Sports
Maguire, 16, wins title in Britain
LEONA MAGUIRE again demonstrated her tremendous potential by winning the Women's British Open Strokeplay title at the Royal Ashdown Forest club in ...
August 24, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Walshe gets share of 10th in Oregon
Alison Walshe continues to make inroads into the pro ranks. The Galway native birdied 15, 16 and 17 on Sunday at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club's Ghost Cr...
August 24, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Skipper Cooper is hailed as Kerry qualify for Sam final
MAYO must have felt that they had a real chance of extending Kerry in last Sunday's opening All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final pro...
August 24, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
O'Brien's Derby duo prevail
Seldom will two Irish Derby winners be found racing on the same card. Rarer still that they should do so on this side of the Atlantic, not to menti...
August 17, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Mayo's Coyle crowned
Henry Coyle, the Chicago-based light middleweight from County Mayo, captured the vacant WBF light middleweight title via a fifth round TKO of Itali...
August 17, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Kerry can take Mayo
SPORTS DESK/Sean Creedon A few weeks back GAA players and media alike were dismissing the Mayo footballers and talking about a Cork-Kerry All-Irela...
August 17, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Penalty puts St. Barnabas on road to victory
The final of the U 21 competition was evenly balanced until midway in the second half when a goal from a penalty strike by Niall Croke after Liam D...
August 17, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Offaly hurlers should make it 5 in row
The end of summer is definitely fast approaching as the first major final is on the New York GAA calendar for Sunday. Galway meet Offaly in the sen...
August 17, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Irish lose WC warm-up
It may have been a second successive defeat but Ireland's preparations for the forthcoming Rugby World Cup received something of a boost in Bordeau...
August 17, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Enough with the Kerry-Dubs yarns already
In the interests of public safety, the government should issue a health warning immediately. The sports pages of every newspaper in Ireland are lik...
August 17, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Big Four fail to make PGA impression
Anticlimactic hardly begins to describe the whimper with which Ireland's Big Four closed out the final of golf's major championships. Rory McIlroy ...
August 17, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Champs Tipp squeeze by Dubs, face Cats in final
TIPPERARY may not yet fully appreciate it but Dublin could have done them a huge favour by running them so close in last Sunday's second All-Irelan...
August 17, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff