THERE’S PLENTY OF sporting action taking place this weekend to keep fans couch-bound from Friday through Sunday. It will see the return of inter-county football action, in addition to the second round of the hurling leagues. It’s FA Cup final weekend in England, while the Women’s Champions League final also takes place. The Premier League […]
GARRYMORE’S ENDA HESSION will make his Mayo senior debut in tomorrow’s National Football League Division 2 North opener against Down (2pm). James Horan had tipped the former county minor captain to make the step up to senior this season, and Hession starts at right corner-back in MacHale Park tomorrow. Rory Brickenden, who featured in last […]
PAUDIE CLIFFORD IS in line to make his first start for Kerry in tomorrow’s Allianz Football League Division 1 South meeting against Galway. Clifford made an appearances off the bench against Monaghan in the league last winter while he was a second-half substitute in the Munster semi-final defeat to Cork. Peter Keane starts 10 of […]
2019 ALL-IRELAND SENIOR club camogie champions Sarsfields of Galway are leading calls for the completion of the outstanding 2020 action — the provincial and national championship series. Earlier this week, the Camogie Association overturned its controversial fixture plan as 53% of clubs voted in favour of a split-season format for 2021. After an ugly back-and-forth […]
Updated May 14th 2021, 10:14 PM THE GALWAY SIDE to face All-Ireland champions Limerick on Sunday has been named. Tribe boss Shane O’Neill makes four changes to the side from last weekend’s big win over Westmeath, as Padraic Mannion, Joseph Cooney, Adrian Tuohey and David Burke come into the team. Out go Aidan Harte, Conor Cooney, […]
KATRINA PARROCK, A four-time All-Ireland winner and three-time All-Star, had once reached a point with camogie where she couldn’t bare to lift a hurl. Katrina Parrock playing for Wexford in Source: Donall Farmer/INPHO She’d been playing the sport since she was three. Along with soccer, the small ball game was a twin passion in her […]
TIPPERARY’S ATTACKING OPTIONS have been boosted by the addition of former senior and U21 All-Ireland winner Philly Ryan who linked up with the squad recently. The Munster champions open up their Division 3 campaign away to Limerick this evening and they’ve lost Philip Austin (retired), Liam Casey (travelling) and Colin O’Riordan (AFL) from last year’s […]
Mayo 2-21 Down 1-11 By Colm Gannon in MacHale Park MAYO REACCLIMATISED TO reacclimatised to life in Division Two of the National Football League for the first time since 1997 with a comfortable win over Down in MacHale Park. James Horan gave a debut to Garrymore’s Enda Hession as he got used to life without […]
A BRACE OF goals from star forward Amy O’Connor allied to a power-packed performance by Chloe Sigerson enabled Cork to keep Tipperary at bay in their opening Division 1 Group 2 tie at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, as the Littlewoods Camogie League got under way. All-Ireland champions Kilkenny were workmanlike in overcoming a Dublin side under […]
Kerry 4-21 Galway 0-11 Paul Brennan reports from Austin Stack Park, Tralee A DAVID CLIFFORD hat-trick – and a fourth goal from his brother Paudie – would have been enough on their own to beat Galway in a criminally one-sided Division One South game in Tralee this afternoon that could be barely called a contest. […]