There is the bounce of a ball in it

10 years ago

Oh, they will regret all that jumping up and down this morning

10 years ago

The GAA Hour returns as a dual code entity for the remainder of the year and it is well timed. There are no fewer than 19 (NINETEEN) county finals on this weekend as the club season well and truly shifts into fifth gear. To this end SportsJOE GAA editor Colm Parkinson chats to new Meath […]

10 years ago

Hell of a legacy

10 years ago

Former captain believes the Lions are in danger

10 years ago

Looking to end 23-year wait against Glenswilly

10 years ago

The haves and the have f**k-alls

10 years ago

They’ve got you covered, from stats to yoga

10 years ago

Turning potential into success is the key

10 years ago

That replay left you cutting it a little fine, but you haven’t really missed anything. Every autumn, like clockwork, sports fans all across the country finally mute Joe Brolly and Pat Spillane, turning their attention to their winter hobby. Sure you have the Premier League and NFL and UFC and the rest to occupy you, but we all feel a […]

10 years ago

He’s changed his tune

10 years ago

Damn dentists

10 years ago

It was a kick-out strategy

10 years ago

Being a goalkeeper is a bastard. Which is a shame, because goalkeepers tend to be sound old skins. David Clarke is a decent fella and very honest when discussing his rivalry with Rob Hennelly in the run-up to the drawn All-Ireland final. Hennelly is another nice guy. Funny and little off-beat, he seems to have […]

10 years ago

Fast becoming the “Black Card Final”

10 years ago

Eoghan O’Gara is not happy with how Dublin played against Mayo. None of his team-mates are happy with how Dublin played in the drawn final. In just a few short hours they will have a chance to make amends. If Dublin win back-to-back All-Irelands it will be the culmination of a process that began as […]

10 years ago

Won’t be to everyone’s tastes

10 years ago

Everyone loves a Saturday replay under lights. The novelty, the added drama, the added few hours of pre-match ‘build-up’, the fact you have all day Sunday to revel in victory or wallow in defeat before returning to real life. But, as Dublin GAA highlighted on Twitter, this evening’s All-Ireland final replay is a Sunday All-Ireland final […]

10 years ago

Oh, the Blue and Red of Melbourne

10 years ago

We go again. And this time Jim Gavin has decided to stick. With a Saturday replay we are in the unusual situation of not knowing the Dublin and Mayo teams until a day before the game – it is like having Giovanni Trapattoni back in our lives. Whether you put it down to Mayo doggedness […]

10 years ago

Definite All-Ireland winners

10 years ago

No change

10 years ago

Kerry legend believes Westerners are in a better place

10 years ago

Like shifting your sister, or getting another day of drama and sporting excitement? Everyone has their own view on the relative merits of a sporting draw. In the past five years the GAA has thrown up a scarcely believable four All-Ireland final draws, three in hurling and one in football. That sole football final replay […]

10 years ago

Declan Fitzpatrick, Kevin McLaughlin, Dave McSharry and now Nathan White – the blight of concussion continues to force early retirements in Irish rugby. Ireland and Connacht prop White Wednesday announced his retirement on medical advice. The former Waikato captain from New Zealand joined Connacht in the summer of 2012, having spent a season at Leinster […]

10 years ago

Lee Keegan is a bit of a marmite footballer. If you are from Mayo, you love Leeroy Keegan with all your heart and soul. If you are from any county not playing Mayo, you like the cut of Leeroy Keegan’s jib. If you are from Dublin, you think Leeroy Keegan is a nasty, jersey pulling, […]

10 years ago

Replays can be tricky for players, for fans, for managers and for the media. Players must pick themselves up to return to the same physical and emotional pitch, fans have to source tickets again, managers have to recalibrate after the draw and make sure they get the right team out to face an opposition with whom […]

