CAVAN LADIES FOOTBALL legend Aisling Doonan (Maguire) has announced her retirement from inter-county football after a remarkable 19 seasons. The Ladies Gaelic Football Association [LGFA] released a statement this afternoon confirming the news, and paying tribute to “one of the most naturally gifted forwards to grace our playing fields in recent times”. Doonan, 33, finishes up […]
Dublin ladies manager Mick Bohan. Source: Ryan Byrne/INPHO DUBLIN’S ALL-IRELAND FOUR-IN-A-ROW winning boss Mick Bohan is staying at the helm for the 2021 season. “Dublin LGFA club delegates this evening have ratified Mick Bohan as the Dublin senior manager for the 2021 season,” the county wrote on Twitter this evening. “Bohan took on the Dublin […]
AUSSIE RULES SIDE Adelaide Crows are to appeal the three-match ban handed out following a tackle that left All-Ireland winner Bríd Stack hospitalised with a serious neck injury. Crows midfielder Ebony Marinoff was hit with the suspension — the longest in AFLW’s short history — for making forceful front-on contact on Stack during a pre-season […]
GALWAY HAVE BEEN rewarded for their All-Ireland final success last month with six players on the EirGrid 20 U20 football team. Click Here: cheap converse women high top shoes A 1-11 to 0-13 success over Dublin in Croke Park delivered glory for Galway in December and six of their players have bagged individual awards in […]
CONOR PHELAN HAS been added to Brian Cody’s Kilkenny senior hurling management team for the 2021 season. The Clara man won an All-Ireland senior medal under Cody as a player in 2003, coming on as a substitute in the final win over Cork. He also featured in the following year’s senior decider when Kilkenny lost […]
AFLW PLAYER BRÍD Stack has revealed she is ‘devastated’ about the injury she suffered in a practice game in Adelaide on Sunday but is counting her blessings that it was not more severe. The Cork All-Ireland winner was making her debut for the GWS Giants in a pre-season encounter when she suffered ‘a stable fracture […]
Updated Jan 20th 2021, 5:00 PM THIS WEEK’S GUEST on How To Win At Dominoes, The42′s coaching podcast with Shane Keegan, is Cork U20 football boss Keith Ricken. After watching Ricken give a presentation at the GAA’s 2020 Coaching Conference, Keegan describes him as “one of the most captivating coaches I’ve ever encountered.” The man who […]
EBONY MARINOFF’S APPEAL to have her three-game AFLW suspension overturned has taken another twist after fresh video evidence was introduced by Adelaide Crows, which saw the case adjourned until Thursday, 28 January. Marinoff was slapped with the longest ban in league history after her frontal tackle on Stack forced the Cork native to depart the […]
SIX OF THE country’s top stars are in the running for the the 2020 RTÉ Sportsperson of the Year award, with the nominees revealed this afternoon. Katie Taylor and Sam Bennett are among the contenders. Source: Inpho Sports. Katie Taylor, Sam Bennett, Ciarán Kilkenny, Gearóid Hegarty, Sanita Puspure and Colin Keane are all nominated for the […]
COLM CAVANAGH HASN’T ruled out the prospect of making a surprise return to the Tyrone fold in 2021. The 33-year-old announced his inter-county retirement after a stellar career last September, ahead of the 2020 championship. Mickey Harte’s departure in December paved the way for Fergal Logan and Brian Dooher to take over as joint managers. […]