Fri, 17 Apr, 2020
It’s All-Ireland camogie finals weekend and despite some critical commentary on the game (or the rules) over the past year, there is a good buzz about Sunday, generated from an exciting championship with plenty of positive talking points.
Fri, 06 Sep, 2019
The GAA’s National Hurling and Camogie Development Provincial Workshops have been confirmed for this summer with sessions planned in all four provinces.
Mon, 27 May, 2019
On the de facto opening Championship weekend, Greg Kennedy provided a whopper.
Tue, 14 May, 2019
Former Galway captain Ollie Canning has admitted little brother Joe’s groin injury couldn’t have occurred at a worse time.
Fri, 26 Apr, 2019
Donal O'Shea, son of former Tipperary manager Eamon, is selected at full-forward.
Wed, 19 Sep, 2018
THERE’S luck and there’s talent, and in rough-and-tumble contact sports one often depends on the other. But for All-Star winning hurler Ollie Canning it’s all down to luck.
Fri, 15 Jun, 2018
Ollie Canning believes Galway are even stronger this year and have grown in confidence as a result of winning the All-Ireland title.
Wed, 06 Jun, 2018
John Muldoon looks set to remain involved in rugby and having built up considerable coaching experience during his playing career, Connacht supporters will be hoping that the province’s finest player will return in due course when he hangs up his boots in May.
Thu, 25 Jan, 2018
Tue, 05 Sep, 2017
Wed, 30 Aug, 2017
It’s only day two in Galway and already the temperatures and the celebrity count are rising as fast as wallets are emptying.
Wed, 02 Aug, 2017
Once you have the first 24 hours under your belt in Galway, the rest of the week should get easier - but it doesn't, writes Conall Ó Fátharta.
Tue, 01 Aug, 2017
Wexford were thoroughly deserving winners against Kilkenny. Twenty-one scores to 14 scores is an eloquent ratio, writes PM O’Sullivan.
Fri, 16 Jun, 2017
Thu, 01 Jun, 2017
There was a time, of course, when Galway-Tipperary had a toxic edge to it. So toxic, in fact, that a man could be endangered even when mowing his lawn.
Sun, 23 Apr, 2017
“It feels like I can fly…” So Jackie Tyrrell tweeted after Kilkenny won the 2011 Senior Final.
Sat, 12 Nov, 2016
Tue, 09 Aug, 2016
I love team environments. I love the competitiveness when you come up against your opponent.
Sat, 23 Jul, 2016
Mon, 11 Jul, 2016
Reaction: Henry Shefflin skipped the Kilkenny team holiday to Miami last month, so he could focus on Ballyhale’s club championship campaign.
Mon, 09 Feb, 2015
It wasn’t one of the Hurling 2020 committee’s 15 proposals but the body are fully behind a shake-up of the league, says member Ollie Canning.
Wed, 07 Jan, 2015
Former All Stacccr defender Ollie Canning says he has no intentions of hanging up his hurley and plans to play on into his 39th year.
Tue, 23 Dec, 2014
Gort 2-13 Portumna 1-10
Mon, 15 Dec, 2014
Goals from Joe Canning and young Ronan O’Meara saw Portumna past Athenry and set up a rematch of last year’s Galway SHC final with Loughrea at the quarter- final stage.
Mon, 15 Sep, 2014
The good times are back in Wexford. Win, lose or draw on Sunday, the Model must now push on to the next level
Fri, 25 Jul, 2014
I read The Circle this week, Dave Eggers’ novel about an internet company that has taken over Google, Facebook, Twitter and the rest.
Sat, 19 Jul, 2014
Hurling 2020 committee member Ollie Canning has backed calls for the introduction of the black card, claiming players are being too severely punished for innocuous fouls.
Wed, 16 Jul, 2014
Under fierce pressure, expect Brian Cody’s Cats to come out fighting this evening
Sat, 28 Jun, 2014
The dress rehearsal is complete and the cameras are ready to roll for the satellite broadcaster’s historic venture into Gaelic games coverage
Sat, 07 Jun, 2014
Liam Sheedy wants to see more Dublins in hurling as he embarks on his chairmanship of the games’ new review committee.
Sat, 19 Apr, 2014
Kilkenny hurling legend Eddie Keher is looking forward to delivering his document on the game to the newly-formed committee headed up by Tipperary’s 2010 All-Ireland winning manager Liam Sheedy.
Tue, 25 Mar, 2014
Cork chairman Bob Ryan has expressed relief the “Anthony Nash motion” has been postponed for this year.
Mon, 24 Mar, 2014
Before I go into the two teams, I want to talk about the referee yesterday, Barry Kelly.
Tue, 18 Mar, 2014
If he’d been thinking with his head, Ollie Canning surely would have pulled down the curtain on his hurling career yesterday on the greatest stage of all.
Portumna (Galway) 0-19 Mount Leinster Rangers (Carlow) 0-11
Portumna fended off the challenge of outsiders Mount Leinster Rangers to win their fourth All-Ireland Club Hurling title at Croke Park.
Mon, 17 Mar, 2014
Portumna 3-12 Loughrea 0-14
Tue, 29 Oct, 2013
Portumna 1-15 Ardrahan 1-14
Mon, 23 Sep, 2013
Nerve-wracking and exhilarating are the emotions plucked by young Declan Kelly in describing his freestyle hurling victory at Croke Park on Sunday.
Wed, 11 Sep, 2013
Conor Cooney got defending All-Ireland champions St Thomas’ Galway SHC campaign back on track with their first win of the group stages over Killimordaly.
Mon, 24 Jun, 2013
The US vice-president, Joe Biden, is to fulfil a long-standing promise to come to Ireland later this year, when he is expected to visit his ancestral home in the Taoiseach’s native Co Mayo.
Thu, 21 Mar, 2013
Michael O’Donoghue and Jack Sherwood will both make their league debuts for Kerry in Castlebar tomorrow.
Sat, 02 Feb, 2013
Galway legend Ollie Canning has hit out at media coverage of comments by his brother Joe following the drawn All-Ireland SHC final against Kilkenny.
Tue, 16 Oct, 2012
Kerry 4-17 Roscommon 1-7
Mon, 10 Sep, 2012
Kerry minor hurling manager Seanie O’Shea has demanded his young charges put up the shutters in this afternoon’sAll-Ireland MBHC final against Roscommon at the Gaelic Grounds, Limerick (2.30pm).
Sat, 08 Sep, 2012
Ollie Canning says Galway are coming into this year’s All-Ireland final in much better shape than they did in their two previous deciders in 2001 and 2005.
Thu, 06 Sep, 2012
Barry Kelly is the ideal man to referee Sunday’s potentially explosive All-Ireland final between Kilkenny and Galway.
Wed, 05 Sep, 2012
Joe Byrne - Galway Hurling Board chairman
Former Galway captain Ollie Canning suggests Brian Cody has attempted to put All-Ireland final referee Barry Kelly under “a bit of pressure”.
Wed, 29 Aug, 2012
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