Month: March 2022

CONOR LAVERTY WAS one of the last men to emerge from Kilcoo’s dressing room on Saturday night. Kilcoo’s Conor Laverty celebrates at the end of “‘Fascinating’ first meeting with Moran, playing without knee cartilage and landing the Holy Grail at 36”

FOR THE SECOND successive week, Michael Fennelly had to pick his Offaly team up off the floor after they suffered a heavy defeat to All-Ireland “‘You’re in survival mode and shipping big defeats. My heart goes out to the boys’”

GALWAY CAMOGIE CAPTAIN Sarah Dervan, and Cork Ladies star Erika O’Shea have expressed their support for a motion going before GAA Congress regarding a merger “‘We can’t get any pitch facilities with lights’ – All-Ireland champions set for new season”

MAGGIE FARRELLY WILL become the first female referee to take charge of a men’s national league match this weekend.  The Cavan native has been named “Referee Maggie Farrelly to make history in men’s Allianz League game”

TYRONE’S PÁDRAIG HAMPSEY says his team are “not proud” of the brawl which unfolded in the closing minutes of their league clash with Armagh, but “Padraig Hampsey: ‘It’s one we’re not proud of ourselves as a county, but I don’t think there was much in it’”

1. Harry Ruddle and Jerome Johnston the All-Ireland heroes There is only one appropriate place to start when digesting the events at Croke Park on “6 talking points after Ballygunner and Kilcoo win on a truly great All-Ireland club final day”

TIPPERARY BOSS COLM Bonnar resisted the temptation to afford new captain Ronan Maher the chance to start yesterday in their first home game of 2022, “Colm Bonnar: ‘There was such a roar behind me from the crowd and then what a score’”

CORK HEAD INTO their Division 1A meeting with Limerick in fine fettle with two wins from two in the bag.  Plenty of soul-searching took place “Cork building strength in depth as competition for places in attack heats up”

THIS WAS THE type of euphoric moment to justify Dessie Hutchinson’s life-changing decision. Three years ago when Ballygunner and Ballyhale had previously crossed paths, Hutchinson “‘I thought I was going to have a heart attack on the pitch in the last seconds’”

Tipperary 1-19 Kilkenny 1-18 THE SCORING NARRATIVE began in the same way it had finished, Jason Forde despatching a free over the bar for Tipperary. “Forde free hands Tipperary victory as they hold off Kilkenny challenge in Thurles”