MUNSTER GAA HAVE confirmed the fixture details for the upcoming U20 and minor hurling provincial finals. Limerick won a toss to determine home advantage for the minor decider against Tipperary, so it will take place at the LIT Gaelic Grounds on Sunday, 20 December at 1pm. The game will be streamed live by Munster GAA. […]
Updated Dec 16th 2020, 5:12 PM CIAN O’SULLIVAN HAS faced an almost annual battle to prove his fitness around All-Ireland final time and this year is no different. Hamstring twinges have struck the 32-year-old defender at the business end of recent seasons, though he still remains one of a handful of Dublin players who’ve featured […]
ALL-IRELAND FINALS being played the weekend before Christmas sums up this crazy year. It’s something different, to say the least. And the Meath ladies footballers will hope that a very different occasion leads to a different result. Meath captain Máire O’Shaughnessy. Source: Seb Daly/SPORTSFILE Sunday’s intermediate decider against Westmeath will be their third in-a-row, and […]
LIBBY COPPINGER WOULD rather do her talking on the pitch. Cork dual star Libby Coppinger. Source: Laszlo Geczo/INPHO Her love for both Gaelic football and camogie shines through with every word she utters, as does her gratitude for how much playing both has given her as she maps her rise. One way she gives back […]
17 CONSECUTIVE SEASONS of highs and lows, ups and downs, good days and bad ones — but Westmeath captain Fiona Claffey is still on the road. On Sunday, she’ll lead her side out to the hallowed turf of Croke Park for the TG4 All-Ireland intermediate final, nine years on from tasting success in the same […]
Updated Dec 17th 2020, 9:53 PM KILKENNY SENIOR EOIN Cody is one of three Ballyhale Shamrocks All-Ireland club winners in the county’s U20 side that will take on Galway tomorrow night. Eoin Cody in action for the Kilkenny senior side against Dublin. Source: Laszlo Geczo/INPHO The sides meet in the Bord Gáis Energy Leinster U20 […]
WHEN DAMIEN EGAN reflects on that spring of 2017 as they brought All-Ireland glory back to their pocket of south Mayo, it is the route to success rather than solely the culmination he thinks about. The freezing February night at the home of Connacht GAA when they took the provincial title. The semi-final in March […]
WHILE DISAPPOINTED NOT to be there herself, Donegal star Katy Herron will be keeping a close eye on Croke Park this Sunday. Katy Herron facing Dublin’s Jennifer Dunne in last year’s keague. Source: Tommy Grealy/INPHO Once again, on the biggest day of the ladies football calendar year, Dublin and Cork will do battle for the […]
Action from the Christy Ring documentary. Source: Christy Ring: Man And Ball Twitter page TRIBUTES HAVE BEEN paid to the brilliant Christy Ring documentary that was aired on RTÉ last night. Produced by Colm O’Callaghan and award-winning director Gerry Nelson, ‘Christy Ring: Man And Ball’ explores the life and sporting career of hurling icon Christy Ring. […]
GAA PRESIDENT John Horan says the Association did all they could to facilitate the LGFA in the controversy over the All-Ireland ladies football semi-final. The game between Cork and Galway was moved to Croke Park on the morning of the game earlier this month, after the Parnell Park pitch was deemed unplayable. It was the […]