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…
The Hogan brothers – Kilkenny senior winning captains with different clubs two years in a row
Brian Hogan (2016) and Keith Hogan (2015) are recent Kilkenny county winning captains FOR THE SECOND successive year on Sunday, it was a member of the Hogan family who was lifting the cup after the Kilkenny senior hurling final. The…
Two Munster senior winners not in Limerick 2017 hurling squad as attacker recalled
Limerick will be in action in Division 1B next season Source: Ryan Byrne/INPHO MUNSTER SENIOR WINNERS James Ryan and Paudie O’Brien have not been named in the first Limerick senior hurling squad selected by new manager John Kiely, but there…
Choosing an AFL career with Hawthorn over Leinster rugby and Meath football
Conor Nash (right) at Irish International Rules training last November Source: James Crombie/INPHO TEEN PRODIGY CONOR Nash has admitted that turning his back on Meath GAA and Leinster rugby to forge an Aussie Rules career was a ‘massive call’ for…
With two Ulster medals, the longest-serving inter-county Gaelic footballer has retired
Clerkin plays his club football with Currin. Source: Donall Farmer/INPHO THE LONGEST-SERVING inter-county Gaelic footballer in the country has announced his retirement. Monaghan’s Dick Clerkin was the last player still in action to have made his inter-county debut in the…
5 moments to remember from The Sunday Game in 2016
THIRTY YEARS on and it’s still the soundtrack of the GAA championship. Other television stations have secured broadcasting rights and encroached on viewership figures, but we always seem to gravitate back to The Sunday Game. Maybe it’s the warmth that…
‘I can’t say how much this means, it’s unreal’ – Brian Hogan reflects on winning Kilkenny title
WITH THE PAIN of last year’s final defeat to Clara still fresh in the memory, O’Loughlin Gaels centre-back Brian Hogan couldn’t contain his delight after his side scored a surprise victory against Ballyhale Shamrocks in this year’s Kilkenny SHC final.…