10 years ago

With Dublin officials meeting Monday morning to discuss whether or not to seek a replay, Cork’s victorious ladies football manager has emphatically ruled out the possibility. Ephie Fitzgerald replaced the legendary Eamonn Ryan as manager of the dominant Cork ladies footballers this year, but there was no sign of any callow first year nerves as he […]

10 years ago

This is not going to make Gregory McGonigle any happier. The Dublin manager was rightly furious that his side wound up on the wrong end of a one-point scoreline in Sunday’s ladies football final, Cork undoubtedly benefitting from Carla Rowe’s 22nd minute ‘point’ being waved wide by the umpire. There were objections from members of the […]

10 years ago

Don’t worry, you’re in Zlatan

10 years ago

“All the top promoters were at my door”

10 years ago

And so ends one of the stranger periods in recent Irish football history. (And that is saying something.) Before leading his Republic of Ireland team to France for Euro 2016, it was announced that Martin O’Neill and his backroom team had agreed new deals with the Football Association of Ireland. Days later, when settled in their […]

10 years ago

Life after Robbie Keane begins here. On Friday morning Martin O’Neill named the first competitive squad to exclude a fit and available Keane in 16 years as his preparations begin in earnest for next month’s qualifiers against Georgia and Moldova. Apart from the retired Keane the injured Everton midfielder Darron Gibson, who has a groin injury, and […]

10 years ago

All in aid of Pieta House and Aware Northern Ireland

10 years ago

So, what has she missed? Since Ronda Rousey last fought in the UFC almost a year ago she has seen the Bantamweight belt she called her own for a year and a half passed around like a hot potato. Defeated by Holly Holm at UFC 193, Rousey has had to sit back and recuperate while […]

10 years ago

“Roy Keane gets himself in a right lather.” This, disappointingly, was not the headline on The Sun’s exclusive story about the Republic of Ireland assistant manager getting stuck in a car wash near his home in Cheshire on Wednesday. The former Manchester United midfielder was understandably agitated when his Range Rover got wedged in the drive-through car […]

10 years ago

What Wexford Youths need

10 years ago

So close Ger, so close

10 years ago

First Rory Gallagher gets three more years with Donegal and now this. Stephen Rochford has categorically denied that Jim McGuinness had any contact with the Mayo footballers this year – going so far as to say he has never met the Sky Sports pundit. It is a good thing Jim McGuinness has a full-time coaching job […]

10 years ago

Good to see relegation has not dampened the mood

10 years ago

Take that for selling me to these Canaries and condemning me to the Championship! Steven Naismith was a popular player at Goodison Park, which might explain why the Everton fans applauded Scot for scoring against them last night. A polite bunch, the Everton faithful, or maybe they just really enjoyed the manner of the former […]

10 years ago

Davy Fitzgerald’s five years in charge of the Clare hurlers is at an end. The Irish Examiner are reporting he is to step down in the next 48 hours, following a meeting of his players on Monday night. On holiday in the United States, a statement is expected from Fitzgerald tomorrow or Wednesday. Despite winning the […]

10 years ago

What harm did it do?

10 years ago

Play it again, Sam (Maguire)

10 years ago

We wouldn’t do it

10 years ago

What a game! What a game. What. A. Game. Sorry, we’re lost for words after that All-Ireland final. Thankfully SportsJOE GAA Editor Colm Parkinson has lots to say, and so do Conan Doherty and Barry Cahill. Wooly also caught up with scourge of Diarmuid Connolly, Lee Keegan, and Mayo midfielder Seamus O’Shea in the aftermath of […]

10 years ago

When is a reduction not a reduction?

10 years ago

Prices reduced

10 years ago

Joey Barton has been suspended by Rangers for three weeks following his training ground bust-up with team-mate Andy Halliday and argument with manager Mark Warburton. The 34-year-old midfielder was banished from the club’s training ground last week and missed Saturday’s 0-0 draw with Ross County at Ibrox following the row that proceeded the previous week’s […]

10 years ago

Tunnel vision

10 years ago