Month: September 2021

Ronan McHugh celebrates netting for Tyrone tonight. Source: Presseye/Andrew Paton/INPHO DERRY, MONAGHAN AND Tyrone all bagged the top table spots in the Dr McKenna Cup tonight to advance to the semi-finals next Sunday while Fermanagh joined them as the best runner-up. Dr McKenna Cup semi-finals – Sunday Jan 22ndDerry v Monaghan, Athletic GroundsTyrone v Fermanagh, […]

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John Mulhall and David Reidy are the new additions to the Lilywhites. Source: INPHO FORMER KILKENNY ALL-Ireland winner John Mulhall has returned to inter-county hurling and will play for Kildare in the 2017 National League and Christy Ring Cup competitions. It is expected that an ex-Tipperary hurler will also join Joe Quaid’s Lilywhite revolution in […]

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A 10TH SEASON on the frontline with the Galway senior hurlers beckons for Joe Canning as he still chases that breakthrough All-Ireland win. 2016 saw that ambition to lift the Liam MacCarthy Cup thwarted at the semi-final stage in a narrow fashion by Tipperary. For Canning the disappointment of that loss was exacerbated by the […]

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SUCH IS THE competition in Dublin’s all-conquering squad, even a man-of-the-match performance in last year’s All-Ireland final replay doesn’t guarantee Michael Fitzsimons a spot in Jim Gavin’s 2017 starting line-up. Far from it. Nobody understands that more than Fitzsimons. Source: INPHO/Ryan Byrne A late-bloomer, he never made an underage Dublin squad, let alone the first XV. […]

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WHATEVER YOUR PRECONCEIVED opinions are, leave them here. Wherever your allegiances lie, put them to one side. As a person, Ashling Thompson — the Cork camogie captain and the sport’s teak-tough poster girl — deserves a fair trial at the very least. Although, that said, it doesn’t really bother her what people think. She couldn’t […]

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