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3 weeks ago | 
irishexaminer.com | John Fallon |Pairc Ui Chaoimh
Play-offs hold fond memories for Irish women’s football. Attention between the generation led by Emma Byrne losing their Euro one in 2008 until Hampden Park in 2022 offered a generational breakthrough. Amber Barrett and her big toe will be forever renowned for slaying the Scots to end a qualification famine and begin the journey to Australia. Ireland’s route to the next World Cup, the 2027 version in Brazil, will be shaped by the outcome of another play-off in October.
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3 weeks ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Andrew Horgan |Pairc Ui Chaoimh
It took Saoirse Noonan just 19 minutes into her first competitive start to register her second goal for the Republic of Ireland. But while her maiden strike against Georgia back in November 2021 meant the world to her, this finish arguably meant more to the Cork native. This time as she wheeled away in celebration after seeing her bullet header from close-range hit the roof of the net, she did so in front of her home fans, almost 10,000 of them that had packed into Páirc Uí Chaoimh.
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3 weeks ago | 
irishexaminer.com | John Fallon |Pairc Ui Chaoimh
Saoirse Noonan’s winner on this Cork homecoming registered a victory for Ireland but not by sufficient margin to dislodge Slovenia for an automatic place in League A of the World Cup qualifiers. Just under 10,000 were at Pairc Uí Chaoimh to see Noonan add a second international goal to the first she scored in 2021 but Ireland required another three to salvage top spot in a group they were favourites for.
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3 weeks ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Stephen Barry |Pairc Ui Chaoimh
Lucy Quinn and Aoife Mannion have emerged as doubts for Ireland’s Nations League finale against Slovenia at Páirc Uí Chaoimh tomorrow evening. The duo have started all five games under new manager Carla Ward. However, Quinn has been struck down by an illness, while Mannion is suffering from a quad issue after a long season. “She's a doubt, but not a major doubt,” Ward said of Mannion. “It's an overload more than anything.
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3 weeks ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Eoghan Cormican |Pairc Ui Chaoimh
The concern for Kerry is no longer the extent to which they’ll be undercooked and insufficiently scrutinised when pitching up at Croke Park for an All-Ireland quarter-final. The concern now for Kerry is who’ll be available when they pitch up at Croke Park. Diarmuid O’Connor’s return lasted one game. A groin issue that flared up during the win over Roscommon sidelined him on Saturday and will keep him sidelined for the Meath fixture. Beyond that, who knows.
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3 weeks ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Tony Leen |Pairc Ui Chaoimh
THE look of exasperation afterwards on Jack O’Connor’s face had little to do with the underwhelming first half effort from his Kerry players, or even the yellow card the manager picked up after half time. His frustration, along with that of his Cork counterpart John Cleary, centred on the new clean catch or 'mark' interference rule, which had a considerable influence on Kerry’s eleven point victory over Cork.
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4 weeks ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Eoghan Cormican |Pairc Ui Chaoimh
A rare deluge of orange flags from the men in green and gold. A not-so-rare victory for the green and gold over the neighbours. Kerry remain in pole position for direct progress to the All-Ireland quarter-finals. Cork have 70 minutes against Roscommon to rescue their summer. The third quarter was the busiest and arguably the defining quarter of this second championship instalment between Cork and Kerry. The third quarter was busy before it ever began.
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1 month ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Eoghan Cormican |Pairc Ui Chaoimh
If Cork were fortunate to come away from Sixmilebridge with a draw on the opening night of the Munster U20 championship, then Clare were more fortunate again to come away from this Leeside second instalment with semi-final success. Diarmuid Stritch’s 59th minute winning goal moved the visitors in front for only the third time in this fine contest. Their two previous occasions enjoying pole position lasted for a combined total of three minutes.
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1 month ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Eoghan Cormican |Pairc Ui Chaoimh
A one-sided second-half at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, allied to a much closer affair at the Gaelic Grounds, has delivered Cork a home semi-final, against Clare, in the Munster U20 hurling championship. Going into this evening’s final pair of round-robin fixtures, Cork enjoyed the worst score difference of the three teams - Clare and Limerick the other two - tied on three points and in contention for semi-final involvement.
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2 months ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Eoghan Cormican |Pairc Ui Chaoimh
The gap. This result didn’t confirm the gap. This result was the latest reinforcing of the gap. The gap is threatening to become a gulf. There are many who’d argue it already has. An eight-point hammering. A four-in-a-row of Munster U20 titles for Kerry. A 10th consecutive Kerry victory over Cork at all grades. The breakdown is as follows: three at senior, four at U20, and another three at minor. May 11, 2023, was the evening the Cork minors scored a no-jeopardy Munster championship win over Kerry.
