DIARMUID CONNOLLY FINDS himself back in familiar territory. St Vincent’s are in another Leinster final, chasing their third provincial title in four years. For Connolly, he’s one game away from complete a clean sweep of trophies in 2016. An O’Byrne Cup defeat to Longford in January aside, a game that Connolly didn’t feature in, he’s … Continue reading "Diarmuid Connolly – ‘After a long season, mentally it gets tough’"

SLOWING DOWN DOESN’T come naturally to Davy Fitzgerald. The brakes haven’t worked for quite a while. As a player, as a manager, everything has been at full throttle. He doesn’t have time for second gear. Cast yourself back to his era-defining penalty against Limerick in the 1995 Munster final. As Fitzgerald buried the sliotar below … Continue reading "Davy Fitzgerald on his health, hurling and how Wexford changed his mind"

IT MAY BE almost 13 years since David ‘Dotsy’ O’Callaghan made his debut for the capital’s senior hurlers but he admits he’s as hungry as ever to succeed having seen Cuala claim the county’s first Leinster club title in 36 years. However, whether O’Callaghan’s inter-county career continues into 2017 appears to be out of his … Continue reading "Seeing Cuala succeed is driving ‘Dotsy’ O’Callaghan to give hurling career one last push"

THE GAA HAVE announced their television and radio rights deal for the next five years with RTÉ and Sky Sports set to retain their current TV packages, while in radio RTÉ now have full commentary rights to all games as Newstalk lose out. Source: James Crombie/INPHO RTÉ have retained access to 31 senior championship games … Continue reading "RTÉ and Sky retain GAA TV rights for next five years, Newstalk lose out in radio deal"

Kerry’s Paul Geaney and Dublin’s Diarmuid Connolly KERRY’S PAUL GEANEY and Tipperary’s John McGrath have claimed the senior player honours in the 2016 Munster GAA awards. While Dublin’s Diarmuid Connolly and Kilkenny’s Jonjo Farrell have won the equivalent awards in Leinster as they are the inaugural winners of the Pearse Medal for 2016. Jonjo Farrell … Continue reading "Geaney, Connolly, McGrath and Farrell claim 2016 Munster and Leinster GAA senior player awards"

NEWSTALK HAVE QUESTIONED RTÉ’s use of state funding to win the full radio commentary rights in the new GAA media deal. The GAA today confirmed the details of their new deal, which will last from 2017 to 2022. Newstalk, who first secured the rights to live GAA commentary in 2011, have lost live commentary of … Continue reading "Newstalk question RTÉ’s use of state funding to win exclusive GAA radio rights"

A TWO-TIME Kerry All-Ireland senior football winner has joined the Roscommon backroom team ahead of next season. Roscommon manager Kevin McStay has confirmed that former Kerry netminder Declan O’Keeffe will be the county’s goalkeeping coach next year and will also have an input into overall team preparation. The news was revealed by McStay when speaking … Continue reading "Two-time Kerry All-Ireland winner joins Rossies backroom while 3 players debating future"

RTÉ have secured a massive boost to their sport portfolio with a new five-year GAA deal. Source: Morgan Treacy/INPHO Home RTÉ and Sky Sports set to retain their current GAA TV packages, while in radio the state broadcaster now has  full commentary rights. Newstalk have questioned RTÉ’s use of state funding to win the full radio … Continue reading "We’ll Leave It There So: GAA rights deal, more doping allegations for Russia and all today’s sport"

“I remember one incident where Terry Rossiter was playing under-21 and he was after breaking his thumb. “The cast wasn’t set on his arm and he went to Micko [at senior training] with it and Micko said: ‘Jesus, sure there’s nothing wrong with your legs, you can still run’. “If you did that now there’d … Continue reading "‘I don’t buy into the idea that training is harder now than it used to be’ – Doyle"

ANOTHER ACTION-PACKED week of sport at home and abroad, from Connacht’s search for Pat Lam’s successor to Champions League and Europa League action. Here’s what you had to say. Source: James Crombie/INPHO On Monday morning, Connacht announced that Pat Lam will step down at the end of the current campaign and succeed as head coach … Continue reading "Getting Basingstoke to Championship in Football Manager and horse puns – It’s Comments of the Week"