All-Ireland winners After losing last year’s All-Ireland Intermediate final to Leitrim, the Tyrone ladies bounced back this season to earn the spoils. They used the hurt from 2024 to fuel their charge and a league campaign spent in Division One, playing the top teams week in, week out, helped push them on towards All-Ireland glory this […]
McGuinness looks to “absolutely huge” task of curbing Kerry’s attack
By Michael McMullan THERE is plenty of football chat in the car as Jim McGuinness and his son Mark Anthony shoot the breeze on the way to Donegal’s press evening. The buildup to Sunday’s decider is fulling column inches and airwaves all week. How Donegal stop David Clifford is number on talking point to most. […]
KEVIN CASSIDY: Meath fell into the trap
I DON’T think anyone will argue that we are now left with the two best teams in the country to contest the All-Ireland final later this month. For me, from early doors, including during the league, Kerry and Donegal have been slightly ahead of the rest in terms of the football they play and the […]
Clifford ‘seems to be very driven this year’ says McGuiness
BY RYAN FERRY TRYING to stop David Clifford would give many an intercounty manager a headache but Jim McGuinness was certainly in relaxed form at Tuesday’s press evening. Kerry knew they were in the final a day earlier but won’t hold their media briefing until Saturday. Donegal are keen to get any issues outside of […]
JOE BROLLY: Junior jinks
THIS week’s Policing Board report shows ahow extraordinarily peaceful the North has become. PSNI officers have only discharged a shot five times in the last ten years, the most recent being an unintentional discharge in June 2022. The other four shots were fired into the air outside Omagh police station after Tyrone won Sam in 2021. The […]