A new documentary covering the 1997/1998 Tyrone minor winning team will air on TG4 at 8:30pm on Sunday. The program will talk to Peter Canavan, Eoin Mulligan and other members of a Tyrone team that went to back-to-back All-Ireland finals against Laois. Tyrone lost the first game but avenged their defeat the following year with […]

8 years ago

Former Mayo ladies football selector Michael McHale has said that there were some delegates of the Mayo Ladies County Board that had not consulted their clubs before voting Carnacon out of the 2018 Mayo senior club championship. McHale, who left the Mayo intercounty panel earlier in the summer alongside fellow selector Denise McDonagh and 12 members of […]

8 years ago

New Munster fly-half Joey Carbery has said that his move to Limerick this summer has been a change for him. Carbery left PRO14 and European champions Leinster last season after receiving limited opportunities at fly-half under Leo Cullen. Carbery was Ireland coach Joe Schmidt’s second-choice fly-half during the Six Nations, but often the third choice […]

8 years ago

Former Ireland international Richie Sadlier and Dundalk manager Stephen Kenny have called for the government to assist the League of Ireland amid a difficult year for domestic football. Both Bray Wanderers and Limerick FC have endured financial difficulties this season and have had well-documented issues with regards to player pay and Sadlier has said that […]

8 years ago

An All-Ireland final win would be the defining achievement for most intercounty managers but it may be different for John Kiely. Kiely guided Limerick to their first All-Ireland title in 45 years with a one-point win over Galway on Sunday which also put an end to a five-match losing streak in finals for the Treaty County. […]

8 years ago

Real Madrid midfielder Martin Ødegaard has secured a move back to the Eredivisie after agreeing to join Vitesse Arnhem on loan. Ødegaard, who joined Real Madrid when he was just 16 in 2015, was loaned out to Heerenveen last season where he scored four goals in 43 matches for the Dutch side. The 19-year-old was impressed by […]

8 years ago

Leinster fly-half Johnny Sexton took advantage of Tuesday’s PRO14 season launch at Celtic Park in Glasgow to poke fun of Ireland teammate Rory Best. The Ireland internationals were at the home of Celtic FC and Sexton captured Best walking through the tunnel as both players made their way towards the hallowed pitch. Best maintained during […]

8 years ago

The PRO14 season is just around the corner as Leinster look to try and become only the second team in PRO12/14 history to successfully defend their title. The reigning champions were the first team in league history to defend their crown when a Leinster team captained by Leo Cullen retained the title in 2014, but […]

8 years ago

England and Sale Sharks full-back Chris Ashton was shown a red card for a tip tackle on Castres scrum-half Rory Kockott in a pre-season friendly last Friday. Ashton returns to English rugby this season following a sensational year with Toulon last term where he broke the single season record for the most amount of tries scored in […]

8 years ago

Cork match official Conor Lane will referee the All-Ireland Senior Football Final between Dublin and Tyrone while Sean Hurson from Tyrone will officiate in the minor game between Kerry and Galway. Lane was given the whistle for the 2016 final between Dublin and Mayo and he also refereed the All-Ireland Minor final in 2013 between […]

8 years ago

UEFA have shortlisted Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid midfielder Luka Modric and Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah for the UEFA Men’s Player of the Year award on 30 August. The winner will be named – along with the UEFA Women’s Player of the Year and UEFA Champions League positional award winners – during the group stage draw in Monaco on […]

8 years ago

UFC President Dana White has said that the organisation has a current market value of $7 billion. The promotion was purchased in July 2016 for $4.2 billion by a group led by WME–IMG, now Endeavor, in a landmark deal for the UFC and former owners Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta. In May 2018, the company then agreed […]

8 years ago

Leinster utility back Jordan Larmour and new Munster lock Tadhg Beirne have both been nominated for awards at the PRO14’s Season Launch Party in Glasgow on Monday evening. Beirne has been nominated for the The Guinness Players’ Player of the Season award alongside Scarlets centre Hadleigh Parkes and Leinster winger James Lowe while Larmour will contest […]

8 years ago

Game Day, a new behind-the-scenes mini-documentary from RugbyPass, has followed Leinster for their PRO14 final win over the Scarlets last season. The Champions Cup champions secured a historic European and domestic double last term with wins over Racing 92 and the Scarlets respectively and RugbyPass has followed the victory over the latter with an inside look […]

8 years ago

It was the goal that should have put the final nail into Galway’s coffin. Limerick were leading by five points, Kyle Hayes and Seamus Flanagan had combined brilliantly to get the Shannonsiders going in the second-half, Tom Morrissey pounced on a mistake from Gearoid McInerney and punished Galway with a well taken goal, and then Dowling […]

8 years ago

Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy was dismissed in the Foxes 2-0 win over Wolves on Saturday for a horror challenge on Republic of Ireland defender Matt Doherty. After coming off the bench in Leicester’s season opener against Manchester United last Friday, Vardy started for Claude Puel’s side against newly promoted Wolves and got off to […]

