TWENTY-EIGHT times Kevin O’Boyle has pulled on the Saffron jersey and represented his county in championship battle. Twenty-eight times he has felt the butterflies starting to cause mischief in his stomach, 28 times he has felt the tension grow as the throw-in to a big Antrim game approached. Sure, it would be easy to discount […]
ARMAGH assistant manager Jim McCorry has given a strong counter argument to claims that they disrespected April’s club only policy by travelling to Portugal for a training camp last week. It is understood that the GAA are set to investigate the Orchard county, and a number of other counties, for the breach of a rule […]
ARMAGH attacker Kevin Dyas’ 59th-minute introduction at Croke Park on Saturday garnered a huge ovation from the Orchard support. His appearance in their Division Three final win over Fermanagh was his first time taking the field competitvely for his county since the 2015 Ulster Championship quarter-final loss to Donegal. Still, false dawns have accompanied the […]
FORMER Down attacker Danny Hughes has called on the Mourne county to use their last three league games to establish a clearly defined style of play that they can carry into the championship season. While the points are crucial in Saturday’s trip to Cavan given that they are flirting with relegation, Hughes said that he […]
CONNAIRE Harrison knows that there will be extra focus on him this term following last year’s exploits with Down. He was in a hot streak of form then, but he knows that he must prove that he can continue in a similar vein over an extended period of time. The first sign of that came […]
FAST starts have been a ever-present from Malachy O’Rourke’s side since they moved to Division One for the 2015 season, and they have helped pave the way to two top-four finishes in that time. Sunday’s opponents Mayo, meanwhile, are notoriously slow out of the blocks and have lost four of their last five league openers. […]
THE decision of Eamonn Burns to include Keith Quinn in his Down team for their Dr McKenna Cup win over Ulster University earlier this month brought to an end a five-year absence for the versatile Mayobridge player. With the dust still settling on the Mourne county’s Qualifier loss to Derry in 2013, Quinn packed his […]
PROMISING Monaghan forward Barry McGinn is hoping to be passed fit for his county’s Division One opener against Mayo on January 28. The Doohamlet man has been recovering from a cruciate injury picked up last February and although he did play a few minutes in his club’s final league game back in October, he’s targeting […]
DOWN’S David McKibbin is keen to secure a starting jersey with Down and give manager Eamonn Burns no excuse to pull it back off him. Last year, he played just over an hour of championship football in the Mourne’s County fascinating run to the last 12 of the All-Ireland, in contrast to 2016 when he […]
