By JIM CARNEY IT’S impossible to say if Giovanni Trapattoni and Marco Tardelli will succeed in bringing the Republic of Ireland through the World Cup qualifiers coming up, but already it’s proven a wonderful adventure for 33-year-old first choice goalkeeper David Forde from Innishannagh Park, Newcastle, Galway city. “Capped” unusually late in his career, with [...]
Turloughmore .1-16 Gort .1-16 TURLOUGHMORE could hardly believe they needed a last-gasp point from minor star Conor Shaughnessy at Athenry on Sunday, to rescue a valuable Group B point after dominating much of this Salthill Hotel SHC clash between the beaten semi-finalists from last year’s competition. After an evenly contested opening twenty minutes when scores [...]
By NOEL CARNEY Portumna .1-16 St. Thomas’s .2-11 AS expected, this Group A SHC clash was not for the faint-hearted as the reigning All-Ireland champions St Thomas’s and former ‘greats’ Portumna went at it hammer and tongs in front of a large crowd at Kenny Park, Athenry last Sunday. In the end, a poor start [...]
By BILLY COSS Castlegar .1-17 Craughwell .1-14 THE opening weekend of group matches in the Salthill Hotel-sponsored Galway S.H.C. produced a host of tight finishes but none matched the drama of last Saturday evening’s frantic finale as Castlegar edged their Group C clash with Craughwell at Kenny Park, Athenry thanks to a match-winning injury-time goal [...]
By BILLY COSS Tuam Stars .1-13 Cortoon Shamrocks .1-2 WHAT PROMISED to be one of the weekend’s most competitive and closely-contested matches turned into one of its most lop-sided as Tuam Stars comfortably advanced to the last 16 of the S.F.C. at the expense of Cortoon Shamrocks at Tuam Stadium on Sunday evening. This group [...]
By NOEL CARNEY Carna-Caiseal .2-6 Salthill-Knocknacarra .0-11 ON an emotional day for the club, the lion-hearted men of Carna-Caiseal produced the first big upset of the Bon Secours Hospital-Claregalway Hotel SFC weekend when they held on under intense pressure for a stunning first round win over reigning county champions Salthill-Knocknacarra at Pearse Stadium, Salthill on [...]
Tuam Masters swimmers clean up in Athy: Congratulations to Tuam Masters swimmers, Nick Skehan, Milltown, Cecil Looney, Corofin, and Rory O’Connell, Gardenfield who took part in the Athy Triathlon Club 3.8km swim last Sunday. Rory took home the gold in a time of 43:05 and Nick brought home the silver in a time of 43:30 [...]
ATHENRY .1-9 An Spidéal .0-9 Last year’s beaten county finalists Athenry put in a superb second half performance to turn a six-point deficit into a thrilling three-point win in the first round of the county intermediate football championship at Pearse Stadium last Saturday and in doing so showed that they will once again put in [...]
By NOEL CARNEY Naomh Anna, Leitir Móir .2-14 Mountbellew-Moylough .2-11 MOUNTBELLEW-Moylough created more than enough chances to win this high scoring first round clash at Pearse Stadium last Sunday but fourteen wides, many of them due to wild shooting from far out, hampered their hopes of getting past a spirited Leitir Mór side and the [...]
By JIM CARNEY St Michael’s .2-10 Killererin .0-8 LONG-TIME city standard-bearers in the Senior Championship, St Michael’s did a “Mayo” on Killererin at Corofin on Sunday. For all-out attack from the throw-in, high intensity all through the game, swarm-tackling of the opponent in possession, and slick support play going forward, St Michael’s made it look [...]
