By Alan Rodgers IT was the summer of 1994. Tyrone hadn’t won an Ulster Championship match for five years while Donegal were emerging from a golden era of success which had seen them win their first ever All-Ireland title. Breffni Park was the venue for a clash that saw one era begin while another ended. […]
THERE is a five-year old chess sensation nicknamed ‘Tweedledum’ who is currently setting the chess world alight. A video emerged of him last week, playing in a tournament against a seasoned chess master from China. The child sucks on a piece of lace, yawns and looks all around him as his 50 year old opponent […]
WE have so many small boxing champions, from Rinty Monaghan through to Carl Frampton. Once, I was playing in a charity match in Belfast. Both teams were full of All-Stars and a few famous sporstmen from other sports. Paddy Barnes, the famous boxer, was on our team. He is about five feet tall. Before the […]
Shaun Casey takes a look back at the Ulster players who have won the prestigious Footballer of the Year award Kieran McGeary (Tyrone) – 2021 TYRONE ended a 13-year wait for an All-Ireland title and captured the Sam Maguire Cup in the first year of Brian Dooher and Feargal Logan’s joint-management ticket. The Red Hands […]
By Michael McMullan LEADING GAA personalities will be in Ballymena later this month as St Louis Grammar school host ‘A Night with St. Louis’, a chat night featuring guests from across the GAA world. The event will be compered by former Dunloy and Antrim goalkeeper Shane Elliott, himself a past pupil of the school and a […]
By Barry O’Donnell DESPITE the passage of time memories of that halcyon summer campaign are still vivid. It’s 20 years exactly today (September 28th 2003 ) since the famine ended with Tyrone laying claim to its first ever All-Ireland senior football title. A 0-12 to 0-9 triumph over defending champions and old adversaries Armagh in […]
Some of the legends of the game have produced their best work on All-Ireland final day, and Niall Gartland takes a look back at some of the very best individual performances in recent decades in All-Ireland SFC deciders… Maurice Fitzgerald 1997 MAURICE Fitzgerald’s performance in the 1997 All-Ireland final is the stuff of legends, but it […]
THERE IS a certain awkwardness in watching Peter Canavan’s analysis of sons Darragh and Ruairí on the Sunday Game. A magnificent Irishness, where a fear of being brash leads to the complete and utter opposite. It gets to the point you almost have to restrain yourself from driving your own clan into the ground. Canavan […]
Teams played for: An Clochan Liath (Dungloe) and Donegal. Your current involvement: Manager of club minor girls and senior ladies teams. Which club game, that you played in, will you never forget and why? Advertisement A championship game down in Magheragallan v Gaoth Dobhair. I think it was in 1990. We were only in […]
By Niall Gartland TYRONE great Peter Canavan has described the late Art McRory as a ‘confidant’ who played a major part in his own journey to the steps of the Hogan Stand when Tyrone finally reached the promised land in 2003. Canavan played under Art McRory during a memorable spell in the mid-90s where Tyrone […]
