IT’S All-Ireland final weekend with Armagh and Galway set to lock horns to get their hands on the Sam Maguire Cup. Gaelic Life is full of previews, columns, interviews and features ahead of the big game. We also have two special Gaelic Lives podcasts looking ahead to Sunday’s Croke Park showdown. They are available via […]
KEVIN CASSIDY: Ballybofey game will tell a tale about Tyrone
May 23, 2024
AFTER a whirlwind Ulster Championship, we were straight back into action last weekend with the first round of the All-Ireland series and four games down for decision. Kerry ran out convincing winners against a disappointing Monaghan team who now find themselves with a real uphill battle to continue their progress in the competition. Vinny Corey […]
KEVIN CASSIDY: On Red Alert
May 3, 2024
THERE is a lot of talk at the moment with the lack of competitiveness in most of the provincial championships. This conversation is certainly something that cannot be aimed at the Ulster Senior Football Championship. After the way they dismantled Derry, Donegal went into last week’s semi-final as raging hot favourites. And, anyone who knows […]
KEVIN CASSIDY: Plenty up for grabs
March 13, 2024
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 […]
KEVIN CASSIDY: Long live the club
October 27, 2023
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 […]
KEVIN CASSIDY: Contenders to get their hands on Dr Maguire
August 18, 2023
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 […]
Kevin Cassidy: The day is here
July 28, 2023
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 […]
KEVIN CASSIDY: The championship plot thickens
July 13, 2023
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 […]
Feature: No quarter given
June 30, 2023
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 […]
KEVIN CASSIDY: We have lift off!
June 22, 2023
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 […]