ZACH TUOHY LOOKS set to follow Pearce Hanley’s lead in completing an AFL move and ending a lengthy spell with his first club in the oval-ball game. The Laois native, who was an unused substitute for Portlaoise in their county final defeat to Stradbally last weekend, is on the brink of signing for Geelong in a draft-pick trade deal. Mayo man Hanley confirmed his move to Gold Coast Suns yesterday, ending his eight-year stint at…
WAYNE MCNAMARA HAS called time on his inter-county career. The 30-year-old defender confirmed his retirement this evening through a statement released by Limerick GAA. Advertisement McNamara won a Munster title with the Shannonsiders in 2013. Source: Cathal Noonan/INPHO The oldest member of TJ Ryan’s 2016 senior panel, McNamara has been involved with the setup since 2006, making his senior championship debut against Offaly in 2008. The Adare clubman ends his inter-county career with one Munster…
Home Dundalk’s Stephen O’Donnell at the 2016 PFA Player of the Year Award nominations. Source: Morgan Treacy/INPHO Dundalk manager Stephen Kenny has admitted fixture congestion is taking its toll on his ‘exhausted’ players ahead of the club’s Europa League game against Zenit St Petersburg on Thursday. Meanwhile, there will be a full house at Tallaght Stadium after the Lilywhites announced the fixture is a sell-out. Former Kerry All-Ireland-winning minor Gaelic football captain Mark O’Connor has agreed to join…
FORMER MINOR ALL-IRELAND-WINNING captain Mark O’Connor has joined AFL club Geelong. O’Connor played on Kerry’s victorious underage sides in 2014 and 2015, captaining Jack O’Connor’s charges in the latter, and has chosen the Cats after a number of AFL sides expressed interest in the Dingle man. “I’ve made the decision to go to Geelong,” O’Connor, who has signed an international two-year rookie contract, told Radio na Gaeltachta’s An Saol ó Dheas this morning. “It’s a very…
MAYO NATIVE PEARCE Hanley has completed his AFL trade to Queensland rivals Gold Coast Suns, ending his eight-year spell at the Brisbane Lions. Hanley, 27, has consistently been one of the best players for the struggling Lions in recent seasons, playing 129 first-grade games for the club. Former DCU student Hanley joined the Lions as a rookie pick in 2008 before being upgraded to the senior list the following year. The Ballaghaderreen man, whose brother Cian…
Updated at 0800 IT’S HALF-TIME in Dublin’s first National League tie of the year. It’s also Paul Mannion’s first game back in a Dublin jersey since 2014. After a lively first-half on Kingdom debutant Brian Ó Beaglaoich, the Kilmacud Crokes forward isn’t feeling so sprightly. In the privacy of the Croke Park dressing rooms, he’s hunched over, throwing up into a sink. Source: Dan Sheridan/INPHO After spending the 2015 campaign in China and Chicago, Mannion is getting…
FORMER MONAGHAN SELECTOR Declan Brennan has revealed plans to establish a Club Players Association (CPA) – and revealed that he’s received over 10,000 messages from interested parties wishing to contribute. The CPA’s goal is to ensure a voice for club players across the country, with particular emphasis on the fixtures schedule which often sees them without games for weeks and months on end as the inter-county season is in progress. Brennan, regarded as the driving…
AFTER SUFFERING A second stroke in January of this year, Sligo’s Johnny Martyn was still hopeful that his football career could still be salvaged. The initial conversations with doctors were promising but a phone call in May cut those final strains of hope to ribbons and he was told that his body had no more chances to give. It was news he wasn’t expecting and the cruel sense of disillusionment that so often afflicts athletes…
ANOTHER WINTER LIES in store for Mayo in the long shadow of Sam Maguire. Despite three devastating All-Ireland final defeats in the last six years, Tom Parsons and the rest of the Mayo squad have an unwavering belief that lifting the title in September is written in their destiny. Source: James Crombie/INPHO Parsons is a little less damaged than the rest. He wasn’t part of the panel for the two previous losses, but they still…
A book of condolence for Anthony Foley was opened today at the IRFU offices in Dublin. Source: Dan Sheridan/INPHO Home Anthony Foley‘s family have said their ‘anguish is bottomless’ following the tragic death of the Irish and Munster rugby legend. Tributes continue to pour in from around the world with a book of condolence opening in the IRFU offices in Dublin, as well as in council offices around Munster. Nevada State Athletic Commission say the…