By Daragh Ó Conchúir at Gaelic Grounds Kilkenny came good in the second half to return to the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland final for the sixth time in the last seven seasons. Michelle Quilty was the star of the show with a goal and nine points but the Noresiders took some time to deal with the Tipperary challenge and […]

7 years ago

Republic of Ireland underage international Jonathan Afolabi could be poised to join Celtic this month after he was spotted at Celtic Park on Saturday. Afolabi was released by Southampton at the end of last season and now could be set for a move north to Glasgow with The Daily Record reporting that he has spurned offers from […]

7 years ago

Troy Parrott looks like he could be the real deal. The gifted 17-year-old looks like the best Irish prospect since Robbie Keane and his impressive pre-season performances with Tottenham Hotspurs have earned him a place in Mick McCarthy’s Ireland squad for the upcoming UEFA EURO 2020 European Qualifier against Switzerland on September 5 and the […]

7 years ago

Nine-time All-Ireland winner Jackie Tyrrell has highlighted inside forwards Colin Fennelly and Richie Hogan as key players for Kilkenny heading into this weekend’s All-Ireland final. Fennelly was a force in the Cats All-Ireland semi-final triumph over Limerick scoring 1-3 from play while Hogan has been an ever-present threat once again for Brian Cody’s side. TJ […]

7 years ago

Tottenham Hotspurs forward Troy Parrott has been included in Mick McCarthy’s latest Ireland squad ahead of the Boys in Green’s upcoming matches with Switzerland and Bulgaria. Ireland have a UEFA EURO 2020 European Qualifier against Switzerland on September 5, followed by a Three International Friendly against Bulgaria five days later. Stoke City’s Nathan Collins, Doncaster […]

7 years ago

Liverpool goalkeeper Adrian is a doubt for the Reds trip to Southampton this weekend after he was injured by an encroaching fan after the UEFA Super Cup final on Wednesday. Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp confirmed during his pre-match press conference on Friday morning the club’s medical team will need to assess Adrian’s ankle issue prior […]

7 years ago

‘We’d been doing athletics since I was 11 and he was 8 but growing up the Olympics was never something we had talked about,’ – Jessie Barr. Thomas and Jessie Barr were regular siblings growing up in Dunmore East, county Waterford, but regular siblings don’t always go on to represent their country at the Olympic […]

7 years ago

Former Manchester United captain Gary Neville has said that he thinks the Red Devils will win the Premier League title again before Liverpool win the league. Liverpool won the Champions League title last season and finished second to champions Manchester City on 97 points with just one loss during the league campaign. United, by comparison, […]

7 years ago

John Cooney, Mike Haley, Rory Scannell, Finlay Bealham and Ultan Dillane have all been cut from Joe Schmidt’s Ireland Rugby World Cup squad. Schmidt had whittled his training squad down to 40 with just over a month to go before the start of the Rugby World Cup where he’ll have to cut it down to […]

7 years ago

Stand tickets for this year’s All-Ireland senior football and hurling finals will cost punters €90 while tickets in the terraces have been priced at €45. It is the first time since 2011 that the prices for the GAA’s flagship events have increased with stand tickets increasing from €80 to €90 while terrace tickets have increased […]

7 years ago

Viewership on RTE for the All-Ireland senior football championship semi-finals has increased from last year despite a meagre 33,848 attending the Kerry and Tyrone game on Sunday. 545,600 tuned in for the match on Sunday while 688,700 watched the Dublin and Mayo sellout at Croke Park on Saturday. The viewership is up from last year when 449,000 […]

7 years ago

Former Tyrone forward Owen Mulligan has taken exception with Sean Cavanagh’s comments on Mickey Harte which suggest that the Tyrone manager should move on from his role with the football team. Tyrone were dumped from the All-Ireland senior football championship by Kerry on Sunday after reaching the final during the previous year. The Kingdom will […]

