Dublin 6-15 Waterford 2-12 HANNAH TYRRELL MARKED her return to inter-county football in style this afternoon as the Irish rugby international hit 1-5, as reigning All-Ireland champions Dublin convincingly defeated Waterford in Parnell Park. In a game that was dubbed a dress rehearsal for the championship, Dublin welcomed back Olwen Carey, Siobhan Killeen, and fresh…
IN THE 50th minute of Sunday afternoon’s game, Páidí Fitzpatrick was summoned to the sideline at Semple Stadium. The Clare defender gestured with his fist as he ran off, saluting David McInerney who was coming on as a replacement. The message was clear. He had put in a huge shift to help establish a winning…
MORE IRISH PLAYERS have earned new Australian Football League Women’s [AFLW] contracts as the focus switches to next season. Mayo and Cavan stars Sarah Rowe and Aishling Sheridan have committed their immediate future to Collingwood, putting pen to paper in recent days. Yesterday, Rowe was one of six players to have a new deal announced,…
REIGNING CORK SENIOR hurling kingpins Blackrock will take on last year’s semi-finalists Erins Own after this evening’s draw for the 2021 club championships in the county. On the day that adult club players received the green light to resume training in pods of 15 from Monday 10 May and can play games from Monday 7…
IN THE WEEKS building up to the 1997 All-Ireland football final, as the stream of messages John Casey was receiving turned into a deluge, one piece of correspondence stood out. The Mayo forward was gearing up to face Kerry, where he had been located over the previous twelve months, educating himself on the football fields…
Click:vanilla gift card SNL’s cold open this week featured a fictitious morning news show in Minnesota in which uncomfortable disagreements between anchors highlighted differences in how white and Black Americans perceive the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, and the state of racial progress. After an initial…
During Britney Spears’s explosive remarks about her longstanding conservatorship, made before a Los Angeles court on Wednesday afternoon, one of the most heartbreaking moments came toward the end. Spears devoted much of her 20-minute statement to outlining her problems with the restrictions of the conservatorship: how she has an IUD she’s not allowed to remove;…
ERLING HAALAND’S future is set to be finalised by the end of next month – with Manchester City currently leading the race to sign him. Reports in Germany say the Borussia Dortmund striker’s £64million release clause must be activated by April 30. That means all clubs bidding to sign him must register their intention by…
ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI is keen to leave Bayern Munich in the summer, according to reports. Lewandowski, 33, became a fan favourite when he arrived at the club in 2014. He has scored an impressive 337 goals in 365 games for the Reds, and many have labelled him as the best striker in the world. However, according…
MANCHESTER UNITED have been urged to ditch Harry Maguire from their starting XI and replace him with ‘no-nonsense’ Antonio Rudiger. That’s according to former Red Devils defender Gary Pallister, who reckons the Chelsea star would be an upgrade on Maguire. However, he adds that the United skipper should NOT be sold, with the hope that…