THE GAA PRESIDENT believes that Dublin’s training session which breached Covid-19 guidelines will not affect the return to inter-county activity — but another incident may. Speaking on Red FM’s Big Red Bench this evening, Larry McCarthy said the planned return is “in a good place” despite recent reports of breaches of GAA and Government guidelines. […]
1. Like all tight games it was decided in a couple of key moments. The home team dominated the ball without carving out many openings; they created a couple of big chances and missed them. The away team pressed well and scored a belter off a half-chance. It could have gone either way: that’s football. […]
Updated Apr 4th 2021, 12:00 PM BRIEGE CORKERY DESERVES a lot of credit for how she managed to execute the Irish goodbye on this one. Briege Corkery [file photo]. Source: Lorraine O’Sullivan/INPHO It almost deserves a spot along with her already weighty list of achievements that includes 18 All-Ireland medals across the Ladies football and […]
CORA STAUNTON HAS been included in the 2021 AFLW Team of the year after another impressive campaign with the Greater Western Sydney [GWS] Giants. The four-time All-Ireland winner is named among the forwards who made the shortlist, averaging 10.3 disposals, and kicking 10 goals for her club this year. Staunton, 39, who first joined the […]
ALL-IRELAND CHAMPIONS Dublin and defending league champions Cork will meet in the round-robin stages of this year’s Lidl Ladies National Football League. The old foes have been drawn together along with Tipperary and Waterford in Division 1B ahead of the new campaign which begins on 23 May. Division 1A sees Galway joined by Mayo, Donegal […]
THE GAA ARE hopeful that all adult club training in the 26 counties can resume in May. Inter-county training has been permitted to resume on 19 April with non-contact juvenile training allowed from 26 April. Club training in Northern Ireland can resume on April 12, though no timeline has been given to clubs down south […]
MONAGHAN SENIOR FOOTBALL manager Seamus ‘Banty’ McEnaney has been suspended for 12 weeks by the county board following his team’s training breach. Click Here: new zealand blues jersey Gardaí are investigating after a dossier on a squad training session in violation of Covid-19 restrictions and GAA rules was passed to officials at the Department of […]
THE GAA ARE expected to announce a three-month ban handed down to Dessie Farrell later today, while Dublin may also lose home advantage for an Allianz Football League game as part of the punishment. It’s understood the suspension decided by the GAA’s Management Committee will replace the ban of similar length imposed by the Dublin […]
Updated Apr 9th 2021, 8:07 PM THE RULE WAS no football chat in the house for the week. Well, for the rest of the week, after the usual Sunday night post-mortem of their respective inter-county league matches. The house was home to some of the best up-and-coming ladies football stars in the country at the […]
CORK FOOTBALL BOSS Ronan McCarthy’s attempt to have his 12-week ban overturned has been rejected by the Disputes Resolution Authority The independent DRA ruled that the GAA’s disciplinary groups were right in issuing the suspension to the Cork manager which was handed out for the team’s training session on a beach in Youghal in January. […]