All-Ireland SFC semi-final: Armagh 1-18 Kerry 1-16 (after extra time) All the pain was worth it. All those tight games that Armagh left behind them, all...
40 mins: Beautiful score from Aidan Forker. Got a run on his marker and then curled one well with his left. Then Kerry have a goal...
Three games left and nobody has a clue. When Dublin were knocked out of the football championship by Galway, the great euphemism had it that the...
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When are they on? Armagh are playing Kerry in the first All-Ireland senior football championship semi-final at Croke Park at 5.30pm on Saturday. On Sunday, Donegal...
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As a starting point I watched Sunday’s semi-final between Limerick and Cork and was as enthralled as anybody. It’s obvious the differences between the games that...
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Naturally, given the Treaty’s status, the pundits were almost unanimous in tipping Limerick to beat Cork so we’ll give them a pass there but the experts...
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All-Ireland MFC Final: Derry 2-7 Armagh 0-10 A storming second-half performance propelled Derry to consecutive All-Ireland minor football titles at Healy Park in Omagh on Sunday....
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It has been a difficult week for the Dublin footballers. In the days after a championship defeat, everybody has their own way of dealing with the...
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There was much ribaldry in the media zone on Sunday about the scale of the task confronting Jim Gavin’s football think tank. Derry were scared of...
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Life moves on. Every footballer finds out eventually that Father Time is the only man who never has to take his beating. Dublin are out of...
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It was a milestone weekend in the football championship. Dublin’s fall was the major outcome and it will have a major impact on what’s left of...
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The dates and kick-off times for the All-Ireland SFC semi-finals have been announced, with both clashes set for the weekend of July 13th-14th. On the Saturday,...