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  • Podge Collins makes the Mayo footballers feel a bit better about themselves

    Podge Collins makes the Mayo footballers feel a bit better about themselves

    To win just once is the famous line. There’s even a song made about Mayo’s desperate desire to win an All-Ireland final. The nearly men of Gaelic football have been knocking on the door for the last ten years and though they famously haven’t beaten it down yet, Mayo for Sam and all that comes […]

    8 years ago

  • “I’d tell you straight up, I’d be a very disappointed man”

    “I’d tell you straight up, I’d be a very disappointed man”

    Tom Morrissey realises that moments like these have to be savoured. He’s mature enough to know that Limerick won’t win an All-Ireland every year and so neither he, or his Limerick teammates have even passed a glance to next year yet. Limerick city, Limerick county has been hopping since August 19 and it will stay […]

    8 years ago

  • The six team, 60/1 accumulator from this weekend’s 19 county finals

    The six team, 60/1 accumulator from this weekend’s 19 county finals

    TG4 have two games on Sunday. They’ll be showing the Donegal county final, between Gaoth Dobhair and Glenties live and that’ll be followed by deferred coverage of the Clare senior hurling final between Cratloe and Ballyea. All in all, there are 19 senior county finals taking place across the country this weekend, six of them […]

    8 years ago

  • David Clifford to miss most of Kerry’s League as he faces surgery

    David Clifford to miss most of Kerry’s League as he faces surgery

    He’ll miss some of Kerry’s National League campaign. David Clifford has been absolutely lording it for East Kerry in the Kingdom’s Senior Football Championship this year. The Fossa club man, alongside his brother Paudie, has been cutting through defences and scoring for fun over the last few months. Last Sunday in Austin Stack Park, the […]

    8 years ago

  • Most of us were fast asleep by the time Sligo hurling semi-final finished last night

    Most of us were fast asleep by the time Sligo hurling semi-final finished last night

    While the rest of us were tucked away, the hurlers of Sligo couldn’t have been more alive. There was a double header of Sligo senior hurling semi-finals on Wednesday night. The first of the games threw-in at 7.30 in the Sligo Centre of Excellence up in Strandhill and it saw Coolera/Strandhill take on Easkey. These sides […]

    8 years ago

  • Keith Andrews on the one, frustrating reason Ireland won’t sack Martin O’Neill

    Keith Andrews on the one, frustrating reason Ireland won’t sack Martin O’Neill

    Keith Andrews is sick of Martin O’Neill clinging to the same tired, old excuse. Just like he always does, O’Neill played the ‘don’t have the players’ card in the aftermath of Ireland’s hapless and jaded 1-0 defeat to Wales in their third group game of the Nations League. Like our last thronging by the same […]

    8 years ago

  • Loads of praise for the Irish newcomer who galloped all over the Aviva Stadium

    Loads of praise for the Irish newcomer who galloped all over the Aviva Stadium

    A tidy player. Ireland hosted Wales in their third game of the Nations League on Tuesday night and there was a lot riding on it. A loss here would almost ensure Ireland’s relegation from division two to division three in the Nations League and they would then drop from second to third seeds in the […]

    8 years ago

  • The David Clifford point from the weekend everyone was talking about

    The David Clifford point from the weekend everyone was talking about

    How can you defend against that? Some players just have it all. The speed, the strength, the brains, the spacial awareness, the skill. David Clifford has it all and he showed every one of Gaelic football’s great skills and qualities off on Sunday afternoon down in Tralee. Clifford didn’t start well in the Kerry semi-final […]

    8 years ago

  • Down lead the way with smackdown for players who brawled in car park

    Down lead the way with smackdown for players who brawled in car park

    Proper order. Don’t fight in car-parks if you can’t do the time. Ballyholland and Downpatrick won’t play a part in the Down senior football championship for 2019. The bizarre thing about the Division 1 fixture of the Down GAA All County Football League was that it had been abandoned the week previous after some unsavoury scenes […]

    8 years ago

  • People of Limerick, your Christmas present is sorted already

    People of Limerick, your Christmas present is sorted already

    Look no further, people of Limerick. Treaty Triumph was launched on Wednesday in Limerick city and it will fill many a stocking Shannonside this December. A 168 page annual, Treaty Triumph brings Limerick’s year of years to glorious life with a memory-jogging, chronological pictorial record of their 2018, starting with the Munster League, going all the […]

    8 years ago

  • AFL star gets rap on knuckles for playing game of Gaelic football

    AFL star gets rap on knuckles for playing game of Gaelic football

    Geelong weren’t happy with him. The Dingle man returned to West Kerry recently, and he played for his club in their Kerry SFC quarter-final win over Austin Stacks. Mark O’Connor played a key role in that victory from midfield, despite the fact that his afternoon ended early due to a black card. However, with the […]

    8 years ago

  • Dundalk IT have done it again

    Dundalk IT have done it again

    The lads have done it again. Dundalk IT hit the headlines last year when they went retro. The Louth college marked their return to the top table of college’s football with a beautiful blast from the past. While all of the other colleges and even counties were outdoing each other with modern jerseys and all […]

