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. […]
Prodigious talents: The young players of the year
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July 19, 2025
Donegal’s Finbarr Roarty has been tipped as the Young Footballer of the Year in waiting and Niall Gartland takes a look at previous winners of the prized award 2024 – Oisin Conaty AFTER last year’s All-Ireland final win over Galway, Armagh manager Kieran McGeeney basically said it would be a complete travesty if Oisin Conaty […]
Litmus test for the Oak Leafers
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July 15, 2023
ALL-IRELAND SFC SEMI-FINAL Derry v Kerry Sunday, Croke Park, 4pm Live on RTÉ and BBC By Niall Gartland Advertisement ECHOES of 2012? Recall the celebrations when Kerry beat their Tyrone, by then a pale shadow of the team that had won three All-Irelands, out the gate in Killarney. Paul Galvin was leaping around, Kieran Donaghy held the rather more […]
The scores of the season
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August 20, 2022
Now that the All-Ireland championship is done and dusted, Niall Gartland ranks the top ten scores from the championship, including the provincial series and Tailteann Cup 1 Sean O’Shea’s winning free against Dublin NOT only the most significant score of this year’s championship, but one that could see a seismic shift in the balance of […]
JOE BROLLY: Galway v Clifford
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July 24, 2022
THE Dublin empire has fallen, replaced by a democracy of flawed challengers. Tyrone came out of the blue to win it last year. When they did, it was so mentally overwhelming for them that they were unable to recover in time to defend their title. They were a ghost team this season, walloped by Derry […]
Joe Brolly – ‘The game was epic’
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September 5, 2019
Joe picks out his high points from last weekend’s All-Ireland final, and apologises to David Gough.
Roscommon stun Monaghan as Cavan come up short
February 4, 2019
After beating Dublin last weekend, Monaghan have fell to defeat away at Roscommon in Dr Hyde Park. The Rossies led 0-6 to 0-4 at half time in what was a defensive and highly physical encounter as Enda Smith led the home charge. Like last time out the introduction of Conor McManus appeared to turn the […]