosted by Grand Slam winner Jenny Murphy. Every single Monday, SportsJOE and Her will be bringing you the best of what female sport has to offer and it won’t be done half-heartedly either. In partnership with AIG and in support of 20×20, prepare for proper analysis, genuine debate […]

    7 years ago

  • Cork camógs do two in a row in Nenagh gale

    Cork camógs do two in a row in Nenagh gale

    By Daragh Ó Conchúir The Rebels have done the two in a row. Cork 3-15 Clare 2-12 Clodagh Finn score a goal and eight points, Emma Murphy slotted a brace of goals and player of the match Fiona Keating shot five points as Cork secured a second All-Ireland Minor A Camogie Championship in a row […]

    7 years ago

  • The mystery of the Anfield pigeon and why the title race is exceptional

    The mystery of the Anfield pigeon and why the title race is exceptional

    Who killed the Anfield pigeon? For some, the fact that many people were talking about the Anfield pigeon after Liverpool’s win against Huddersfield on Friday night demonstrated, once again, that there was something lacking in the title race. Nobody can dispute the excellence of the two teams but the charge is that the drama is […]

    7 years ago

  • FAI and Sport Ireland announce governance review group on Association reform

    FAI and Sport Ireland announce governance review group on Association reform

    Sport Ireland and the FAI have announced a five-person Governance Review Group to review reform within the FAI ahead of the association’s upcoming AGM. The group met today and set out milestones to bring about change ahead of and following the Association’s AGM in Trim in July. The make-up of the new Group has been finalised […]

    7 years ago

  • “I’m not dumb, I know what people are thinking, but I am Irish”

    “I’m not dumb, I know what people are thinking, but I am Irish”

    By Cathal Dennehy He knows what they say, the critics tapping away on keyboards with anonymous cloaks. Shane Ryan has read the comments on message boards by those who heard his accent and concluded – without a fair trial – that the American-born swimmer was using Ireland as a country of convenience. If they met […]

    7 years ago

  • In a sports-mad household, Ryan still giving it her all for Waterford

    In a sports-mad household, Ryan still giving it her all for Waterford

    By DARAGH SMALL Michelle Ryan hadn’t played like that since her primary school days, but she was on top form last weekend, bagging 3-3 in the Lidl National Football League Division 2 semi-final victory over Cavan. Waterford through-and-through, Ryan is desperate to see a former superpower back to the top-table of Ladies football, and having secured […]

    7 years ago

  • Jenny Egan giving it her all until until lifelong dream is realised

    Jenny Egan giving it her all until until lifelong dream is realised

    By Cathal Dennehy Her routine is simple, its execution less so: three to four hours a day on the water, another 90 minutes in the gym – 14 to 16 sessions each week, all adding up to one exhausted athlete by the time Jenny Egan crumples into bed on a Saturday night. “I have a […]

    7 years ago

  • “It’s a long time coming so we’ll enjoy it” – Tipp captain Sabrina Larkin

    “It’s a long time coming so we’ll enjoy it” – Tipp captain Sabrina Larkin

    By Daragh Ó Conchúir Tipperary 0-14 Kilkenny 0-8 LONG-SERVING captain Sabrina Larkin has played at Senior level for more than a decade for Tipperary without much tangible success and there was no hiding her joy as she delivered her speech after the Premiers bagged their first Littlewoods Ireland Camogie League Division 2 title. Larkin was […]

    7 years ago

  • Ole Gunnar Solskjaer claims several United players need ‘reality check’

    Ole Gunnar Solskjaer claims several United players need ‘reality check’

    Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has said that some of the players on his squad need a reality check following their 4-0 aggregate loss to Barcelona on Tuesday. The Red Devils were dumped from the Champions League quarter-finals by the La Liga leaders with Lionel Messi scoring twice to sink Solskjaer’s side at the […]

    7 years ago

  • Forsaking holidays for the love of the game; Niamh Ryan is hungry for more

    Forsaking holidays for the love of the game; Niamh Ryan is hungry for more

    By Daragh Small ‘It was a gamble that I took’ The inside joke in Raheen every Sunday evening is: “We might see you Friday, Niamh.” Niamh Ryan’s housemates know better than anyone else the sacrifices she has made to reach the top of the Ladies Football game, and this year she will combine camogie with […]

    7 years ago

  • QUIZ: How well do you remember these Premier League legends?

    QUIZ: How well do you remember these Premier League legends?

