ALMOST passed out last week when one of the contestants on the Rose of Tralee said that for her party piece, she was going to perform chest compressions on a doll accompanied by Michael Jackson’s ‘Smooth Criminal’ (a song about a violent stranger attack on a woman in her apartment). First, Smooth Criminal started booming out: […]
The bell tolls this week ahead of another year in the life of the recently formed Gaelcholáiste Dhoire. Their GAA story has been growing and Michael McMullan spoke to Róisín Ní Cheallaigh and Conor Mac Alasdair about their growth, a memorable year and life in the school. BUILD it and they will come. We’ve heard […]
By Michael McMullan SLEACHT Néill manager Mark Doran is in favour the split season and feels the total focus on the club game is “brilliant” for clubs. Doran, who was also part of Clare’s management team under Colm Collins this season, is well placed to speak on the topic given his experience in managing county […]
By Michael McMullan THE bond between players and management made the difference this season as Derry camogs landed All-Ireland honours insists attacking ace Aoife Shaw. The Lavey star hit 0-7 and made the goal for Shannon O’Connor as Derry eventually fended off Meath in a 1-17 to 1-9 victory to land a second intermediate title. […]
AROUND this time of the year I could usually do a ‘cut and paste’ job re previous articles about how the county season has finished and about how the real action starts for 90 per cent of GAA folk around the country with the club championships. Twitter feeds are either full of club championship fixtures or league […]
DERRY midfielder Brendan Rogers has been named as the GAA/GPA Player of the Month in association with PwC. The Sleacht Néill man was a colossus in Derry’s run to the cusp of an All-Ireland final with 1-14 to his name across their 20-game season. He edges out nine-time All-Ireland winner Stephen Cluxton and Brian Fenton […]
Sean Marty Lockhart is one of the greatest defenders of all time, an All-Star and Ireland’s most capped International Rules player. Michael McMullan went to meet him to pick his brains on the art of defending WHEN you spend 22 hours away from collective team training in preparation for marking Peter Canavan, you tick the […]
The GAA World Games brought players from all over the globe to Derry this week. Liam McGinley was back on Irish soil with Asia and Celine Diffin was back on the next part of her adventure. They spoke with Michael McMullan… THE world is a massive place made so much smaller by the grá for […]
WHAT a hateful day. Derry had to lose it as Kerry were not going to win it. And we obliged. Conor Glass was anonymous again in Croke Park. Just like the club final and the semi-final last year against Galway. Didn’t track the wing-back for Kerry’s goal. Kicked a simple footpass over the sideline at a […]
I THINK everyone outside of maybe Ulster got the final that they wished for after last weekend’s results. Don’t get me wrong, we now have an unbelievable spectacle to look forward to given the history and the tradition between both of these teams, but it could have been easily so different. Massive credit must go […]
