Month: September 2021

HUMBLE IN VICTORY, gracious in defeat.

Cork watch on during the presentation.

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It wasn’t to be for Cork. Yesterday was the 11-time champions’ first-ever All-Ireland final defeat. And the pain was fully evident after as Ephie Fitzgerald and his captain Ciara O’Sullivan faced the media afterwards.

Dublin on the other hand, could finally put the heartbreak of 2014, 2015 and 2016 decider defeats to bed as the final hooter sounded and they ran out five-point winners.

An intriguing and fiery battle between two great sides, but there could only be one winner.

“You lose an All-Ireland it’s going to be raw for a few days,” Fitzgerald conceded afterwards.

“I have the utmost respect for the Dublin girls, they’re a very nice bunch and in their defeats they took it very graciously. That’s what we have to do as well.

“We have to put our hands up and say Dublin were better than us on the day, they’re victorious and salute them. The better team won on the day and we have to acknowledge it.”

That said, he couldn’t have praised his side more.

“I think our girls couldn’t give any more today,” the Nemo Rangers club man added.

Fitzgerald congratulates Mick Bohan after.

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“We came up a little bit short and that’s just the reality of it. I’m so immensely proud of the girls I can’t really put it into words. I can’t say enough of times how proud I am of the girls and the performance. To see them running themselves to exhaustion was just inspiring really.

“I think they key today was Dublin got goals at vital times. That’s the way it goes. They have a very, very good forward line. They have experience. They’ve been on the go a long time.

“Hats off to them, congratulations to them. But we’re very disappointed that we weren’t able to do the job ourselves today.”

O’Sullivan echoed his words herself, the pain written all over her face as she was forced to dissect the loss in the post-match postmortem.

She noted how she and her side were disappointed that they opted to take the ball into the tackle in the first half, but praised their fight.

“It probably wasn’t in our game plan to do that and we were getting turned over,” the Mourneabbey star said.

“I think we did correct that a small bit at the start of the second half. A ball (cleared) off the goal line that Eimear Scally had, we’ve been on the other side of that a lot — we’ve come out with that bit of luck so we can’t have any complaints. 

“Dublin are a fabulous team. They’ve been there for the last six or seven years and we’ve had great battles. We’re just disappointed that this time we came out on the wrong side of it.”

Dejection at the final whistle.

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She added: “This is my 11th year playing. I don’t think we can progress any more.

“You just want to win when you go out. We fell short so as a year for us, it’s a disappointment. We didn’t win the All-Ireland and that’s what we had set out to do. 

“We’ll regroup in January and we will go again.”

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A REPEAT OF the 2016 county final is the standout fixture after the draw was made yesterday for this year’s Dublin senior football championship quarter-finals.

St Vincent’s, bidding for a fifth title in six years this season and a sixth straight appearance in a decider, will take on Castleknock at the last eight stage. When the teams met in the final two years ago, St Vincent’s triumphed by 0-15 to 0-10.

The concluding stages of the group games took place over the weekend with 2015 champions Ballyboden St-Enda’s set to take on Na Fianna, who finished in second place behind St Vincent’s in Group 2.

Last year’s beaten finalists Ballymun Kickhams, who last won the title in 2012, have been drawn in their quarter-final against St Judes, who most recently reached a final in 2009.

The quarter-final pairings are completed by 2010 champions and 2012 finalists Kilmacud Crokes taking on St Sylvester’s.

Dublin senior football quarter-finals

(Games to be played 29-30 September)

Ballyboden St-Enda’s v Na Fianna
St Vincent’s v Castleknock
St Sylvester’s v Kilmacud Crokes
St Jude’s v Ballymun Kickhams

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TYRONE FORWARD CONNOR McAliskey is facing another lengthy spell on the sidelines after suffering an injury while playing for his club at the weekend.

BBC Sport is reporting that McAliskey broke his ankle during Clonoe’s 2-9 to 1-11 defeat to Ardboe in Coalisland in the opening round of the Tyrone SFC yesterday.

