Vera Pauw’s reign as Ireland women’s manager is over. The Dutch woman helped Ireland qualify for last month’s women’s World Cup, becoming the first manager ever to do so, but that wasn’t enough. Tension and off-field issues stalked the Irish team into Australia and beyond and ultimately, the association have opted against offering Pauw a […]

2 years ago

Rhasidat Adeleke finished an agonising fourth place in the World Athletics Championships in Budapest. The rigours and battle-scars of an incredibly long season finally caught up on the Tallaght sensation, they had to at some point, and she was almost a second off her best in what will be her final run of the season. […]

2 years ago

You could cut the tension with a knife in The Sunday Game studios. Joanne Cantwell and Donal Óg Cusack got stuck into it on this Munster championship Super Sunday. Anthony Daly and Joe Canning were the first to arrive on the scene. It all started when Cantwell decided to take Óg Cusack up on his […]

2 years ago

Virgin Media has issued a statement on the back of the recent debate surrounding GAA broadcasting. Unrest has been in the GAA air these past few weeks over the coverage of our games. It all came to a head on Sunday night when, from the RTÉ studios in Donnybrook, former Cork goalkeeper Donal Óg Cusack’s […]

2 years ago

The LGFA has revealed that it is ‘committed to the inclusion’ of transgender women in their sport. They have also said that they “will not tolerate any harassment or discrimination” of said transgender players.  Players that this rule applies to can make an application to the newly set-up Transgender Application Committee (TAC).  Ratified on Wednesday, […]

3 years ago

The Irish women’s team will host France in Tallaght stadium in a big send-off ahead of the World Cup. There were hopes that the game would take place in the Aviva Stadium but due to ‘scheduled pitch redevelopment work,’ that is no longer a possibility. With the game now set to take place in Shamrock […]

3 years ago

When Ursula Jacob was first asked to do the hurling on The Sunday Game, she had to do a double-take. Jacob had been working as a camogie pundit for four years at that stage but until then, she hadn’t considered the prospect of working on the men’s game. But along with Anna Geary, she was […]

3 years ago

There’ll be no sleeping after that one. Paul O’Donovan and his double-sculls partner Fintan McCarthy have won the Olympic Gold medal after another brilliant row on the Tokyo water. Expectations were high heading into the final, and the men from Skibbereen didn’t disappoint, clawing back the German pace-setters before powering to victory in the final […]

4 years ago

“Monday is my easy day. I only have to run for six or seven miles that day” They never said it would be easy, this athletics craic. The loneliness of the long distance runner is a phrase as old as time and its relevance will last forever more. Athletics, running in particular, is one of […]

6 years ago

Ireland 3-2 Ukraine Denise O’Sullivan screams for the ball. She roars at her Ireland teammates to push forward. ‘Our ball’ she shouts just to keep the lines woman on her toes. The Cork woman who has found a home in Australia, is right at home here in Tallaght Stadium for the Irish womens’ crucial Euro […]

6 years ago

Brought to you by Centra #WeAreHurling Ever since Paul Curran vacated the Tipperary square in 2015, leaving more than a decade of unbroken service behind him, the Premier county have struggled to find a body for that number three jersey. A meantime filled by stop-gaps more so than mainstays, the years ran by and Tipperary […]

6 years ago

The Ireland machine rolls on. The Irish under-20 women’s basketball team are wiping out all before them at the European championship Division B over in Kosovo and they’ve a semi-final to look forward to now. Having coasted through the group stages with comfortable wins over Ukraine and Great Britain, they were catapulted into a quarter […]

6 years ago

As things stand, Aidan Nolan is set to miss Wexford’s next two games. Those games, this Sunday’s Leinster final and then Wexford’s next game in the All-Ireland series, could conceivably be the biggest two games of his life. It’s been a disappointing week for the Half Way House Bunclody man. Sent off after the final […]

