FORMER Down camogie player Niamh Mallon has been shortlisted for a PwC Camogie All-Star. She is one of 10 Galway players among a list of 36 players across six counties. Mallon was selected on last year’s team, a first for an Ulster player since Derry’s Gráinne McGoldrick in 2009. Down’s Máirín McAleenan made the initial […]
By Michael McMullan DERRY have appointed Micky Henry as their new camogie manager. He takes over from Eamonn Melaugh who stepped down after one year at the helm. Henry, who managed Glen this season, was part of PJ O’Mullan’s management team when he was Derry manager. Micky Quigg joins the management team as coach. Frank […]
LAUREN McConville and Caroline O’Hanlon have been shortlisted for the 2025 TG4 All-Star Awards. ALL-Ireland Senior Champions Dublin lead the way on the list of 45 nominations. Runners-up Meath have ten players nominated, Lidl National League Division 1 Champions Kerry are next in line with seven, while Galway have six players nominated. There are three […]
By Michael McMullan FORMER manager Elaine Dowds has been appointed as the new Antrim senior camogie manager. She takes over from Carl McCormick and Martin Coulter who stepped down after last season. Like new Antrim senior football manager Mark Doran, Dowds is currently with Sleacht Néill where she manages the senior camogs. Advertisement Dowds was […]
By Alan Rodgers WHAT a difference a year has made for star Tyrone attacker Niamh O’Neill whose player of the match display in the All-Ireland Intermediate final on Sunday was in such stark contrast to her experience of the 2024 equivalent for the county. A year ago, the Greencastle Sperrin Óg player was watching the action […]
By Daragh Ó Conchúir IT is a fact now that many young women and men with serious ambitions of having inter-county careers in Gaelic Games choose professions conducive to pursuing that goal. You see lots of teachers. Not many self-employed. Few working in jobs with shift work at their core. Nursing is one of the […]
ANTRIM’S Maria O’Neill has been pipped by Dublin’s Hannah Tyrrell for the ZuCar Golden Boot award for 2025 – the prize on offer for the leading scorer in the TG4 All-Ireland Championships. Tyrrell’s final tally of 6-28 (46 points) saw her finish three points clear of Antrim’s Maria O’Neill (8-19 – 43 points). Tyrrell (34), […]
By Daire Walsh Antrim joint manager Chris Scullion lamented not taking chances in the second half of Sunday’s All-Ireland final. Louth and Antrim were bidding to win the title for a fourth time but a first defeat of the season left the Saffrons pondering what might have been after a brilliant start to the final […]
TYRONE received a fitting homecoming as All-Ireland champions on Sunday night in Canavan’s as they brought the cup back to the O’Neill County. The Red Hands were winners over Laois earlier in the day Croke Park, making up for last year’s final disappointment. The Tyrone ladies received a rapturous reception when they brought the cup […]
Tyrone 2-16 Laois 1-13 By Rónán Mac Lochlainn GOALS in either half from Aoife Horisk and Katie Rose Muldoon proved pivotal as Tyrone edged out Laois by six points to capture the TG4 All-Ireland intermediate football final at Croke Park. Having succumbed narrowly to Leitrim in last year’s decider, it was Tyrone’s turn to celebrate […]
