That’s one hell of a full forward line. DIT knocked IT Carlow out of the unforgiving Sigerson Cup on Wednesday afternoon. Unforgiving because it’s one slip and you’re out. The Dublin institute booked their place in next week’s quarter finals while the Carlow outfit’s 2018 campaign was over after just 60 minutes of football. Playing […]

8 years ago

There was a clash of the titans in the Woodlands. Two of the favourites for the 2018 Sigerson Cup – last year’s champions St Mary’s Belfast and 8 time winners Ulster University Jordanstown battled it out on a wet and windy Belfast Wednesday in what would be both side’s first outings in this years renewal. […]

8 years ago

Hibernian have terminated Anthony Stokes’ contract with the club. The 29-year-old Dublin native was on a contract with Hibs that was due to run until the summer of 2019, but he has been released before the contract would run its course. This is the second time in the last six months Stokes has has been […]

8 years ago

UCD have booked their place in the Fitzgibbon quarter finals. JJ Doyle’s charges underwhelmed in this year’s League campaign, but they’ve hit form at just the right time as the Fitzgibbon Cup reaches its business stages. Tonight, the south Dublin outfit comfortably dispatched of Cork IT on home turf in Belfield. That ensures their progress […]

8 years ago

“Tommy Walsh just loves hurling.” And hurling loves Tommy Walsh. When Tommy Walsh talks about hurling, it becomes the most important thing in the world. It becomes the only thing in the world. The Tullaroan legend has won plenty of admirers over the last few months for his passionate commentary on the game. It’s been […]

8 years ago

The Garda College went down, but they went down fighting. Going into the Sigerson Cup fresh from a victorious League campaign, the competition’s most successful side, UCC were expected to have few problems against the training Gardaí in Templemore this afternoon. In their own back garden, the Tipperary based college ripped up that script. They […]

8 years ago

We’ve never heard of this fella before. David Clifford has left his distinguished imprint on the Sigerson Cup already, starring in their surprise victory over a fancied Queen’s University side in the Dub on Tuesday. It’s been a busy few days for the Fossa club man. He made his bow for the Kerry seniors on […]

8 years ago

It was a busy Saturday for Anthony Nash. Not as busy as he wanted it to be. After Anthony Nash was named by John Meyler to start in goals for the Cork team to face Kilkenny in their league opener, all sorts of opinions were formed and conclusions drawn. John Meyler was criticised for apparently […]

8 years ago

Now is their time. “Most of the lads on the team are 26 or 27, so it’s our prime age to be hurling.” St. Patrick’s Ballyragget captain Stephen Staunton has been on one hell of a journey with his club. There were glory days in 2012, when as a sprightly nineteen-year-old he climbed the steps […]

8 years ago

Mature comments. Belmont youngster Oisín Kelly is highly rated in Offaly. Two years a county under-21 and now going into his second season with the Faithful county’s senior hurlers, for a 21-year-old, he has plenty of experience behind him. Hurling in Offaly has been in the doldrums for a good few years now. There have […]

8 years ago

This was sent ahead of the Glaveys’ clash with Moy in Saturday’s All-Ireland final

8 years ago

Learning their trade. John Kiely’s Limerick hurlers got their Division 1B campaign off to a solid start in the Gaelic Grounds on Sunday afternoon. The Treaty county had ten points to spare over a gallant Laois side, with the guile and grace of Aaron Gillane pointing the way. Gillane hit 11 points in a destructive […]

8 years ago

How is a free-taker to build confidence like this?

8 years ago

Mayo are never dead when Paddy Durcan is on the field. The Castlebar Mitchels man is inspired every time he dons the famous green and red jersey. He breathes life into a game. He rallies his teammates, he gives hope to Stephen Rochford, to his faithful Mayo following. He chases lost causes with the speed […]

8 years ago

A clash of the green and gold armies. There was nothing between Kerry and Donegal in their Fitzgerald Stadium clash in the first round of the League on Sunday. It was a new look Kingdom outfit with four players making debuts. Micheal Burns, Sean Ó Sé and Cormac Coffey made their senior bows in the […]

8 years ago

Hoho hurling. All-Ireland champions Galway are only back from a celebratory team holiday. They’ve had no pre-season games whatsoever. Manager Michael Donoghue admitted this morning that his Tribe are at least 7 or 8 weeks behind the majority of other hurling teams in the country in terms of the work they’ve done up to his […]

8 years ago

The Dublin machine is purring. Brian Fenton is revving up already. Dublin picked up in 2018 from exactly where they left off in 2017. They left off as All-Ireland champions. They began this campaign with a business-like destruction of Kildare. No fuss, all work. Jim Gavin’s men were slow to get going in Croke Park […]

