The group stages of club championships countrywide are up in the air. From Meath to Clare to Offaly, there is controversy a-brewing. It all stems from a rule, put forward by Tipperary club Burgess and passed at congress in February, which states that in the case of a three-way tie in the group stages of […]

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Seamus Callanan has announced his retirement from inter-county hurling. The Drom-Inch club-man enjoyed a marvellous sixteen year inter-county career that saw him win almost every honour in the game. In a statement this morning, Callanan unsurprisingly mentioned that captaining the Premier to the All-Ireland in 2019 was the highlight, but this man has any number […]

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If old habits die hard then, from Dan Carter’s experience, the New Zealand and French dressing rooms will be very different places this Friday night. This Friday night is D-day. It’s the one we’ve all been waiting for as, in the Saint-Denis suburb on the north-side of Paris, the biggest show in town finally kicks […]

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News we didn’t need to hear. After an injury he picked up during Brighton and Hove Albion’s 3-1 win over Newcastle at the weekend, Evan Ferguson has been ruled out of Ireland’s two upcoming Euro qualifiers against France and the Netherlands. Ferguson, who scored his first Premier League hat-trick during the game, was subbed late […]

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Jordan Henderson has spoken to the media for the first time since his move from Liverpool to Al-Ettifaq… Henderson, the former Liverpool captain, made the move to the Saudi club this summer and has been on the receiving end of a strong back-lash ever since. Previously a prominent supporter of the LGBTQ+ community as well […]

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Chris Sutton and Neil Lennon have hailed Liam Scales for his performance in Celtic’s 1-0 Old-Firm win over Rangers. The Wicklow native was thrust into the action in the absence of Celtic’s first-choice centre halves Cameron Carter Vickers and Maik Nawrocki and both Lennon and Sutton were blown away by his performance. Scales spent last […]

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Evan Ferguson became the fourth Republic of Ireland player to score a Premier League hat-trick on Saturday. Can you name the other three? Related links: Evan Ferguson linked with “British record transfer” as Jamie Carragher praises Ireland star Gary Lineker makes interesting Evan Ferguson suggestion as he scores on Premier League opening day Evan […]

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The world is at Evan Ferguson’s feet. The teenager from Bettystown had one of his best days yet when he scored a hat-trick for Brighton and Hove Albion in their 3-1 win over Newcastle at the Amex Stadium. The Republic of Ireland international scored his second, third and fourth goals of the Premier League season […]

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The Clermont Auvergne player lost the head. Former Argentine international out half Benjamín Urdapilleta lost the head on Saturday night when he got involved in an altercation with La Rochelle head coach Ronan O’Gara. Urdapilleta had eyes on the ball as it drifted high into touch during Clermont Auvergne and La Rochelle’s last Top 14 […]

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Stephen Kenny has praised Vera Pauw for the job she has done as Republic of Ireland women’s manager. Pauw wasn’t offered a new contract despite leading the Irish team to their first ever World Cup but speaking on Thursday, Kenny said that Pauw can none-the-less be proud of her achievements. The former Dundalk, Derry City […]

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From within the Ireland women’s camp, slowly but surely, the good-will appears to have evaporated for Vera Pauw. Let’s rewind for a second. When Martin O’Neill stepped down as Ireland manager in 2018, Jon Walters and Jeff Hendrick were among the players who wished him an emotional goodbye on social media. “Have many great memories […]

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Talks appear to have slowed down between Amrabat and Man United. Sofyan Amrabat’s agent has released a statement providing clarity on the talks between his player and Manchester United. United identified the Moroccan international as a key target this summer transfer window but have failed to make any ground in their pursuit of the Fiorentina […]

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Brought to you by William Hill. Between them, neither Keith Treacy nor Alan Cawley are gone on the idea of Bruno Fernandes as Manchester United captain. As a player, both Cawley and Treacy have huge admiration for certain parts of Fernandes’ game. Namely his creativity and his knack for executing brave passes and clever finishes […]

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Vera Pauw’s reign as Ireland women’s manager is over. The Dutch woman helped Ireland qualify for last month’s women’s World Cup, becoming the first manager ever to do so, but that wasn’t enough. Tension and off-field issues stalked the Irish team into Australia and beyond and ultimately, the association have opted against offering Pauw a […]

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Dan Sheehan will recover from a sprained ligament in his foot in time for the Rugby World Cup. His participation was in doubt after the 24-year-old hooker was substituted early on against England and subsequently missed Ireland’s final warm-up game against Samoa. But the outlook is much better now, with the Dubliner informing Irish Rugby […]

