Gaelic Life team of the week


IT was another weekend of league action with the camogie campaign getting off the ground as well. Here is our selection from games involving Ulster teams. 1 NIALL MORGAN Tyrone Tyrone’s main source of scores on a disappointing day. Advertisement 2 CIARA CLARKE Fermanagh Solid at the back as Fermanagh picked up the points in […]


PATRICK MORRISON: Goalkeepers first


By Patrick Morrison THE year is 2050, a father has taken his Gaelic football mad son to the GAA museum as a birthday treat. As they walk around the many exhibits and read the history of each, the next one they stop at reads ‘Stephen Cluxton. Dublin goalkeeper winning 18 Leinster titles, nine All-Ireland titles, […]


PROVINCIAL PRIDE


With the interprovincial football series making a return at the weekend, Niall McCoy has a look at the recent roll of honour with one province enjoying plenty of success 2024 – Ulster AFTER an eight-year hiatus, the competition returned to test the new FRC rules and produced a good weekend’s entertainment, especially the final between […]


More needed as championship heats up says Niall Morgan


By Michael McMullan SLEACHT Néill’s performance in their quarter-final win over Ballinascreen won’t be enough to beat the other contenders in the John McLaughlin Cup race insists coach Niall Morgan. The Tyrone goalkeeper joined Mark Doran’s management team this season as the Emmet’s bid for a first title since 2020. Morgan was speaking before the […]


Morgan excitement at O’Rourke appointment


By Niall Gartland MALACHY O’Rourke was formally appointed as manager of the Tyrone senior intercounty team following a meeting of the county committee on Tuesday evening in Garvaghey. O’Rourke’s appointment was viewed as a matter of formality after it emerged in the middle of last week that he was the only candidate nominated for the […]


PATRICK MORRISON: Soul searching


A GOALKEEPER, like any other player in Gaelic sports, has three main areas that contribute to their on-field performance. These three areas are all interlinked and have a constant bearing on how the other areas function at all times. It is also important to understand that these three areas are all influenced by their environment […]


Donegal direct approach a danger says Niall Morgan


By Barry O’Donnell THE long kick-out strategy which reaped rich dividends for Donegal last time out, is a tactic which Tyrone need to have an answer to, Niall Morgan has warned. Derry net minder Odhran Lynch fell victim to the booming deliveries from his counterpart at the other end of the field Shaun Patton last […]


Ulster players named in GAA team of the week


AFTER another busy weekend of NFL action, six Ulster players have been name in the GAA’s team of the week.   Receive quality journalism wherever you are, on any device. Keep up to date from the comfort of your own home with a digital subscription. Any time | Any place | Anywhere Subscribe to current […]