JP MCMANUS HAS donated €100,000 to every GAA county board in Ireland to distribute among their clubs. JP McManus in the dressing room after Limerick’s All-Ireland hurling success in August. Click Here: Alfa Romeo Racing Suit RTÉ is reporting that the horse racing magnate will hand out a total €3.2million between all 32 counties with the […]
THE DRAWS FOR the Clare and Wexford senior hurling championship semi-finals were made this evening, with a couple of fascinating ties in store in both counties. In Clare, seven-time winners O’Callaghan Mills have been paired with 2016 winners Ballyea in the last four, while Kilmaley and Cratloe will go head-to-head in the other semi-final. Ballyea […]
LIAM SHEEDY IS back in charge of the Tipperary senior hurlers, eight years after he departed the post as an All-Ireland winning boss. The Tipperary county board confirmed tonight that Sheedy has been appointed as their new manager on a three-year term. He fills the vacancy created by the departure of Michael Ryan, who had […]
AFTER AN EXHAUSTIVE recruitment process encompassing seven weeks and nine potential candidates, Paul Taylor has tonight been appointed Sligo’s senior football manager. The former county player and U21 boss was recommended for the job by Sligo GAA’s selection committee last week, and was ratified at tonight’s county board meeting. Taylor played inter-county football for […]
EIGHT YEARS AFTER leading his native Tipperary to All-Ireland glory, Liam Sheedy will look to guide the Premier back to rarefied heights after last night being confirmed for a second stint in charge. The 48-year-old’s stunning return to inter-county management was rubber-stamped on Monday evening, as the Tipperary county board appointed Sheedy as Michael Ryan’s […]
JOSH VAN DER Flier makes it difficult to imagine that ‘dark days’ of injury lay-off really exist. The flanker is relentlessly positive, ever-ready for work, eager to listen out for advice, jot it down and take the chunks that work for him. Source: Bryan Keane/INPHO Those bright personality traits ensured that he was ideally-skilled to […]
PAUL MANNION HAS quashed rumours that former full-back Rory O’Carroll will return to the Dublin set-up for their ‘drive for five’ in 2019. Source: Ryan Byrne/INPHO O’Carroll won three All-Irelands, two All-Stars and represented Ireland in the International Rules series before he packed his bags and headed for New Zealand in 2016. His return to […]
DUBLIN FORWARD LYNDSEY Davey admits she is considering retirement this winter after collecting her third All-Ireland medal with the Sky Blues. Source: Tommy Dickson/INPHO The three-time All-Star is one of the team’s veterans having first joined the panel as a 14-year-old in 2004. A year later, Davey won her first All-Star and before she could […]
Click:niche brands ALL-IRELAND CHAMPIONS Dublin lead the way with 14 players nominated for the 2018 TG4 All-Stars while losing finalists Cork received 12 nominations. Orla Finn, Sinead Ahearne and Yvonne Bonner Ulster champions and All-Ireland semi-finalists Donegal had eight players nominated while Galway (3), Kerry (2), Armagh (1), Cavan (1), Mayo (1), Sligo (1), Tipperary […]
LIAM SHEEDY’S RETURN to the Tipperary hurling hotseat was confirmed last night, his second spell in charge is commencing eight years after he walked away from the post. He’s not the first inter-county hurling boss to come back and have a second go at managing a county. Here’s how a selection of other managers fared. […]