There’s only one game remaining in this year’s All-Ireland Championship and Niall Gartland casts an eye over the footballers who have scored the most from play… 1 Colm Basquel (5-15) IS the word revelation pushing it a little? Yes, Basquel was largely nullified in Saturday’s dogged victory over Monaghan, but otherwise he’s exceeded expectations and […]
Niall Gartland looks back at how Ulster teams have fared in recent All-Ireland semi-final clashes… 2022: Galway 2-8 Derry 1-6 THE Oakleafers enjoyed their best season in decades last year, winning the Ulster title on a sun-kissed day at Clones, but their uncompromising brand of football came unstuck against a potent Galway team. Two goals […]
Armagh are set to appear in their first Ulster Championship final since coming up trumps against Fermanagh back in 2008. Shaun Casey takes a look at the teams who have had to wait a long time to get another shot at Ulster glory. Antrim: 1951 – 2009 (58 years) FOLLOWING a golden period at the […]
You’ve often heard the statement about the league table never telling a lie. Michael McMullan looks back at the most consistent counties in the last 10 years of league action. Kerry Div 1 – 10 years IT’S hardly surprising to see the Kingdom top of the tree and having been playing top flight league football […]
WE take a look at how all nine Ulster counties sit ahead of the remaining two rounds of games… Armagh (Division One) ARMAGH’S league campaign is delicately poised with two rounds of fixtures remaining. Sitting fourth in Division One, they aren’t quite out of the woods just yet, but on the other hand, they still […]
Jack McCaffrey is back for Dublin, and we look at players who have returned to the fold after announcing their retirement… Brian Corcoran (Cork) LIKELY the most prominent example of the genre, legendary Cork hurler Brian Corcoran shocked the GAA world when he retired at the age of 28. Corcoran, who had won the Hurler […]
Shaun Casey looks at the overall leaderboard in the McKenna Cup… Tyrone – 17 THE Red Hands dominated the competition during Mickey Harte’s tenure in charge, winning 12 titles throughout his reign. Harte always held the same opinion, if you’re in a competition you might as well try and win it, and he carried that […]
Some of the stand-out moments from a glittering career for club, county and country. Star in the making SOME players take years to hit their stride at senior level, but that wasn’t the case for the physically well developed Murphy, who won the Young Footballer of the Year award in his debut season with Donegal […]
WITH the Ulster Club Senior Football Championship heating up, Shaun Casey casts his eye over past glories… Crossmaglen: 11 IN 1996, led by Cross and Armagh legend Joe Kernan, the Rangers picked up their first of 11 Ulster titles. They secured their last provincial crown in 2015 with an extra-time win over Scotstown and three […]
The GAA Presidents who have served the association since the turn of the Millennium… Seán McCague (2000-2003) MONAGHAN legend SEÁN McCague served as the 33rd president of the Association. Already well known for his accomplishments as manager of Scotstown and Monaghan over the course of the seventies and eighties, he was elected to the position […]