McAliskey, who was nominated for an All-Star this year, went down with the injury in the 50th minute and was stretchered off the field. 

The Red Hand forward missed the majority of Tyrone’s 2017 campaign after tearing his ACL during a McKenna Cup game against Cavan.  

McAliskey is coming off his best year in the Tyrone jersey and finished the season as the joint-second top scorer in the All-Ireland SFC with 2-41 to his name. 

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THE ISSUE OF the GAA better protecting its players was on Sean Cavanagh’s mind before he suffered horrific facial injuries during a club game last weekend.

Cavanagh was left hospitalised after taking a knee to the face 20 minutes into Moy’s Tyrone SFC first round defeat to Edendork on Saturday.

He later confirmed on Twitter that “a bad concussion, broken nose and extensive facial injuries” was the extent of the damage.

And so it continues 😨😨@KCsixtyseven Edendork played Moy today in the Tyrone senior championship first round
20 yellows -6 reds-1 Black
And Sean Cavanagh transported away to hospital in an ambulance. The man that inflicted the injury did not receive a card of any description pic.twitter.com/gOWQdhLVoc

— david greene (@buddygreene) September 16, 2018

Speaking to The42 last week to promote his newly released autobiography ‘The Obsession’, Cavanagh called for a second referee to be introduced to Gaelic football to help protect the top players.

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“I like the idea of a second referee with some of the stuff that goes on off the ball,” he said.

“It can frustrate some of our top players and skilful players. In International Rules we always had a second referee and you knew the eyes were on you. You couldn’t overstep the mark and that effectively gives good players the advantage. 

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“I hope the guys can get it right in Croke Park and move the game so it’s a bit more about attacking and clinical finishing and entertainment.

“I think our game probably does need a few wee rule changes just to try and bring the important aspects back to the play.”

In his book, Cavanagh recounts several unsavoury tales of being targetted on the field throughout his career.

On one occasion he was punched in the head by an adult supporter after playing in an U16 club game for the Moy against Ardboe.

Later in his career, while lining out for Tyrone against Cavan in the Ulster championship, a defender spat in his face multiple times during the game. 

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– First published 13.30, 17 September

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A GROUP OF Irish sportswomen will bid to earn professional rookie contracts with an AFL club for the 2019 season when they visit Melbourne for an intensive week-long trial on Thursday. 

After a worldwide recruitment process spanning eight weeks attracted over 100 applicants, 11 Irish players from a range of sports including rugby, Gaelic football and camogie made the final selection of 18, with the group preparing to travel Down Under this week. 

While there, the hopefuls will be put through their paces and tested across a number of disciplines, including fitness and skills sessions, under the watchful eye of scouts from AFLW clubs.

Among the Irish contingent is Ireland international rugby player Mairead Coyne, three-time camogie All-Star nominee Mary Ryan, Tipperary footballer Aisling McCarthy and Cavan’s Aisling Sheridan. 

Mayo duo Cora Staunton and Sarah Rowe are already confirmed for the 2019 Women’s AFL season, signing contracts with Great Western Sydney Giants and Collingwood respectively.

Ahead of the group’s departure from Dublin on Thursday, Mike Currane of AFL Ireland Women, said: “It is extremely exciting for the players, with some potential life changing opportunities ahead, and a once in a lifetime experience in terms of the camp itself.

Tipperary’s Aisling McCarthy.

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“I am thrilled that this many Irish girls have been selected and it is a sign of the level of talent that we have here in Ireland.”

In addition to the 11 Irish involved, there are two Americans and athletes from Wales, England, France, Canada and Fiji in the final selection. 

The camp takes place between 22-30 September.