8 years ago

Now that was a game of hurling. It may have only been the first round of the National Hurling League but neither Kilkenny or Cork were taking a backward step. It was fiery, it was feisty and Tommy Walsh was like a man possessed in the eir Sport commentary box. It had everything, except for […]

8 years ago

“He could cost his team when it really counts.” Kildare and Dublin’s first round Allianz League clash had a bit of bite about it. Dublin were rusty, in particular in defence in the first half. Cian O’Neill’s men held a two point advantage at the break, with a goal from Luke Flynn setting the Lilywhites […]

8 years ago

A woeful start for Dublin. But just as woeful as it was for Dublin, it was as uplifting for an Offaly hurling following, that let’s be honest, have been crying out for a good lift from their hurlers. 13 points separated the sides by the final whistle. It was a 13 point cushion that Offaly […]

8 years ago

The gift that keeps on giving and giving and giving. Michael Quinlivan is one of the best footballers in the country. Tipperary’s full forward has everything. Pace, strength, drive, skill, determination and confidence. You name it – the Clonmel Commercials ace has it. He was having a quiet day at the office in Páirc Uí […]

8 years ago

Welcome returns for Liam Kearns. Evan Comeford made his first appearance in a Tipperary jersey since he was issued with a 12 week ban for an incident with Paddy Russell when Tipperary took on Cork on Saturday night. Comerford was joined by the returning Stephen O’Brien in the Tipperary lineup. O’Brien had been a part […]

8 years ago

No love lost. Moy sucker-punched Kerry’s An Ghaeltacht to book their place in the All-Ireland intermediate football semi-final, where they will face Roscommon side Michael Glaveys, who defeated Wexford’s Kilanerin on Saturday. All eyes were on Thurles, however, as Sean Cavanagh’s Moy took on Marc Ó Sé’s An Ghaeltacht in the heavyweight clash of the […]

8 years ago

It wasn’t the most aesthetically pleasing game of football in Semple Stadium. Moy and An Ghaeltacht’s All-Ireland intermediate semi-final was blighted by hand-passes across the field to a teammate standing five yards away. It was a game wrapped with blanket defences, and littered with poor kick-passing. For sixty minutes. At half-time – the score was […]

8 years ago

Incredible horsemanship

8 years ago

This lad is doing absolutely everything he can this year. This is his year. Training is called for 8.00 on Wednesday. Life is a training session for Seanie. Apparently. When he’s not training, he’s stretching. When he’s not stretching, he’s foam-rolling. When he’s not foam-rolling, he’s doing yoga. When he’s not doing yoga, he’s lifting […]

8 years ago

Tetchy. Martin O’Neill was interviewed by RTE’s Tony O’Donoghue in the aftermath of Wednesday afternoon’s Nations League draw. The word 'revenge' will crop up a lot https://t.co/DfFdSBINzQ — SportsJOE (@SportsJOEdotie) January 24, 2018 Apart from a cushy, one-on-one interview with the FAI last week, this was one of the first times we’d heard from the […]

8 years ago

A big win for the men of south Dublin. UCD got an early run on UCC in the Mardyke in their Fitzgibbon Cup group game on Wednesday and the travelling side didn’t give the competition’s kingpins a sniff from there to the game’s end. Lively left-handed corner forward Tom Phelan netted past Jack Barry as […]

8 years ago

Michael Murphy loved his time in DCU. The Donegal man headed down the country to Dublin after a rip-roaring underage career with his club, his county and his school. Coveted by all the big universities, the lure of the North Dublin college turned his head. Winning a Sigerson Cup with the Glasnevin outfit in 2012 […]

8 years ago

Talk about a test of mettle. Meath and Longford’s recent O’Byrne Cup clash became the first ever competitive football game to be decided by a free-taking shootout. 5 players from each county stepped up to the 45. Nine out of the ten kickers took the free out of their hands. Only three out of the […]

8 years ago

The south Dublin college are out to regain their title. Maynooth posed few problems for a rampant UCD in Kildare on Tuesday afternoon. Last year’s beaten finalists could afford to hold 2017 Young Footballer of the Year Con O’Callaghan in reserve – and still had 12 points to spare after 60 minutes of football. Jack […]

8 years ago

Colm Callanan is back for more. The 35-year-old reached the Holy Grail last year, when Galway ended a 29-year famine to lift Liam McCarthy. After that famous September Sunday, the inevitable retirement question was asked of him It seemed a logical to bow out, on a high, at the peak. He’d soldiered for 11 […]

