RENA BUCKLEY IS thinking back to a summer week that captured Eamonn Ryan. In a career stacked with highlights, Buckley part of a decorated team and Ryan the guiding figure from the sideline, it seemed a partnership of constant success. But even an 18-time All-Ireland winner could not hit every nail on the head. “Eamonn … Continue reading "‘It’s very sad, just so grateful to have those memories and appreciate everything he did for us’"

TWO-TIME ALL-Ireland winner Ger Aylward has announced his inter-county retirement from Kilkenny. Aylward becomes the latest Cats player to step away after Paul Murphy also called time on his Kilkenny career as Brian Cody’s side prepare to face into the 2021 season. Glenmore’s Aylward made his senior debut for Kilkenny in 2013 and went on … Continue reading "‘It was an honour’- two-time All-Ireland winner calls time on Kilkenny career"

TIPPERARY’S AISLING MCCARTHY is certainly settling into her new surroundings at the West Coast Eagles, after making an impressive debut this weekend. McCarthy became the first Irishwoman — and first non-Australian — to move Australian Football League Women’s [AFLW] clubs last year after switching from Western Bulldogs to West Coast Eagles.  The Cahir clubwoman made her … Continue reading "Tipp star McCarthy kicks three goals in impressive debut with new AFLW club"

Click:wps官网 Glass competes for possession with Sam Powell-Pepper during an AFL game last August. Source: AAP/PA Images ASKED TO DESCRIBE the lowest point of his four-and-a-half-year Australian odyssey, Conor Glass’s mind immediately jumps back to a 2019 AFL game against Collingwood. Hawthorn won 67-63 on a night where Irish housemates Glass and Conor Nash both … Continue reading "‘I wanted my AFL career to go on for 10 or 12 years but everyone has a different journey. I’ve accepted that’"

“THE GREATEST LEGACY any manager or coach can leave is the part they play in shaping, moulding, and developing the people they lead. And we were all so blessed, lucky, honoured, and so greatly privileged to have been guided by Éamonn Ryan. “Some of the greatest managers in the history of sport have left a … Continue reading "Winning 10 All-Irelands in the most caring, kind and inoffensive way and the week’s best sportswriting"

ANOTHER WEEK OVER, another to begin, as 2021, or 2020 2.0, continues. Lockdown number three hasn’t exactly been easy, but thankfully we have plenty of sport on TV to keep us all occupied for now.  Likewise, there’s plenty on The42‘s membership platform to keep you ticking over. And, of course, we have another busy week … Continue reading "Here are the benefits your membership of The42 will deliver this week"

IT’S NO SECRET that dual players at inter-county level are more so associated with women’s Gaelic games. Orla O’Dwyer (centre) is one of the country’s most high-profile dual players. Source: Oisin Keniry/INPHO That concept seems to be a thing of the past at the top level in the men’s game, though it was once commonplace … Continue reading "‘I’m grateful and privileged to play both’ – a closer look at the inter-county dual player"

CORK LEGEND BRÍD Stack has been released from hospital and is “expected to make a full recovery” after sustaining a worrying injury in a horror incident on her Aussie Rules debut yesterday. “Scans revealed Stack has a stable fracture of the C7 vertebra and no injury to the surrounding nerves,” a statement from Greater Western … Continue reading "Positive update on Bríd Stack after horror incident, with Cork great to make full recovery"

NEW GROUND WILL continue to be broken in women’s Gaelic games with Waterford becoming one of the few counties in the country to own their own pitch outright. Waterford player Aoife Murray and members of the field development committee, Michael Ryan, Crohan McGregor and Edel Curry with chairperson John Frewen at the new site. Source: … Continue reading "‘A much-needed base we can call our own’ – Waterford join counties breaking new ground"

GALWAY CAMOGIE LEGEND Thérèse Maher speaks candidly about the loss of her parents in her upcoming episode of Laochra Gael. The GAA series, which is in its 19th season on TG4, has featured some fascinating stories in recent weeks with Kevin Cassidy and Ryan O’Dwyer both proving to be hits with viewers. 2013 All-Ireland winner Thérèse … Continue reading "‘When Mam and Dad died, we could never get them back. But sport is only sport’"