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: Tommy Dickson/INPHO And yet, remarkably, the club which finds itself nestled beside powerhouses St Brigid’s…
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 in the Europa League tonight. Joe Schmidt has named Rob Kearney at fullback for Ireland’s clash…
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 were already announced but the awards for the small ball code will be announced live…
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. Source: Cathal Noonan/INPHO An avid basketball fan, O’Shea hasn’t played on the hardcourt since he…
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’…