Staying On! Gavin to remain in charge of Dublin until end of 2021 championship
By 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 committed […]
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Boost for Tyrone as attacking pair return to starting side and Canavan’s son named on the bench
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 clash […]
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Former Dublin U21 boss and senior coach lands new inter-county hurling job
FORMER DUBLIN U21 manager and Laois hurler John McEvoy has been confirmed as the new manager of the Derry senior hurling team. Click Here: union bordeaux begles rugby jerseys Derry county board released a statement this evening on the news, confirming that McEvoy’s appointment has been ratified, as well as naming his backroom team. While […]
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‘You can’t get away from the fact that hurling tends to evoke emotions which are extraordinary in people’
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 July […]
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Lynch and McHugh hit 3-8 as Dublin round off 2018 with comfortable win over Dubs Stars
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 of […]
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First-half blitz inspires Dr Crokes to O’Donoghue Cup success over Kilcummin
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-final […]
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1-4 from O’Rorke helps Kenny’s youthful Dublin hurlers past Dubs Stars
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 Dublin […]
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Ciaran Byrne: ‘The pain was crazy. I looked at my foot and it was facing the opposite way.’
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 low […]
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Live stats on big screens and preventing player burnout: the future of GPS data in the GAA
“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 the […]
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From Croke Park to the trenches: the forgotten GAA heroes of World War I
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 at […]
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