Cork legends Briege Corkery and Bríd Stack shortlisted for Player of the Year award
CORK DUAL STAR Briege Corkery looks like she could win her third TG4 Player’s Player of the Year award. The 2015 Player of the Year has been nominated alongside her team mate and 11 time All-Ireland winner Bríd Stack, as…
That defeat to Tipperary, Kevin Walsh’s role and positives from 2016
GALWAY HEAD INTO 2017 as the reigning Connacht champions, but the enduring memory for the Tribesmen is their quarter-final collapse to Tipperary. Tipperary stunned Kevin Walsh’s side in the last eight clash at Croke Park, running out nine-point winners to…
Kevin McStay named as Roscommon’s manager for next season
AFTER WEEKS OF speculation, Kevin McStay has been ratified as Roscommon manager for the next two years, with an option for a further 12 months. The former RTÉ pundit was joint-manager of the county last season, but after Fergal O’Donnell resigned from his position,…
We’ll Leave It There So: Armstrong out of Dublin event, interest in Ireland duo and today’s sport
Home One Zero conference co-founders Ross O’Dwyer, Rob Hartnett and Richard Barrett. Source: Morgan Treacy/INPHO Sunderland are reportedly keen on bringing Ireland internationals Robbie Brady and Shane Long to the club to strengthen their squad ahead of a likely relegation battle…
Paul O’Connell autobiography among the nominees for eir Sports Book of the Year
THE NOMINATIONS FOR the eir Sports Book of the Year prize have been revealed. In its second year running, the inaugural award was won by former Dublin footballer John Leonard with Dub Sub Confidential in 2015 and a 20-strong longlist…
There’s a very worrying trend with Football Championship attendance numbers
FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP ATTENDANCES have fallen by an average of more than 7,000 per game over the last 10 years, new figures released by the GAA show. A total of 788,746 fans attended the 60 games (not including replays) played in…
GAA wants to play All-Ireland finals in August and replace football quarter-finals with group stage
THE GAA HAS issued revised proposals for a Gaelic football championship restructure in what appears to be an attempt to appease critics of the original ideas revealed in August. However, the latest document released by GAA director general Paraic Duffy…
Dundalk success means greater challenge for Louth to keep promising gaelic football players
FORMER LOUTH PLAYER Colm Nally says Dundalk’s dominance of the national soccer scene has left local Gaelic football teams with a battle to win over the hearts and minds of talented teenagers. Several Louth minor footballers have quit the game…
Former Dublin star insists majority of the side’s backroom team are unpaid volunteers
ALL-IRELAND WINNING DUBLIN football coach Jason Sherlock has downplayed the issue of Dublin’s enormous backroom team and highlighted the role that volunteers have played in their incredible run of success. Sherlock, a former Dublin star forward, was among a 23-strong…
Hill and Mulcahy goals send Moyle Rovers into Tipp SFC semi-final
SECOND HALF GOALS from Thomas Hill and Ross Mulcahy ensured Moyle Rovers edged tonight’s Tipperary SFC quarter-final against Aherlow Gaels by a score of 2 – 11 to 0 – 13. File photo: Ross Mulcahy in minor action for Tipp…