Month: April 2022

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 “Limerick’s Wayne McNamara brings his inter-county career to a close”

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 “We’ll Leave It There So: Dundalk exhaustion fears, Kerry lose star to AFL and today’s sport”

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 “Former Kerry minor star Mark O’Connor signs with AFL club Geelong”

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, “Mayo man Pearce Hanley completes move to AFL rivals Gold Coast Suns”

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 “‘I came in and got sick in the sinks at Croke Park’ – Paul Mannion’s fitness battle after a year away”

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 “Player power: Club GAA players are trying to set up their own version of the GPA”

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 “‘There were times that I wouldn’t look forward to going training. Now I’d love to be going’”

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, “‘We’ve accepted it, we’ve moved on’ – Tom Parsons puts 2016 in the rearview mirror”

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 “We’ll Leave It There So: Munster mourns one of the province’s most cherished sons”

Source: Morgan Treacy/INPHO AS THE FINAL whistle blew and Thurles Sarsfields were crowned Tipperary senior hurling champions once again, there was one man very much “Paudie Maher caps 3-in-a-row with lovely gesture in memory of Thurles selector”