We’ll Leave It There So: GAA All-Stars revealed, Fifa charge Ireland and today’s sport
By Home Source: John Locher Mayo’s Lee Keegan has been named GAA/GPA Footballer of the Year and Waterford’s Austin Gleeson Hurler of the Year at the All-Star awards. Gleeson was also named Young Hurler of the Year and Mayo’s Diarmuid O’Connor Young Footballer of the Year at tonight’s ceremony. Seven players from Tipperary’s All-Ireland winning team were named in […]
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7 from Tipperary and 4 from Kilkenny – the 2016 All-Star hurling team
Tipperary’s Seamus Callanan with Galway’s Daithi Burke Source: Donall Farmer/INPHO SEVEN PLAYERS FROM All-Ireland champions Tipperary and four from beaten finalists Kilkenny have been honoured in the 2016 GAA-GPA All-Star hurling team. There are two winners apiece from beaten All-Ireland semi-finalists in Galway and Waterford. Kingpins Tipperary have winners in Cathal Barrett, James Barry, Ronan, […]
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Lee Keegan and Austin Gleeson take home GAA/GPA Footballer and Hurler of the Year awards
FOR THE FIRST time in the history of the All-Stars, both the Footballer of the Year and Hurler of the Year have come from counties who didn’t win the All-Ireland title the same year. Mayo defender Lee Keegan and Waterford star Austin Gleeson picked up the highest individual honours in the game at the GAA/GPA […]
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O’Connor and Gleeson scoop GAA/GPA Young Hurler and Young Footballer of the Year awards
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 Footballer of the Year and now stands level with big brother Cillian as two-time winners […]
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How a small Cork-based club rose to the brink of All-Ireland glory
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 often overshadows them. A small community wounded by many other heartbreaking events over the past […]
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Castleknock’s remarkable journey to the top of Dublin club football
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 and St Oliver Plunkett’s is just one game away from lifting the biggest prize in […]
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We’ll Leave It There So: Schmidt names Ireland team, brave Dundalk fall short and today’s sport
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 with New Zealand on Saturday while Garry Ringrose and Joey Carbery could make their international […]
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Open Thread – Who makes your 2016 All-Star hurling team?
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 on Friday night. The ceremony is live on RTE 1 from 7pm. You can check […]
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Aidan O’Shea is returning to basketball for the first time in 7 years
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 featured for St Declan’s basketball club in Dublin in 2009. He also played schools basketball in […]
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7 players who were unlucky to miss out on a football All-Star this year
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 missed out. These players were just about pipped at the post, but regardless they deserve […]
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