By Patrick Morrison IN 2015, my first year with the Armagh team, we played a challenge game against Dublin down in the DCU sports complex. This was the first year of their five in-a-row dominance. We had started with a strong team with a handful of our regular starters rested. Dublin on the other hand, […]
By Michael McMullan FORMER Derry star Sean Marty Lockhart feels one of the reasons Dublin were at the forefront of Gaelic football was the quality of their defenders. In a feature interview this week, the All-Star full-back – who played a record 16 times for Ireland – looks back on his preparations going into the […]
OUR greatest referee, David Gough, was on an elite referee’s night out in Dublin. Everyone had passed the fitness test earlier that day so they were all, as he puts it, “on a high.” David: We were in the Croke Park hotel having pints and the craic. It was getting late and the lads were mad […]
KERRY and Galway will contest the 2022 All-Ireland Senior Football final and I suppose no one can really argue that they deserve to be there. This fixture takes me back to the days when I started to take football seriously as a young lad, watching these two teams contesting All-Ireland finals against each other. When you […]
NIALL Gartland takes a look back at the some of the most decorated players to play the game, PAT SPILLANE (NINE ALL-STARS) PAT Spillane was an outstanding player in his day and is the only gaelic footballer to have won nine All-Stars. He made his debut during the 19734 league campaign, and over the course […]
By Jackie Cahill DONEGAL have made one change ahead of Saturday’s National League Division 1 semi-final against Dublin (1pm, Live on TG4). All Star forward Geradline McLaughlin is named at left corner forward, with Katie Long dropping to the bench. Dublin boss Mick Bohan has made two changes in personnel to the team that defeated […]
CAVAN’S Shane Briody tells us about some of the players and teams he has played against. Age: 31. Teams played for: Ballyhaise, Pearse Ógs and Cavan. Which opposition ground do you like playing on and why? Cootehill Celtic, the tunnel. Advertisement Which opposition ground do you dislike going to and why? I always dreaded the trip out to […]
By John Lynch TYRONE and Dublin have met in many big All-Ireland Championship matches over the years so to see them clashing this Sunday in a league relegation clash is a bit strange. From our own point of view we definitely need Tyrone to get a result. I felt we were a bit unlucky against […]
THINGS hot up this weekend as the National Football League heads into the home straight.Teams will have used the week’s break to squeeze in some extra training and preparation as minds now slowly turn towards summertime football. As we head into the last few remaining fixtures, teams at both ends of the table will be eager […]
By Niall Gartland A MINI-CHAMPIONSHIP of sorts gets underway in Tyrone’s eagerly anticipated Division One clash against Dublin at O’Neill’s Healy Park this Sunday. The Red Hands have three massive games remaining to ensure their survival in the top flight for another year (Mayo and Kerry are next in the pipeline, so it’s fair to […]
