CORA STAUNTON HAS been included in the 2021 AFLW Team of the year after another impressive campaign with the Greater Western Sydney [GWS] Giants. The four-time All-Ireland winner is named among the forwards who made the shortlist, averaging 10.3 disposals, and kicking 10 goals for her club this year. Click Here: Gws Giants Guernsey Staunton, Read more about Cora Staunton included in 2021 AFLW Team of the Year[…]
Dublin 6-15 Waterford 2-12 HANNAH TYRRELL MARKED her return to inter-county football in style this afternoon as the Irish rugby international hit 1-5, as reigning All-Ireland champions Dublin convincingly defeated Waterford in Parnell Park. In a game that was dubbed a dress rehearsal for the championship, Dublin welcomed back Olwen Carey, Siobhan Killeen, and fresh Read more about Ireland rugby star Hannah Tyrrell shines on return to football as Dublin hammer Waterford[…]
IN THE 50th minute of Sunday afternoon’s game, Páidí Fitzpatrick was summoned to the sideline at Semple Stadium. The Clare defender gestured with his fist as he ran off, saluting David McInerney who was coming on as a replacement. The message was clear. He had put in a huge shift to help establish a winning Read more about ‘It’s an amazing story’ – A first senior championship start for Clare hurlers at the age of 30[…]
MORE IRISH PLAYERS have earned new Australian Football League Women’s [AFLW] contracts as the focus switches to next season. Mayo and Cavan stars Sarah Rowe and Aishling Sheridan have committed their immediate future to Collingwood, putting pen to paper in recent days. Yesterday, Rowe was one of six players to have a new deal announced, Read more about Mayo duo and Cavan star the latest of Irish contingent to have new AFLW deals confirmed[…]
REIGNING CORK SENIOR hurling kingpins Blackrock will take on last year’s semi-finalists Erins Own after this evening’s draw for the 2021 club championships in the county. On the day that adult club players received the green light to resume training in pods of 15 from Monday 10 May and can play games from Monday 7 Read more about Here are the 2021 Cork senior club football and hurling championship draws[…]
IN THE WEEKS building up to the 1997 All-Ireland football final, as the stream of messages John Casey was receiving turned into a deluge, one piece of correspondence stood out. The Mayo forward was gearing up to face Kerry, where he had been located over the previous twelve months, educating himself on the football fields Read more about McGuinness, Joyce and Moynihan: the star-studded GAA college team that reigned in the ’90s[…]
Part of The Museums Issue of The Highlight, our home for ambitious stories that explain our world. Even in the brutal heat of summer 2014, the line to enter one of the biggest artistic and cultural happenings of the past decade stretched for blocks. In all, 130,000 people visited Kara Walker’s “A Subtlety,” a sprawling, Read more about Who are museums for?[…]
The Vox Book Club is linking to Bookshop.org to support local and independent booksellers. This May, the Vox Book Club is reading Sanjena Sathian’s assured and immersive debut novel, Gold Diggers. It’s got alchemy, heists, and diaspora politics, and it’s the kind of book that makes me have a lot of thoughts about Jonathan Lethem’s Read more about RSVP now to talk Gold Diggers with Sanjena Sathian and the Vox Book Club[…]
The Biden administration is stepping up its actions to punish Myanmar’s ruling military junta in the wake of a bloody weekend targeting civilians protesting against the February military coup. On Saturday, the military commemorated Armed Forces Day by killing about 140 people — including six children — in 44 cities and towns amid nationwide peaceful Read more about US ratchets up pressure on Myanmar’s military after its bloodiest weekend since the coup[…]