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WEXFORD BOSS DARRAGH Egan has hailed the addition of former Ireland and Leinster rugby player Gordon D’Arcy to the county’s hurling setup. D’Arcy has joined Wexford as a member of the backroom team, which also features Billy Walsh, the current USA boxing coach that formerly served in that role with Ireland. Tipperary native Egan is…

THE GAA HAVE announced the fixture details for the six All-Ireland club finals that will take place in Croke Park next month. The finalists for the three hurling deciders were confirmed over the weekend with six football semi-finals down for decision next Saturday. The centrepiece will be the senior finals on Saturday 12 February with…

THE GAA SEASON steps up a notch next weekend with the start of the 2022 football leagues and with key games in the concluding stages of the club championships, there are six live matches to take in. The action commences on Saturday afternoon with a triple-header of club games on TG4. Cork’s Mourneabbey and Galway’s…

WHEN DESSIE HUTCHINSON left a career in professional soccer behind him to resume his hurling career with Ballygunner and Waterford, he surely dreamed of days like yesterday. He fired over four points as Ballygunner advanced to their first ever All-Ireland club hurling decider, setting up a mouthwatering showdown with Ballyhale in three weeks’ time.  Having…

TJ REID HAS conjured up plenty moments of brilliance in his hurling career but it’s difficult to think of something more sensational or dramatic as his intervention today in Semple Stadium. TJ Reid with St Thomas manager Kenneth Burke after the game. Source: Laszlo Geczo/INPHO The Ballyhale Shamrocks dream of landing three-in-a-row in the All-Ireland…

DUBLIN BOOKED THEIR place in next Saturday’s Walsh Cup final with victory today over Offaly. Dublin ran out 2-23 to 1-20 winners in Birr and will now play Wexford next weekend in the final of the Leinster pre-season hurling competition. Mattie Kenny’s team trailed 1-13 to 1-9 at half-time but took charge in the second…

1. More TJ Reid heroics COMETH THE HOUR, cometh the man.  Ballyhale Shamrocks were two points down with 30 seconds left on the clock when TJ Reid stood over a free from a tight angle outside the 21. Realising there might not be enough time to get another score, Reid went for broke. His strike…

Ballyhale Shamrocks (Kilkenny) 2-15 St Thomas (Galway) 0-20 TJ REID RESCUED Ballyhale Shamrocks with a sensational late goal as the champions broke the hearts of Galway’s St Thomas in the All-Ireland senior club semi-final today. Reid smashed a 20-yard free to the net, from just to the right of the goal in the 64th minute,…

St Sylvester’s (Dublin) 4-11 Click Here: Kinawley Brian Borus (Fermanagh) 2-5 By Daire Walsh DUBLIN STAR SINÉAD Aherne struck 2-5 at Gaffney Park this afternoon as St Sylvester’s convincingly overcame Kinawley Brian Borus to book their spot in the currentaccount.ie All-Ireland Intermediate club final. Despite the absence of her inter-county team-mate Niamh McEvoy, listed amongst…

Limerick 0-27 Clare 0-18 Páraic McMahon reports from Cusack Park, Ennis A NINE-POINT was recorded by the reigning All-Ireland, Munster and National League champions Limerick against home side Clare in front of an attendance of 7,992 in Ennis for today’s Co-Op Superstores Munster Hurling Cup final. Survivors from Limerick’s All-Ireland winning fifteen included Barry Nash,…