As things stand, Aidan Nolan is set to miss Wexford’s next two games. Those games, this Sunday’s Leinster final and then Wexford’s next game in the All-Ireland series, could conceivably be the biggest two games of his life. It’s been a disappointing week for the Half Way House Bunclody man. Sent off after the final […]
Brought to you by Centra #WeAreHurling We’re hurling now alright. There weren’t many games of hurling at the weekend but what we may not have had in quantity, we were more than catered for with quality. The first game of the weekend took place in Semple Stadium on Saturday afternoon. The two beaten provincial minor […]
Brought to you by Centra #WeAreHurling Every score matters. Clare and Galway learned that the hard way as score difference knocked them both out of the championship. For neutrals, the weekend just past was a feast of the very best things about hurling. Drama, thrills, spills, swings and lots and lots of roundabouts. Going into […]
Brought to you by Centra #WeAreHurling Here comes the fun. TJ Reid turned in one of the finest individual performances you’re likely to see in Nowlan Park but there were standout individual performances all over the place on another big weekend of hurling. In the Joe McDonagh Cup, Killian Doyle was the top dog scoring an unbelievable […]
Brought to you by Centra #WeAreHurling Seamie Callanan has legends in his sights. The Clare defenders stand gazing. Seamie Callanan takes a few steps back. Jason Forde’s free looks to be sailing over but with a strong west of Ireland breeze blowing across Cusack Park, anything is possible. Off the post but the Drom and […]
Brought to you in association with Centra #WeAreHurling And barely an eyelid was batted. Wexford were leading by a point but this was dodgy territory. One point up with only five minutes left, any slip is game, set and match. Conor Cooney is straight through on goal. Somehow he’s found himself with 20 yards of […]
Brought to you by Centra #WeAreHurling So good the mentors wanted to join in. Gregory Kennedy is 11 years retired from Galway hurling. Each passing one has hurt more. It was always going to boil over and after years of holding it in, he eventually cracked on Saturday evening. And so the hurling championship for […]
Last year wasn’t an easy one for the Mayo ladies. Headlines and lots of attention – and very little of it for their football – but with that turbulent spell behind them, team captain Niamh Kelly insists that they’re a united group now and that the sideshow is well and truly behind them. “It was […]
Katie O’Connor couldn’t escape it. She was only a month old on that famous September Sunday of 1996, but she’s heard the stories right from the horses’ mouths. Her father George was the general in midfield on that luminous Wexford team that had them dancing at the crossroads and her uncle John was in the […]
By Daragh Ó Conchúir And another one… Kilkenny will resume their rivalry with Cork and Galway will take on Limerick in the Littlewoods Ireland Camogie League Division 1 Semi-Finals as a result of the last round of group action, while Offaly must do battle with Wexford to determine who makes the drop to the second […]
By DARAGH SMALL Monaghan captain Cora Courtney skippered her club team to an Ulster title at the end of 2018 – and she dreams of doing likewise with her county this year. That club success seems a lifetime ago now, however, after Monaghan slumped to a disappointing Lidl NFL Division 1 Round 1 loss to […]
Compiled by Declan Rooney It was quite the weekend for ladies football. Mayo 2-11 Tipperary 0-12 Mayo launched their Lidl NFL Division 1 drive with victory as a 1-6 haul from full-forward Rachel Kearns saw them past Tipperary at Swinford Amenity Park, while Westmeath claimed the spoils against Monaghan in Mullingar. Kearns was inspirational for […]