Shaun Casey catches up with former Donegal goalkeeper Mark Anthony McGinley Mark Anthony McGinley thought his Donegal days were behind him. He hadn’t pulled on the green and gold jersey since 2019, but then, back in February of this year, Jim McGuinness’s number flashed up on his phone. There was a bit of a goalkeeping crisis […]
TG4 All-Ireland Junior Championship Antrim 1-13 Carlow 2-9 By Daire Walsh PLAYER of the match Lara Dahunsi said that the pain of losing last year’s final to Louth drove them to success in the TG4 All-Ireland Junior Championship final at Croke Park. “Definitely, it was definitely a driving force. We felt that pain, we felt […]
“Oh Jesus” said my wife when the Mayo team ran out, “They look like Kildare.” When they started off playing like them, we worried this was going to be the greatest catastrophe in the history of All-Ireland finals. When David Clifford scored one of his improbable goals in the 15th minute and Sean O’Shea followed […]
Compiled by Jackie Cahill THE stage is set ahead of the 2026 TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Football Championship finals. Antrim, Carlow, Fermanagh, Roscommon, Galway and Kerry will make the trip to Croke Park on Sunday aiming to clinch the silverware on offer. The action gets underway with the Junior decider between Antrim and Carlow (11.45am), followed […]
By Michael McMullan CONSISTENCY is the key word in the Steelstown ladies’ vocabulary after they secured a ninth Senior League title on Monday night. Second-half goals from captain Megan Devine, Katy Holly and Orla McGeough made the difference in their league-clinching win over Ballymaguigan. Long-serving manager Thomas Cusack has steered much of their success and […]
By Barry O’Donnell REIGNING County champions Loughmacrory won’t be distracted by the goings on at Dungannon as their first match in defence of the O’Neill Cup looms into sight, St Teresa’s captain Nathan Kelly insists. It has been a tough season for the Clarkes who this week appointed Derry duo Damian McErlain and Gavin McGeehan […]
Laura Agnew is enjoying her new wing back role as Antrim chase All Ireland glory on Sunday. She sat down with Michael McMullan SHE might have started slightly later than some of her Antrim teammates but it has always been sport with Laura Agnew. Speaking nine days out from Antrim Ladies’ latest All-Ireland crusade, climbing the […]
By Daire Walsh It won’t be her first outing with the county at GAA HQ, but Maria O’Neill has insisted it is still special to be lining out in the colours of Antrim in the TG4 All-Ireland junior football championship final at Croke Park on Sunday. After featuring for the Saffrons in their All-Ireland JFC […]
The GL team give their predictions for this Sunday’s All-Ireland final showdown between Kerry and Mayo… Niall Gartland For me, the GAA is all about the emotion, the camaraderie, the spectacle. I’m not something who looks at games through a microscopic lens, is what I’m trying to say. So I won’t pretend to know precisely […]
10 YEARS AGO DERRY bowed out of the championship in gut-wrenching fashion in a Round 4A qualifier defeat to Tipperary. In arguably the best game of the 2016 championship to date, Derry were undone by three-injury time points in a high-scoring contest, and they had grounds for grievance as they were awarded just 12 frees […]
