Stars keen to pick all the winners

An array of Irish sporting stars are giving their backing to a sports prediction website which has been established by two Cork GAA stars as a novel method to help clubs raise funds.

Diarmuid Duggan, a Munster SFC medal winner with Cork in 2008, and Noel Furlong, centre-back on the Carrigtwohill team that claimed the Cork SHC title last October, are the brains behind SportsProphet.ie, a concept based on the attempt of participants to correctly predict as many outcomes as possible from 25 major sporting events in a year.

“It’s been fantastic having the support of these sports people,” said Duggan. “Last year we’d Ken Doherty, Peter Canavan, Bernard Brogan, Padraig Harrington, Ruby Walsh, Tommy Walsh, Nicky English, Graham Canty and George Hook involved.