The best stocking fillers

8 years ago

Jose Mourinho wasn’t a happy camper after Manchester City’s derby victory. The Portuguese made his way to the Manchester City dressing room in the aftermath of the game to make his discontent known with City players for their celebrations, according to reports from the British media on Sunday. Manchester City defeated Manchester United 2-1 in […]

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A clever initiative. The atmosphere was great and the stands were heaving. The Limerick hurlers held a ‘Fight-Night’ fundraiser on Saturday night in the South Court Hotel for their 2018 season, and it looked an overwhelming success. Shane Dowling was the MC for the night. The hurlers had been in intense training over the last […]

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It’s a bit of a joke at this stage. Turkish representative Kaan Kigen Özbilen was the first man home in the ‘European’ Senior men’s cross country race in Samorin, Slovakia on Sunday morning. It is now four years in a row that athletes who were born, raised and are living in Kenya have claimed the gold […]

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There was some snow overnight. The heavy snow forced a host of GAA games all over the country and further beyond into postponement on Sunday. Pitches are snow-veiled from Cavan to Antrim and from Laois to London, and when you see the pictures, it leaves you with no wonder as to how all of these […]

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You’d have to feel for the Corofin lads especially. The All-Ireland senior football quarter-final between Corofin and Fulham Irish has been postponed due to heavy overnight snowfall. The game was due to take place in McGovern Park, Ruislip, but the snow-covered pitch left no option but to reschedule the clash. It’s obviously an inconvenience for […]

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Imagine trying to play football in that. The Leinster senior football final between St. Loman’s Mullingar and Moorefield has been postponed due to a snow-covered O’Moore park in Portlaoise. The decider was due to take place in the Laois county grounds at 2.00 on Sunday afternoon, but on the back of some heavy overnight snow, […]

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5-0

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“You know what Shaqiri’s nickname would be if he was playing football in Dublin? Barreler!”

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In the space of four days. Just when Jack Kennedy thought he was nailed on to win ride of the year after his trojan-like recovery aboard Robin Des Mana in Clonmel on Thursday afternoon, Tony Kelly has gone and matched him. The Kerryman somehow regained composure after his mount made a mistake at the fourth […]

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They take on Corofin tomorrow

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What more could the man have done? Not much more. Con O’Callaghan fired Cuala to their second Leinster hurling title in a row last Sunday, to complete what is surely one of the greatest individual years in GAA history. He is only 21. He has so much more to do, so much more potential, but […]

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These chances don’t come around too often. Not for GAA players anyway. Daithí Burke has had a busy year. He has been training with the Galway hurlers since December 2016. From December to February, he was balancing his Tribesmen hurling commitments with football for Corofin. Corofin reached the All-Ireland club football semi-final last year, where […]

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Are townie clubs at a benefit or a loss? Colm Parkinson played GAA with Portlaoise. He won a Leinster club title and six county senior titles with his club – the biggest town in Laois. Something he felt he missed out on was that parish camaraderie, that connection between teammates that country clubs harness so […]

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Hold on for a second, how? Robin Des Mana, take a bow. Jack Kennedy, take a bow. The 18-year-old Kerryman performed one of the rides of the year in the 2.35 race in Clonmel on Thursday afternoon. Gordon Elliot’s six-year-old went off a 7-2 shot in the Clonmel Racecourse Supporters Club Only 90 Euros Beginners Chase, […]

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A classy nod to GAA jerseys past. Ever since Dundalk IT released images of their home jersey for the 2018 Sigerson Cup campaign, GAA fans, and even those who have no connection to the GAA have been bowled over by its beauty. The DkIT home jersey is nostalgia at it’s brilliant best. Old is often […]

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John Heslin is a different breed to the rest of us. Colm Parkinson loves John Heslin. We should all love John Heslin. “John Heslin is just great lads, isn’t he,” said ‘Wooly’ moments after the Westmeath man hung up the phone on their GAA Hour interview. It sounded like more of a chat than an […]

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This will be some craic. The Limerick senior hurlers are fundraising for their 2017 season. To do that, they will be scrapping each other in St. Francis’ boxing club on Saturday evening. Blow for blow, punch for punch, the boys will be going hard at it. Let’s Keep Fighting Together to Reach our Goal:CLUB Limerick […]

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We all think we’re class. We all think our club team are unreal. We all think our clubmates that rip it up in training sessions have the ability to do the exact same thing in a game against any club team in the county. We all think those players that can do something special in […]

8 years ago

The county finals are over. Just now. Finally, the last two county senior finals of the year were contested over the weekend. It dragged all the way out to December for the club hurlers of Galway and the footballers of Waterford, but they got there in the end. There were All-Irelands won, there were Leinster […]

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This doesn’t look good. Republic of Ireland international Robbie Brady had to leave the field on a stretcher in the first half of Burnley vs Leicester on Saturday. The Dubliner was injured by a challenge from Leicester’s Harry Maguire in the 28th of the game, and looked in some pain leaving the King Power Stadium. […]

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St. Patrick’s Ballyragget are Leinster Intermediate hurling champions. The raging hot favourites didn’t have it all their own way in the Leinster intermediate hurling final against Glenealy on Saturday, but they eventually prevailed on a scoreline of 0-19 to 1-15. The Wicklow side went into the game as rank 16/1 outsiders, but they soon showed […]

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We were only one off last weekend

