By Shaun Casey FROM the outset, it was fairly obvious that Antrim and Westmeath’s fates were going to come down to the final day where the two sides meet head on, with the winner retaining their place in the Leinster Championship and the All-Ireland series. Westmeath fired a spanner into the works last weekend however […]
By Kieran Lynch ANTRIM are heavy underdogs this weekend, but their two results so far in the Leinster Championship will give them heart that they can put it up to last year’s All-Ireland runners-up Kilkenny. Indeed, the Ulster side were far from disgraced when the two sides battled in the league back in February, in […]
By Shaun Casey ANTRIM will take huge confidence from their Leinster opener as the travelling Dubs needed a last-gasp score from Cian O’Sullivan to pick up a share of the spoils. Both sides will have mixed emotions about this game. On one hand, both will feel they could have captured the two points on offer […]
MONDAY marks 40 years since Loughgiel won their first All-Ireland hurling title in 1983. The Shamrocks needed a replay to see off Offaly side St Rynagh’s to make history as the first and only club in Ulster to have win the biggest prize in club hurling. The men of ’83 were honoured in front of […]
By Shaun Casey DOWN have had a difficult start to the championship season, losing to Kerry in round one of the Joe McDonagh Cup before suffering a 7-24 to 0-14 defeat to Laois last weekend. Things can only get better for Ronan Sheehan’s men when they travel to Offaly this weekend, but it won’t be […]
By Kieran Lynch ANTRIM are back at the top table of hurling, having won the Joe McDonagh Cup last year, and Conor McCann says that the Saffrons have an extra spring in their step ahead of what will be an historic occasion when they take on Dublin this weekend. “Once you get into championship week, […]
ANTRIM hurlers must continue to have Division One as their “playground” for the county’s development in the game insists Neil McManus. Speaking after the Saffron’s secured their top flight status with Sunday’s win over Laois, the Cushendall man feels they have gained much from the league with newcomers getting experience against the top teams. “It […]
DARREN Gleeson has done a good job in Antrim and never in a million years would I take that away from him. We have lost all three league games so far, but with a -17 score difference we are but we haven’t been beat out the gate. That is a bit of a positive, but […]
By Shaun Casey THE pre-season hurling competitions continue this weekend for Down and Antrim, who are involved in the Walsh and Kehoe Cups respectively. Both counties also entered Ulster’s preseason tournament, the McGurk Cup, so plenty of players earned lots of game time. Last year’s Joe McDonagh Cup winners Antrim take on Galway on Saturday, […]
1 Antrim left standing after thriller ANTRIM hurlers are box office. There is always drama and buckets of scores. Their Division One campaign ended with zero points after five games, but across all the games they were never far away and were a penalty save from a draw with Waterford. The one that stuck in […]
