SOME of Down GAA’s most famous faces lined the streets of Newry last Friday to bid farewell to 1968 hero John Murphy. Members from the great teams of the ‘60s and ‘90s were present around Páirc Esler, as were people from his Newry Shamrocks club. While the father of four’s funeral service was private due […]
DOWN GAA have paid tribute to John Murphy
By Niall McCoy IT’S quite fitting that John Treanor would get the nickname ‘Shorty’ as he jinked and jived, trying to evade the slap of a bigger fella who wanted to take his head off. It seems that the Burren and Down man spent most of his career having to duck out of the way […]
By Niall McCoy FORMER Down star Martin Clarke has reiterated his stance that he is not involved in recruiting potential players for Australian Rules teams. The former Collingwood man was speaking on the Load of Balls podcast, hosted by John Fegan, and covered a range of issues from Australia to Down’s 2010 All-Ireland adventure to […]
Gerard Collins explains what life has been like in lockdown.
DOWN’S Clara Fitzpatrick has said that the door is open for her to return to the AFLW next season with the Braynsford player stating that she is assessing all options. The St Kilda player saw her promising start to the new season cut short by the coronavirus outbreak, and Down managers Caoibhe Sloan and Peter […]
Clara Fitzpatrick feels that counties in Ireland could learn lessons from Australian clubs when it comes to integration.
The St Joseph’s club picked up a McNamee award for best club website in 2019
Down chairman expecting some big decisions to have to be made
