O'neills talking points

The Round robin phase of the TG4’s 2019 All-Ireland Ladies Football Championship gets underway this Saturday 13th July with the season’s first live double headers on the Irish Language TV channel. The opening day’s action features Dublin ladies against Waterford and Galway’s clash with Kerry ladies.

TG4’s spread of coverage means that that all four Senior Provincial Champions feature on LIVE TV, before the quarter-finalists are confirmed.

The LGFA Championship draw means that bookies favourites Dublin and Cork ladies could meet in a potential semi-final, should they top their round-robin groups and come safely through the quarter-finals.

Following Galway’s powerpacked display at the weekend in winning over Mayo, they claimed their third Connacht senior title in a row. The full roster of provincial champions for 2019 reads Donegal ladies, Dublin, Cork and Galway.

The race for the 2019 All Ireland Senior and Intermediate Liberty Insurance Camogie championship continues with things hotting up in the group stages. Cork and Kilkenny are predictably leading the charge in the early stages, with Tipperary making a solid case for inclusion in the business end of proceedings.  There are still plenty of teams in the hunt with qualifying slots up for grabs. In the Intermediate ranks, with only four teams set to emerge from two six team pools any points dropped can mean disaster. It is sure to get interesting between now and the end of July.

Cats Top in Group One

The defining result from Group 1 was the Kilkenny Galway match on the opening day when the Cats ran out two points winner by virtue of the game’s only goal.

In their next pouting, Wexford’s woes at county level seemed set to continues as the Cats piled on the misery with a huge 43 point win that really probably

This summer sees one of Ireland’s largest Sporting & Cultural festivals coming to Waterford, when the third GAA World Games sponsored by Renault arrives July / August! And as World Games kit suppliers we are full steam ahead getting ready, with the sunny south east set to see an array of brand new O’Neills jersey designs during the summer. So, here’s ten things you need to know about the GAA World Games.

When Are the Games On?

Between the 28th July and August 1st the tournament is hosted at Waterford Institute of Technology's Sports campus, with matches in the WIT Arena and the finals being played at Croke Park on August 2nd, 2019.

Va va Voom

Renault Ireland has been announced as the title sponsor of the 2019 GAA

The Super Rugby Finals stage returns to Canberra this weekend as the Plus500 Brumbies take on the Sharks from South Africa at home at the GIO Stadium in a Quarter Final clash. 

The match will kick off at 8:05pm.

If the Brumbies are successful in overcoming the Sharks and if the Jaguares defeat the Chiefs in Buenos Aires, the Brumbies will travel to Argentina for a semi final the following weekend. If the Chiefs are successful the New Zealanders will play the Brumbies at GIO Stadium.

Last weekend saw the Plus500 Brumbies end their regular Super Rugby season with their seventh straight victory at GIO Stadium against the Reds.

As their last game of the year before finals, the Brumbies also had the boost of sealing the bonus-point victory winning 40-27. It’s fair to say the Red made the Brumbies fight hard in the second half to take the win.

Coach Dan McKellar said afterwards, “I’m happy

This weekend sees the Rugby League Dacia Magic weekend take place at Anfield, the home of course of Liverpool FC. It’s a real festival of rugby for league fans in which an entire round of Super League matches is played over a weekend at a single stadium to promote rugby league. Since it was introduced used the Magic weekend has done what it says on the tin and been a magic weekend of thrills and spills for supporters and players.

With a reputation for entertainment averaging out at 50 points scored per game, the package of six top flight games in one venue is a real winner. And O’Neills are proud to be there as kit supplier to four of the twelve teams the Catalans Dragons fresh from their Camp Nou success, Warrington Wolves, Huddersfield Giants and St Helens.

This year the top four teams from the 2018 season

Kenilworth RFC completed a tremendous treble-winning season lifting the RFU Intermediate Cup at Twickenham, having already won the Midlands Two West South title and Midlands Intermediate Cup on their way to the national final. The Twickenham result was a dream come true, a momentous day for the men in the Kenilworth jersey and the latest success in a treble winning season.

Kenilworth lifted the RFU Intermediate Cup following their 32-26 victory against a gallant Matson team. They led 22-5 at one stage but credit to Matson they battled the scoreboard back to a single point but Kenilworth showed composure and experience to push on. Overall it was end to end stuff for the full eighty minutes with nine tries scored.

Kenilworth captain Bobby Thompson told the Coventry Telegraph: "It was just unbelievable and I am just immensely proud of everyone involved at the club. It's been a real club and squad effort to achieve what we have this season and

Honiton RFC are the pride of Devon - indeed the pride of West Country rugby after they bagged a thrilling 29-27 win over North Allerton in the final of the RFU Senior Vase played at Twickenham. It surely is every young Honiton rugby player’s dream now to pull on that Honiton jersey and run out at Twickenham!

Speaking ahead of the game, long standing Club President Dave Todd could only speak of his pride in the small club.  “Pride. Pride for Honiton, for them, for the town. That's my dominant feeling, just complete pride. We're on a crest of a wave. That's going to be the pinnacle, the culmination of rugby life for Honiton. That's the biggest thing that Honiton has seen I think.”

Like all good clubs the focus in Honiton is on development and growing the grassroots and building from the bottom up.

“We want to keep our junior side going because they're the ones that feed the seniors. They're the

Going into the final day of the National One rugby season, Ampthill & District RFC only needed a single point to secure their promotion slot to Division 1. Having set a ferocious pace in the drive for promotion, the first XV pulled on the famous Ampthill & District RFC jersey and delivered in fine style, securing an historic promotion to the Championship with a comprehensive win over Loughborough Students.

The victory was all but sealed thanks to a blistering first half showing with tries by Maama Molitika, Matt Collins, Aleki Lutui and Joe Berics. Four more tries followed after the break to seal an epic win.

Ampthill & District have played four seasons in National One and now coaches Mark Lavery & Paul Turner will relish the prospect of testing their mettle against the

This weekend the Legendary Nou Camp in Barcelona will host rugby league for the first time in its history, when the Catalans Dragons play Super League champions Wigan.

The Dragons, the reigning Challenge Cup champions, will step out onto the spiritual home of Catalan sport wearing a specially designed O’Neills jersey in the traditional Barca Blaugrana colours. And ahead of the game, the O’Neills one off Catalans Dragons shirt is featured heavily on the Barca FC webpage and

In many ways the newly minted Joe McDonagh Cup is the hidden jewel in the crown of hurling. Last year demonstrated that the hurling at this level is fiercely  competitive and fiercely skillful.

For Antrim, Kerry, Laois, Offaly and Westmeath  the competition is tantalisingly close to the Liam McCarthy with a preliminary All Ireland quarter final at stake for the finalists and promotion for the winners guaranteed if a Leinster county or Antrim.

The teams compete for a place in the final in Croke Park in late June and the ultimate goal of 2020 promotion to the Liam McCarthy Cup. The final precedes the 2020 Leinster Final.

To promote the lower tier competitions the GPA have taken to a roadshow to add their visibility to the McDonagh, Ring, Rackard and Meagher Cups. The standard in each is rising but it is the Joe McDonagh that provides the hope and desire for the second tier teams. With an intense series