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Brendan Rogers loves to mix them. As a Derry footballer and a Slaughtneil dual player, the split season means that he will have precious little time away from GAA this year. But this dual dynamo isn’t in the slightest bit worried about that. Outside the four white lines, his only real plan is to get […]

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Mayo legend Liam McHale has said that the reason he left the Mayo senior football management team at the end of this season was because he ‘didn’t want to drag anybody down.’ In a wide-ranging interview with Tara Doherty on Ballina Community Radio, McHale said that his philosophy on how the Mayo team should play […]

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A tremendous World Athletics Championships finished with a blazing encore on Sunday night. The Budapest renewal will surely go down as one of World Athletics’ finest. Where do you start? You simply have to start with the Double-Dutch-Disaster on the competition’s opening night. Somehow, with gold at their finger-tips, both Sifan Hassan and Femke Bol […]

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The Irish women’s 4x400m relay team have qualified for Sunday’s World Championship final. The odds were stacked against the team, who went to the line without their star performer Rhasidat Adeleke, but they upset the odds after a brilliant anchor-leg by Sharlene Mawdsley. The door was opened for the Irish team after the US messed […]

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The Irish women’s 4 x 400m relay team will line up without their star performer Rhasidat Adeleke in Saturday’s World Championship heats. The 20-year-old showed signs of tiredness on Wednesday night, when she wrapped up a marathon season with a fourth placed finish in the individual 400m. Championship races aren’t ran on paper but had […]

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This girl loves the bones of her club. And you won’t take that away from her. The players, the administrators, the care-taker and the grounds-man. The juveniles. The men’s team. The ticket sellers and the promoters. The lotto co-ordinators and the trustees. Over the course of a short chat with the PwC player of the […]

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Clare senior hurling kingpins Sixmilebridge have been knocked out of the County Championship at the group stages, and will now head for the senior B edition. Crusheen advanced to the knock-out stages at Similebridge’s expense but, were it not for a new ruling from Croke Park regarding score difference, then it would have been the […]

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No better man to learn from. Dean Rock is one of, if not the most prolific free-takers Gaelic football has ever seen. Over the last ten years, since he began his Dublin career in 2013, the likelihood has been that whenever he stands over a free, it will end up in a score. It is […]

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Dean Rock says that the Dublin senior footballers played off emotion this year more than in previous years. Joe Brolly gave them plenty to play around with. The inimitable Derryman complained in his Sunday Independent column last week that he has received little to no gratitude for his work with them as an ‘amateur motivational […]

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Rhasidat Adeleke finished an agonising fourth place in the World Athletics Championships in Budapest. The rigours and battle-scars of an incredibly long season finally caught up on the Tallaght sensation, they had to at some point, and she was almost a second off her best in what will be her final run of the season. […]

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Jakob Ingebrigsten says that he had a sore throat in the build-up to his World 1500m final loss to Great Britain’s Josh Kerr. The 25-year-old Scot stunned the pre-race favourite with a powerful burst with 200 metres to go and, having come level with his opponent around the bend, he kicked on for gold up […]

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Paul Mannion went for an hour long walk in Valencia on Monday morning. The sun was shining, the temperature was high and, as a result, it was a good way to sweat out the celebrations of the last two weeks. Of those, there have been plenty. From sing-songs in Dublin to campfires at All Together […]

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Brendan Rogers and Shane McGuigan and co. are back in with Slaughtneil. They were back in very sharpish after their All-Ireland SFC loss to Kerry. No holidays or sabatticals. Not for Rogers anyway. For him, a change is as good as a rest and he says that between picking up the hurl for the first […]

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Mark English showed his class to advance to the semi-finals of the 800m at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest. The Donegal athlete came into these championships very much under the radar, having endured an injury and illness-hit season. But English is a championship performer, as he has shown so many times down through the […]

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Ciara Mageean was distraught but proud after an agonising fourth place finish in the world 1500m final. The Portaferry woman ran the race of her life in Budapest against some of the best athletes the sport has ever seen. Faith Kipyegon is the best female distance runner there has ever been, Sifan Hassan is right […]

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Sha’Carri Richardson capped a remarakable comeback on Monday evening by becoming World 100m sprint champion. One of the biggest personalities in track and field, the American sprinter has seen it all over the last couple of years – a marijuana ban in the build-up to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, a 2022 that saw her fall […]

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All 48 games of the 2023 Rugby World Cup will be shown on free-to-air television in Ireland. Between them, RTÉ and Virgin Media will broadcast the tournament from start-to-finish, live from Paris, with all the action kicking off with a blockbuster contest on Friday September 8. The iconic Stade de France will host the clash […]

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Charlie McGuckin was smiling from ear-to-ear when it was put to him on TG4 that this was some day for Naomh Eanna. There’s no doubt about it, it was some day for the McGuckins too. Charlie was star of county final day, rocking Oylegate-Glenbrien back onto their heels every time he got the ball in […]