    Think you know your stuff? Over the years, some of the greatest football players on earth have togged out for the Premier League. From bitter rivalries like that of Roy Keane and Patrick Viera to unforgettable moments like Sergio Aguaro’s 94th-minute title winning goal, it’s been one hell of a ride. Actually, it wouldn’t be […]

    7 years ago

  • Why VAR is going to change everything about football and in a good way

    Why VAR is going to change everything about football and in a good way

    VAR-What is it good for? Quite a lot, really. When the executive committee of UEFA announced last December in Dublin that they would be introducing VAR from the knockout stages of the Champions League this season, they started a process which culminated in a once-in-a-generation event at the Etihad on Wednesday night. VAR’s intervention to […]

    7 years ago

  • Why Brian Kerr must come back, chance for change for Irish football, mesmerising Ajax

    Why Brian Kerr must come back, chance for change for Irish football, mesmerising Ajax

    As if the Champions League knockout stages needed any seasoning on top, the layers being peeled away from the FAI story are offering more flavour for the already spoilt football fans. Change is coming to the FAI with Donal Conway confirming the intention of the Association’s board to step down once new structures are put […]

    7 years ago

  • The five biggest Masters meltdowns

    The five biggest Masters meltdowns

    Katie Taylor, Roy Keane, Sonia O’Sullivan. We in Ireland love a winner. But if there’s one thing we love more than a winner, it’s a plucky loser, an underdog, a ‘nearly man’. Their names are as legendary as those who have eclipsed their achievements. With the 83rd edition of The Masters teeing off on Thursday […]

    7 years ago

  • Man Utd target Joao Felix scores hattrick in Benfica demolition of Eintracht Frankfurt

    Man Utd target Joao Felix scores hattrick in Benfica demolition of Eintracht Frankfurt

    He also assisted Benfica’s only other goal 19-year-old Benfica forward Joao Felix had a night to remember for the Eagles on Thursday evening, bagging himself a hattrick and an assist in a 4-2 demolition of Bundesliga team Eintracht Frankfurt. The wonderkid has been something of a sensation in his first full season as part of […]

    7 years ago

  • COMPETITION: Find the Easter Egg for a chance to win a €250 One4all Gift Card

    COMPETITION: Find the Easter Egg for a chance to win a €250 One4all Gift Card

    Brought to you by Cadbury Anyone fancy an Easter egg hunt? It has to be said that Easter is a seriously underrated holiday. I mean, Easter Sunday is a day that some of us dedicate to finding and eating chocolate eggs. What’s not to love about that? Seeing as Easter is only around the corner, Cadbury […]

    7 years ago

  • Graeme Souness adamant that Mo Salah should have been sent off in victory over Porto

    Graeme Souness adamant that Mo Salah should have been sent off in victory over Porto

    Salah didn’t even get a booking for this Liverpool overcame reigning Portuguese champions Porto at Anfield on Tuesday night, securing a comfortable 2-0 victory thanks to first-half goals from Naby Keita and Roberto Firmino. But just like Tottenham Hotspur versus Manchester City, the other Champions League tie on the night, the encounter wasn’t without controversy […]

    7 years ago

  • FAI take just 19 minutes to respond to Sport Ireland funding decision

    FAI take just 19 minutes to respond to Sport Ireland funding decision

    On Monday, the FAI confirmed that John Delaney would appear before the Oireachtas Committee on Wednesday. They also wrote in a statement that ‘some recent comments made by the FAI did not accurately reflect the Board’s level of awareness of the existence of the €100,000 issue in 2017’. On Tuesday, Sport Ireland moved to suspend […]

    7 years ago

  • Everyone travelling home for training will agree with Kildare star’s past struggles

    Everyone travelling home for training will agree with Kildare star’s past struggles

    By Daragh Small On Wednesday afternoon, Cpt. Siobhan O’Sullivan was in the Belgian city of Liege learning about the Battle of the Bulge, unable to attend training with her team-mates back home. On Sunday, she takes on her native county Sligo in Kildare colours for the first time, and she only arrived back in Ireland […]

    7 years ago

  • David de Gea could be on the move as his wage demands are met

    David de Gea could be on the move as his wage demands are met

    Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea could be set to leave Old Trafford this summer with PSG reportedly set to meet his wage demands. The Spanish international signed a one-year contract extension earlier this season that will keep him in Manchester until the summer of 2020 and according to The Independent PSG would be willing to […]

    7 years ago

  • What to expect from this year’s Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse

    What to expect from this year’s Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse

    Brought to you by Fairyhouse Racecourse Here’s hoping we get the weather to match the racing! It’s a race that has been run every year since 1870, but it’s lost none of its significance for Irish racing fans. The BoyleSports Irish Grand National isn’t just up there with the most iconic races on these shores, […]

