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St Vincent’s 0-15 Castleknock 0-10 Kevin O’Brien reports from Parnell Park ST VINCENT’S ARE the kingpins in Dublin once again. Mossy Quinn rolled back the years and Diarmuid Connolly played an instrumental role from centre-forward as the Vinnies were crowned county champions for the 28th time. Their third SFC title in four years wasn’t quite the […]

WHEN THE MOURNEABBEY ladies football team reconvened for the 2016 season, they knew they had to park the hurt of the previous year before a new campaign could begin. A second All-Ireland final had come and gone without the silverware coming back to Cork and thoughts about another shot at All-Ireland glory were understandably in […]

UNFANCIED NICE AND Mario Balotelli currently top France’s Ligue 1 table, and Robert Duggan White says it makes a nice change to the tragic stories coming out of the city after the Bastille Day attack earlier this year. I was in Nice on holidays this year. Any sport shop I went into was all Marseilles and […]

FOR THE FIRST time in the county’s history, the Clare men’s football team reached the All-Ireland quarter-finals this year. Indeed, they previously qualified for the All-Ireland semi-final as Munster champions in 1992 but this is the furthest the county has advanced since the introduction of the back-door system. The Banner’s Niamh O’Dea had two brothers […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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. Click Here: 21-year-old O’Connor picked up his second straight Young Footballer of the Year and now stands level with big brother Cillian as […]

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 […]

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 […]