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Up from junior, Fossa are taking the intermediate grade by storm in Kerry. They began their campaign with a convincing win over An Gaeltacht last weekend and they continued that momentum on Sunday, when they defeated St Mary’s Caherciveen by 1-17 to 2-10. Unsurprisingly, the Clifford brothers were key players for the Killarney club, scoring […]

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Glory is said to mask all disquiet but not even a World Cup could temper the muggy atmosphere that continues to surround the Spanish women’s football team. La Roja defeated England 1-0 in Sydney to win their first ever women’s World Cup, with a first half goal from Olga Carmona proving the difference between the […]

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Dutch supporters will be asking the question, why us? On an evening that had you questioning the workings of your very eyes, Holland were left battered, bruised, bleeding, medal-less. And that was the most painful thing of all. Twice, their athletes led around the home bend. Twice, they led with 50 metres to go, twice, […]

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The boys teed him up lovely for this one. Jamie Redknapp and Andros Townsend had said their piece. The two boys had already got one over on Roy Keane when, as ex-Spurs players, they watched their former team walk all over Manchester United at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium. Then they came back for more. As […]

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All roads lead to Netwatch Cullen Park next Monday night. Some of Ireland’s biggest and most successful sports-stars are taking the time out of their day next Monday to Hurl for Cancer in Carlow. A brainchild of horse-racing legends Davy Russell and Jim Bolger, Hurling for Cancer research is an initiative that got off the […]

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Brought to you by William Hill. Alan Cawley didn’t think Man United would make the top four before the Wolves game and he certainly doesn’t think it now. Erik Ten Hag’s side were fortunate to scrape a 1-0 win on Monday but Cawley, the former League of Ireland player, saw the signs to realise that […]

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There is speculation in Donegal that Jim McGuinness could be set for a sensational return to the county’s hot-seat. SportsJOE have contacted the Donegal county board for comment and while they have labelled the McGuinness links as ‘just rumours’ at this stage, there are reports in the Irish Independent that he is the top target […]

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Brought to you by William Hill. Football punditry has changed. Whether that’s for better or worse depends on who you ask but there’s no denying the fact that, compared to what’s gone before, this weekend was different. And you can take your pick. It could be Daniel Sturridge singing Usher to try and get a […]

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Jurgen Klopp will be hoping Todd Boelhy doesn’t muscle his way in on this one too. Having missed out on Moisés Caicedo and Roméo Lavia in frustrating circumstances to Chelsea, Liverpool are hoping to bounce back in this transfer window. Twice they looked onto something last week, with Caicedo and Lavia heavily linked in their […]

2 years ago

There are shades of Harry Redknapp defending a young Frank Lampard here… Southampton manager Russell Martin didn’t quite say that Gavin Bazunu “will go right to the top,” but he did defend him, and he is backing him. The 20-year-old Republic of Ireland goalkeeper has endured something of a testing first year at St Mary’s. […]

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In his interview with Katie McCabe after Ireland’s 1-0 loss to Australia in the women’s World Cup, Tony O’Donoghue made the point to her that she could have had a penalty if she made more out of an Australian tackle. McCabe wasn’t having it. She shook her head immediately before telling Tony, in no uncertain […]

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England 19 Wales 17 Owen Farrell was shown a red card during England’s Rugby World Cup warm-up win over Wales. The English fly half was initially shown a yellow card by Geaorgian referee Nika Amashukeli but, upon review, that yellow was upgraded to red. Farrell had taken Welsh sub Taine Bahsam out of it with […]

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New season, same story. Evan Ferguson has picked up from where he left off last season with a goal in his first match of this Premier League campaign. Ferguson, the 18-year-old from county Meath, was held in reserve by Brighton and Hove Albion manager Roberto De Zerbi in their first game of the season against […]

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Jimmy Doyle was one of the greatest players ever to pick up a hurl. The Thurles Sarsfields legend was only 15-years of age when he made his debut for the Tipperary minors. He would go onto win four Munster minor medals and three All-Irelands at the under-18 grade. And he wouldn’t let it get to […]

2 years ago

First things first, Brian Corcoran hated corner back. Not a betting man but if asked to estimate how many times he made that point on his GAA Hour tribute show, would say over 5.5 goals  times. His favourite position was centre forward. By a country mile. As a youngster, he played there and loved it. Dreamed […]

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“It was the first time in my life I realised that God, I need to find something else to fill this void a bit.” Before nicking his hamstring against Waterford in 2022, Cian Lynch had experienced a very good run of it when it came to injuries. A few niggles here and there, nothing serious […]

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