LAST SUNDAY, DUBLIN’S fringe panelists upset Kildare to book their place in the O’Byrne Cup final. Like the rest of the All-Ireland winning squad, Jonny Cooper had no part to play in this year’s pre-season competition. But the All-Star defender remembers his early days in the Dublin set-up, when the O’Byrne Cup took on a […]
THERE WERE WINS for DCU, IT Carlow and UCD in the opening round of Fitzgibbon Cup action tonight. Source: INPHO Deise senior Patrick Curran found the net as DCU enjoyed a 1-14 to 0-10 victory over Waterford IT at the DCU Sportsgrounds. The Dublin college boasted plenty of inter-county talent, with Waterford’s Curran and Peter Hogan in the […]
IS IT TIME for the GAA to bring in a video referee to help in making calls on penalty incidents and black card offences? GAA Director-General Páraic Duffy is one person who isn’t in favour of the idea, which he explored today in his annual report. The controversial penalty incident involving Aidan O’Shea in last July’s […]
AFTER DELIBERATING OVER whether to extend her inter-county football career into a 23rd year, Cora Staunton will relay her decision to Mayo management in a meeting on Thursday evening. The four-time All-Ireland winner has spent the last number of weeks considering her future and will now announce her plans for 2017 ahead of Mayo’s opening league […]
Fitzgerald Stadium and Elverys MacHale Park are two of the stadiums shortlisted. Source: INPHO THERE WILL BE a major chance for the GAA to upgrade some of its stadiums if Ireland’s bid to stage the 2023 Rugby World Cup bid is successful. It was announced last November that there are 12 venues on the long […]
THE GAA HAVE rejected suggestions that the National Games Development Centre in Abbotstown is essentially a centre of excellence for Dublin GAA teams. The centre opened at the National Sports Campus in Dublin last April but Director General Páraic Duffy insists that it is a national facility. Duffy pointed to evidence that it is being […]
ATTEMPTS WILL BE made to curb the practice of inter-county GAA players being paid to play in the USA during the summer months and stop the exodus of players after their county’s opening provincial games. A motion to next month’s GAA Congress will seek to prevent players travelling Stateside as long as their counties are […]
THREE LIVE GAA games will be broadcast simultaneously on television for the first time this spring as part of eir Sport’s 23-game package in the Allianz football and hurling league games. The broadcaster – which was rebranded from Setanta Sports last summer – announced its 2017 springtime GAA package which features five ‘triple-headers’. The action […]
DCU are aiming to reach a third successive Sigerson Cup final this year. Source: PressEye/Jonathan Porter/INPHO DCU 3-10 Queen’s University 0-3 Orla Bannon reports from The Dub, Belfast DCU THRASHED QUEEN’S University with three second-half goals in Belfast easing them through to the quarter-finals of the Sigerson Cup. The 2015 champions, chasing a place in […]
GOALSCORING SPREES WERE key as NUI Galway recorded victories in the Fitzgibbon and Sigerson Cup today. The Galway college’s hurlers defeated St Pat’s 4-14 to 1-11 in the Fitzgibbon Cup group stages while their footballers saw off Trinity College by 4-12 to 1-7 in the Sigerson Cup. Clare senior defender Conor Cleary and Galway senior […]