news
All news
hurling
Leinster SHC Final: Kilkenny run riot against Dublin
Leinster Senior Hurling Final KILKENNY 3-28 DUBLIN 1-18 By John Harrington at Croke Park A day to forget at headquarters for the Dublin hurlers. They were cut to ribbons by a rampant Kilkenny team who won a fifth Leinster championship in a row all too easily. Dublin’s short-passing game broke
Saturday 8 June 2024
hurling
Joe McDonagh Cup Final: Offaly resist Laois comeback
Joe McDonagh Cup Final
OFFALY 2-23 LAOIS 0-26
By Paul Keane at Croke Park
The Leinster SHC will welcome nine times champions Offaly back in 2025 following a landmark Joe McDonagh Cup success for the Faithful County.
Goals at the beginning of both halves, from top scorer Brian Duignan, who
Saturday 8 June 2024
hurling
Derek Lyng: 'This performance has been coming'
By John Harrington
Not surprisingly, Kilkenny manager Derek Lyng was a very happy man after today’s Leinster SHC final.
His team put Dublin to the sword in style, and after the game he revealed he felt it was a performance that was coming.
“We got a good start and worked
Saturday 8 June 2024
hurling
Johnny Kelly: 'The journey is only beginning'
By Kevin Egan
Offaly’s up-and-coming generation of young stars might have been the talk of the country over the past week, but senior manager Johnny Kelly shifted the focus onto some of his veterans after the Faithful County claimed the Joe McDonagh Cup, ending their six-year exile from the Leinster
17 HR AGO
hurling
Micheál Donoghue: 'We have to learn from this'
By John Harrington
Dublin manager Micheál Donoghue hopes his team will have learned some painful lessons from today’s Leinster SHC Final defeat.
His team was comprehensively out-hurled by a rampant Kilkenny and he was at a loss explain why they suffered such a total systems failure.
"I don't know, maybe
Saturday 8 June 2024
football
Tailteann Cup: Wicklow storm to victory over Leitrim
Tailteann Cup preliminary quarter-final
Wicklow 2-15 Leitrim 1-11
By Brendan Lawrence at Glennon Brothers Pearse Park
“And look who it is...it’s that flippin Dean Healy again,” was a line from the live commentary from the Shannonside radio station commentator in the pressbox of Glennon Brothers Pearse Park in Longford as
Saturday 8 June 2024
Videos
all videos
Features & Analysis
all features
hurling
Richie Stakelum reflects on day Dubs skinned the Cats
By Tom Stakelum
As the Dublin hurlers look to capture a first Leinster senior hurling crown in 11 years, we talk to Richie Stakelum who in 2013 was part of Anthony Daly's Dublin management team that landed a first championship scalp of the Cats in 71 years.
How did you,
07 June 2024
hurling
Dublin's next-gen hurlers are making their mark
By John Harrington
20 of the 37 players on the Dublin hurling championship panel that will contest Saturday’s Leinster Hurling Final against Kilkenny have played at this level for three years or less.
16 of them have been brought in to the fold by manager Micheál Donoghue since he took
07 June 2024
hurling
Faith renewed in Offaly hurling
By Kevin Egan
It’s Sunday afternoon, and the sun shines down on joyous scenes in Glenisk O’Connor Park. Something between six and eight thousand people have come to greet the Offaly U-20 hurlers and welcome the James Nowlan Cup to the county for the first time, and while it’s not
04 June 2024
hurling
‘U20 Starlets to Senior Stars’
By Tom Stakelum
Here we shine a light on five of our U20 starlets who have burst onto the Senior stage in recent years.
Craig Morgan (Tipperary)
First up in our ‘Starlets to Stars’ is the tight marking, no nonsense defender, Craig Morgan. The Kilruane MacDonagh’s clubman has risen to
31 May 2024