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, […]
HE’S NOT FROM a rugby hotbed, he’s not really sure what position he’s best suited to play and given he studied German in school, he’ll need to try to break the language barrier as well. Still there’s no masking Michael Murphy’s enthusiasm for his next sporting project, heading to the Massif Central in France to […]
A LATE GOAL delivered a Dr Harty Cup quarter-final replay success for Midleton CBS this afternoon and knocked defending champions Ardscoil Rís out of this year’s Munster colleges hurling race. The East Cork school claimed a dramatic 2-11 to 0-15 win in the game in Bansha as they got the job done at the second […]
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 […]
Wexford 1-17 Dublin 0-17 DAVY FITZGERALD CONTINUED his unbeaten start to life as Wexford manager with a 1-17 to 0-17 defeat of Dublin tonight which sees his side advance to the semi-finals of the Walsh Cup in 10 days’ time. A late scoring surge from the home side, including two timely points from the influential […]
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 […]
Click:What is a Star Tracker THERE’S NO SHORTAGE of people who were happy to see the back of 2016, and for Paul Murphy, Kilkenny’s All-Ireland final defeat meant that the last 12 months were “a waste of a year.” Murphy stepped out into Croke Park last September hoping to make it a perfect five wins […]
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. […]
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 […]
Limerick 4-28 Kerry 0-16 Paul Brennan reports from the Gaelic Grounds LIMERICK, AS EXPECTED, built on their mid-week win over Clare to make it three Co-Op Superstores Munster SHL wins from four games with a comprehensive 24-point hammering of Kerry at the Gaelic Grounds and leaves John Kiely’s team waiting to see if they will […]