Irish players attending AFLW trial:

• Aisling Considine (Clare)
• Aisling Sheridan (Cavan)
• Aisling Curley (Kildare)
• Aisling McCarthy (Tipperary)
• Amanda Maginn (AFL/Ulster Rugby)
• Eimear Gallagher (Donegal)
• Fiadhna Tangney (Kerry)
• Mairead Coyne (Connacht Rugby)
• Mary Ryan (Tipperary camogie)
• Muireann Atkinson (Monaghan)
• Yvonne McMonagle (Donegal)

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DUBLIN ARE CELEBRATING another All-Ireland victory today after they were crowned senior ladies football champions for the second successive year.

A 3-11 to 1-12 victory over Cork in yesterday’s final, before an attendance of 50,141 in Croke Park, ensured Dublin would retain the Brendan Martin Cup.  

After suffering three final losses to Cork between 2014 and 2016, this latest victory was one to savour for Dublin.

And as is the post-final tradition, Dublin’s players headed to Crumlin Children’s Hospital this morning to visit some of the patients and their families.

Members of the victorious Dublin team with Anna May Shields from Portlaoise

Members of the victorious Dublin team with Anna May Shields.

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6-year-old Danny Quinsey from Enniscorthy meets the Dublin players

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The Dublin team with members of staff outside the hospital

Kate Sullivan with Deividas Kaseta (4) from Louth

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Dublin ladies footballers with Martin & Marty O’Gara and Sarah Gibson-O’Gara, from Wicklow

Jamie Kerrigan (10) from Edenderry with the new All-Ireland champions

Dublin’s Noelle Healy with Zach Ring (8) from Swords

Dublin players with 10-year-old Thomas Curran from Terenure

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APPOINTED IN OCTOBER 2017, departed in September 2018.

Pat Gilroy’s first spell as Dublin senior manager may have been a wide-ranging one, overseeing an exhaustive process to overhaul the fortunes of the county’s football side, but his second tenure, at the helm of the county hurling team, ended up being brief as it lasted just a single season.

Cunningham and Kenny are linked with the role that Gilroy has vacated.

He pulled the plug officially last night as he cited work commitments, reasoning that provided a neat symmetry with his previous departure.

“It has been a challenging four years for me balancing my role with Dublin along with family and work commitments and I have decided not to continue for a further term,” remarked Gilroy back in September 2012, as he relayed the news that he was moving on from the footballers.

In the space of six years, the pace of life off the pitch has not eased off for Gilroy and the demands placed on those directing operations on the sideline has continued to ratchet up.

His hurling spell in charge sparked promise, generated regrets and will likely be reviewed in frustration that he only got a season to place his stamp on proceedings. The bald statistics point to a record of three wins and six losses from the nine games Dublin played between league and championship in 2018.

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They didn’t challenge for promotion from Division 1B in the league, needed to beat Laois on the last day to avoid a relegation play-off and failed to emerge from the Leinster round-robin series as their involvement concluded in Salthill on Saturday 9 June.

But that conceals the true narrative of their campaign. Emphatic losses to Offaly and Limerick, along with a narrow win over Antrim, illustrated their grim start to the spring.

Yet they were highly competitive in championship. The opening matches against Kilkenny and Wexford effectively killed their hopes of pushing into the All-Ireland series but both games saw winning positions slip from their grasp late on. They ran Galway to a point after swatting aside Offaly but it was those early losses, particularly against Kilkenny after they had held the initiative for so long, that hurt them most.

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Gilroy succeeded in coaxing the likes of Alan Nolan, Danny Sutcliffe and Conal Keaney back into the fold to make an impact. He got plenty out of stationing Liam Rushe at full-forward, saw Chris Crummey’s defensive excellence yield an All-Star nomination by the close of the summer and introduce youngsters like Paddy Smyth to senior life. An early June exit masked the strides they had made and the consensus formed that they had the raw materials to build under Gilroy’s watch in 2019.

His departure now breeds uncertainty in the Dublin hurling climate. It means three of the four counties that lost out after the provincial round-robin campaigns are searching for someone to fill their hotseats.

