Ballyea 1-19 St Thomas 2-14 Declan Rooney reports from Semple Stadium NIALL DEASY SCORED 1-11 for Munster champions Ballyea in Semple Stadium this evening as they booked their place in the AIB All-Ireland senior hurling club final on St Patrick’s Day, after holding off an incredible comeback by Galway’s St Thomas. Deasy had already scored […]
UCC 0-10 Carlow IT 1-6 (After extra-time) IT WAS FAR from convincing but UCC sealed their place in next weekend’s Sigerson Cup semi-finals with a narrow victory over a plucky Carlow IT side. Click Here: Manchester City soccer tracksuit UCC needed extra-time before they eventually saw off the challenge of a very defensive Carlow IT […]
Eimear Considine pictured at the Ireland Women’s Rugby Media Briefing in Sandymount Hotel earlier. Source: Dan Sheridan/INPHO Home Joe Schmidt is unlikely to ring the changes for the Italy trip, but Donnacha Ryan is expected to get a recall. Paul Mannion starred as UCD walloped 13-man University of Ulster in the Sigerson Cup, while Cathal McShane was […]
LAST YEAR’S ALL-Ireland finalists and current Mayo senior football champions Castlebar Mitchels will begin their title defence against Crossmolina Deel Rovers as the first round draw was made this evening. Castlebar Mitchels’ Eoghan O’Reilly and James Durkan celebrate after last year’s final. Source: Tommy Dickson/INPHO Castlebar eased to victory in last year’s final against Kevin McLoughlin’s […]
WHEN ALEX AULD — the Canadian ice hockey star — was first approached about coming to Ireland, he wasn’t quite sure what to expect. He’d never heard of hurling, so it was a bit of a leap into the unknown; but that was part of the appeal. Four years after calling time on a 237-game career […]
UL 0-10 Dublin IT 0-7 John Fallon reports from University of Limerick UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK recovered from a sluggish start this afternoon to book their place in the semi-finals of the Sigerson Cup and set up a clash against champions UCD. The DIT challenge faded badly after they opened up a 0-6 to 0-2 lead […]
Home Paddy Jackson at training earlier. Source: James Crombie/INPHO Joe Schmidt has made two changes to his starting team to face Italy on Saturday, with Donnacha Ryan and Cian Healy coming into the XV. Tom Tierney has also made two changes to the Irish Women’s Rugby side to face Italy. Ireland have dropped two places to 25th in the […]
TYRONE ALL-STAR Mattie Donnelly has been left out of the team to face Dublin, after leaving the pitch with a concussion during last week’s match against Roscommon. The concussion, which happened 15 minutes in, was Donnelly’s second in seven months, after getting a knock to the head in a club game for Trillick last July. […]
Clare will be without Conor McGrath on Saturday but can call upon Tony Kelly. Source: INPHO FORWARD STAR CONOR McGrath looks set to miss Clare’s entire Allianz hurling league campaign. McGrath, a 2013 All-Ireland senior medallist, is rehabbing following surgery on a serious shoulder injury sustained playing for Cratloe against Clonlara in last year’s county […]
The TG4 sports show is being axed in April. Source: Seo Spóirt TG4 A PETITION THAT was launched yesterday morning to stop TG4 from axing their popular Friday night programme Seó Spóirt, has already gained over 1,000 signatures. It was announced on Tuesday that recently-installed TG4 chief executive Alan Esslemont had taken the decision that […]