Tuesday 18 June 2013
Dublin will get the chance to end their Allianz League title famine when they confront Tyrone in the decider and Paul Mannion, man of the match in yesterday's semi-final win over Mayo, is in no doubt as to just what keeps Jim Gavin's side ticking over so smoothly.
St Patrick's College Maghera coach Sean Martin Lockhart believes his team's Hogan Cup triumph in such emphatic fashion at Croke Park at the weekend can lend a further dimension to what he feels is a new beginning for Derry football.
Dublin and Tyrone will contest the National Football League final at Croke Park on April 28.
St Patrick's Maghera won their fifth Hogan Cup title with a 1-20 to 1-10 win over St Patrick's Navan at Croke Park.
Ten years have elapsed since Tyrone last won the Allianz Football League title and players such as Sean Cavanagh, Conor Gormley and Joe McMahon feel this is a famine which must be ended this month.
Conor Glass is one of the youngest players in the St Patrick’s College, Maghera side that will meet St Patrick’s Classical School, Navan in tomorrow’s Hogan Cup final at Croke Park, but he has certainly given himself a lot to live up to.
James McGahan may be still in his teens but he has been quietly amassing GAA honours at different levels over the course of the past two years.
Antrim footballer Tony Scullion has vowed not to play under current county manager Frank Dawson again following a bust-up over attending a mass.
Down manager James McCartan used no fewer than 33 players during the course of the Allianz Football League.
ANTRIM chairman Jim Murray is urging a stronger sense of unity following the team's demotion to Division Four and the fall-out from the non-involvement of Tony Scullion and Tomas McCann in last Sunday's loss against Monaghan.
THIS time last year Jackson McGreevy was in the St Mary's CBGS, Belfast side that won the O'Keefe Cup, one of the premier trophies on offer in the All-Ireland colleges hurling sphere.
ANTRIM skipper Neil McManus pulls no punches in assessing the implications of losing to Carlow in tomorrow's Allianz Hurling League Division 1B shootout at Pairc Tailteann, Navan.
His team may have missed out on promotion to Division Two but this has not served to dilute Peter Canavan's passion for the Ulster Championship in the slightest.
Tyrone midfielder Mickey Murphy has left the Red Hands' senior panel.
Cavan are the Ulster Under 21 champions for a third year in succession after Peter Reilly's side overcame gallant Donegal in last night's final at Brewster Park.
Tyrone skipper Stephen O'Neill received the perfect boost in advance of Sunday's Allianz League semi-final against Kildare when he was named as the March winner of the Ulster GAA Writers' Association monthly merit award.
Almost an hour after Marty Duffy had blown the final whistle, with the ball back in Tyrone hands and one point between themselves and victorious Kerry, Tyrone manager Mickey Harte remained on the field happily posing with children for photographs, signing autographs and swapping chit-chat with similarly star-struck adults.
Donegal have made an official complaint that one of their players was on the receiving end of a bite during Sunday's Division One NFL draw with Dublin.
In the 10-year period from 1999 until 2008 Armagh remained a major force in gaelic football, a team that engendered fear and respect in almost equal measure as they pocketed Ulster titles with almost monotonous regularity and rubbed shoulders with Tyrone and Kerry at the top table.
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Joe Kinnear risked alienating the Newcastle fans further by claiming to have "more intelligence than them".
Brad Barritt has dismissed any fears of potential jet lag and weariness being a factor when he makes his British and Irish Lions debut.
Team doctor James Robson has paid a glowing tribute to the professionalism of Warren Gatland's British and Irish Lions.
Liverpool have moved a step closer to offloading Andy Carroll with the striker set for a medical at West Ham.
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