Month: September 2021

DUBLIN’S ATTEMPT TO complete the five-in-a-row will be one of the dominant themes of the 2019 Irish sporting year and a new documentary this Christmas will look back at the famous final when Kerry chased that accolade against Offaly in 1982. Players Of The Faithful will air on RTÉ One on Friday 28 December atRead moreRead more

DUBLIN’S ALL-IRELAND winning boss Jim Gavin is to stay at the helm of the county’s senior football side until the close of the 2021 championship season. The Dublin county board have announced today that Gavin has agreed to stay on for another three years. In May 2017 it had been announced that Gavin had committedRead moreRead more

THE PRESENCE OF Peter Canavan’s son on the bench and the return of a couple of highly talented forwards to the starting team mean that Mickey Harte’s opening Tyrone selection for the 2019 season carries plenty interest. Tyrone commence their Dr McKenna Cup campaign tomorrow night, travelling to Celtic Park for a Section C clashRead moreRead more

SCAN AN EYE back over the sporting tale of 2018 and some of the most vivid images that jump off the page revolve around hurling. It was an extraordinary season at a time of major change in the sport. A new round-robin structure in the provinces, the All Ireland semi-finals played on the same JulyRead moreRead more

Dublin 3-19  Dubs Stars 1-14 Kevin O’Brien reports from Pairc Barrog INSIDE FORWARDS OISIN Lynch and Conor McHugh posted 3-8 between them as Dublin enjoyed a comfortable 11-point victory in today’s Dublin Bus/Herald Dubs Stars football challenge this afternoon. In their final game of 2018, an experimental Dublin outfit had too much in the home ofRead moreRead more

Dr Crokes 3-24 Kilcummin 1-08 TWO GOALS IN quick succession from Kieran O’Leary fired Dr. Crokes to O’Donoghue Cup success this afternoon over Kilcummin at Fitzgerald Stadium. Both sides came into the game riding high off the back of their progress through the All Ireland club championships – Dr Crokes gearing up for their semi-finalRead moreRead more

Dublin 1-20 Dubs Stars 0-8 Kevin O’Brien reports from Pairc Barrog MATTIE KENNY’S YOUTHFUL Dublin side easily accounted for the Dubs Stars in today’s Dublin Bus/Herald Dubs Stars hurling challenge at Naomh Mernog. There were fine displays from Oisin O’Rorke (1-4), Daire Gray (0-3) and Davy Keogh (0-2) as Kenny continued his winning run as DublinRead moreRead more

THE YEAR STARTED off in Australia as a professional sportsman and closes with him back in Ireland ready to immerse himself in the amateur game he grew up with. Ciaran Byrne moved to Carlton in 2013. Source: Carlton FC There was the soaring high of county final glory with his club and the shattering lowRead moreRead more

“THIS GAME OF Gaelic football has been infiltrated by a load of spoofers and bluffers, fellas with earpieces stuck in their ear, psychologists, statisticians, dieticians…” RTE’s Pat Spillane. Source: James Crombie/INPHO Sunday Game pundit Pat Spillane was clearly a statistics sceptic back in 2013 and five years on, his scepticism has hardly subsided. But theRead moreRead more

NOVEMBER 2018 MARKED the centenary of the end of the First World War and next month, 21 January, will be 100 years on from the start of the Irish War of Independence.  The Irish War of Independence was the culmination of Ireland’s nationalists pushing for separation from the British, and a troubled few years atRead moreRead more