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1 week ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Ger McCarthy |Croke Park
Three first half goals inspired Kerry to their thirteenth Lidl LGFA National Football League Division 1 title at Croke Park on Saturday. In a one-sided affair, the 2024 TG4 All-Ireland senior champions gained revenge for last year’s Division 1 final loss at the hands of the Orchard County.
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1 week ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Ger McCarthy |Croke Park
Galway claimed their first Lidl LGFA National Football League Division 2 title since 2014 in Croke Park on Saturday. Both finalists were relegated from Division 1 in 2024 and returned to the top tier at the first time of asking. An opportunity to add silverware in the shape of a Division 2 title was accepted by a Galway team yet to taste defeat this season.
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2 weeks ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Brendan O’Brien |Croke Park
Leinster have served clear notice of their Champions Cup intentions by pounding Harlequins for ten tries while, maybe even more impressively, keeping the visitors scoreless in their round of 16 tie on Saturday afternoon. The province has lost four finals since claiming their fourth ‘European’ title in 2018, including the last three. The heartache has been monumental, but they move on to another home tie, due next Friday evening at the Aviva Stadium, with serious momentum.
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3 weeks ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Paul Keane |Croke Park
It's fair to say that Project Offaly began with limited expectations when Mickey Harte first arrived in the midlands last autumn. Sure, he'd already won league titles on five occasions, across all four divisions and three different decades, whilst in charge of Tyrone, Louth and Derry but this, lest anyone has forgotten, was an Offaly team not just beaten by London in the Tailteann Cup last May but hammered.
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3 weeks ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Paul Keane |Croke Park
You would have been forgiven for buying into the myth of Monaghan football's demise. Ten seasons of Division 1 football between 2015 and 2024, for a county with the fifth smallest population on the island, amounted to shopping in the big brand stores until the credit card inevitably maxed out. They've enjoyed fresh investment however. Conor McManus may have closed his account over winter but they have new talisman performers.
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1 month ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Paul Keane |Croke Park
Maybe Jason Rabbitte saw Joe Canning do it, or maybe it was his own father Joe that provided the inspiration. Either way, when Rabbitte the younger pulled off a sumptuous reverse hand-pass into the path of Cian Hannon for a 39th minute Presentation College, Athenry score, the westerners had all the momentum. Not long after, Frank Burke burst beyond the CBS Thurles full-back and struck to the net to open up an eight-point, 2-14 to 0-12, lead.
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1 month ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Paul Keane |Croke Park
These are boom times for underage football in Derry. Back-to-back All-Ireland minor football champions, and winners of that competition in three of the last five seasons, the Oak Leaf County is also now home to the Hogan Cup winners for good measure. Padraig Haran, who struck 1-1 for St Pat's and was named Man of the Match at Croke Park, is one of a number of players who have now won titles for college and county.
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1 month ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Paul Keane |Croke Park
They didn't, but given the circumstances, you'd have been forgiven for thinking that Galway threw this game. Previously unbeaten - the only team in the top three divisions who could say that - and joint top of Division 1, they substituted Footballer of the Year Paul Conroy, two-pointer supreme Shane Walsh, All-Star Dylan McHugh and Rob Finnerty by the 46th minute. Finnerty and Walsh didn't even make it to the second-half as the team's scoring radar apparently malfunctioned.
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1 month ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Paul Keane |Croke Park
Dublin manager Dessie Farrell has confirmed that John Small is the sixth player from last year's Championship team to depart the group. Attacker Ciaran Kilkenny - who was injured for this evening's NFL Division 1 defeat of Galway, a result that keeps Dublin well in the title hunt - stated during the week that Small was 'unlikely' to play this year. Speaking at Croke Park this evening, Farrell agreed that the decorated Ballymun defender is almost certain to sit out the season.
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2 months ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Paul Keane |Croke Park
Johnny Kelly says Offaly will approach Sunday's midlands derby against Westmeath with a tunnel vision and won't be distracted by promotion talk. Dan Ravenhill's monster score from a free almost on his own 45 metre line sealed a dramatic Croke Park win for the Faithful.
