Meath mob-handed again as 45 Ladies football All-Star nominations announced
All-Ireland champs Meath are mob-handed with 13 of the 45 nominees for the 2022 TG4 Ladies Football All Star awards. The Royal County won a second successive TG4 All-Ireland Senior title on July 31, when they defeated Kerry, to go with the Lidl National League they’d won earlier in the year. Runners-up Kerry are next […]
3 years ago
Bríd Stack can’t hold back tears as she is named to make AFWL debut after recovering from fractured neck
“I’m just so excited, it’s probably a massive relief.” Bríd Stack is finally set to make her AFLW debut this Sunday when she will line out for the GWS Giants, over a year since joining the side. Stack will line out against the Gold Coast Suns at the Great Barrier Reef Arena in Queensland. The […]
4 years ago
“I don’t think there’s any magic dust we can come up with to immediately change that”
Compiled by John Fallon Cork manager Ephie Fitzgerald said he is looking forward to getting back to Croke Park after they booked a place in the Lidl National Football League final against All-Ireland champions Dublin with a 5-10 to 3-13 win over Donegal. “We got a couple of goals at crucial times and I delighted […]
5 years ago
After all the successes and big wins, club still rules for brilliant Buckley
By Declan Rooney Before she sat her Leaving Certificate, Cork legend Rena Buckley had two All-Ireland medals in her back pocket, and she’d also been honoured as an All Star. The wheel has now come full circle for Buckley and next weekend, she hopes to help her club Donoughmore to All-Ireland Junior Football glory, and claim a […]
6 years ago
“It’s going to be a savage game if it does happen” – Stack relishing another crack at Dubs
By Jackie Cahill Cork legend Bríd Stack is relishing the prospect of another titanic TG4 All-Ireland Senior Ladies Football Championship collision between her native county and holders Dublin. Should Cork and Dublin, two of the leading contenders for Brendan Martin Cup glory on September 15, top their round-robin qualifier groups and then successfully negotiate their […]
7 years ago
“She was very diligent about her recovery. She’s a great bit of stuff”
By Tomás McCarthy Cork 2-14 Waterford 0-9 Cork manager Ephie Fitzgerald praised his side’s second-half display and the impact of Saoirse Noonan as they powered past Waterford in the TG4 Munster Ladies SFC final and pulled to within five of Kerry on the Munster honours board. Goals in each half from Noonan helped Cork retain […]
7 years ago