ST VINCENT’S WALKED off the field at Parnell Park in a familiar position on Saturday night. Champions. They’ve now been crowned top dogs in Dublin 28 times. Nobody else comes close. The Marino club were warm favourites to beat Ballyboden St Enda’s in last year’s decider, but failed to catch fire and lost by four. That […]
AFTER CRACKING THE Cork senior hurling championship code in 2015, Glen Rovers have now gone one step further. From 1989 until last year, the Glen hadn’t won a county title but that 26-year wait came to an end with victory over Sarsfields. And now Rovers have ended another famine, as yesterday’s gritty win against Patrickswell has […]
DUBLIN SENIOR HURLING manager Ger Cunningham has announced his winter training panel ahead of the 2017 season. There are some big name omissions as former captain Johnny McCaffrey, ex joint-captain Peter Kelly, forward Paul Ryan, Daire Plunkett, Niall Corcoran and Glenn Whelan are deemed surplus to requirements. It is understood that Shane Durkin has also […]
It’s Sunday, so here are 11 of our favourite images from the sporting week Previous 1 / 11Next Stefan Slachev attempts a wrestling move on Paddy Barnes during their fight in Belfast on Saturday night. Source: Presseye/William Cherry/INPHO CJ Stander in downtown Chicago. Source: Dan Sheridan/INPHO A general view as the Down Royal Festival draws […]
Carrickshock 0-13 Tullogher-Rosbercon 0-6 TWO-TIME ALL-Star Richie Power played the entire second-half for Carrickshock as they ran out seven point winners over Walter Walsh’s Tullogher-Rosbercon in the Kilkenny Intermediate Hurling final. Advertisement County champs 🙌💚💛 pic.twitter.com/l2TTBrwbUW — suzanne (@suzannepower) November 6, 2016 Source: suzanne/Twitter Carrickshock, who lost Kilkenny senior hurling finals in 2010 and 2013, led […]
Ballyhaunis (Mayo) 2-13 Ahascragh/Fohenagh (Galway) 0-19 EXTRA TIME WAS needed but still could not seperate Galway champions Ahascragh/Fohenagh and Mayo’s Ballyhaunis in the Connacht intermediate hurling final. The three-in-a-row Mayo champions set up the tie after beating Roscommon side Oran in their semi-final on Wednesday night. Source: Ballyhaunis Facebook Ahascragh/Fohenagh led by three points at half […]
REIGNING LEINSTER CHAMPIONS Oulart-The-Ballagh cruised past St Rynagh’s and into the provincial semi-final today. They did so without a number of key players, with Keith Rossiter and Nicky Kirwan ruled out through injury, while they lost Eoin Moore due to concussion in the first-half. Advertisement Veteran Paul Roche compounded matters by picking up a straight red […]
Foxrock Cabinteely (Dublin) 5-10 St Laurences (Kildare) 1-3 FOXROCK CABINTEELY MADE it two Leinster titles in a row as they had a comprehensive victory over St Laurence’s earlier today. Advertisement Click Here: They now face Cora Staunton’s Cornacon in the semi-final. Source: Foxrock Cabinteely website St Laurence’s couldn’t handle the south Dublin side as they […]
Glen Rovers (Cork) 0-15 Patrickswell (Limerick) 0-14 Jackie Cahill reports from the Gaelic Grounds, Limerick CORK CHAMPIONS GLEN Rovers are through to a first AIB Munster senior club hurling final since 1976. Eight points from Patrick Horgan helped the Glen through to a November 20 decider against Clare kingpins Ballyea. Glen trailed from the start until the […]
Ballyea 4-18 Thurles Sarsfields 2-22 SEVEN DAYS ON from a first ever Clare hurling title, Ballyea are only 60 minutes away from a provincial crown after a truly inspirational fightback in Cusack Park this afternoon. Seven points in arrears nearing the final ten minutes, the hosts would somehow reel in the three-in-a-row Tipperary champions thanks to […]