But whereas Derek McGrath left Waterford on 18 June and Michael Ryan bid farewell to Tipperary on 2 August, Dublin have been struck by the requirements to start a managerial hunt in mid-September at a time when those two other counties are closing in on successors and a selection of other rivals have already shifted their minds to 2019.

The crux of the matter when considering Gilroy’s replacement is whether Dublin will turn to a Galway figure. Mattie Kenny was a big challenger to fill the position last year. He may not be a native of the capital but that belies the level of insight and familiarity he possesses from his work with Cuala.

Seven major championship trophies – three Dublin, two Leinster and two All-Ireland – have been garnered under Kenny’s supervision since October 2015. His prior work in coaching the Galway seniors means he has an inter-county string to his bow.

There is another Galway contender who ticks the boxes in terms of insight and experience. Anthony Cunningham’s work alongside Gilroy this year means he would offer a level of continuity to the current squad. He has an array of previous successful roles in football and hurling with teams like St Brigid’s, Garrycastle and the Galway U21s while he was boss of the Galway senior side for four seasons.

Anthony Cunningham and Mattie Kenny during their time in charge of Galway.

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But irrespective of the strong credentials of prospective replacements, the task of finding someone new is a jolt to the Dublin hurling setup.

The timing is a headache for the Dublin county board, a delay will leave the new boss hamstrung for the early stages of 2019.

Results did not swing Gilroy’s way this year but the brightness of the latter performances pointed to the prospect of better to come in 2019.

His departure leaves everything looking unclear again.

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RETAINING THEIR ALL-Ireland title in front of a record 50,141 crowd was a proud moment for Mick Bohan’s Dublin team. 

1-7 from Sinead Aherne helped the Dubs to a five-point win over Cork, avenging their three previous final defeats to the same opposition between 2014-16.

Dublin defender Sinead Goldrick was thrilled to string together the first back-to-back titles in the county’s history. To do it in front of a massive audience made it all the more special.

“We wanted to do two-in-a-row, I don’t think we would be happy with just the one,” she said after the game. “For years we chased winning that All-Ireland and then we finally had it and we definitely didn’t want to lose it.

“When I saw the top tier full, and a sense of pride hits you with the crowd. But that doesn’t matter unless you have the win. There’s a group of us who have lost quarter-finals by a point over the course of three years and then by two points to Kerry, so we just really wanted to get over the line today and thankfully this group did it together.

“Away from the lights we went on a journey and Mick said in ten year’s time you might see them in a pub or on the street and you just have to give that look, because nobody outside of the team knows what we have been through and how much we push each other.

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“Football is about people seeing the best but behind the scenes things happen to players in their lives and everyone just pushes each other up, and this group is so special. Just to win and keep Brendan in Dublin; we have a huge sense of pride in that.

“Today was a good display of football, and that was important to us. You don’t want to just win, you want to win so that 50,000 people have respect for the game and the skill, and hopefully we showed that today.”

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Was the two-in-a-row discussed much within the group this season?

“I think we probably just got asked about it so much,” said Aherne. “That’s there from the outside and that’s what’s looking in.

“We didn’t ignore it, I don’t think we can but we tried to put it into a frame that was about us and how we performed and it was put to the side and just to be able to bring forward all the things that we had and take a step by step approach last year and this year.

“We just wanted to come out and play and show what we can do, and the fact that we were playing Cork; we just knew we had to be at the peak of our game and that was it.”

It won’t be long before the talk turns to 2019 and whether the Girls in Blue can three-peat. 

“It’s been said already!” said Carla Rowe, who bagged two vital goals for the victors.

Goldrick continued: “We’re just so proud to get the two and I suppose any Dublin team wants to keep it in the county, so we’ll definitely try to do that. It was the first time any Dublin team won the League and that’s what we went after. Our second goal was to win Leinster and win the All-Ireland so we’re just really happy that that’s happened.”

“I suppose this year has probably been a bit different,” added captain Aherne. “For the first time in a few years we’ve been looking forwards instead of looking back, so it was about us and what we could do to push our game on to the next level and that was the approach we took.

