Month: September 2021

Limerick, Waterford and Clare stars in the running to land Hurler of the Year honours

GEAROID HEGARTY, STEPHEN Bennett and Tony Kelly are the three players nominated for the 2020 Hurler of the Year award. ...

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‘It’s very sad, just so grateful to have those memories and appreciate everything he did for us’

RENA BUCKLEY IS thinking back to a summer week that captured Eamonn Ryan. In a career stacked with highlights, Buckley ...

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‘It was an honour’- two-time All-Ireland winner calls time on Kilkenny career

TWO-TIME ALL-Ireland winner Ger Aylward has announced his inter-county retirement from Kilkenny. Aylward becomes the latest Cats player to step ...

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Tipp star McCarthy kicks three goals in impressive debut with new AFLW club

TIPPERARY’S AISLING MCCARTHY is certainly settling into her new surroundings at the West Coast Eagles, after making an impressive debut ...

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‘I wanted my AFL career to go on for 10 or 12 years but everyone has a different journey. I’ve accepted that’

Glass competes for possession with Sam Powell-Pepper during an AFL game last August. Source: AAP/PA Images ASKED TO DESCRIBE the ...

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Winning 10 All-Irelands in the most caring, kind and inoffensive way and the week’s best sportswriting

“THE GREATEST LEGACY any manager or coach can leave is the part they play in shaping, moulding, and developing the ...

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Here are the benefits your membership of The42 will deliver this week

ANOTHER WEEK OVER, another to begin, as 2021, or 2020 2.0, continues. Lockdown number three hasn’t exactly been easy, but ...

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‘I’m grateful and privileged to play both’ – a closer look at the inter-county dual player

IT’S NO SECRET that dual players at inter-county level are more so associated with women’s Gaelic games. Orla O’Dwyer (centre) ...

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Positive update on Bríd Stack after horror incident, with Cork great to make full recovery

CORK LEGEND BRÍD Stack has been released from hospital and is “expected to make a full recovery” after sustaining a ...

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‘A much-needed base we can call our own’ – Waterford join counties breaking new ground

NEW GROUND WILL continue to be broken in women’s Gaelic games with Waterford becoming one of the few counties in ...

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