By Niall Gartland THE Castleblayney ladies are on their travels – again. Last weekend they traipsed to the Netherlands – not your usual venue for a game of football – to take on Belgian side Craobh Rua in the All-Ireland Junior Championship quarter-finals. It was a gruelling weekend right from the word go, when they […]
By Niall Gartland DONAGHMOYNE goalkeeper Linda Martin has won 20 county titles, 14 Ulsters and five All-Irelands, but she has redemption on the mind after the disappointment of last year. The perennial contenders from Monaghan are gearing up for an All-Ireland semi-final against Kilmacud Crokes this weekend, and Martin is mindful of last year’s defeat […]
By Daragh Small CRUCIALLY it’s a home game because it might have been difficult to get married on Saturday and play a currentaccount.ie All-Ireland semi-final on Sunday, if they had to travel. Cathriona McConnell takes it all in her stride but after 18 months of preparation, even she had to take a few days off […]
Donegal captain Niamh McLaughlin was named as Senior Footballer of the Year over the weekend and is still trying to come to terms with the shock. Michael McMullan writes… IT’S Monday afternoon and Niamh McLaughlin’s true emotions have yet to make up their mind. Shock and surreal are still two of the words she uses […]
Compiled by Jackie Cahill THE race for the 2022 currentaccount.ie All-Ireland Ladies Club Football Championship titles will be whittled down to six teams over the weekend. CurrentAccount.ie All Ireland Junior Club Championship – Semi Finals – Sunday 1.30pm Naomh Abán (Cork) v Castleblayney Faughs (Monaghan), Páirc Íosagáin, (New Pitch) Advertisement IN a low-scoring Munster Final, Cork side […]
Compiled by Jackie Cahill THE race for the 2022 currentaccount.ie All-Ireland Ladies Club Football Championship titles will be whittled down to six teams over the weekend. CurrentAccount.ie All Ireland Intermediate Club Championship – Semi Finals – Sunday 1.30pm Mullinahone (Tipperary) v Derrygonnelly Harps (Fermanagh), John Lockes, Callan, Kilkenny Advertisement HAVING contested an All-Ireland Junior Final earlier this […]
THE race for the 2022 currentaccount.ie All-Ireland Ladies Club Football Championship titles will be whittled down to six teams over the weekend. Saturday (1.30pm) CurrentAccount.ie All Ireland Senior Club Championship – Semi Final Ballymacarbry (Waterford) v Kilkerrin-Clonberne (Galway), Fraher Field, Dungarvan Ballymacarbry have enjoyed a superb run to the currentaccount.ie All-Ireland semi-finals but now the acid […]
ARMAGH’S Aimee Mackin picked up a third All-Star award at last weekend’s award ceremony in Dublin. It capped off another fine season for the Orchard star. Niamh McLaughlin, also named as Player of the Year, was selected in the team for the first time. ALL-Ireland Senior champions Meath led the way with six representatives. Advertisement […]
DONEGAL captain Niamh McLaughlin was named as the 2022 TG4 Senior Players’ Player of the Year at the annual All Star banquet, in association with Lidl, at The Bonnington Dublin Hotel on Saturday night. McLaughlin was a tower of strength for Donegal as the Ulster county contested the 2022 Lidl National League Division 1 Final, […]
By Daragh Small SHE She was once nicknamed ‘the Spanish Gooch’ by Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh. She stands 165cm tall, speaks multiple languages, hails from Andalucía and Sunday’s currentaccount.ie All-Ireland Junior Club quarter-final will mean that bit more for Anay Rios. The diminutive Spaniard has seen it all and done it all across Europe, but playing […]
