A Royal leader! Brought to you by TG4 Meath captain Aoibhín Cleary is set to become the first Irish woman to play for AFLW side Richmond, after signing a two-year deal with the Melbourne club back in February. But first, the two-time All-Ireland Ladies SFC winner must overcome the reigning champions Dublin in this year’s […]

8 months ago

Was it the ref or the rule at fault? Meath are into the All-Ireland SFC quarter-finals after beating Kildare, 0-07 to 0-04, in Newbridge. The conditions were awful, leading to the low-scoring affair. After the game, fans disagreed over what looked like a very soft yellow card for former player of the year, Vikki Wall. […]

9 months ago

Vikki Wall is content with how her sevens dream is developing, slowly but surely. After an understandably difficult start, an introduction that demanded patience she never knew she had, the Meath woman says that now, six months in, ‘things are starting to click. She wouldn’t quite say she’s ‘mastered it,’ but she’s glad that ‘things […]

2 years ago

“Hard to see this as a good thing.” Dublin legend Michael Darragh MacAuley raises an interesting point about the mass exodus of GAA players going to Australia to play professionally. The point was raised when the Irish Independence released a story explaining that 33 of the best footballers in Ladies football had made the move […]

2 years ago

AFLW side North Melbourne are reportedly resigned to the fact that Vikki Wall will not return in the coming months, and will not fulfil the second year of her contract at the club. Wall, the Meath and Dunboyne dynamo, was one of, if not ladies football’s most coveted prospects in its recent exodus towards the […]

2 years ago

It takes a good team to win one, it takes a great team to win two. And that’s why, having beaten Kerry to claim their second All-Ireland senior ladies football title in a row, no matter where you looked and no matter who you talked to, there were wide smiles and there was emotion. You […]

3 years ago