8 years ago

Republic of Ireland defender Matt Doherty found the net for the first time in his Premier League career on Saturday. The problem for the Dubliner was that he put the ball into his own net to give Leicester City the lead before James Maddison scored before half-time to give the Foxes a 2-0 lead. Leicester […]

8 years ago

He may not have controlled the ball for the entirety of his run, but Republic of Ireland underage defender Anselmo Garcia MacNulty scored an incredible solo goal for Real Betis at the Jeju International Youth Football Tournament in Seogwipo, South Korea. MacNulty picked the ball up just inside his own box and ran down the left sideline […]

8 years ago

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has said that rivals Manchester City lacked class after releasing their new eight-part documentary series with Amazon Prime. ‘All or Nothing’ goes behind the scenes of City’s record-breaking Premier League winning campaign and shows several exchanges between players and manager Pep Guardiola. One particular scene in the series before Manchester […]

8 years ago

Barcelona forward Lionel Messi has undoubtedly been one of the greatest footballers to ever lace up a pair of football boots. The Argentine has scored 552 goals in 638 games for Barcelona. He’s won four Champions League titles. He’s won the Ballon d’Or five-times. He’s won a slew of individual and team honours but at […]

8 years ago

Former Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes has said that the club’s interim captain Paul Pogba is not a Barcelona ‘type’ of player. Pogba was linked with a move to the Nou Camp earlier this month with Barcelona reportedly offering Manchester United Andre Gomes and Yerry Mina, plus cash considerations, for the World Cup winner. The […]

8 years ago

Gerbrandt Grobler’s stay was short in Ireland but it certainly wasn’t forgettable. The South African lock spent one season at Munster before moving on to Gloucester this summer following a turbulent campaign in Limerick where he was heavily criticised for a previous drugs ban. Grobler received a two-year ban from the sport after failing a […]

8 years ago

Peter Ryan may be legally blind but he can still spot a great cause when it’s there. The former Tipperary minor hurler recently returned from the 2018 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Italy earlier this month to begin ramping up his preparations for the 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo after representing Ireland at the 2016 games in […]

8 years ago

16 Irish players have been nominated for the PRO14 team of the season with Leinster dominating selection with nine nominations. The official PRO14 Dream Team will be announced on Monday August 20th with Irish players nominated in every position except for blindside flanker and loosehead lock. Predictably, Leinster dominate selection with Cian Healy, Sean Cronin, […]

8 years ago

Leinster will begin their Champions Cup defence by welcoming Wasps to the RDS on Friday, October 12 as the four-time champions look to defend their title for the first time since 2011. Leinster completed a historic domestic and European double last season and they’ll begin their defence next season with the visit of Wasps, followed by […]

8 years ago

Talk to any Leinster player and they’ll tell you that Jamie Heaslip’s retirement and Jordi Murphy’s defection to Ulster is a big loss for the province and Jack Conan is no different. Heaslip was a seasoned international when Conan was coming through the underage ranks at Leinster and the Bray backrower speaks highly of his […]

8 years ago

Liam Miller memorial match organiser Michael O’Flynn has said that former Ireland captain John O’Shea helped  inspire the match after scheduling a meeting between him and longtime Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson. Organisers of the event confirmed earlier this week that the memorial match between teams comprised of Manchester United and Celtic/Ireland legends would be […]

8 years ago

Portlaoise super-bantamweight TJ Doheny [20-0] has claimed the IBF super bantamweight title with a hard-fought win over Ryosuke Iwasa in Kokugikan, Japan on Thursday. Doheny looked very sharp in the early rounds and established his dominance in the ring before opening up on the champion in round six with some devastating combinations. He continued to pick up […]

8 years ago

The All-Ireland hurling semi-finals attracted more viewers this year than the All-Ireland football semi-finals. According to insights from Sport For Business, Limerick’s win over Cork attracted an average audience of 543,000 viewers while Galway’s semi-final draw with Clare drew 454,000 viewers for the first game and a further 417,000 viewers for the replay in Semple […]

8 years ago

A ‘realist’ is how new Connacht number eight Robin Copeland described himself at Eir Sport’s PRO14 launch on Wednesday. Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary defines a ‘realist’ as ‘a person who recognises what is real or possible in a particular situation : one who accepts and deals with things as they really are’ and it seems an […]

8 years ago

Former Connacht hooker Ethienne Reynecke is currently in critical condition after suffering a blood clot to his brain following a stroke last Thursday. The South African spent two seasons at Connacht between 2011 and 2013 before moving back to his home country where he started playing with the Free State Cheetahs. Reynecke is currently in […]

8 years ago

The Hurling For Cancer game returns this year with a stellar line-up all in the name of Irish Cancer Research. The event, which has been organised for the seventh year in a row by horse-racing legend Jim Bolger and Irish champion jockey Davy Russell, sees a host of Irish hurling and horse racing stars come […]

8 years ago

Former Ireland underage international Jack Byrne was supposed to revive his career at Oldham Athletic. The Dubliner was a star at the Manchester City youth academy but he has since found it difficult to make the transition into professional football since leaving the Premier League champions last year with various stints at Cambuur, Blackburn Rovers, […]