6 years ago

Brought to you by Centra #WeAreHurling We’re hurling now alright. There weren’t many games of hurling at the weekend but what we may not have had in quantity, we were more than catered for with quality. The first game of the weekend took place in Semple Stadium on Saturday afternoon. The two beaten provincial minor […]

6 years ago

Brought to you by Centra #WeAreHurling Every score matters. Clare and Galway learned that the hard way as score difference knocked them both out of the championship. For neutrals, the weekend just past was a feast of the very best things about hurling. Drama, thrills, spills, swings and lots and lots of roundabouts. Going into […]

7 years ago

Brought to you by Centra #WeAreHurling Here comes the fun. TJ Reid turned in one of the finest individual performances you’re likely to see in Nowlan Park but there were standout individual performances all over the place on another big weekend of hurling. In the Joe McDonagh Cup, Killian Doyle was the top dog scoring an unbelievable […]

7 years ago

Brought to you by Centra #WeAreHurling Seamie Callanan has legends in his sights. The Clare defenders stand gazing. Seamie Callanan takes a few steps back. Jason Forde’s free looks to be sailing over but with a strong west of Ireland breeze blowing across Cusack Park, anything is possible. Off the post but the Drom and […]

7 years ago

Brought to you in association with Centra #WeAreHurling And barely an eyelid was batted. Wexford were leading by a point but this was dodgy territory. One point up with only five minutes left, any slip is game, set and match. Conor Cooney is straight through on goal. Somehow he’s found himself with 20 yards of […]

7 years ago

Brought to you by Centra #WeAreHurling So good the mentors wanted to join in. Gregory Kennedy is 11 years retired from Galway hurling. Each passing one has hurt more. It was always going to boil over and after years of holding it in, he eventually cracked on Saturday evening. And so the hurling championship for […]

7 years ago

Last year wasn’t an easy one for the Mayo ladies. Headlines and lots of attention – and very little of it for their football – but with that turbulent spell behind them, team captain Niamh Kelly insists that they’re a united group now and that the sideshow is well and truly behind them. “It was […]

7 years ago

Katie O’Connor couldn’t escape it. She was only a month old on that famous September Sunday of 1996, but she’s heard the stories right from the horses’ mouths. Her father George was the general in midfield on that luminous Wexford team that had them dancing at the crossroads and her uncle John was in the […]

7 years ago

By Daragh Ó Conchúir And another one… Kilkenny will resume their rivalry with Cork and Galway will take on Limerick in the Littlewoods Ireland Camogie League Division 1 Semi-Finals as a result of the last round of group action, while Offaly must do battle with Wexford to determine who makes the drop to the second […]

7 years ago

By DARAGH SMALL Monaghan captain Cora Courtney skippered her club team to an Ulster title at the end of 2018 – and she dreams of doing likewise with her county this year. That club success seems a lifetime ago now, however, after Monaghan slumped to a disappointing Lidl NFL Division 1 Round 1 loss to […]

7 years ago

Compiled by Declan Rooney It was quite the weekend for ladies football. Mayo 2-11 Tipperary 0-12 Mayo launched their Lidl NFL Division 1 drive with victory as a 1-6 haul from full-forward Rachel Kearns saw them past Tipperary at Swinford Amenity Park, while Westmeath claimed the spoils against Monaghan in Mullingar. Kearns was inspirational for […]

7 years ago

You could travel the length and breadth of Ireland but you still wouldn’t find a more inspiring attitude than Niamh Rockett’s. It was a long and winding road to gain an All-Star nomination in 2018, and although the bends and turns ahead are still as unpredictable as they ever were, she’ll stay going until she […]

7 years ago

Hannah Looney and Libby Coppinger play both camogie and football down in Cork while in Tipperary, 20-year-old Orla O’Dwyer balances the two. The Cashel club player was the Premier County’s camogie captain and half forward for 2018 while she spent the year in midfield for the footballers. Speaking at the launch of Future Proof Media, […]

7 years ago

Ah stop the lights and call the whole thing off

8 years ago

Marty was so proud he nearly fell out of the press box.

9 years ago