“For Dublin next year that will be natural again – to constantly improve standards and see what way we go.”

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THE TYRONE COUNTY Committee have condemned scenes of violence which marred a championship meeting between Moy and Edendork on Saturday, where Sean Cavanagh suffered concussion and a broken nose.

The former county captain was taken to hospital at half-time after suffering a brutal knee to the face after 20 minutes of play, with the high number of bookings and sending offs overshadowing the weekend’s game, where Edendork earned a one point victory.

Tyrone have condemned the scenes in a statement released on Monday evening.

It said: “Following on from the Weekend Tyrone Club Championship matches, The Tyrone County Committee wish to state that all or any disciplinary action will be a matter of consideration by the Tyrone CCC.

“Based on the referee’s report, plus examination of the video-recording of the games, the matters arising will be dealt with in an urgent manner & following due process as stipulated in the Rules of the Association and the Official Guide the CCC will determine the relevant penalties.

“We would wish to condemn all of the ugly scenes of unwarranted violence. We wish also to extend good wishes to all players who incurred injuries — whether accidentally or otherwise.”

And so it continues 😨😨@KCsixtyseven Edendork played Moy today in the Tyrone senior championship first round
20 yellows -6 reds-1 Black
And Sean Cavanagh transported away to hospital in an ambulance. The man that inflicted the injury did not receive a card of any description pic.twitter.com/gOWQdhLVoc

— david greene (@buddygreene) September 16, 2018

Moy suffered a one point defeat on Saturday, losing 0-10 to 0-9. Darren McCurry kicked the winning score for the visitors to O’Neill Park in injury time before being given his marching orders for a black card with moments remaining.

Harry Loughran and Colm Cavanagh were both dismissed for Moy for second yellow cards, with none of the game’s sending offs coming as a result of a straight red.

Sean Cavanagh confirmed on Sunday that he has been released from Craigavon Area Hospital, having suffered significant injuries.

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“Thanks for all the messages,” the 35-year-old wrote on Twitter. “Released from hospital with a bad concussion, broken nose & extensive facial injuries but could have been much worse. I’m lucky.” 

On Friday night a brawl also broke out during an Intermediate Football Championship game between Stewartstown and Strabane.

Stewartstown came out on top, winning 1-19 to 2-23, however the game saw five red cards and two black cards produced by the referee.

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MICKEY LINDEN ROLLED back the years on Saturday afternoon, as the former Down All-Ireland winner kicked a superb individual score for Mayobridge in the Down Premier Reserve Championship, aged 55.

Linden is considered one of Ulster’s greatest ever footballers, helping Down to All-Ireland titles in 1991 and again three years later in 1994, where he also won an All-Star and was named Texaco Footballer of the Year.

The corner forward made his debut for Mayobridge in 1980 and still represents his local side today, adding a Reserve Championship medal to his collection as they saw off Burren 1-15 to 0-7 at Pairc Esler.

Saturday marked 27 years to the day since he got on the scoresheet to help Down lift the Sam Maguire, with his side seeing off the challenge of Seán Boylan’s Meath 1-16 to 1-14. It was the county’s first senior football title in 23 years.

Proof that age is just a number!
5⃣5⃣ year old Mickey Linden scores a superb point for Mayobridge 2⃣7⃣ years to the day that he helped Down to All-Ireland glory. 👏👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/TtCIhAiR1o

— BBC SPORT NI (@BBCSPORTNI) September 17, 2018

Just witnessed Mickey Linden score an outrageous point from 50 yds in the Reserve Championship Final. Man is 55. #Legend

— Shealan Strain (@shealan_1) September 15, 2018

Just heard the amazing Mickey Linden @OfficialDownGAA superstar of the early 1990’s played in the Reserve Final for @MayobridgeGAC and scored at 55! Is anyone else from that era in the last century still super fit and playing like Mickey?

— Frank Mitchell (@frank_broadcast) September 16, 2018

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