7 years ago

The Premier League; the best show on television is back! The newest season kicked off exactly where we left our heroes last. Liverpool and Manchester City are still clearly a cut above the rest after their respective demolitions of Norwich City and West Ham United. Tottenham may have added some new faces but they’re still […]

7 years ago

Kerry GAA manager Peter Keane has said that his side will look to appeal Stephen O’Brien’s pending suspension after the forward picked up his third black card in the last 12 months during the Kingdom’s All-Ireland semi-final win over Tyrone on Sunday. O’Brien scored 1-2 and was awarded the man-of-the-match honours but picked up a […]

7 years ago

Former Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has poked fun at the club’s attempt to sign Harry Maguire last season. Maguire was awarded man of the match honours during United’s 4-0 win over Chelsea on Sunday with the defender boasting a game high seven clearances and four interceptions on his debut for the club. Maguire completed […]

7 years ago

The 33,848 that attended Sunday’s All-Ireland semi-final between Kerry and Tyrone is down 36% from the 2015 equivalent. Hill half-empty. Stands the same. Only 33,848 at Croke Park today. For an All-Ireland senior football semi-final, that's paltry and alarming. pic.twitter.com/TTBeWf623i — GAA JOE (@GAA__JOE) August 11, 2019 Kerry prevailed 1-18 to 0-18 with a Stephen O’Brien […]

7 years ago

Conor Hourihane has traveled a long road to the Premier League. A youth career at Sunderland brought him to Ipswich Town but he made zero appearances for Roy Keane’s side and eventually moved on to Plymouth Argyle in League Two where he finally found first team football. After three years with Argyle in League Two, […]

7 years ago

Former Manchester United and Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has said that Manchester City’s ‘B’ team have a better chance of winning the Premier League than his previous sides. Mourinho will join Sky Sports as a pundit this season and it didn’t take him long to ruffle feathers with the Portuguese Champions League winner claiming that […]

7 years ago

There wasn’t an awful lot to get excited by during Ireland’s first Rugby World Cup warm-up match against Italy on Saturday but Munster centre Chris Farrell was certainly a highlight at Lansdowne Road. After spending the majority of the year at outside centre, Farrell started inside Leinster centre Garry Ringrose against the Italians and combined […]

7 years ago

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has said that goalkeeper Alisson Becker suffered a serious calf strain during the first-half of Liverpool’s Premier League opener with Norwich on Friday. First-half goals from Divock Origi, Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk, as well as an own goal from Grant Hanley, helped Liverpool to a comfortable 4-1 win, however, […]

7 years ago

The second-half of the Premier League opener at Anfield was delayed by several minutes after a technical malfunction following the half-time break. Linesman Simon Bennett had a malfunctioning headset after returning to the field which caused a considerable delay between Liverpool and Norwich. The Premier League confirmed that it was a headset issue and that […]

7 years ago

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has left Sadio Mane out of his side for their season opener against Norwich City on Friday evening. Mane played in the African Cup of Nations over the summer and lost the final to Algeria on the 19th of July. He’s had an extensive period of football and played 50 games […]

7 years ago

Celtic manager Neil Lennon has defended the sale of left-back Kieran Tierney after the Scotland international completed a £25 million move to Arsenal on Thursday. Tierney signed a five-year contract with the Gunners bringing an end to a 15 year association with Celtic. Tierney began training with the Glasgow giants as a seven-year-old and went […]

7 years ago

35 ladies footballers from Whitehall Colmcille GAA club will proudly bring the 20×20 flag onto the pitch at Croke Park before Saturday’s All-Ireland semi-final between Dublin and Mayo. The 20×20 campaign is an initiative that seeks to change the subliminal bias in the Irish psyche that exists around girls and boys, or women and men, when […]

7 years ago

Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt has named a largely experimental side to take on Italy in the first of four pre Rugby World Cup warm-up games. Earlier this summer Schmidt named his 44-man training squad for this year’s Rugby World Cup in Japan but he can only take 31 on the plane to the tournament. […]

