Paul Keane

United Kingdom

Reporter at Freelance

Freelance sports reporter. Author of 'Obsessed: Inside Padraig Harrington's Head' & 'Gods versus Mortals'.

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Articles

Brennan promises much more to come in Louth revolution

4 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Paul Keane

Louth manager Ger Brennan has promised that there is 'much more' to come from his team after their historic Leinster SFC title success. The Wee County came from three points down with just over 20 minutes to play at Croke Park to secure their first provincial win since 1957. Remarkably, if their county minors win their Leinster final, against Offaly on May 19, then Louth will have completed a clean sweep of the three flagship football titles in the province for the first time.
Sam Mulroy’s late heroics end Louth’s 69-year drought to take the Leinster title at Croke Park

4 days ago | irishnews.com | Paul Keane

Leinster Senior Football Championship final: Louth 3-14 Meath 1-18Back in 2020, when Sam Mulroy fired 1-7 for Louth in a Leinster SFC Round 1 defeat to Longford, it counted for precisely nothing. Louth lost the game, didn’t get a second opportunity because of the pandemic and had also been relegated to Division 4. Five years on, they’re Leinster champions for the first time since 1957 and Mulroy’s 1-7 at Croke Park was decisive as the Wee County scored a win for the ages.
Louth land Leinster crown to end 68-year famine

4 days ago | rte.ie | Paul Keane

Captain Sam Mulroy and All-Star Craig Lennon struck the crucial late scores as Louth made history at Croke Park, claiming their first Leinster SFC title since 1957. Mulroy finished with 1-07 and slotted the first of his team's three first-half goals but it was his long-range two-point free in the 65th minute that will be remembered most. Trailing by a point after a Mathew Costello Meath goal, Mulroy took on the weight of responsibility by kicking the two-pointer from all of 47 metres out.
Strong counties won’t be overlooked says new Hurling head Maher

4 days ago | nenaghguardian.ie | Paul Keane

By Paul Keane New national GAA Head of Hurling Willie Maher has promised that traditionally strong counties, like his native Tipperary, won't be overlooked when it comes to developing the game under his watch. Ballingarry clubman Maher, an All-Ireland minor winner with Tipp as a player, in 1996, and manager, in 2012, is four months into his new role with the GAA.
Tailteann Cup: Kildare hit Leitrim for 36 points, wins for Offaly and Laois

5 days ago | the42.ie | Paul Keane

Group 1Kildare 0-36 Leitrim 0-11Group 2Offaly 2-13 Wicklow 0-11Laois 0-28 Waterford 1-16Group 3Limerick 0-25 London 1-15Group 4Wexford 2-24 Longford 1-18A LITTLE PIECE of history in Newbridge where Kildare began their Tailteann Cup campaign by putting a whopping 36 points on the board.
Dublin and Wexford through to Leinster MHC semi-finals

5 days ago | gaa.ie | Paul Keane

Electric Ireland Leinster minor hurling championship quarter-finalsDublin 7-17 Westmeath 2-18Wexford 0-22 Laois 1-15By Paul KeaneSean Culleton was to the fore again for Dublin with a stunning hat-trick in Raharney to help secure their Electric Ireland Leinster MHC semi-final place. With holders Kilkenny and Galway already through to next weekend's last four games, Dublin joined them with an emphatic seven-goal win over Westmeath while Wexford took care of Laois elsewhere.
'I'm in awe of her every day': Life taught Wicklow's Dean Healy there's no pressure on the pitch

6 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Paul Keane

Life, death and football. Dean Healy could write you a book on it all and still have more for a sequel. He's Wicklow's longest serving player, beginning his county career in 2011 under Mick O'Dwyer who passed away last month. In February, Healy's Wicklow colleague Malachy Stone tragically lost his younger brother, Brendan. Healy had already been thinking a lot about mortality, life's bigger picture and how insignificant football really is.
Sam Mulroy: Manchester City medical expert helped me overcome hamstring issue

6 days ago | irishnews.com | Paul Keane

Maybe it’s all the clean living, maybe it’s his day job as a gym owner or maybe it’s simply good genes. Either way, Sam Mulroy is a heck of a quick healer and when he runs out at Croke Park for tomorrow’s Leinster final, he will be extremely grateful for the opportunity. Louth’s captain and leading attacker pulled a hamstring before their final league game and was told it was essentially a ‘nine-week job’.
Dermot McAleese: Everyone is starting at zero in Tailteann campaign

6 days ago | irishnews.com | Paul Keane

The nature of the Tailteann Cup is that everyone comes to it with a hard luck story but not, perhaps, Antrim. You have to have lost a provincial game to end up in the tier two competition but Antrim took victory from their defeat to Armagh. They led the All-Ireland title holders at half-time and hit Kieran McGeeney’s crew with levels of ferocity and scoring efficiency that few had predicted.
Bambrick confident Carlow are moving in the right direction

6 days ago | gaa.ie | Paul Keane

Mikey Bambrick of Carlow pictured with the Tailteann Cup at the launch of the Tailteann Cup at Croke Park in Dublin. Photo by Sam Barnes/SportsfileBy Paul KeaneFor Joe Murphy's first competitive game as Carlow manager last month, he was still figuring out what the players' names were. The Eire Og man was parachuted into the hot seat to replace Shane Curran having started the season in charge of Naas, a club he'd won three Kildare SFC titles with.