THE National League continues this week with an important round of fixtures before we head into Super Saturday next weekend. Casting my mind back to my own playing days, St Patrick’s weekend and Easter weekend were two of the toughest for me in terms of sacrifice. I am not sure what it was about it, but […]
IT wasn’t to be for our young guns in Gaoth Dobhair as they went down to a well-oiled Glenties machine in last Sunday’s Donegal county final. Going into the game, we knew Naomh Conaill were hot favourites but we thought we might be able to make a contest out of it. Although Sunday’s result was […]
AS we gear up for the club championship here in Donegal, I’d like to take a look at the movers and shakers heading in to this year’s opening round of action this weekend. Before this, you could read a lot from league form. Now it’s different, since the majority of the teams were minus a […]
ALL the pretenders to the throne have fallen. All of those teams who thought that this was their year have fallen in their quest. We are now we are left with the best two teams in the country and what a spectacle it should be. At the start of the year Kerry would definitely be […]
AFTER a hugely exciting weekend with the hurling semi-finals last weekend, the attention now turns to the footballers as they head into battle. With the amount of exciting games we have had in the quarter-finals and now with the semi-final pairings, it would be easy to forget the amount of meaningless games we had in […]
IT’S crunch time in the championship this weekend and Niall Gartland looks back at some of the most memorable All-Ireland quarter-finals involving Ulster sides 2002 Armagh 2-9 Sligo 0-15 2002 is basically the year of all years from an Armagh perspective, but it’s fair to say they had a few close shaves (including in the […]
AS expected, last weekend‘s games sprung this year‘s championship into life and now it sets us up for a couple of cracking contests this week. When working out the permutations of who could possibly meet each other and who might top the groups, I don’t think that any of us would have predicted last weekend’s […]
EVENTUALLY, after, let’s face it, a few weeks of dead rubber games the championship should catch fire this weekend. I think it’s fair to say that the structure definitely needs tweaking, but having said that, the powers that be should be allowed the time to make these alterations moving forward. Personally, I think the championship […]
I’VE purposely left this sit for a week to see what sort of reaction would occur from the decision to ban competitive action at under age levels. I’ve gone on record here before stating that sometimes the GAA amazes me – in particular, how they come about some of the decisions that they take and […]
AFTER last weekend’s games, I’m still a little disappointed with the intensity levels that we are seeing in this year’s All-Ireland series. There is nothing we can do about that now, so we have to simply let it play itself out. I mentioned last week that I think for next season there will have to […]
