Cahair O'Kane

1 week ago | irishnews.com | Cahair O'Kane

THE world Paul Devlin inhabits can be huge one moment and really small the next. Either way, it’s the simple pleasures he craves. When they overcame Derry in the Ulster U20 semi-final a fortnight ago, his phone hopped with messages from the world over. America. Australia. Even Ardboe. Down on the pitch, Oak Leaf defender Luke Grant shook his hand and stopped to speak for a moment. A bricklayer-come-contractor, Devlin built the house Grant was reared in.

1 week ago | irishnews.com | Cahair O'Kane

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1 week ago | irishnews.com | Cahair O'Kane

THERE are a few tales Cathal Scarry can laugh at. Like the evening he sat five minutes waiting on temporary traffic lights outside Knock to change, and then when they did, he realised they’d been on green all that time. Growing up in east Galway, he played a bit of juvenile hurling. The club’s colours were black and white so they were grand, but the school played in a red-black ensemble. “Mountbellew just up the road were black and amber.

1 week ago | irishnews.com | Cahair O'Kane

Connacht SFC final: Mayo v Galway (Sunday, 4pm, Castlebar, live on RTÉ2)IS the west half-awake or still half-asleep? For 24 years, Sam Maguire has found ways to ignore Galway and Mayo ringing at its doorbell. Connacht’s internal squabbles have always been interesting. And over the last decade, they’ve been plenty consequential to the overall picture. Will either of them win an All-Ireland though? Tomorrow’s Castlebar clash won’t make us any the wiser.

2 weeks ago | irishnews.com | Cahair O'Kane

Dalata Hotel Group Ulster U20 final: Donegal 2-14 Tyrone 1-18A LAST-minute of extra-time breach of the 3v3 rule by Donegal and an even later save by goalkeeper Conor McGarvey helped Tyrone retain the Ulster U20 title. Donegal appeared to have gotten away with one two minutes earlier when Finbarr Roarty steamed out. Donegal won a free and cut the gap back to one through Shane Callaghan. But on the second occasion, the Tyrone sideline made sure it wasn’t missed. They were right to.