I was chatting with a couple of lads who write for The Irish News last weekend and the talk came round to their recent All Stars Awards. We had a great yarn and discussion about such awards and the one thing we agreed upon was that any awards in any sport are very subjective and [...]
I know it is not everybody’s favourite sport, The Compromise Rules Series, but team manager Anthony Tohill has been running trials in an attempt to draw up a panel of thirty which will be further reduced to twenty three. The two Kerry exiles playing in Australia will travel shortly to join up with the rest [...]
The Tom Markham Cup is residing in Ulster for a third successive year after Tyrone held off a determined Cork fight back to win the All Ireland minor title at Croke Park last Sunday afternoon. It was a cracking contest between two well drilled sides and in the end the Red Hands just about justified [...]
Well there can be little doubt that while there will be huge interest in what takes place in Croke Park on Sunday with the Tyrone ladies, many GAA followers will travel to Omagh on Friday night to cast their eyes over The Target Express Intermediate Championship semi finals. It is a real East Tyrone versus [...]
All Ireland Finals are where you want to be as a county player or manager and I am sure all concerned will really enjoy the next week as they put plans in place preparing for the most important game of the season. With last Saturday’s result meaning a Ladies All Ireland Final place I began [...]
With just over a week to go until the All Ireland Minor Final the rush for tickets has really started. I have had several phone calls and inquiries from friends and acquaintances from Down seeking tickets for the final. It really is amazing but every year brings the same situation as people who are not [...]
That was part of a discussion I had with some people over the weekend who were arguing for a return to the four division league with twelve teams in each section and home and away fixtures. It would certainly provide more football for clubs and their players but would also mean that if your county [...]
As usual there was lots of action on the club front across the county alst weekend with under sixteen, minor and senior competitions all coming to the boil nicely. The big winners of the weekend had to be Eglish as they secured a return to senior football at the first time of asking following their [...]
As a result of last weekend’s league fixtures being arranged for early in the day I was able to make it home in time to see the hurling final and what a fantastic game of hurling it was. Taking nothing away from the skill and talent of Tipperary, Sunday’s game demonstrated clearly that a hungry team [...]
It certainly was a busy few days of football and it would be remiss of me not to mention the wonderful achievement of St. Macartan’s Ladies team from The Clogher Valley who defeated Carrickmore in this year’s senior final. Carrickmore had led by seven points at one stage but The Macs girls refused to be [...]
