Meath’s Fionn Reilly and Liam O’Reilly of Westmeath Source: James Crombie/INPHO WESTMEATH CAME FROM behind to clinch a 2-8 to 0-12 win over Meath tonight in the EirGrid Leinster U21 football championship and set up a quarter-final meeting against reigning champions Dublin next week. It's great to score the match winning goal…but if you're a […]
GAA CLUB PLAYERS have slammed the ‘Super 8′ proposal to revamp the All-Ireland senior football championship and now inter-county players have followed suit. The GAA-GPA agreement was announced last year. Source: Donall Farmer/INPHO 70% of Gaelic Players Association members have voted against the motion that will be debated at this weekend’s GAA Congress while 30% […]
WE LIKE THE look of this. This year’s edition of AIB’s ‘The Toughest Trade’ is nearly upon us and the first episode, due to air on RTÉ2 next Wednesday, looks like a cracker. A trailer for the first episode will surely whet your appetite as former Wales rugby star Shane Williams is put through his […]
THE GPA HAVE revealed why they are opposed to the revamp of the All-Ireland senior football championship, which will be debated at GAA Congress this weekend. Source: Seb Daly/SPORTSFILE The ‘Super 8′ proposal – which will seek to introduce a round-robin system at the quarter-final stage – has attracted fierce criticism with club and inter-county […]
AND THEN THERE were four. It’s semi-finals time in the Fitzgibbon Cup, with Limerick-based teams LIT and holders Mary Immaculate College facing off on one side of the draw, as UCC prepare to battle it out with surprise packets IT Carlow. NUI Galway are hosts for finals weekend and a plethora of inter-county stars are […]
THIRTY YEARS ON, Galway’s famous 1987 All-Ireland hurling triumph is still very special for the Tribesmen. Having fallen at the final hurdle so often in recent memory — nine times in the last 36 years — the rare successful days still stand out prominently for Galway fans. The Tribesmen went on to win a second […]
THE FOCUS ALL week has been placed on the passionate debate surrounding the plans for the All-Ireland senior football championship. But before that is voted on at Saturday’s GAA Congress in Croke Park, there is the matter of deciding on the next president of the GAA tomorrow night. Walsh, Horan, Frost, Skelly and Horan – […]
Home Simon Zebo at today’s Ireland Rugby Press Conference. Source: Billy Stickland/INPHO Jonathan Sexton will wear Ireland’s number 10 jersey for the first time since the November defeat to New Zealand when France are the visitors for Saturday’s crucial Six Nations clash. Ireland head coach Tom Tierney has made wholesale changes to the Ireland team set to […]
Marc Ó Sé in action in last year’s Division 1 football league final. Source: Cathal Noonan/INPHO HE BROUGHT HIS Kerry senior career to a close last October but Marc Ó Sé could be part of another Munster title win tomorrow. The Kerry defensive great is now immersed in coaching and he is manager for the […]
“I AM THE GAA club player. I am the bottom of the food chain.” “I am the fella who must organise his whole life around the fixtures of an inter-county team I will never play for.” “I am the lifeblood of the Association, so they say.” GAA club players from across the country have produced […]