    8 years ago

  • Munster share video of Peter O’Mahony performing his renowned squat jump

    Munster share video of Peter O’Mahony performing his renowned squat jump

    The Munster boys are shifting tin all over UL. Munster’s pro14 campaign is in full swing at the moment and the lads are in full flight in the gym. Next up is Gloucester at Thomond Park on Saturday and Johann van Graan’s men are lifting it out of it in preparation. Fresh from a draw […]

    8 years ago

  • It took a Wexford hurling star to rain on Matty Forde’s parade

    It took a Wexford hurling star to rain on Matty Forde’s parade

    They thought they had it. Kilanerin were moments away from creating history on Sunday afternoon, only for Wexford hurler Simon Donohue to step up and kick two crucial scores to earn a draw for Shelmaliers in the Wexford SFC final. All over, a 2-11 apiece draw between @kilaneringaa and @shelmaliers in the @tdsupplies senior football […]

    8 years ago

  • The best left and the best right foot in Roscommon put on a show in county final

    The best left and the best right foot in Roscommon put on a show in county final

    Some finishers. TG4 decided on Roscommon, it was a good decision. The Rossies’ county final was broadcast live on Sunday afternoon and the clash of Clann Na nGael and St Brigid’s didn’t disappoint. Two forgotten men of Roscommon football showed their class on opposite ends of the Hyde Park field in the decider. For St […]

    8 years ago

  • A junior club four years ago, Bennettsbridge are into Kilkenny senior final

    A junior club four years ago, Bennettsbridge are into Kilkenny senior final

    Only four years ago, Bennettsbridge were a junior club in Kilkenny. Now, they’re only one win away from their first Kilkenny senior hurling title since 1971. The Bridge defeated 2013 and 2015 champions Clara in a 51 point thriller in Nowlan Park on Sunday afternoon. The bookies couldn’t separate them, with both sides priced at […]

    8 years ago

  • Vinnies send for Connolly but emphatic Jude’s march on

    Vinnies send for Connolly but emphatic Jude’s march on

    Once St Jude’s got going, they were unstoppable. After eight minutes of St Vincent’s Dublin senior football semi-final clash with St Jude’s, you could have been forgiven for thinking Vinnies were going to coast it. In hot pursuit of their third title in a row, the Marino outfit got out of the blocks like scalded […]

    8 years ago

  • David Clifford recovers like a champ from scuffed penalty but Dingle rally like dingers

    David Clifford recovers like a champ from scuffed penalty but Dingle rally like dingers

    The Kerry semi-final had absolutely everything. Missed penalties, red cards, wonder-scores, heroes and villains. It’s a good thing then, that East Kerry and Dingle will put on another show next weekend after they couldn’t be separated this time around. A late, great Tom O’Sullivan point levelled it up for Dingle at the death, a replay […]

    8 years ago

  • Emlyn Mulligan doesn’t beat around bush with honest reaction to championship draw

    Emlyn Mulligan doesn’t beat around bush with honest reaction to championship draw

    Championship days. The draws for the 2019 All-Ireland senior hurling and football championships took place on RTÉ on Thursday night. Yes, the 2018 season has only just finished up. Yes, we’re still basking in the glory of the great year that was and yes, we’re looking past the pre-season dead rubbers, the National Leagues and […]

    8 years ago

  • If Brian Fenton thinks he looks “weedy”, well then God help the rest of us

    If Brian Fenton thinks he looks “weedy”, well then God help the rest of us

    Where does that leave the rest of us? Brian Fenton is taking the piss at this stage. He’s never lost a championship game for Dublin in his four years on the panel. For two of those years, he’s been shortlisted for the Footballer of the Year award and the general consensus is that over the […]

    8 years ago

  • Whole Mayo ladies saga has finally come to an end

    Whole Mayo ladies saga has finally come to an end

    Finally, a line looks to have been drawn in the sand. It was four months ago when the Mayo ladies saga first came into the public sphere. On July 10, 12 players left the Mayo panel just days before they would take on Cavan in the first round of the championship. “We have stepped away […]

    8 years ago

  • The text messages a slippy injury prone player sends his manager

    The text messages a slippy injury prone player sends his manager

    If the column is there to be dodged, this fella will dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge all over it. It’s actually rare that he gets injured during a match or during a training session. Strangely enough, it’s always in the intervening days between the two that disaster strikes and he’s forced to walk into […]

    8 years ago

  • Does the hurler catch with their right or left hand?

    Does the hurler catch with their right or left hand?

