‘In a semi-final, you don’t see the Cork from Munster Championship. It seems to be their graveyard round’
By CORK LEGEND SEÁN Óg Ó hAilpín is confident his county will revive their challenge for the Liam MacCarthy Cup in 2019, but he feels that the All-Ireland semi-final stage has become a ‘graveyard round’ for the Rebels. Seán Óg Ó hAilpín. Source: Piaras Ó Mídheach/SPORTSFILE The Munster champions crashed out at the final-four stage for […]
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‘He transferred us into coming out of nowhere to win a club All Ireland. He made you believe’
FORMER GALWAY DUAL star Alan Kerins was confident that Micheál Donoghue would be a successful manager with the hurlers after working alongside him at club level in Clarinbridge. Source: Piaras Ó Mídheach/SPORTSFILE Donoghue is on the cusp of guiding Galway to a second consecutive Liam MacCarthy Cup this Sunday after helping them to end a 29-year […]
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From Christy Ring Cup hurling for Kildare to an All-Ireland final with Limerick
A CONTRAST IN hurling seasons. David Reidy has spent 2017 and 2018 working under two Limerick figures that battled as players in the 90s to end the county’s Liam MacCarthy Cup barren spell. David Reidy is back in the Limerick hurling ranks. Source: James Crombie/INPHO This year it has been with John Kiely in Limerick, […]
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‘Ireland’s Greatest Sportsperson’ among the sporting highlights of RTÉ’s upcoming schdedule
A SERIES SEEKING to determine Ireland’s greatest sportsperson is among the sporting highlights for the new season on RTÉ. ‘Ireland’s Greatest Sportsperson,’ presented by Des Cahill and Evanne Ní Chuilinn, will aim to identify the country’s top athlete from the 1960s to the 2000s, with a similar format expected to last year’s programme, ‘Ireland’s Greatest Sporting […]
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11 players, a coach and selector – the school linked to Limerick’s All-Ireland hurling bid
THE ROAD TO hurling stardom was mapped out in advance for some. On Sunday they will be at the heart of Limerick’s drive to address that 45-year gap since the county grasped the Liam MacCarthy Cup. But back the years when they first filed through the doors of Ardscoil Rís to commence their second-level education […]
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‘You only, hopefully, get married once so we just said we’d do it’ – Putting herself before championship for once
IT HAS BEEN a momentous few months in the life of Cork scoring machine, Orla Cotter. On 26 May, she got married to Mark and the couple embarked on a dream honeymoon, taking in Canada and then Alaska, mixing it with bears, elk and moose, revelling in the breath-taking scenery of the Rocky Mountains and […]
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‘Back then I just played with the boys – now there’s 220 girls at a ladies football summer camp in Fermoy’
EQUALITY OF MEN and women in sport is something that’s been discussed to no end for as long as I can remember. That gap between the two, the differences, the inequality more than anything. I do think it is getting better though, there is much more parity than before. I can only speak from my […]
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Guess who’s back! 17-time All-Ireland winner Corkery returns to Rebels’ camogie panel
CORK LEGEND BRIEGE Corkery has ended an exile of almost two years to return to the champions’ panel for tomorrow’s Liberty Insurance All-Ireland senior camogie championship semi-final with Tipperary at Semple Stadium. Corkery hasn’t played for the Rebels since the 2016 All-Ireland final defeat to Kilkenny and last donned the red jersey when the Leesiders […]
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Know Your Sport? Take our weekly quiz
Ciara Mageean came agonisingly close to winning a bronze medal in which event at the European Athletics Championships? INPHO 400 metres 800 metres 1500 metres 5000 metres Shane Lowry spearheaded the Irish challenge at the US PGA Championship. How many shots adrift of eventual winner Brooks Koepka did he finish? PA 5 6 7 8 […]
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McInerney returns as champions Galway name team for Sunday’s All-Ireland final
GALWAY HURLING MANAGER Micheal Donoghue has named his starting team to face Limerick in the All-Ireland senior hurling championship final on Sunday. Gearoid McInerney has recovered from injury to start at centre-half back for the Croke Park showdown (throw-in 3.30pm, live on RTÉ / Sky Sports) as the Tribesmen look to make it back-to-back titles. […]
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