St Joseph’s Doora-Barefield 1-12 Broadford 0-10 FORMER ALL-IRELAND CLUB champions St Joseph’s Doora-Barefield have regained their senior status in Clare with victory in the intermediate championship. The club, which has produced Banner All-Ireland winners such as Jamesie O’Connor, Ollie Baker and Seanie McMahon, confirmed their return to the senior ranks with a 1-12 to 0-10 victory against Broadford in Cusack Park this afternoon. Advertisement Alan O’Neill bagged 1-1 in a four-minute second-half spell to edge Doora-Barefield ahead by 1-8 to 0-8 and it was a lead that they never relinquished. Trailing 0-7 to 0-6 at the interval, O’Neill’s goal soon afterwards was the spark that Doora-Barefield needed, it coming after he…

CLONMEL COMMERICALS MADE light work of Arravale Rovers to advance to the last four of the Tipperary SFC this afternoon. Michael Quinlivan kicked eight points and Eoin Fitzgerald 1-3 as the Tipperary and Munster champions wrapped up a 1-19 to 0-11 victory. Commercials will be joined by Kilsheelan-Kilcash and Loughmore-Castleiney after their respective wins this evening. Kilsheeland-Kilcash saw off county star Conor Sweeney’s Ballyporeen by 1-13 to 0-12 while Loughmore-Castleiney were comfortable 3-15 to 0-11 victors against Galtee Rovers. Click Here: Advertisement The fourth quarter-final takes place on Tuesday, with Moyle Rovers and Aherlow set to battle it out for the last semi-final spot. The42 is on Snapchat! Tap the…

IT’S BEEN A busy week of sport. Here’s a taster of how you reacted. Showbiz Babyy particularly enjoyed Lance Armstrong’s hasty exit after his superbly tense interview on Newstalk’s Off The Ball last week. Lance Armstrong’s heel turn was the greatest of all time Advertisement Click Here: Source: Lorraine O’Sullivan/INPHO Iran’s football supporters faced a tricky balancing act last Tuesday as theyfaced South Korea in the midst of a religious holiday, which bans Shiite Muslims from expressing joy. But Phil O’Meara put the plight of the Iranians into perspective – just think of those poor Mayo fans… That’s nothing. Mayo fans have been forbidden from celebrating in September for 65 years… Rown…

Click:Unique Birthday Earrings for Best Friend WHEN DAVY FITZGERALD decided to step down as Clare senior hurling manager on 21 September, he could hardly have envisaged that he’d be a more than interested spectator at Wexford Park for tomorrow afternoon’s county senior hurling final between Oulart-The-Ballagh and Cloughbawn. But on the merry-go-round that is now senior inter-county management, Fitzgerald has hopped on in Wexford and will guide the fortunes of the Slaneysiders for the next three seasons, with a review planned after year two. And so Fitzgerald will make a round-trip of some 400km tomorrow afternoon, from Sixmilebridge to Wexford town and back again, to run the rule over some…

Paddy McBrearty at the launch of the AIB GAA Club Championships this week. Source: Sam Barnes/SPORTSFILE “WELL, I THINK 23 years is too long for Kilcar to not even be in a final, never mind win one,” declares Patrick McBrearty firmly. The Donegal talisman is speaking a few days out from county senior final day, a game where Kilcar’s long and exhausting wait to be part of the marquee club football occasion in the North-West, will come to an end. McBrearty has stockpiled a collection of accolades at inter-county level, sampling All-Ireland and Ulster senior success. In July he delivered a career best display in shooting the lights out against…

ON SEPTEMBER 4, Michael Fennelly took his seat among the Kilkenny substitutes in the Hogan Stand. In front of him, he watched Tipperary wipe the Cats out after half-time to deny the Leinster champions a third-straight title. Source: James Crombie/INPHO “It just wasn’t a good day,” Fennelly recalls. “There was a sensation of feeling lost and just not being part of it, and that was it really. You couldn’t offer anything on the field.” The 31-year-old had been in superb form for the Cats when he ruptured his Achilles tendon in the replay against Waterford. It ruled him out of action for an extended period, and robbed Kilkenny of their…

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Ulster are put through their paces before Sunday’s clash with Bordeaux in Belfast. Source: Presseye/Jonathan Porter/INPHO Home Martin O’Neill has hit back at Everton manager Ronald Koeman by defending his right to select James McCarthy for Ireland’s last two WQ qualifiers. Ireland’s trio of Graeme McDowell, Paul McGinley and Shane Lowry are all going well at the British Masters, which is led by England’s Richard Bland. Johnny Sexton will miss Leinster’s Champions Cup opener against Castres with a tight hamstring. 20-year-old Joey Carbery will deputise at out-half and Leo Cullen is confident he can fill Sexton’s boots. Andrew Trimble will captain Ulster for Sunday’s clash with Bordeaux, but there is…

1. Tipperary v Cork – Munster SHC quarter-final It’s Tipp against Cork again in the Munster senior hurling championship. Source: Lorraine O’Sullivan/INPHO For the second successive year, Tipp and Cork will battle it out at the quarter-final stage in Munster. There’s now a huge incentive for Cork chiefs to get Páirc Uí Chaoimh ready in time to potentially host the game, as Tipp had home advantage this year. Given Tipp’s stellar form in 2016, this was surely the draw that Cork and manager Kieran Kingston wanted to avoid early on but the Rebels should relish the opportunity to pit their wits against the best team in the country. It’s an…

Kerry 2-17 Cork 0-11 AN UNSEASONABLY LARGE football crowd gathered in Killarney this afternoon for the latest demonstration of Kerry’s superiority in Munster. Kerry’s Paul Geaney and Cork’s Kieran Histon. Source: Bryan Keane/INPHO Free from the crowd restrictions that have hampered the GAA inter-county scene over the past two years, there was a spike in interest amongst the locals to see how Kerry’s 2022 fortunes were progressing. Jack O’Connor picked up the first bit of silverware on offer in his third coming as Kerry boss, his focus quickly transferring to a league campaign that commences next Sunday with a trip to his old stomping ground of Newbridge. Cork head to…