St Brigid’s overcome Corofin once more to claim their fifth Connacht crown
St Brigid’s 1-13 Corofin 2-5 The brilliant Ben O’Carroll inspired St Brigid’s to a famous Connacht final win over Corofin. O’Carroll scored 1-7, including 0-3 from play for the Roscommon champions, who delighted a partisan Dr. Hyde Park crowd to win their fifth Connacht senior football title. Their first arrived in 2006, having defeated Corofin […]
2 years ago
‘Football has been a place to go’ – Gary Sice hails football family after difficult couple of years
Gary Sice dropped to his knees the second the final whistle was blown in the Galway senior football final. His team-mates Tony Gill, Micheal Lundy and Dylan McHugh dropped with him. Amid the excitement of regaining the Galway senior football championship, they patted him on the back and had a word in his ear. For […]
2 years ago
“Then I realised, I can do a bit more” – From playing it for fun to potential All-Star
Kieran Molloy didn’t take football seriously, believe it or not, until he was 17 years of age. Before then, he hurled for Sylane, played some golf in his free-time and also kicked a bit of soccer. He played football as well, don’t get us wrong, and enjoyed every second of it as a Corofin underage […]
3 years ago
“It was a great opportunity for me to remember Mairead so fondly again” – Fitzgerald came through tough times
Kieran Fitzgerald is a gentleman. He wasn’t even talking to me but he didn’t have to be. His Laochra Gael is coming up and, of a Monday evening, as we (me and my more experienced journalistic colleagues) chat to him on Zoom, it doesn’t take him long to brighten up the day. The odd day, […]
4 years ago
“Is it the end of that team? I’d say yes in many ways it is, they have so many miles on the clock”
8 years is a crazy amount of time to go unbeaten in a county championship and Corofin were long overdue an ‘off-day’ in Galway club football. But according to Ray Silke, this off day has been coming upon them fast with the mighty Corofin team showing signs of vulnerability in recent seasons as almost half […]
5 years ago
“The bigger the challenge, the more Fitzy would want to keep them scoreless”
It was a sad Sunday in the parish of Corofin, according to the club’s chairman Michael Ryder. A fine wine, a willing stalwart. They thought he could go on forever but alas, miracle man Kieran Fitzgerald, one of the most decorated players in the history of club GAA, has brought the curtain down after a […]
6 years ago