TG4 Ulster Senior Championship Cavan 0-4 Donegal 1-6 By Tom Comack DONEGAL opened their TG4 Ulster championship campaign with a hard-fought victory over Cavan at Kingspan Breffni on Sumday afternoon. Advertisement Five points separated the sides at the final whistle, with veteran forward Karen Guthrie turning in a five-star performance in the full forward line. Guthrie […]
By Kieran Lynch “SMILE,” photographer Brendan Monaghan said to Aimee Mackin during her photoshoot for this article, “it’s a happy story.” “It’s a sad story for my mum and dad,” she replied. The Shane O’Neill’s and Armagh ladies footballer recently announced that she is set to join her younger sister Blaithin ‘Down Under’ this winter, signing […]
By Niall Gartland THE Ulster Ladies Intermediate Championship hasn’t been the most appetising competition in the world in recent times – it’s usually Tyrone and Down going head-to-head for the title – but they’ve mixed it up a bit this season and it should be a more novel experience for the Red Hand ladies. Last […]
NINETEEN players from Ulster have been named on the Lidl Teams of the 2023 Ladies National Football Leagues as selected by the Ladies Gaelic Football Association’s All Star committee. Champions Kerry lead the way on the Division 1 selection, with nine players selected. Runners-up Galway have four players on the Team of the League, while there […]
SUSANNE White goes inside the changing room to reveal the characters that she has played with… Name: Susanne White. Age: 21. Teams played for: Advertisement County: Donegal. Club: Killybegs, Donegal and Bredagh, Down. University: Queen’s University, Belfast. Earliest GAA memory? Going to one of my first-ever Gaelic trainings with my two neighbours when I was […]
By Niall Gartland THE Armagh camogs have displayed their strength-in-depth this season and have been rewarded with a Division 3A final berth against Carlow this Saturday. Ciara Donnelly, for so long their score-getting supremo, is sidelined at the moment with injury but the remaining forwards have stepped up to the plate and then some, racking up […]
DONEGAL star Yvonne Bonner is the latest Irish player to a sign a deal as she returns to the AFLW. Having played 11 times for Sydney club GWS Giants, the 35-year-old has signed for the Adelaide Crows with pick No 26 in Tuesday’s Supplementary Draft. It comes after Niamh McLaughlin and Armagh’s Aimee Mackin signed […]
FIVE Ulster players referee Maggie Farrelly are among the travelling party on their way to Texas for the 2023 TG4/LGFA All Star tour. Armagh duo Aimee Mackin and Lauren McConville will be joined by Geraldine, Nicole and Niamh McLaughlin of Donegal. 38 of the game’s leading stars are making the trip to the US, with […]
THIS week, Éabha Lennon looks at the opponents from her career… Age: 19. Teams played for: Mullabrack ladies, St. Brenda’s Camogie Club, Ballymacnab, Ulster University ladies, Armagh camogie, Armagh ladies to minor level, St. Patrick’s High School, Keady camogie and football teams. Who are your main rivals? Advertisement Football would probably be Clan na Gael, and […]
ARMAGH Ladies star Aimee Mackin has followed in the footsteps of her younger sister Blaithin and has signed for AFLW side Melbourne. The three-time All-Star and 2020 Player of the Year has been in sensational form for the Orchard County, who will compete in the Division Two league final in two weeks’ time. The Shane […]
