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 in the cold. Of those, these seven players can consider themselves particularly unfortunate to have…
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 finalists Mayo have been honoured in the 2016 GAA-GPA All-Star football team. There are two…
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 Click Here: NEW WEXFORD SENIOR hurling manager Davy Fitzgerald has included forward star Jack Guiney in a winter training squad of over 40 players. Fitzgerald has also confirmed…
‘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 injuries unit at Dublin’s Mater Hospital – and thankfully able to walk out of there.…
We’ll Leave It There So: Dundalk duo in Ireland squad, boost for Ulster and today’s sport
Ireland second row Devin Toner attempts a dunk at the Chicago Bulls’ training facility. Source: Dan Sheridan/INPHO Home Martin O’Neill has included Dundalk pair Daryl Horgan and Andy Boyle in his 35-man squad for Ireland’s World Cup qualifier against Austria.…
Hurling star Lee Chin will miss Wexford Youths’ crucial play-off clash to attend GAA All-Star Awards
Advertisement And this is where I sign out @WexfordYouthsFC it has been a pleasure #Youths pic.twitter.com/wBJJOPpssK — Lee Chin (@LeeChin8) November 1, 2016 Source: Lee Chin/Twitter HURLING STAR LEE Chin has said he will not be involved in Wexford Youths’…
After breaking two vertebrae, Clare champs hope team-mate can attend Munster semi-final
BALLYEA MANAGER ROBBIE Hogan is hopeful Eoghan Donnellan will be well enough to attend next Sunday’s AIB Munster club hurling semi-final against Thurles Sarsfields after the player was diagnosed with two broken vertebrae following a training ground collision. Donnellan was…
No regrets for Diarmuid Connolly over sideline tug-of-war with Ciaran Kilkenny
DUBLIN FORWARD DIARMUID Connolly didn’t lose any sleep over his decision to go for a point from the sideline in the last minute of the drawn All-Ireland final with Mayo. Connolly overruled his teammate Ciaran Kilkenny, who appeared as though…
We’ll Leave it There So: Ulster pair quizzed by police, Dick Clerkin retires and today’s sport
A view from Munster’s training session in UL, Limerick today. Source: Donall Farmer/INPHO Home Ulster pair Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding were quizzed by the PSNI over alleged sexual offences Pat Lam says Bundee Aki is missing Rob Henshaw as a friend but not a…
From La Liga to county GAA finals – celebrating 20 years of TG4’s innovative sports coverage
THERE MAY HAVE been some skepticism about the idea of an Irish language channel amid its launch on Halloween night 20 years ago, but since then, TG4 has garnered plenty of acclaim for its innovative programming and efforts to keep the…