Ireland second row Devin Toner attempts a dunk at the Chicago Bulls’ training facility. Source: Dan Sheridan/INPHO Home Martin O’Neill has included Dundalk pair Daryl Horgan and Andy Boyle in his 35-man squad for Ireland’s World Cup qualifier against Austria. Former UFC champion Bas Rutten believes Conor McGregor can score an early win against Eddie […]
Advertisement And this is where I sign out @WexfordYouthsFC it has been a pleasure #Youths pic.twitter.com/wBJJOPpssK — Lee Chin (@LeeChin8) November 1, 2016 Source: Lee Chin/Twitter HURLING STAR LEE Chin has said he will not be involved in Wexford Youths’ promotion/relegation League of Ireland play-off second leg on Friday. Chin scored as Shane Keegan’s side won […]
BALLYEA MANAGER ROBBIE Hogan is hopeful Eoghan Donnellan will be well enough to attend next Sunday’s AIB Munster club hurling semi-final against Thurles Sarsfields after the player was diagnosed with two broken vertebrae following a training ground collision. Donnellan was injured on the Friday evening after the drawn Clare county final with Clonlara, and ruled […]
DUBLIN FORWARD DIARMUID Connolly didn’t lose any sleep over his decision to go for a point from the sideline in the last minute of the drawn All-Ireland final with Mayo. Connolly overruled his teammate Ciaran Kilkenny, who appeared as though he wanted to play the ball short and retain possession. Advertisement Source: Morgan Treacy/INPHO But […]
A view from Munster’s training session in UL, Limerick today. Source: Donall Farmer/INPHO Home Ulster pair Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding were quizzed by the PSNI over alleged sexual offences Pat Lam says Bundee Aki is missing Rob Henshaw as a friend but not a partner, says Lam Monaghan’s long-serving midfielder Dick Clerkin has announced his retirement from inter-county football […]
THERE MAY HAVE been some skepticism about the idea of an Irish language channel amid its launch on Halloween night 20 years ago, but since then, TG4 has garnered plenty of acclaim for its innovative programming and efforts to keep the Irish language relevant. One of the channel’s biggest successes over the past two decades has […]
Brian Hogan (2016) and Keith Hogan (2015) are recent Kilkenny county winning captains FOR THE SECOND successive year on Sunday, it was a member of the Hogan family who was lifting the cup after the Kilkenny senior hurling final. The novelty lay in the fact that they both play for different clubs. On Sunday, Brian […]
Limerick will be in action in Division 1B next season Source: Ryan Byrne/INPHO MUNSTER SENIOR WINNERS James Ryan and Paudie O’Brien have not been named in the first Limerick senior hurling squad selected by new manager John Kiely, but there is a recall for attacker Seanie Tobin. Kiely, who has taken over from TJ Ryan, […]
Conor Nash (right) at Irish International Rules training last November Source: James Crombie/INPHO TEEN PRODIGY CONOR Nash has admitted that turning his back on Meath GAA and Leinster rugby to forge an Aussie Rules career was a ‘massive call’ for him. Nash’s last game of Gaelic football came at the weekend when he powered Simonstown […]
Clerkin plays his club football with Currin. Source: Donall Farmer/INPHO THE LONGEST-SERVING inter-county Gaelic footballer in the country has announced his retirement. Monaghan’s Dick Clerkin was the last player still in action to have made his inter-county debut in the 90′s, first lining out in the league for his county in the winter of 1999. […]