7 years ago

Jon Walters has had his differences with Roy Keane. The two clashed heads during the dog days of the Martin O’Neill and Keane era with Ireland but they also squared off with each other during their time together at Ipswich Town. Walters spent four seasons at Ipswich before moving to Stoke City at the start […]

7 years ago

Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt has named his team for the first Rugby World Cup warm-up match against Italy this weekend. Schmidt has opted for an experimental side with a host of first team regulars left on the sidelines with Leinster flanker Rhys Ruddock set to captain the team from blindside flanker. New Ulster prop […]

7 years ago

Former Manchester United captain Gary Neville has said that Romelu Lukaku’s lack of professionalism at the club was contagious. The Belgian international is on the verge of joining Inter Milan just two years after joining United for £75 million from Everton. Romelu Lukaku has just arrived in Milano! More than 200 Inter fans here to wait […]

7 years ago

Manchester United striker Romelu Lukaku looks set for a move to the Serie A after United reportedly reached a deal with Inter Milan for the Belgian international. Inter manager Antonio Conte has repeatedly made it clear that he wants to bring Lukaku to the club this summer and now it looks like his wishes may […]

7 years ago

Chelsea defender David Luiz will look to try and force a late move to Arsenal after apparently sitting out Blues training on Wednesday. Luiz trained away from his teammates just four days before Chelsea’s Premier League opener against Manchester United on Sunday. Luiz previously spent over two seasons with French giants Paris Saint-Germain before returning […]

7 years ago

Dublin’s Ciaran Archer looks like he could be the next big football prospect to come out of the capital. The Dublin U20’s star scored 2-6 in the Jacks 2-14 to 1-10 win over Galway on Saturday just two weeks after his 3-8 helped Dublin become U20 Leinster champions. The win will put the Dubs in […]

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Saturday’s All-Ireland semi-final between Limerick and Kilkenny ended in controversy after Cillian Buckley got a touch to Darragh O’Donovan’s last minute sideline cut. O’Donovan had a chance to level the game with the last play of the match but his sideline cut appeared to take a deflection of Buckley before going wide and behind for a […]

7 years ago

Nine-time All-Ireland winner Jackie Tyrrell has said that Kilkenny’s one-point win over Limerick was one of the best performances of Brian Cody’s career. Kilkenny shot out to an early lead before Limerick clawed their way back into the game twice with an Aaron Gillane penalty and a Shane Dowling goal off the bench keeping the […]

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Shane Lowry has received a standing ovation at Croke Park before Saturday’s All-Ireland hurling semi-final between Kilkenny and Limerick. Lowry won the British Open last weekend with a six shot lead over second placed Tommy Fleetwood to claim the first major win of his career. The Offaly native and former Clara forward got a huge […]

7 years ago

Larry O’Gorman is best known for his days as an All-Ireland winning half-back for the Wexford hurlers but he’s also no stranger to a microphone. O’Gorman is considered one of the heroes of the Wexford hurling team that won the All-Ireland title in 1996 and he’s no problem singing about his own accomplishments after inserting […]

7 years ago

Pep Guardiola has said that 19-year-old Manchester City midfielder Phil Foden is the most talented player he’s ever seen. Foden broke into the City first-team at the end of last season and became Manchester City’s youngest-ever goalscorer in the Champions League and the youngest English goalscorer to score in the knock-out stages of the competition. Guardiola […]

7 years ago

UFC President Dana White has said that a rematch between Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov is ‘absolutely possible’. Nurmagomedov convincingly dismantled McGregor in their first fight last October with the undefeated Russian winning via fourth round submission. White indicated last year that McGregor was keen for a rematch with the lightweight champion and he has […]

7 years ago

17-year-old Dubliner Troy Parrott started his second game for Spurs in the last week during the club’s 2-1 loss to Manchester United on Thursday. Parrott started alongside Harry Kane up front for Spurs and won more plaudits after impressing against Juventus on Sunday. The teenager nearly set up a goal for teammate Lucas Moura who […]

