A crowd of less than 100 people attended the latest integration roadshow at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Tuesday night. In what was the third of the four national roadshows, a crowd of approximately 70 people was all that showed up for the Munster instalment. Various proposals surrounding one membership, one club, one county board, one … Read more
I wrote here Saturday about Limerick’s system, and it was the difference again for them against Cork in the Gaelic Grounds. Limerick had a more experienced team out than their opponents, and to be fair to Cork they put it up to them for 50-odd minutes, but Limerick’s faith in that system paid off. They … Read more
I wrote here Saturday about Limerick’s system, and it was the difference again for them against Cork in the Gaelic Grounds. Limerick had a more experienced team out than their opponents, and to be fair to Cork they put it up to them for 50-odd minutes, but Limerick’s faith in that system paid off. They … Read more
Three-quarters of an hour after the Kilkenny-Cork game finished last Sunday in Nowlan Park, there were Cork players still out on the field signing autographs and taking selfies for the travelling supporters. That’s some going for an away game. And that registers with the players. They love having that huge following, and they certainly don’t … Read more
Sarsfields 0-20 Glen Rovers 1-21 Four-in-a-row chasing Sarsfields wobbled, and a Patrick Horgan-less Glen Rovers took full advantage to claim a four-point victory at Riverstown on Friday evening. Winners of the last three RedFM Divison 1 Hurling League titles and with eight of the starting team that pipped Midleton in last year’s county championship final … Read more
Beat Roscommon on Sunday week and Donegal will qualify for their first Division 1 final in 19 years. That result combined with a Mayo win over Kerry in Tralee the evening before will make it a Donegal-Mayo final. Relegation Should Monaghan lose to Galway in Inniskeen on Sunday week, they will be relegated to Division … Read more
Carrigaline 3-14 (3-1-12) Ballincollig 1-13 (1-2-9) The club season is back, and Carrigaline have kick-started the new campaign with a solid win at home over Ballincollig in the McCarthy Insurance Group Division 2 Football League. Both sides had their purple periods, but were it not for Ballincollig’s final quarter burst the hosts’ control would have … Read more
Ger Burke says PBC’s record-breaking 54-point whitewash of their fierce rivals CBC will be “irrelevant” unless they back it up by claiming the Munster Schools Senior Cup against St Munchin’s. This Pres crew have been marked out as a special generation since lifting international silverware in Spain before Christmas. They have backed that up by … Read more
PBC added another accomplishment to mark themselves out as a special generation by inflicting a record 54-point whitewash on their fierce rivals CBC to sail into a seventh consecutive Munster Schools Senior Cup final. Christians may have been the reigning champions, but Pres have been installed as hot favourites since winning the NextGen Global Schools … Read more
UPMC Nowlan Park is the venue as Cork travel to take on Kilkenny, who sit fourth with four points from three games so far in the National Hurling League Division 1A. But when the Cats take on the Rebels, they’ll still be without some of their sharpest claws. It’s Derek Lyng’s fourth season in charge, … Read more