A NEW ADDITION as a player returns from the AFL, a returning forward after a stellar club season and the usual collection of springtime injury worries. Kieran Kingston faces into another league campaign as Cork hurling boss on Saturday evening, trying to get his team moving again after the disappointing note on which their 2021…
Read moreBrosnan and Savage star as MTU Kerry hit 4-15 to reach Sigerson semi-final
MTU Kerry 4-15 Maynooth University 0-7 Murt Murphy reports from Tralee INSPIRED BY THEIR captain Tony Brosnan, MTU Kerry Campus reached their first Sigerson Cup semi-final since 1999 when they completed that historic three in a row, after outclassing Maynooth University in this quarter-final clash at the North Campus Pitch on Tuesday afternoon. The football…
Read more‘It really is a strange one’ – Galway still on hunt for new manager two weeks out from league
THE GALWAY SENIOR ladies football team are without a manager less than two weeks out from the National League. Last Thursday, news of Gerry Fahy’s departure broke locally. Galway Bay FM reported that the boss had stepped down with immediate effect, after just one season in charge. They ran a statement from Galway LGFA, which…
Read moreCork games against Clare and Kerry moved from Páirc Uí Chaoimh due to Ed Sheeran concerts
CORK GAA HAVE confirmed their Munster championship games in football and hurling against Clare and Kerry respectively, have been moved from Páirc Uí Chaoimh due to the Ed Sheeran concert taking place at the stadium. The Munster hurling round-robin game against Clare will take place in Semple Stadium on the weekend of 30 April-1 May….
Read moreExperienced Wexford hurler retires after 13 seasons at senior level
LONG-SERVING WEXFORD hurler Harry Kehoe has retired from the inter-county game after 13 seasons at senior level. Kehoe made his debut in 2009 for Wexford in the Leinster senior semi-final loss to Dublin. The highlight of his Wexford career came in 2019 when he won a Leinster senior medal as part of the squad that…
Read moreGAA to cut Dublin funding and give majority of counties ‘a significant increase’
THE GAA WILL decide on a new model for games development funding at a Central Council meeting at the end of the month, which will see the Dublin’s disproportionate level of funding allocated more evenly across the country. Dublin have received over €21m in games development funding since 2007, while in 2021 that figure stood at €745,278. Antrim’s…
Read moreHere’s your essential TV guide for this weekend’s live sport
WITH THE STRETCH in the evening getting even more grand, we’ve still got plenty of sport to look forward to this weekend. It’s All-Ireland final time in the hurling and football club championships, while the Premier League action continues. There’s more United Rugby Championship fixtures on the way as well as the Super Bowl in…
Read more‘TJ is just an absolute genius to watch’ – The greatest club hurling forward of them all?
Source: The42 WHERE IS BEST to start? Back to October 2004, when the 16-year-old goalkeeper helped his club take the reigning Kilkenny and Leinster champions O’Loughlin Gaels to a county quarter-final replay? Or maybe more recently, that remarkable feat of escapology as the 34-year-old forward smashing in the last-gasp goal that delivered a sensational ending…
Read moreThree Kerry stars sent-off as Tralee lose to NUIG in extra-time
NUI Galway 0-18 MTU Kerry 0-15 (after extra-time) John Keogh reports from Rathkeale NUI GALWAY ARE into the Sigerson Cup following a thrilling 0-18 to 0-15 semi-final extra time win over MTU Kerry at Mick Neville Park in Rathkeale. Matthew Tierney starred for NUIG with 0-8 from a game that saw four MTU Kerry players sent…
Read moreNiland fires 0-14 and Bennett scores two goals as NUIG hold off WIT for Fitzgibbon Cup win
NUI Galway 1-22 Waterford IT 2-13 NUI GALWAY SET up a local Fitzgibbon Cup semi-final clash next week against GMIT thanks to a six-point win over Waterford IT at Dangan tonight, with Evan Niland continuing his immaculate run of form for both Galway and the university by scoring 0-14 over the course of the hour….
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