MAYO’S DIARMUID O’CONNOR and Deise star Austin Gleeson were honoured with the prestigious Young Player of the Year awards at tonight’s GAA/GPA Opel Allstar bash “O’Connor and Gleeson scoop GAA/GPA Young Hurler and Young Footballer of the Year awards”
Month: April 2022
How a small Cork-based club rose to the brink of All-Ireland glory
NESTLED IN NORTH Cork, just off the Mallow-Cork road lies a close-knit rural ladies football team with a huge drive and hunger to succeed. Source: “How a small Cork-based club rose to the brink of All-Ireland glory”
Castleknock’s remarkable journey to the top of Dublin club football
CASTLEKNOCK, A WEST-Dublin club only in its late-teens is not the most likely candidate for supremecy in the highly competitive Dublin senior football championship. Source: “Castleknock’s remarkable journey to the top of Dublin club football”
We’ll Leave It There So: Schmidt names Ireland team, brave Dundalk fall short and today’s sport
Home Dundalk’s Chris Shields. Source: Mikhail Kireev/INPHO Stephen Kenny’s Dundalk once again won plenty of admirers but were beaten 2-1 away to Zenit St Petersburg “We’ll Leave It There So: Schmidt names Ireland team, brave Dundalk fall short and today’s sport”
Open Thread – Who makes your 2016 All-Star hurling team?
Source: Cathal Noonan/INPHO THE FINEST HURLERS from around the country will descend on Dublin’s Convention Centre for the latest installment of the GAA/GPA All-Stars. The football awards “Open Thread – Who makes your 2016 All-Star hurling team?”
Aidan O’Shea is returning to basketball for the first time in 7 years
AIDAN O’SHEA WILL spend the winter honing his handling skills on the basketball court after EJ’s Sligo All-Stars announced they’ve signed the 26-year-old Mayo star. “Aidan O’Shea is returning to basketball for the first time in 7 years”
7 players who were unlucky to miss out on a football All-Star this year
THE FOOTBALL ALL-STARS were announced this morning, as 15 players were honoured for spectacular seasons in 2016. That left 30 footballers who were nominated out “7 players who were unlucky to miss out on a football All-Star this year”
6 from Dublin and 4 from Mayo – here’s the 2016 GAA-GPA All-Star football team
Mayo’s Lee Keegan and Dublin’s Diarmuid Connolly are amongst the award winners. Source: James Crombie/INPHO SIX PLAYERS FROM All-Ireland champions Dublin and four from beaten “6 from Dublin and 4 from Mayo – here’s the 2016 GAA-GPA All-Star football team”
Leinster club winner and Kilkenny All-Ireland champion join Wexford backroom team
Wexford’s Keith Rossiter and Kilkenny’s PJ Ryan have been recruited Source: INPHO NEW WEXFORD SENIOR hurling manager Davy Fitzgerald has included forward star Jack Guiney “Leinster club winner and Kilkenny All-Ireland champion join Wexford backroom team”
‘They wouldn’t let me get up off the bed, collar on straight away. That was the scariest part of it’
IT WAS SHORTLY before midday yesterday when Eoghan Donnellan received the news that he’d been waiting for. He was free to leave the National Spinal “‘They wouldn’t let me get up off the bed, collar on straight away. That was the scariest part of it’”