Posts Tagged ‘gaelic sports’
#284 Tyrone and Leitrim into final as NY Dubs’ crowned intermediate champions
The place to be for followers of Gaelic sports in the 'Big Apple' was at Gaelic Park in the Bronx last weekend as this year's New York Intermediate Football Championship was decided as well as the not so small matter of finding out what two teams would reach this year's senior football championship final. On Saturday, the Dubs and the Kingdom [...]
#256 Great win for Boston Galway footballers
With this year's Boston Northeast GAA Championship coming down to the wire as just two weekends are left before the 'Playoffs, it was no surprise that we had some very competitive games last weekend with Galway footballers showing they could be a danger yet to one and all. Lying in the middle of the table and having had come close on a few [...]
#250 McAnespies still unbeaten, Tir na nOg win ladies, ‘Tom’s and Wexford lead in hurling
That storied mens football club in Boston, Aidan McAnespies is putting in one hell of a senior football campaign this year as with three rounds left to play before the playoffs they are the only team to remain unbeaten and lead the Boston Northeast Football Championship. McAnespies had a convincing win over arch rivals Donegal over the weekend, [...]
Sydney GAA plagued by poor weather
More bad weather has hit this years New South Wales (NSW) GAA schedule, as the league finals fixed for last Sunday had to be called off due to heavy rains. Bad weather has plagued the GAA in Sydney this year as early in the season several weekends were lost to the elements while a couple of weeks ago the final round of the league was also [...]
#235 Boston Wexford take Sheehan Cup thriller
The folks in Boston are getting plenty of value for money these days as there was more thrilling Gaelic sports action at Canton, MA over the weekend. Two of the three senior football championship matches turned out to be crackers, while in hurling the final of the early season competition, the Sheehan Cup, produced an exciting come from behind [...]
#234 New arrivals boost London sides
The influx of new immigrants to London this year has seen top players lining out for the Metropolitans the result of which, for the short term at the very least, has seen both the county football and hurling teams impress these past two weekends. London footballers nearly caused the shock of the young 2011 Senior Football Championship when [...]
#220 Warwickshire move onto ‘Meagher quarter final
Warwickshire hurlers proved too much for a battling Leitrim side at Pairc Sean Mac Diarmada, Carrick-on-Shannon yesterday when taking Round 2 B of this year's Lory Meagher Cup. The boys from Warwickshire got off to a sluggish start, perhaps due to their arrival that morning by plane (and returned that evening) from the West Midlands region of [...]
Top fancies going well in British Universities championships
After Day 1 of the British Universities Gaelic Football Championships in Birmingham yesterday, all the top teams in Division 1 are still very much in the hunt. Defending champs Edinburgh's Napier University got a fright early on from Northumbria University when scraping home by a single point. Meanwhile, Liverpool John Moores University, last [...]
#182 UC Davis join California college hurling circuit
Today marks another watershed for Gaelic sports as the University of California Davis for the first time in the history of the college enters a hurling team into sporting competition. At 12 noon today (PST) in the home of Gaelic games at Treasure Island in San Francisco, history will be made when UC Davis march out onto the field to play [...]
