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Malachy Clerkin

Ireland

Sports Writer at Irish Times

Irish Times sports journalist. Looking up, not down [email protected]

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  • GAA live updates: Kerry take on Clare in Munster football final

    1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Malachy Clerkin

    FIXTURESMunster SFC final: Kerry v Clare, Fitzgerald Stadium, 1:45pmConnacht SFC final: Mayo v Galway, MacHale Park, 4pmKEY READSSeán Moran’s weekend GAA previewsDean Rock: Defeat to Meath could be just the spur Dublin need to recalibrate All-Ireland bidMayo’s Aidan O’Shea still divides opinion like nobody else in the GAATwo games today on the Irish Times GAA liveblog.

  • Malachy Clerkin: Lamine Yamal is incredible and it would be great if we could just leave him alone

    1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Malachy Clerkin

    You would forgive the good folk at Inter Milan if they were in a bit of a funk this weekend. No team since Bayern Munich in 1999 have gone away from home in the first leg of a Champions League semi-final and scored three goals. In going to Barcelona on Wednesday night and bringing a 3-3 draw back to the San Siro, they’ve done something 51 other teams this century could not. And still, all anybody can talk about is Lamine Yamal.

  • Mayo’s Aidan O’Shea still divides opinion like nobody else in the GAA

    1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Malachy Clerkin

    It was inside the last two minutes against Sligo and now Mayo suddenly had a crisis. Or the makings of one, which in Mayo football generally amounts to the same thing. It had taken just 40 seconds for their situation to go from seven points up and cruising to three up and fretting. Back-to-back two-pointers had hauled Sligo to within a kick of a ball and Mayo desperately needed the next kickout.

  • After 5,418 days Dublin have finally lost in Leinster and Jim Gavin’s new rules made it possible

    2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Malachy Clerkin

    You can measure it in days – 5,418, to be exact, between defeats in the Leinster championship for Dublin. Or in matches if you like – from June 27th, 2010, to April 13th, 2025, Dublin played 43 Leinster championship games and won them all. Or you can tell the story in people either – before Sunday no current intercounty footballer in Leinster had beaten Dublin in a senior championship match. Over time Dublin’s dominance of Leinster had become a kind of knotweed.

  • Efficient Donegal deservedly take the spoils over willing Monaghan

    3 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Malachy Clerkin

    Ulster SFC quarter-final: Monaghan 0-21 Donegal 0-23It ended in chaos. Monaghan, doughty and willing throughout, thought they had hands on ball for one last effort. Ryan O’Toole stood over a sideline ball with the clock ticking dead and paused slightly, only kicking it after the hooter began to sound. David Coldrick, correctly according to rule, blew for full-time, much to the home side’s indignation.

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Malachy Clerkin
Malachy Clerkin @MalachyClerkin
12 May 25

Annoyingly good.

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Malachy Clerkin
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12 May 25

RT @INPHOjames: Louth goalkeeper Niall McDonnell celebrates towards Hill 16 after his side ended 68 year wait to with the Leinster Senior F…

Malachy Clerkin
Malachy Clerkin @MalachyClerkin
12 May 25

RT @MalachyClerkin: That was a lot of fun in Croke Park yesterday. Some second half from Louth to win their first Leinster title since De V…