Archive for the ‘GAA Football’ Category
Comeragh men reach ‘B’ Summit
By Tony Ryan
estern champions Comeragh Gaels played their divisional final on the 26th of April and it certainly showed in the first half of the county final in this grade which was played in the Fraher Field last Sunday morning.
On the other hand, St Mary’s played the Eastern final as recently as the 5th [...]
DEISE AIMING FOR PROVINCIAL GLORY
his year’s Munster Senior Ladies Football Final pairing at Mallow on Saturday next has something of a novel look about it, as it doesn’t feature reigning Munster and All-Ireland champions Cork.
In their absence Waterford and Kerry will do battle for the first time in a provincial final since 2003 and this is the 12th time [...]
DEISEMEN MUST BELIEVE AS DERRY TRAVEL SOUTH
By Thomas Keane
hree weeks on from an excellent performance against Cork, Tom McGlinchey’s Waterford Senior footballers are back in action in Fraher Field on Saturday afternoon when they take on Derry in the first round of the All-Ireland Qualifiers.
“Yeah, it was great to get the home draw, and it would have been a lot worse [...]
The Manchester I know and love
My first trip to Manchester was just a few months shy of the Warrington bomb that took the lives of Tim Parry and Jonathan Ball.
Their deaths came to mind last week in the wake of the Manchester Arena atrocity, which ranks among the worst manifestations of inhumanity.
But in the hours and days that followed the [...]
Waterford Face Tall Order
hile Cork’s form since their 2010 All-Ireland Football Final victory has largely fallen off a cliff, they’ll still go into Saturday’s Munster Quarter-Final in Dungarvan as logical favourites.
As a Division Two side, the Rebels would be expected to get the better of any Division Four opponent, but they didn’t exactly set the world on fire [...]
Captain Walsh leads the Kilgobnet surge
County Junior Intermediate Football (Attached) Final
Kilgobnet 3-13
Kill 1-01
Kilgobnet romped to a facile 18-point victory in the Junior Football Intermediate Attached County Final on Sunday last at Walsh Park.
Kilgobnet captain and man of the match Paul Walsh gave a master class of score taking contributing 2-9 in all. The talented forward converted two penalties, frees, a [...]
Glee for the Barony as the title goes East
Under-21 ‘A’ Football Final Replay
Gaultier 0-13 – The Nire 2-05
The young men of Gaultier boosted their club’s morale and the fortunes of East Waterford football in securing the County Under-21 ‘A’ title in Sunday’s replay at a sparsely attended Walsh Park.
The superb double act provided by man of the match Caomhán Maguire [...]
NIGHTMARE FOR NIRE AS CROKES RUN WILD
Munster Senior Club Football Final
Dr Crokes 3-15
The Nire 0-6
Dermot Keyes in Mallow
Ouch. This was akin to a punch in the guts, the air being let out of your tires and getting dumped on Debs night all in one rapid, unpleasant, stomach-churning sequence of unfortunate events.
This was not the happy ending Deise [...]
NIRE’S HARSH MEDICINE
Deise champions go down heavily in Munster Final
Dermot Keyes in Mallow
John Wooden, whose wisdom should be tapped into by more than just a scribe seeking inspiration on a Sunday night, once said that “losing is only temporary and not all-encompassing”. How right he was.
On the face of it, The Nire’s 18-point reversal [...]
GOING FOR GOLD
Nire aiming to break new ground in Munster Final
The Nire aim to go where no Waterford football club has ever gone before when taking on Kerry’s Dr Crokes in next Sunday’s Munster Senior Final at Mallow (throw-in: 3.30pm).
In a rematch of the 2006 decider, in which the Waterford champions came within a whisker [...]