By Michael McMullan BALLYHAISE manager Gerard O’Kane is hoping his side can learn from defeat ahead of this weekend’s Cavan Championship rematch with Kingscourt. Just 16 days before the sides lock horns in Sunday’s quarter-final, Kingscourt were nine-point winners when they met in the group stages. “If you ask if you asked 10 people outside of […]
As the FRC try out new potential handpass rules in the off-season, Shaun Casey chats to Gerard O’Kane about their necessity AFTER a full inter-county season, and with the club championship now underway in most counties, the ‘new rules’ brought in by the Football Review Committee at the start of the year have all been […]
‘SOME might say’ that the GAA have sold their soul a little due to the fact that the split-season means that the county game is wrapped up before the end of July in football and hurling with ladies football and camogie being finished up in the two weeks after. It means there won’t be a […]
JUST when the GAA seems to have got a few things right, they might just go and undo it all again. When these new group stages came in last year there was commentary around needless games, about how it’s set up for the stronger sides and will lead to some dead rubbers and too many […]
WHEN Jim McGuinness was with Donegal in his first tenure they placed a lot of stock on the third quarter of games. They would have come out of the blocks all guns blazing at the start of the second half and gave everything they had. Suddenly they had scored maybe 1-4 or 1-5 on the […]
WEEK five of the league has just passed and ‘moving day’, to use some golfing parlance, has come and passed. Each division is starting to take a sort of shape in terms of how the top two or three teams are panning out, a middle cohort of teams and then the bottom two or three teams […]
THIS time last week it would have been very appropriate to tell all that ‘there’s a storm a-coming.’ Well, even though Storm Éowyn has now left these shores, leaving behind a trail of devastation, we can still use the phrase and apply it to the footballing scene. With the league starting last week and games […]
GOOD luck to anyone trying to get a space at a local gym this week or to book in with a personal trainer or gym instructor who are all offering eight-week new year courses. There are so many people who wake up with a turkey hangover (or indeed a normal hangover) and say – “I […]
“THE cream always rises to the top”. That saying is pretty much how the football fared out last weekend in both Derry and Tyrone club championships. Derry are down to the last four – what many people would perceive as the four strongest teams in the championship. Glen are going for four in-a-row and that […]
A QUICK glance around the counties in Ulster will tell you about how each county championship is progressing and people’s thoughts on each of the formats. The Tyrone Championship sticks out as an outlier as it is straight knockout. Tyrone people are immensely proud of this fact as they feel it reflects the true nature […]