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Cuala are making it count. When Cuala won the All-Ireland club hurling final in March, they became the first ever Dublin club team to lift the Tommy Moore Cup. It is a golden generation. But not all golden generations win what they should. There have been other golden generation clubs in Dublin’s hurling history – […]

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And many footballers will feel the same way about hurling. The best GAA players have ‘it’. Whatever ‘it’ is – the instinct, the skill, the mentality, the class – they’re able to turn their hands to the other code just as easily. Give hurlers a shot at gaelic football and they’ll take to it without […]

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“How are you so good?” The Galway hurlers made a young supporter’s day on The Late Late Toy Show on Friday night. Johnny Coen, Pádraic Mannion, Conor Cooney, Gearóid McInerney and David Burke brought the Liam MacCarthy cup into the RTÉ studios to bring delight to the face of a Galway fan. Young supporter Daniel […]

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Jamie Barron isn’t a man for beating around the bush. He knows the story. He cuts to the point and he has no problems about doing that. Footballers in Waterford are the least favourite child. Waterford is a hurling county. Hurlers are treated better. This often comes at the expense of the footballers. And it […]

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Dan Currams; a hurler, a Kilcormac-Killoughey man, a survivor. The Gods of hurling didn’t want Dan Currams to line out for his parish in the 2017 Offaly hurling final. He turned around and gave the Gods of hurling the two fingers. In doing so, he probably had to give his club physio them, as well. […]

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There’s some mix in that Ardmore senior hurling team. Seven of the Waterford club’s players who will take to the field in the Munster Junior Hurling final on Sunday against Ballybacon-Grange were playing 16 years ago when the side won the county title. The rest of them, they’re only chaps. They’ve the old heads and […]

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Great stuff from the lads

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They make the difference

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Little did that taxi driver know. Brendan Cummins had a tough Championship debut for Tipperary in 1995. 19 years and numerous fallen challengers later, he retired from Tipperary in 2013 as one of the greatest hurling goalkeepers to have ever picked up a hurl. The moral of the story – A goalkeeper who has earned […]

8 years ago

There’s something about Aussie. With a 35″ stick in hand and a sliotar in close proximity, Austin Gleeson can do whatever the hell he wants. With a flick of those Rolex wrists, he can make a ball talk. With an instinctive thought, he can execute perfection. He can send a whole crowd crazy. He can […]

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The latest GAA player to court the top level of Irish basketball. Michael Darragh MacAuley will play his first game in Irish Super League basketball on Thursday evening in UCD. The 2013 Footballer of the Year has played with Eanna Basketball Club, Dublin, since he was a child. When he reached the end of his […]

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Trial and error. “You win or you learn.” The Galway hurlers were well used to losing. They were well used to learning. The county’s Liam MacCarthy drought ran for 29 years. 29 years too long. Galway are a hurling county. The Tribesmen are proud people, and if you go there, the topic of conversation will […]

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The year after the year before can be tough. Dr. Crokes joined a long list of All-Ireland club football winners to have failed to make it out of their province the year after winning the All-Ireland when they lost to Nemo Rangers in the Munster final on Sunday. St. Vincent’s are the only side to […]

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This looks class. Dublin lost the All-Ireland Ladies football final in 2014, 2015 and 2016. The feeling was akin to being dumped for three years in a row in September for player Sinead Finnegan. When they lost that first final in 2014, it must have cut deep. It’s a horrible feeling, falling at the final […]

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From Michael Lundy’s appendix operation to a man that should be on the Mayo team

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He hasn’t started a national league game. He hasn’t played one championship minute for the Mayo footballers. Neil Douglas has made a few starts for Mayo in the pre-season FBD League since 2010. He’s made five substitute appearances for his county in the National Football League since 2010. The Castlebar Mitchels forward is 28 now. […]

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Ohhh yes!

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He is the present. Jacob Stockdale made his Ireland debut in May 2017 against USA. He got a try that day and impressed. His next outing came against Japan in the summer tour, and the Lisburn born winger acquitted himself well. In the meantime, he’s been ripping up trees for Ulster in the Pro14, scoring […]

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He’s made of stern stuff, our Johnny

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This is a belter

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This guy has something special. It shouldn’t have been so easy for Leinster against the Dragons on Friday night.  Even though the Welsh side are enduring a woeful season, having lost six of their eight games in the competition prior to this encounter, it should have been more of a game. Leinster have 15 players […]

8 years ago

You know the score. It’s peak GAA club season. The wooly hats are out. The tea and sandwiches are in overdrive. Can you name these players who are still left in the All-Ireland club Championships, in either hurling or football? We give you the photo, you give us the player. Take it away.

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He’s a different species

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Never will everybody be happy, especially when you’re picking a team. “During the winter, a lot of hours are passed picking teams like that. Whether it be in houses, pubs or churches or anything, it happens, and there’s never agreement on it. But I’m happy with that team,”  – Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh. Micheál and Sean Óg, […]

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This is peak club season. It’s peak GAA. It’s the peak of the football calendar. There are three provincial senior finals with some of the best club teams of recent times in action. To make it even better, there’s some cracking intermediate games too. God, we’re lucky to have the GAA. When the inter-county season […]

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This is what we want to hear

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Some will agree, some won’t. It’s a tradition in Kerry that their football team captain for the year is a member of the club that won the previous year’s county title. That method meant Johnny Buckley, who was the Dr. Crokes county, Munster and All-Ireland winning captain in 2016/2017, became the Kingdom senior football skipper […]

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