7 years ago

Arsenal have completed the signings of William Saliba from Saint-Etienne and Dani Ceballos on loan from Real Madrid. Saliba will spend a season back on loan at Saint-Etienne before joining the Gunners the following summer while Ceballos joins the club on a season-long loan from Madrid. The attacking midfielder will wear the number 8 shirt for […]

7 years ago

Former Middlesbrough midfielder Robbie Mustoe has said that he thinks that Tottenham Hotspur forward Troy Parrott can be a star in the Premier League. Parrott started against Manchester United in the International Champions Cup on Thursday after impressing against Juventus earlier this week. Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino said that Parrott could potentially play for the […]

7 years ago

Republic of Ireland U17 international Troy Parrott took a major step forward in his burgeoning career on Tuesday when he signed his first professional contract with Tottenham Hotspurs. The 16-year-old starred for Ireland at the UEFA European Under-17 Championship in May and scored three goals in four games for his country before Colin O’Brien’s side were […]

7 years ago

Padraig Harrington and Phil Mickelson go back a long way. Both players turned pro during the early to mid-nineties and have spent over two decades playing on the tour together. Mickleson, a five-time major winner, reached the top of the sport during his prime while over the last few years he’s developed into quite the […]

7 years ago

Everton have emerged as a potential suitor for Arsenal target Wilfried Zaha. The Crystal Palace winger has made it clear to the Eagles that he is looking to move away from Selhurst Park and he has stated his desire to play for Arsenal, the club he supported as a boy, however, negotiations have stalled with […]

7 years ago

28-year-old Russian boxer Maxim Dadashev has died after receiving severe brain injuries during his IBF World Title Elimination fight against Subriel Matiasin in the United States on Friday. Matiasin was comfortably ahead on the scorecards during the bout when Dadashev’s trainer Buddy McGirt stopped the fight in the 11th round after fearing his fighter had taken […]

7 years ago

Champion golfer Shane Lowry said he struggled to keep his nerves in check during the final round of his maiden major win at the Open championship in Portrush on Sunday. Lowry claimed the first major win of his professional career after shooting a final round of 72 to clear second placed Tommy Fleetwood by six strokes. […]

7 years ago

Champion golfer Shane Lowry has said that he’s looking forward to handing the Claret Jug to his parents following his Open championship win at Royal Portrush on Sunday. Lowry shot a final round of 72 to clear second placed Tommy Fleetwood by six strokes and claim the first major championship of his professional career. The […]

7 years ago

Donegal captain Michael Murphy has rescued his side a draw in their penultimate Super 8’s match with Kerry on Sunday. Both sides exchanged points down the stretch with Paul Murphy putting Kerry ahead by one point in the dying minutes after Stephen O’Brien had been fouled before advantage was played, but with the game on […]

7 years ago

Monaghan forward Conor McManus said that Niall O’Donnell’s black card was unwarranted during the first-half of Donegal’s Super 8 meeting with Kerry on Sunday. O’Donnell and the Kingdom’s Gavin White were both black carded during the first-half as Kerry entered half-time break with a one-point lead. White’s black card was generally accepted by the RTE […]

7 years ago

Dereck Chisora backed up a win over Senad Gashi in April with a devastating second round knockout of Polish fighter Artur Szpilka on Saturday. Chisora opened up Szpilka with some slick combinations before obliterating him with a powerful right hand that knocked him out before he hit the ground. https://twitter.com/Daily_Bruise/status/1152673792809787392 Chisora said earlier this week that he is […]

7 years ago

Open leader Shane Lowry has said that he had one of the best days of his life on Saturday after shooting a stunning round of 63 at the Open championship in Portrush. The Offaly native entered the third day of the Open tied for first place at -8 under, after shooting back-to-back round scores of […]

7 years ago