TIPPERARY HAVE NAMED their team for Wednesday’s Bord Gáis Energy All-Ireland Under 21 Hurling Championship semi-final. Liam Cahill’s side take on Galway in two days’ time in the Gaelic Grounds, making just one change to the side which was beaten 2-23 to 1-13 by Cork in the Munster decider at Páirc Uí Chaoimh a month […]
CORK MANAGER EPHIE Fitzgerald believes the tremendous work-rate of his players could send them back into an All-Ireland final after last year’s heartache. The 11-time champions will face-off against Donegal in this year’s dream All-Ireland semi-final on 18 August. And yesterday’s huge 8-18 to 1-6 victory over Westmeath outlined Cork’s huge squad depth once again. […]
ALL ROADS LEAD to Dr Hyde Park in Roscommon on Sunday for a mouth-watering TG4 All-Ireland senior football championship quarter-final double-header. A general view of Dr Hyde Park. Source: Tommy Dickson/INPHO First up it’s an all-Connacht affair with Galway and Mayo going head-to-head for a place in the All-Ireland semi-final (throw-in 3pm, deferred showing on […]
Clarinbridge’s Patrick Foley gets the nod. Source: Laszlo Geczo/INPHO GALWAY HAVE NAMED their team for Wednesday’s All-Ireland U21 hurling semi-final meeting with Tipperary. Facing the Premier County at the Gaelic Grounds (7.30pm), Galway manager Tony Ward has made two changes to the side that overcame Wexford after extra-time in the Leinster final. Andrew Greaney comes […]
Niall Donoghue back in 2013. Source: Cathal Noonan/INPHO TWENTY ONE-YEAR-old Conor Whelan is preparing to line out for Galway in the All-Ireland hurling final on Sunday, 19 August, after yesterday’s win over Clare. The Kinvara forward is a cousin of another former Tribesman star — the late Niall Donoghue, who took his own life just […]
GALWAY U21 CAPTAIN Fintan Burke never had to look too far for inspiration growing up. First cousins: Fintan and David Burke. A first cousin of the Tribesmen senior captain David Burke, he’s followed in his footsteps as he prepares to lead his side into battle in the Bord Gáis Energy GAA Hurling U21 All-Ireland semi-final […]
THE GAA HAVE announced that Wexford official James Owens will be the referee for this year’s All-Ireland senior hurling final on Sunday 19 August. Owens will take charge of the clash between Galway and Limerick in Croke Park, in what will be his second All-Ireland final having previously officiated in 2015 between Galway and Kilkenny. […]
AFTER A HEAVY defeat in the Munster final to Cork, the Tipperary U21 hurlers welcomed a break to reassess and regroup. Galway’s Fintan Burke and Tipp’s Mark Kehoe. Source: Brendan Moran/SPORTSFILE A 13-point loss on the big stage in Páirc Uí Chaoimh. Not exactly ideal. “After a loss like that you really have to regroup […]
MONAGHAN MANAGER MALACHY O’Rourke has relayed his fears that the restructuring of the All-Ireland football Championship has made it doubly difficult for teams with the lack of recovery time between games. Both themselves and Tyrone have played eight games in eleven weeks since they met in the Ulster quarter-final on May 20th, with just a […]
CONOR McMANUS AND PETER Duggan have been announced as the July winners of the PWC GAA/GPA Player of the Month awards. McManus saw off competition from Galway’s Ian Burke and David Clifford of Kerry to win the football award, while Duggan took the hurling prize at the expense of Cathal Mannion of Galway and Limerick’s […]