THE decision to hold the All-Ireland draw last week turned the provincial finals (except Connacht) into the biggest anti-climax since Cork football. During the week, I posed the question in the Trinity Old Boys Group (free staters to a man): What is wrong with Cork football? The answers came flooding in: Hurling. Donal Óg. Frank […]
WHO can win the All-Ireland? Not Derry. We just solo run and handpass. The boys are still Rory Gallagher’s team still playing the old rules. Ciarán Meenagh, our third Tyrone manager in a row, was Rory’s assistant and is therefore acceptable to the group in a way that Mickey Harte and Paddy Tally never were. […]
JACK O’Connor said before the final: “Yerra, we were only aiming to avoid relegation, so we are all a bit surprised to be in a league final. I suppose we got the bit of luck here and there along the way and yerra, we are in Croke Park again and no harm.” He went on […]
By Shaun Casey Donegal 3-20 Kerry 2-10 Donegal are the new Division One league champions following their landslide victory against All-Ireland champions Kerry. In a repeat of last year’s All-Ireland decider, it was Donegal who dominated this time around. Man of the match Michael Langan kicked the first five-points for Jim McGuinness’ men, while Keith […]
By Michael McMullan IT’S All-Ireland Sunday in the Croke Park press auditorium. It’s 2025 and the Kingdom are top of the tree again. Jack O’Connor has fielded a range of questions. The job is done. There’s craic to be had. Grub to be ate. Photos to be taken. Kerry Eye journo Jason O’Connor casts his line […]
Lidl National Football League Division 1 Armagh 1-13 Kerry 2-8 By Elaine Ingram ARMAGH desperately needed a win to move out of the Lidl National Football League Division 1 relegation zone and they managed to get it in a tight tussle against Kerry with a two-point victory. While there was no breeze in Silverbridge, Kerry […]
By Shaun Casey A running theme throughout Armagh’s Division One campaign has been their slow starts but they have showed real grit and determination to pull themselves back from impossible positions. In Croke Park against Dublin in round six, Armagh trailed by 11-points at one stage but battled back to win the game while last […]
TYPICAL Mayo. They finally have a scoring superstar and he emigrates. After electrifying the game as a 16- and 17-year-old, when it was announced he was going at the end of this season, the Mayo people’s disappointment was like the time the Templenoe Parish priest told his flock that Pat Spillane’s first baby was a […]
10 years ago…. DONEGAL and Kerry’s discipline let them down as the duo got involved in a spiteful running battle in Tralee with the Kingdom eventually emerging winners on a 1-13 to 1-8 scoreline – but the headlines weren’t too concerned with the result. The battles started from just four minutes with a flashpoint emerging […]
By Michael McMullan JIM McGuinness was content to get two points in the bag but is already looking forward to Sunday’s Division One visit of Kerry to Ballyshannon. While blooding new players and looking ahead to the summer is their league priority, the Donegal manager is still looking at areas for improvement ahead of their […]
