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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 …
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. …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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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. …
Click:China Tour Packages ON SATURDAY, MICKEY Moran attempts to win a senior All-Ireland final as manager on the fifth time of asking. The 2020 club final defeat with Kilcoo to Corofin, arrived after Slaughtneil fell at the final hurdle to the Galway side in 2015 and Dr Crokes in 2017. In 2006, his Mayo team …
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Ballygunner (Waterford) 2-17 Ballyhale Shamrocks (Kilkenny) 1-19 BALLYGUNNER HAVE LONG dreamed of being crowned All-Ireland champions but perhaps they could never have imagined as sensational a way to realise that ambition. Shane O’Sullivan celebrates Ballygunner’s win. Source: Ryan Byrne/INPHO Two points down, deep in injury-time against the Kilkenny aristocrats of this competition, it appeared as …
Read More “Stunning late goal hands All-Ireland senior title win to Waterford’s Ballygunner”
