1. A 28th title for brilliant St Vincent’s ST VINCENT’S ARE back on top of the Dublin football tree. Their 28th senior football title leaves them 17 clear of their nearest challengers O’Tooles, who last lifted the trophy in 1946. Source: Tommy Dickson/INPHO Having gone from 1984 to 2006 without a championship title, Vincent’s are […]
Mourneabbey 2-16 Banner 1-6 IN A REPEAT of the 2014 Munster club final, Mourneabbey prevailed against the Banner of Clare to secure their third senior Munster title on the spin. The Cork champions won the tie in emphatic fashion with Doireann O’Sullivan scoring seven of her side’s points while the goals came from Ciara O’Sullivan […]
St Vincent’s 0-15 Castleknock 0-10 Kevin O’Brien reports from Parnell Park ST VINCENT’S ARE the kingpins in Dublin once again. Mossy Quinn rolled back the years and Diarmuid Connolly played an instrumental role from centre-forward as the Vinnies were crowned county champions for the 28th time. Their third SFC title in four years wasn’t quite the […]
WHEN THE MOURNEABBEY ladies football team reconvened for the 2016 season, they knew they had to park the hurt of the previous year before a new campaign could begin. A second All-Ireland final had come and gone without the silverware coming back to Cork and thoughts about another shot at All-Ireland glory were understandably in […]
UNFANCIED NICE AND Mario Balotelli currently top France’s Ligue 1 table, and Robert Duggan White says it makes a nice change to the tragic stories coming out of the city after the Bastille Day attack earlier this year. I was in Nice on holidays this year. Any sport shop I went into was all Marseilles and […]
FOR THE FIRST time in the county’s history, the Clare men’s football team reached the All-Ireland quarter-finals this year. Indeed, they previously qualified for the All-Ireland semi-final as Munster champions in 1992 but this is the furthest the county has advanced since the introduction of the back-door system. The Banner’s Niamh O’Dea had two brothers […]
Click:china electric cargo tricycle manufacturersHome Source: John Locher Mayo’s Lee Keegan has been named GAA/GPA Footballer of the Year and Waterford’s Austin Gleeson Hurler of the Year at the All-Star awards. Gleeson was also named Young Hurler of the Year and Mayo’s Diarmuid O’Connor Young Footballer of the Year at tonight’s ceremony. Seven players from Tipperary’s All-Ireland winning […]
Tipperary’s Seamus Callanan with Galway’s Daithi Burke Source: Donall Farmer/INPHO SEVEN PLAYERS FROM All-Ireland champions Tipperary and four from beaten finalists Kilkenny have been honoured in the 2016 GAA-GPA All-Star hurling team. There are two winners apiece from beaten All-Ireland semi-finalists in Galway and Waterford. Kingpins Tipperary have winners in Cathal Barrett, James Barry, Ronan, […]
FOR THE FIRST time in the history of the All-Stars, both the Footballer of the Year and Hurler of the Year have come from counties who didn’t win the All-Ireland title the same year. Mayo defender Lee Keegan and Waterford star Austin Gleeson picked up the highest individual honours in the game at the GAA/GPA […]
MAYO’S DIARMUID O’CONNOR and Deise star Austin Gleeson were honoured with the prestigious Young Player of the Year awards at tonight’s GAA/GPA Opel Allstar bash at the Convention Centre in the capital. 21-year-old O’Connor picked up his second straight Young Footballer of the Year and now stands level with big brother Cillian as two-time winners […]