Mayo 2-15 Galway  2-14 Stephen Glennon reports at MacHale Park AN UNANSWERED 1-4 in the closing five minutes saw Mayo claim the bragging rights over neighbours Galway in this pulsating Lidl National League Division 1 derby at MacHale Park. Mayo’s second goal from a Rachel Kearns 55th minute penalty re-ignited her side’s challenge before Kearns and substitute Read more about Mayo hit 1-4 without reply in final five minutes to edge out derby with Galway[…]

LIMERICK HAVE CALLED up four players to their squad for the 2021 season while All-Ireland winning defender Paddy O’Loughlin has dropped out of the setup ‘for personal reasons for a while.’ John Kiely’s team commence their campaign next Saturday in the Gaelic Grounds against Tipperary after a terrific 2020 season that yielded All-Ireland, Munster and Read more about Limerick call up youngsters to senior squad as All-Ireland winning defender opts out[…]

IT’S 22 MONTHS since Kerry mounted the second-half fightback that took down Tyrone by three points in an All-Ireland semi-final in Croke Park. Source: James Crombie/INPHO It’s 16 months since Tyrone held off Kerry by a point to win a league encounter in Edendork. A pair of tight contests. A success for each side. The Read more about Kerry cut Tyrone apart as league concludes, but will it have any impact on summer tests?[…]

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?[…]