    7 years ago

  • “People have looked at us sometimes nearly like we’re spoofers or bluffers…”

    “People have looked at us sometimes nearly like we’re spoofers or bluffers…”

    By Daragh Ó Conchúir Galway 0-16 Kilkenny 2-8 THE celebrations were measured but this was an important day for Galway. It wasn’t just that they had beaten one of the giants of their sport, a four-in-a-row chasing Kilkenny in the Littlewoods Ireland Camogie League Division 1 Final. It was that they did so after staring down […]

    7 years ago

  • Last line of Diarmuid O’Connor’s winning speech sums this Mayo team up

    Last line of Diarmuid O’Connor’s winning speech sums this Mayo team up

    The wait it is over! Mayo ended their long running league drought with a four-point win over Kerry in Croke Park. A late goal from Ciarán Treacy ensured that Mayo would secure their first league title since 2001 and captain Diarmuid O’Connor said that the westerners would try their very best to make sure that the […]

    7 years ago

  • Called into county panel at 16, Kilkenny prodigy finding her feet now

    Called into county panel at 16, Kilkenny prodigy finding her feet now

    By Daragh Ó Conchúir It is hard to get your head around the fact that Danielle Morrissey is still only 18. Okay, she turns 19 next month, but the first year health science student at WIT is already in her third season on the Kilkenny squad that bids for a fourth consecutive Littlewoods Ireland Camogie […]

    7 years ago

  • Kilkenny chasing iconic fourth in a row but Galway are a force

    Kilkenny chasing iconic fourth in a row but Galway are a force

    Kilkenny are on the brink of joining very rare company in becoming a four-in-a-row Littlewoods Ireland Camogie Leagues Division 1-winning outfit. Despite having gotten the better of All-Ireland champions Cork in the Semi-Final however, the presence of Galway in the opposite corner ensures that they will have to dig very deep indeed if they are […]

    7 years ago

  • “We’re very relieved” – the weekend in ladies football

    “We’re very relieved” – the weekend in ladies football

    By Declan Rooney Cork Cork manager Ephie Fitzgerald saluted his side’s fighting spirit as they pulled clear of a determined Mayo in the final stages to qualify for the Lidl NFL Division 1 semi-final. Just three points separates the top four teams in the division, but Cork, Dublin, Donegal and Galway are all guaranteed semi-finals […]

    7 years ago

  • Fiona Coghlan: Questions need to be asked after disappointing Six Nations

    Fiona Coghlan: Questions need to be asked after disappointing Six Nations

    It was a bleak St. Patrick’s Day in Cardiff as the Irish Women’s team lost 24-5 to Wales. Ireland dominated some early possession and they were first to score through teenager Beibhinn Parsons but they failed to kick on after that. We struggled in the set-piece, an area which I thought in advance of the […]

    7 years ago

  • Sport Ireland seeking “urgent clarification” from FAI on €100,000 loan

    Sport Ireland seeking “urgent clarification” from FAI on €100,000 loan

    Sport Ireland say that it is seeking urgent clarification from the FAI regarding a €100,000 loan to the organisation by its Chief Executive, John Delaney, including the circumstances of the loan and its repayment. In a statement issued on Tuesday night, Sport Ireland requested an explanation for the bridging loan, which was made in 2017. “Sport […]

    7 years ago

  • “Hes’s a teacher and a mentor to people on the pitch”

    “Hes’s a teacher and a mentor to people on the pitch”

    By Aaron McNally “He just inspires confidence” VWhen Liverpool made Virgil van Dijk the most expensive defender ever when they splashed out £75 million bringing him from St Mary’s to Anfield in January 2018, many people doubted this move and said that it was a waste of money. Over two years on and the move by Jurgen […]

    7 years ago

  • Taylor has sights set on Persoon after Volante domination

    Taylor has sights set on Persoon after Volante domination

    By Aaron McNally Now three belts in the bank. She’s coming for the fourth. On the 26th of November 2016, Katie Taylor made her pro debut at the SSE Wembley Arena, where she beat Karina Kopinska with a third-round KO. 27 months and 12 more wins on and Taylor is a unified lightweight world champion, holding […]

    7 years ago

  • Who can be promoted and relegated in all four divisions of the football league

    Who can be promoted and relegated in all four divisions of the football league

    By Aaron McNally It’s going to be a huge day next Sunday. A massive day of penultimate fixtures unfolded on Saturday as things became a little clearer in the National Football League. There are promotion places to be fought for, relegation to avoid and there are also teams looking to make it through to championship time unscathed as […]

    7 years ago

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