Andy Watters
Reporter at The Irish News
Irish News sports reporter. Married to Sharon, 4 kids. Interested in everything including Gaelic Games, boxing & football. West Indies diehard. Opinions mine.
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1 week ago |
irishnews.com | Andy Watters
LEEDS was bedlam. The streets were thronged, the atmosphere was electric as the open-topped double-decker bus packed with jubilant footballers wound its way slowly through the city streets. Tony Dorigo looked on loving it all as the Leeds players celebrated promotion after winning the Championship with 100 points and partied and waved to the fans below. Dorigo, now an expert summariser for Leeds United’s LUTV, had been on the bus the last time a Leeds team came home with a trophy.
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1 week ago |
irishnews.com | Andy Watters
GAELIC Football is as much about brain as it is about brawn at the top level and Down’s Daniel Guinness isn’t lacking in either department. The burly Carryduff dentist has been a mainstay in the Mourne midfield this season and his goals against Fermanagh, in the Ulster Championship, and Clare, in the opening round of the All-Ireland series, will certainly feature in Down’s 2025 highlights reel.
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1 week ago |
irishnews.com | Andy Watters
PADDY Donovan and Lewis Crocker could yet meet for their rematch in an open air spectacular at Windsor Park in September. A couple of weeks ago it appeared that the SSE was the favourite venue (on September 26 or October 11) to host the eagerly-awaited second meeting of Ireland’s welterweight rivals, but although it is “a long shot” the possibility of staging the fight at Windsor Park remains an option.
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1 week ago |
irishnews.com | Andy Watters
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Group Three, Round One: Louth 4-8 Monaghan 1-23TWO points are in the bag and there’s a long list of positives to take from a deserved victory, but manager Gabriel Bannigan fears Monaghan’s summer won’t last long if they keep shipping goals. The first two could be put down to rustiness after a long lay-off, the third was a debatable penalty and the fourth came in the dying seconds when the game was won.
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1 week ago |
irishnews.com | Andy Watters
GER Brennan joked that he and Monaghan manager Gabriel Bannigan had been organising where they’d meet for a pint after the match when they got involved in a brief, but heated, touchline exchange as the tension boiled over in Newbridge. Brennan accepted that the better team had won after Monaghan’s six-point victory but the game was in the melting pot midway through the second half after Sam Mulroy’s penalty left just three points between the Group Three rivals.
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