MAYO’S DIARMUID O’CONNOR and Deise star Austin Gleeson were honoured with the prestigious Young Player of the Year awards at tonight’s GAA/GPA Opel Allstar bash at the Convention Centre in the capital. 21-year-old O’Connor picked up his second straight Young […]
NESTLED IN NORTH Cork, just off the Mallow-Cork road lies a close-knit rural ladies football team with a huge drive and hunger to succeed. Source: Ryan Byrne/INPHO Mourneabbey is a club of many successes, but it’s the All-Ireland heartbreak that […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Wexford’s Keith Rossiter and Kilkenny’s PJ Ryan have been recruited Source: INPHO 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 the make-up […]
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. […]