    If they had a choice. The hand a hurler catches the ball with is in direct correlation with the hand they have on top in their grip of the hurl. Those who hold the hurl with the right hand on top catch with their left hand and vice versa. That’s the only hint you’re getting. […]

    8 years ago

  • Ryan O’Dwyer’s description of Anthony Daly’s pre-match speech would fire you up

    Ryan O’Dwyer’s description of Anthony Daly’s pre-match speech would fire you up

    Anthony Daly and Ryan O’Dwyer couldn’t but get on well. Two all-in-or-nothing characters, half-hardheartedness isn’t in either of their psyches. The pair first crossed paths in 2011. Before that, O’Dwyer was playing with Tipperary. A Cashel man, the Dublin based secondary school teacher was a Tipperary senior hurler and footballer when he decided he just […]

    8 years ago

  • Some scenes at Khabib’s homecoming in Dagestan

    Some scenes at Khabib’s homecoming in Dagestan

    He returns a champion. They worship their fighters in Dagestan and Khabib Nurmagomedov is the biggest warrior they have. Dagestan is a republic of Russia. It’s an ethically diverse place in the North Caucasus region that has a population bordering on three million. Khabib Nurmagomedov has put the Republic of Dagestan on the map over […]

    8 years ago

  • Khabib and now McGregor in bother with Vegas NSAC after new footage of post-fight madness

    Khabib and now McGregor in bother with Vegas NSAC after new footage of post-fight madness

    Conor McGregor could be in a spot of bother now too. The Las Vegas Nevada State Athletic Commission are set to file complaints against both Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov for their actions as part of the brawl that followed the Russian’s victory over the Dubliner in the lightweight decider at UFC229. With Khabib completely […]

    8 years ago

  • Hurling round-up: Tipperary the kings of the sideline and Waterford’s goal poacher does it again

    Hurling round-up: Tipperary the kings of the sideline and Waterford’s goal poacher does it again

    Now we’re hurling. Reigning All-Ireland champions Cuala bit the dust, last year’s Leinster finalists Kilcormac Killoughey are gone and Thurles Sarsfields’ five-in-a-row bid in Tipperary was ended. We had some weekend of hurling and here’s the round-up. Tipperary (Senior semi-finals) Thurles Sarsfields’ five-in-a-row bid in Tipperary was stopped in its tracks by a Michael Heffernan […]

    8 years ago

  • The heroic injury time save from Con O’Callaghan that ended Cuala’s run

    The heroic injury time save from Con O’Callaghan that ended Cuala’s run

    Cuala will be back. It takes a special team to win once, it takes a truly great team to win back to back. Over the last three years, Cuala won Dublin, Leinster and All-Ireland club titles for two years in a row. This team’s winning streak came to an end on Sunday, when Anthony Daly’s […]

    8 years ago

  • Kilkenny legends roll back the years as huge upset just avoided in quarter final

    Kilkenny legends roll back the years as huge upset just avoided in quarter final

    There were two big games in Kilkenny on Saturday. James Stephens took on Erin’s Own in Ballyragget in the county senior quarter-final with a spot in a semi-final against Ballyhale Shamrocks the prize. Meanwhile, Glenmore were up against last year’s beaten finalists Graigue Ballycallan in the intermediate quarter final in Ballyhale. Erin’s Own 0-14 James […]

    8 years ago

  • Underdogs to take on Dublin in Parnell Park

    Underdogs to take on Dublin in Parnell Park

    The Underdogs will be up against it, that’s for sure. The TG4 Underdogs will take on Dublin in a challenge game under the lights in Parnell Park on October 19. The game will be broadcast live on GAA Beo on TG4 with the ball being thrown in at 7.45. The Underdogs began their journey […]

    8 years ago

  • The eight clubs to do the business for a 182/1 accumulator this weekend

    The eight clubs to do the business for a 182/1 accumulator this weekend

    The first of the county finals are taking place this weekend. TG4 will be up in Monaghan for the senior football final on Sunday and that’ll be followed by deferred coverage of the Offaly senior hurling final. In total, there are seven county finals taking place on Sunday. Longford are the only other county having […]

    8 years ago

  • John Malkovich narrates absolutely epic McGregor Khabib promo

    John Malkovich narrates absolutely epic McGregor Khabib promo

    This has hair standing on the back of necks. Almost two years on from his last fight in the Octagon, Conor McGregor’s eagerly anticipated UFC comeback is finally upon us. It was in November of 2016 when McGregor defeated Eddie Alvarez to become the UFC’s lightweight champion and during his break from the game over […]

    8 years ago

  • McGregor throws a kick as he has to be separated from Khabib at weigh ins

    McGregor throws a kick as he has to be separated from Khabib at weigh ins

    These lads are ready. After months of build-up, months of hard-training and weeks of trash-talk, Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov are ready to fight. Both men made weight, the Russian tipping the scales on the button at 155 lbs while Conor McGregor was half a pound lighter. McGregor made everybody wait a while at the […]

    8 years ago

  • WIN: Meet and greet with Dublin footballers and chance to get their new jersey for free

    WIN: Meet and greet with Dublin footballers and chance to get their new jersey for free

    The jersey they’ll be wearing all over the capital city in 2019. Brian Fenton ramped up the hype last week when he posed for a photo in the new Dublin jersey, only for the jersey itself to be cruelly blocked off. 🆕️👕🔜 pic.twitter.com/8hFkfL9Vey — Dublin GAA (@DubGAAOfficial) October 1, 2018 Well all of the waiting […]

    8 years ago

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