Sports
Tipp set up tantalizing decider after win over Waterford
By Kieran Rooney SUDDENLY we have a real final on our hands. Tipperary's 3-19 to 1-18 All-Ireland semi-final victory over Waterford at Croke Park l...
August 18, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Kilkenny overpower Cork, move to brink of 1st senior GAA 5-in-row
By Kieran Rooney PROBABLY the best team ever. That appears to be the generally accepted opinion following Kilkenny's 3-22 to 0-19 demolition of Cor...
August 11, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
All four provincial champs lose quarter finals
By Kieran Rooney NOT everyone is going to agree but last weekend's All-Ireland Senior Football Championship quarter-finals had everything. Perhaps ...
August 04, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Tipp smash Galway's dreams with 1-point win in classic
By Kieran Rooney DEVASTATION. You could see it in Galway manager John McIntyre's face, you could feel the emotion in his voice as he tried to expla...
July 28, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Rossies, Tyrone win crowns, Sligo, Monaghan left with uphill battles
By Kieran Rooney letters@irishecho.com IT'S around this time that teams really begin to find out about themselves. Sligo and Monaghan have more, qu...
July 21, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Louth denied, demand justice after Meath win Leinster final
By Kieran Rooney IF you thought that the World Cup final was controversial, it had nothing on what happened at last Sunday's Leinster Football Cham...
July 14, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Cats take Leinster title, Kerry break Limerick hearts again
By Kieran Rooney NOT that anyone really doubted it but the weekend's two big provincial finals provided further evidence of Kilkenny and Kerry's ab...
July 07, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Dubs dumped by goal-happy Meath, Louth to make final after 50 years
By Kieran Rooney DUBLIN and the England soccer team, sadly, have something in common. They concede goals, lots of them. In the case of the Dubs it ...
June 30, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Open glory
By John Manley [PHOTO BY: INPHO/Action Images/REUTERS/Danny Moloshok] In a performance that surprised many, Graeme McDowell became the first Irishm...
June 23, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
2010 NACB Championships Draws
The North American County Board of the GAA held its annual pre-playoff meeting recently at Chicago Gaelic Park, the venue for this years finals. Th...
June 23, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Cork do business in 2nd half
By Frank Brady CORK 3-13 SLIGO 0-9 At the end of a low-scoring first half, Cork led by 5 points to 2 at Gaelic Park with Conor Doherty, Declan Reil...
June 23, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Kerry, Dublin advance after nailbiting extra periods
By Kieran Rooney IF the GAA authorities, and more obviously the television cameras, were looking for drama during last weekend's All-Ireland footba...
June 16, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff