Month: April 2022

Carbery Rangers 2-11 Monaleen 0-7 CORK COUNTY CHAMPIONS Carbery Rangers will face either Stradbally or Abbeyside of Waterford in the Munster semi-final following an impressive 2-11 to 0-7 win over Monaleen of Limerick today. The entertaining clash, played in perfect conditions at the Gaelic Grounds, saw Monaleen come out of the blocks flying, racking up three excellent goal chances in the opening 4 minutes. Unfortunately for Muiris Gavin’s side, the Carbery net was not rattled…

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Simonstown Gaels 1-14 Donaghmore-Ashbourne 0-8 COLM O’ROURKE FINALLY got to experience that winning feeling on Meath SFC final day with Simonstown Gaels following a surprisingly comfortable win over Donaghmore-Ashbourne in Navan. Powered on at midfield by his son, Shane, and the AFL bound Conor Nash, the Navan side burst out of the traps and led by 10 at half-time, holding on for an easy win and their maiden title. The favourites had no answer for the…

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Loughmore-Castleiney 1-9 Moyle Rovers 1-6 A THIRD COUNTY senior football title in four years went the way of Loughmore-Castleiney as they out-paced Moyle Rovers in a tense, low-scoring second half. It’s been a great year for many of the Loughmore men, most notably the McGrath brothers with multiple All-Ireland medals, but the dual club celebrated just as wildly as ever at the final whistle in Cashel. Tomas McGrath and John Meagher. Source: Cathal Noonan/INPHO The first half…

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Thursfield Sarsfields 0-17 Ballygunner 0-16 PA BOURKE NABBED nabbed a late, late victory for Thurles Sarsfields with a 65 in the fifth added minute to put them through to the Munster semi-finals. Ballygunner rallied from four points adrift to get on level terms with the home side entering injury time. In a thrilling finish, Stephen O’Keeffe batted away Tommy Doyle’s tame shot for a 65. Bourke stepped up to strike his seventh point of the…

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Dr Crokes 1-14 Kilmurry-Ibricknane 0-8 DR CROKES CANTERED into a home Munster club semi-final tie with the Tipperary champions on 13 November, easing past Kilmurry-Ibrickane in Quilty. They outscored the home club 1-7 to 0-4 in the second half. In their previous Munster club meetings in 2011 and 2012 the Kerry club were narrow winners but this time they were completely dominant, following a competitive opening 15 minutes. Kilmurry half forward Shane Hickey was the only…

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IN A CITY that never sleeps, amidst the skyscrapers, Lake Michigan and general hustle and bustle, lies a small but close-knit Ladies Gaelic football club. Despite the abundance of male clubs, there are just two senior female sides in Chicago – one north of the city and one southside. Located just 15 minutes from the heart of downtown, Aisling Gaels is the northside club, formed in December 2008 by local Irish girls living in the…

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Carbery Rangers players celebrate their Cork senior final victory THERE WERE SIX players who featured during the 2003 Cork junior final that also saw gametime earlier this month when Carbery Rangers at last experienced the winning feeling on county senior final day. If vaulting from junior kingpins to senior champions seems meteoric, they needed plenty patience as well to get to the stage where today they enter the Munster senior club football arena for the…

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Henry Shefflin and Ballyhale players celebrating their 2016 All-Ireland club final win. Source: Cathal Noonan/INPHO “WE WERE SLAGGING him actually that he was only back with the club a couple of months and was writing stories about how the club players were being treated! “Jesus, if he’d been there for the last 13 years, that club players association would have been set up a lot sooner!” Andy Moloney is laughing at his recollection of reading…

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Castlebar Mitchels 3-13 Knockmore 0-10 CASTLEBAR MITCHELS HAMMERED home their dominance of the club scene in Mayo with a powerhouse display against Knockmore — running out 3-13 to 0-10 winners. When the game was there to be won early in the second half, they put the foot down and crushed their opponents resistance thanks to a man-of-the-match display from Paddy Durcan, who will be an injury doubt for their Connacht championship opener next weekend after…

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Updated at 18.30 INTER-COUNTY STAR RICHIE Hogan was in inspired form as his Danesfort side condemned Fenians to relegation from the Kilkenny SHC today. Fenians, for whom JJ Delaney started centre-back, were on the back foot after just nine minutes when James Mulally found the net for Danesfort. But Fenians rallied well and edged themselves back in front through a Conor Tobin goal from a penalty on 25 minutes. The two sides couldn’t be separated…

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