8 years ago

After weeks of organisation, consultation and lobbying with the GAA, the Liam Miller memorial match will take place in front of a sold-out Páirc Uí Chaoimh in Cork.The mission objective was achieved. Confirmation of a sellout at the 45,000 seater stadium represents a dramatic turnaround for match organisers who were told by the GAA only last month […]

8 years ago

The Champions League final was not an easy night to endure for Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp. His poor record in finals had been repeatedly highlighted in the build up to the biggest game in European football and he was not helped by two catastrophic goalkeeping errors and the loss of his best player in the […]

8 years ago

Stade Francais appear to be very optimistic about the arrival of new forwards coach Paul O’Connell. The former Ireland captain was announced as the Parisian club’s forwards coach earlier this month and said that he was persuaded to leave Limerick by the club’s energy and ambition. O’Connell will work under former Springboks head coach Heyneke […]

8 years ago

On Friday World Rugby confirmed that Liza Burgess (Wales), Stephen Larkham (Australia), Ronan O’Gara (Ireland), Pierre Villepreux (France) and Bryan Williams (New Zealand) would all be inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame as part of the 2018 class. The World Rugby Hall of Fame recognises those who have made an outstanding contribution to the […]

8 years ago

Ireland’s all-time leading points scorer in international rugby Ronan O’Gara will be inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame. The former Munster fly-half will join Liza Burgess (Wales), Stephen Larkham (Australia), Pierre Villepreux (France) and Bryan Williams (New Zealand) in the 2018 class which will be honoured at a special ceremony in Rugby, England, […]

8 years ago

Irish hurdler Thomas Barr became the first Irish man to claim a medal in 84 years at the European championships when he won bronze in the 400m hurdle final in Berlin on Thursday. Barr clocked a time of 48.31 to finish in third place behind Turkey’s Yasmani Copello and Norway’s Karsten Warholm. Barr finished in fourth place […]

8 years ago

Bournemouth midfielder Harry Arter looks set to move away from the club with the Ireland international set to undergo a medical at Premier League newcomers Cardiff City. Both Cardiff and Watford were reportedly both interested in Arter on transfer deadline day but the player now looks set to join the Welsh club after it was […]

8 years ago

Barcelona midfielder Andre Gomes and defender Yerry Mina could be set for a Nou Camp exit after reports emerged that the pair are set to undergo medicals before completing moves to Everton. Mina has been linked heavily with a move to Manchester United this summer but it appears that Jose Mourinho’s side have since moved […]

8 years ago

16-year-old Shamrock Rovers goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu has been linked with a move to Manchester City. The Hoops shotstopper made his debut earlier this season and played for the club’s U15s, U17s and U19s last year. According to Paul Lennon of The Irish Daily Star, City will pay the Hoops an initial fee of €350,000 for Bazunu with the […]

8 years ago

Wallaby international Joe Tomane will make his Leinster debut on Friday when the European champions kick-off their pre-season against Montauban in the south of France. Tomane signed for the province in June and will line up at inside centre for his first start with Rory O’Loughlin set to partner him in the Leinster midfield. Newly […]

8 years ago

Republic of Ireland midfielder Harry Arter was the subject of deadline day interest, with both Watford and Cardiff both reportedly interested in the player. Arter played just 13 times for Bournemouth last season, after playing 35 games in the previous campaign, and his chances of increasing his playing time this season took a noticeable hit […]

8 years ago

Former Meath minor Conor Nash will make his AFL debut this weekend after he was named in the Hawthorn Hawks side to take on the Geelong Cats at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday. Nash was officially drafted as an international rookie in last year’s AFL Rookie Draft but has spent most of his time in […]

8 years ago

Eight-time All-Ireland winner and former Kilkenny U21 hurling manager Eddie Brennan has been proposed by the Laois Senior Hurling Selection committee to take the reins as the county’s next senior hurling manager. Brennan stepped down from his role as the Cats U21 manager last season after guiding the county to their first All-Ireland final at the […]

8 years ago

Galway forward Cian Salmon received a red card for kicking his opponent in his side’s All-Ireland semi-final loss to Tipperary on Wednesday. Salmon was dismissed in the 63rd minute of the match for striking his marker in the groin while he was down on the ground. It was Galway’s second red card of the game […]

8 years ago

It probably should have come as no surprise that a guy that scored 4-04 in an All-Ireland minor final would go on to enjoy a successful season in his first campaign in intercounty football, but yet, here we are talking about David Clifford’s credentials as a potential Footballer of the Year candidate. The prodigious 19-year-old […]

8 years ago

Real Madrid have confirmed the signing of Belgium international goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois from Chelsea. Courtois has agreed terms to a six-year contract with the European champions for a fee believed to be in the region of €35 million. Courtois spent seven seasons at Chelsea, including three years on loan at Atletico Madrid, and leaves the […]

8 years ago

Irish sprinter Leon Reid has qualified for the men’s 200m final at the European Championships in Berlin after clocking a time of 20.38 seconds in Wednesday’s semi-final. Reid was cleared to race for Ireland last week after his transfer of allegiance from Britain to Ireland was approved by the IAAF. The 24-year-old, originally from Bath, won […]

8 years ago