Kerry’s Paul Geaney and Dublin’s Diarmuid Connolly KERRY’S PAUL GEANEY and Tipperary’s John McGrath have claimed the senior player honours in the 2016 Munster GAA awards. While Dublin’s Diarmuid Connolly and Kilkenny’s Jonjo Farrell have won the equivalent awards in Leinster as they are the inaugural winners of the Pearse Medal for 2016. Jonjo Farrell […]
NEWSTALK HAVE QUESTIONED RTÉ’s use of state funding to win the full radio commentary rights in the new GAA media deal. The GAA today confirmed the details of their new deal, which will last from 2017 to 2022. Newstalk, who first secured the rights to live GAA commentary in 2011, have lost live commentary of […]
A TWO-TIME Kerry All-Ireland senior football winner has joined the Roscommon backroom team ahead of next season. Roscommon manager Kevin McStay has confirmed that former Kerry netminder Declan O’Keeffe will be the county’s goalkeeping coach next year and will also have an input into overall team preparation. The news was revealed by McStay when speaking […]
RTÉ have secured a massive boost to their sport portfolio with a new five-year GAA deal. Source: Morgan Treacy/INPHO Home RTÉ and Sky Sports set to retain their current GAA TV packages, while in radio the state broadcaster now has full commentary rights. Newstalk have questioned RTÉ’s use of state funding to win the full radio […]
“I remember one incident where Terry Rossiter was playing under-21 and he was after breaking his thumb. “The cast wasn’t set on his arm and he went to Micko [at senior training] with it and Micko said: ‘Jesus, sure there’s nothing wrong with your legs, you can still run’. “If you did that now there’d […]
ANOTHER ACTION-PACKED week of sport at home and abroad, from Connacht’s search for Pat Lam’s successor to Champions League and Europa League action. Here’s what you had to say. Source: James Crombie/INPHO On Monday morning, Connacht announced that Pat Lam will step down at the end of the current campaign and succeed as head coach […]
EVEN THOUGH HE was born and raised in London, Adrian Moyles made sure not to forget his Mayo roots from a young age. The St Kiernan’s captain was picked up by Chelsea in his teens and made his way up through the youth ranks, where he was once managed by Brendan Rogers. Moyles then went […]
RHODE ENTER TODAY’S AIB Leinster club football final with history against them. They’ve been crowned Offaly champions on 26 occasions in total and eight times in of the last 13 years, but that’s where their success ends. Four times in the past, Rhode have made it to the provincial decider, and four times they’ve been […]
1. I think back to the moment the little man arrived. White and blue and screams before a beautiful silence as he lay on mummy’s chest, raising his head to look at us each in turn with those piercing, sparkling eyes. Curious eyes and a strong neck. Just minutes old. And tears from me. Not sobs. […]
1, Bundee Aki reacted after Pat Lam revealed he would move on at the end of the season 2. He would later delete the Tweet, but not before Kieran Marmion got a word in get out off the beer tent lad — kieran marmion (@kieranmarmion) December 5, 2016 Source: kieran marmion/Twitter 3. Meanwhile Toni Kroos […]