By JIM CARNEY FOR Galway U-21 footballers, it’s the fifth and final round in their fight for the All-Ireland crown. After four wins, and four very impressive displays, Galway take on Munster champions Cork in the final of the Cadbury-sponsored Championship at Páirc na Gael, Limerick on Saturday evening at 7.00 o’clock. Eagerly awaited, it’s [...]
As the final fence is in sight for The Bobbyjo Gathering, all tracks lead to Mountbellew on Friday, 10th May for the unveiling of “The Bobbyjo Wall of Fame in The Hawthorn Bar with Mr. P. J. Fahy, well known dog-man raising the white flag at 8 p.m. to start off a weekend of music, [...]
By NOEL CARNEY Galway .2-9 Kildare .2-8 GALWAY LADIES had to call on all their craft, experience and scoring ability to overcome a promising young Kildare side but they did so brilliantly in a thrilling Division 2 semi-final of the Tesco Home Grown Football League at St. Rynagh’s Park, Banagher, Co. Offaly last Sunday. The [...]
By BILLY COSS Galway ..2-10 Kildare ..2-5 WHETHER it’s down to the All-Ireland U-21 Championship’s do-or die structure without any second chances or its intense, two-month ‘window’ in the GAA calendar where momentum plays such a huge role, few competitions have matched its capacity to produce upsets in recent years. Saturday afternoon saw another in [...]
WITH no fewer than 12 ex-Jarlath’s students in the Galway U-21 panel now unbeaten after four games, the famous Tuam football nursery has three other reasons to look to the future with confidence. Inside the past two weeks the Juvenile and First Year teams won Connacht Championship titles and both are still in the running [...]
By JIM CARNEY A UNIQUE, two-strand approach to raise funds for deserving charities will take place in Ballygar during the month of May — in support of Cancer Care West, the Galway Hospice Foundation and the Irish Cancer Society. In 2010, Gerard Kelly, then Principal Teacher at Swords, Co. Dublin Educate Together National School, was [...]
By NOEL CARNEY Kilkenny …1-24 Galway ..1-17 IT was yet another bitterly disappointing day for Galway senior hurlers as they were outclassed by a far superior Kilkenny in the semi-final of the National League at Semple Stadium, Thurles last Sunday. And although the margin in the end was only seven points it felt like it [...]
THIS WEEK, Peter O’Connell continued his expedition up Mount Everest to raise awareness for suicide prevention and funds for Pieta House. Peter conquered the famously difficult Khumbu Icefall which boasts treacherous ice and cavernous crevasses and makes the icefall one of the most difficult parts of the route. *****You need to be logged in to [...]
By JIM CARNEY TAKING IT one day at a time, Galway U-21 footballers enter new territory on Saturday afternoon when they clash with Kildare in the first of the Cadbury-sponsored All-Ireland U-21 football semi-finals on a double-bill at O’Connor Park, Tullamore. It’s a 2.00 o’clock throw-in for Galway and Kildare (referee Barry Cassidy, Derry) followed [...]
By JIM CARNEY GALWAY vs Kilkenny at Semple Stadium, Thurles on Sunday will be unusual: Kilkenny are still without their spiritual leader and key forward Henry Shefflin, out injured, and their inspirational manager Brian Cody who is recovering from heart surgery. Regarded as two of the top three counties in hurling last year and this [...]
