Kilkenny forward Billy Ryan and three-time All-Star Huw Lawlor. Former Kilkenny midfielder Andy Comerford has issued a plea for Huw Lawlor and Billy Ryan to return from their travels and rejoin the senior fold with the Cats. Comerford was scathing in his criticism of Kilkenny after their sobering league defeat to Galway a fortnight ago, … Read more
RTÉ Sunday Game presenter Michael Lyster, right, with panalists, from left, Colm O’Rourke, Joe Brolly and Pat Spillane ahead of Lyster’s final Sunday Game broadcast prior to the All-Ireland SFC final between Dublin and Tyrone at Croke Park back in September 2018. Photo: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile The Sunday Game dream team of Joe Brolly, Pat Spillane … Read more
Superb Supreme kicks off one of the most unpredictable Festivals in recent memory Talk The Talk, with Sam Ewing up, jumps the last on their way to winning the Jack McInerney Memorial Hurdle at the Fairyhouse Winter Festival last November. Photo: Seb Daly/Sportsfile Racing fans have waited with bated breath for this year’s Cheltenham Festival … Read more
Taking on the iconic Owning Hill gallop shines a light on what it takes for trainers to get their equine athletes ready for the track Man versus horse challenge – Can Michael Verney survive the training a horse goes through on a daily basis in preparation for the Cheltenham Festival The first thing that quickly … Read more
John Conlon of Clare has recovered from a bad finger injury. Photo: Sportsfile “So you’re telling me there’s a chance?” is an unforgettable line from the iconic comedy Dumb and Dumber but it was also the only inspiration that John Conlon needed to hear after suffering a horror finger injury last summer. The Clare hurling … Read more
Tipp ladies footballers, UL Sigerson Cup side and High School Clonmel’s Corn Uí Mhuirí team are benefiting from manager’s big-game experience David Power: “I was never going to turn it down, and I’d do anything for Tipp football to keep the flag flying.” Photo: Sportsfile It’s a wonder there’s even a few minutes free in … Read more
Meath manager Robbie Brennan. Photo: Piaras Ó Mídheach / Sportsfile Expectation comes with the territory when a team makes vast improvements in a short space of time and Meath football boss Robbie Brennan knows that the shoe is on the other foot this year. The Royals went into last year with little fanfare, but Brennan … Read more
Ballygunner 1-20 Loughrea 1-14 Ballygunner joint captains Peter Hogan and Michael Mahony lift the Tommy Moore Cup. Photo: Sportsfile They weren’t at their most polished, but that will matter little to Ballygunner as they joined the upper echelon of club hurling with a second All-Ireland crown at Croke Park. Many of their biggest hitters never … Read more
Nigel Dunne of Offaly with his son Ógie (2). Photo: Shauna Clinton/Sportsfile It’s easy to see why relief was the overriding emotion upon retirement when Nigel Dunne details the pain that he fought through to play for Offaly. Dunne went to the well for the county footballers more times than he cares to remember in … Read more
Davy Fitzgerald: Under fire ahead of Antrim’s key clash with Offaly on Sunday. Photo: Sportsfile Antrim hurling legend Terence ‘Sambo’ McNaughton cannot get his head around the antics of Davy Fitzgerald since taking the hot seat with the Saffrons. It is with a “heavy heart” that McNaughton voices criticism of Antrim’s displays under Fitzgerald’s watch … Read more