8 years ago

Austin Gleeson’s team is class

8 years ago

A journey over to his son David’s Hull City training session taught him this

8 years ago

He’s already learned United’s favourite song

8 years ago

This is only the start of it for the hurlers of DCU Dóchas Éireann. The Glasnevin college have been rising and rising over the last few years. They’ve claimed scalps before, reaching the league final this year. They were knocked out at the quarter final stage of the Fitzgibbon Cup last year by UCC in […]

8 years ago

Ah sure once you get out there you don’t give a fiddlers about a bit of rain and a lot of muck From Derry to Cork and from Wexford to Galway our pitches weren’t conducive to wristy hurling to silky football or to free-flowing rugby on Sunday. The weather was atrocious. It never stopped raining […]

8 years ago

They’ll be hard beaten, that’s for sure. Gary Kirby’s University of Limerick demolished DIT in their Fitzgibbon Cup opener on their 3G pitch on Sunday. The 2015 champions have an embarrassment of riches in attack, in defence and on the bench. They put 3-29 past a well stacked DIT, and it’s no wonder they’ve been […]

8 years ago

Michael Obafemi. Remember that name. 17-year-old Irish striker Michael Obafemi made his first appearance in the Premier League on Sunday in Southampton’s clash with Spurs. Not only is the Ireland under-19 player highly rated by the Saints, but he became their second youngest player to ever play in the Premier League after Luke Shaw, when […]

8 years ago

Bring. It. On. Here are the quarter-final pairings for the Champions Cup. The home teams are named first. All of these games will take place on the one weekend, what a weekend of rugby it’s going to be. Leinster V Saracens Munster V Toulon Scarlets V La Rochelle Clermont V Racing 92 Here are your […]

8 years ago

A galaxy of stars. The Fitzgibbon Cup is back and it’s back with a bang. While club games all over the country fell victim to the heavy overnight and morning rain on Sunday, the three college’s hurling games went ahead. All of the games were played on 3G surfaces. Gary Kirby’s University of Limerick hosted […]

8 years ago

They’ve been waiting a while for this. Corofin are through to the All-Ireland club football semi-finals after they defeated Fulham Irish in Ruislip on Sunday. This quarter final tie was supposed to be played over a month ago, but was called off on that occasion due to a snow covered McGovern Park. A host of […]

8 years ago

“We’d be using them in the dressing room”

8 years ago

Patrick Horgan isn’t looking forward to hurling in the wind and rain of the February, but the chance to grace the new Páirc Uí Chaoimh makes it that bit easier. All GAA years are long and this one will be no exception. The Cork hurlers will begin their Allianz League campaign when they take on […]

8 years ago

Football is number one for Cillian O’Connor. Football is number one for almost every inter-county footballer in the country. The same goes for hurlers. The commitment required to survive in an inter-county team is so savage that you simply wouldn’t make it if you weren’t obsessed with the game. “Yeah I’d say it was probably […]

8 years ago

It makes sense. In the current Mayo panel, there are thirteen players that live, work or study in Dublin. Dublin is a long trek from Castlebar, where the Mayo footballers usually train. Last year the following ten players were all based in the capital city. Tom Parsons Seamie O’Shea Jason Doherty Chris Barrett Rob Hennelly […]

8 years ago

Just when you think we’re getting places. You hear the horror stories of the club footballers in Waterford still not having their under-21 or senior championships for 2017 yet complete. You hear about Mayo and Roscommon being forced into playing a meaningless dead rubber in the Connacht FBD League midway through their National League campaign. […]

8 years ago

“He’s a great fella, and we get on well.” Joseph O’Brien trained Bachelor to victory in the Class 4 Matchbook Casino Handicap in Kempton last night. Bachelor is owned by Irish rugby legend Ronan O’Gara. O’Brien took huge satisfaction out of the win. It was by no means the biggest race he’s won and the prize […]

8 years ago

Tunnel vision. Lee Chin knows an inter-county career is a fleeting one. He knows how much of an honour it is to represent Wexford and he’s making sure that nothing stops him from performing as best as he possibly can in the purple and gold jersey. His life revolves around the game. His priority is […]

8 years ago

Pick that one out. The Littlewoods Ireland National Camogie Leagues got off to a flier last weekend with a full round of opening fixtures taking place. Tipperary 2-12 Wexford 3-10 The tie of the round took place in the Ragg in Tipperary where the Premier County played host to Martin Carey’s Wexford. The home side started the […]

8 years ago