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  1. O’Neills Gaelic Football. The Choice of Champions
    In the GAA | June 17, 2015

    O’Neills Gaelic Football. The Choice of Champions

    Gaelic football. Played worldwide. The O’Neills All Ireland Gaelic football. Kicked around the world where Gaelic is played. The two are virtually interchangeable.

    For GAA clubs setting up overseas, one of the first things they send home for is an authentic O’Neills All Ireland football.  It just isn’t a Gaelic football match if you’re not using an O’Neills ball. It’s that simple.

    Over time the O’Neills Gaelic football has become synonymous with our Gaelic games, the GAA, football and the Sunday Game. In the last twelve months alone hundreds of the O’Neills All Ireland balls have been shipped to teams worldwide. The O’Neills ball is kicked from San Francisco to New York, from Stockholm to Seville, from Amsterdam to Abu Dhabi and from Penang to Perth.

    Wherever two or three Gaels are gathered, you’ll find the distinctive All Ireland football. Whenever a club is formed anywhere in the world, there’s sure to be an O’Neills ball in the middle of it. That’s just the way it is. Check out videos

  2. Women’s GPA – Making A Difference
    In the GAA | June 11, 2015

    Women’s GPA – Making A Difference

    Anyone who’s ever been involved in a coaching or playing capacity with an intercounty Camogie team or Ladies Gaelic Football team will know that they work every bit as hard as their male counterparts. The difference? They get a fraction of the recognition, little of the reward and minimal media coverage. It’s the 21st Century now, and its time things changed.

    For years players involved in Camogie or football maybe just accepted the way it was. But it became quickly apparent when they trained alongside their male equivalents, when they compared notes with their brothers or clubmates, or when they lifted a newspaper that the innovations coming thick and fast to the men’s game weren’t coming their way at all.

    Treating Athletes the Same

    For some county players simple innovations like a hot shower, food or physio after training were a foreign country. If that was the state of things for county players, imagine the situation at club level. Unreconstructed clubmen would march a team of hurlers

  3. O'Neills Koolite Hurling & Camogie Helmets
    In the GAA | April 17, 2015

    O'Neills Koolite Hurling & Camogie Helmets

    Soon there will be a generation of hurlers and camogs going through their careers that won’t remember the bare headed player. Hard to believe but it's true.

    In both games of course up until relatively recent times, helmets were unknown. Players regularly got split open playing the game which added to its allure.

    It wasn’t until 1967 when the helmet made its debut. A lad by the name of Micheal Murphy came on as a second half sub for UCC in a Cork County Final wearing a motorcycle helmet prompting a few raised eyebrows amongst the 12,500 souls watching the game. Murphy had sustained a fractured skull and, wanting to play in the match, had the ingenious idea to wear a helmet for protection. Nothing wrong with that we can say through the mists of time.

    At the second time of asking in 1968 UCC’s motion to the Cork County Convention led to the matter being considered at the National Congress. From then onwards, players’ headgear was on the agenda.

    Having been the man to get the ball rolling,

  4. O’Neills Opens Office in Australia
    In the GAA | March 19, 2015

    O’Neills Opens Office in Australia

    O’Neills Partners Cricket Ireland

    Ireland’s superb performances in the ICC Cricket World Cup provided the backdrop to the opening of O’Neills first Australian office in Adelaide.

    Headed up by Kildare native Antoinette Brophy, the Official Launch of O’Neills Adelaide in conjunction with Cricket Ireland was held at the offices of Andersons solicitors just before Ireland’s crunch World Cup match against Pakistan. O’Neills is official kit supplier to Cricket Ireland supplying the current World Cup Ireland Cricket Jersey.

    Guests of honour at the launch were the Irish Cricket officials and the playing squad who came so close to qualifying for the knock out phase of the ICC World Cup. Also present were Kieran Kennedy and Antoinette Kelly from O’Neills and local businesses and representatives of the Irish Community in Adelaide.

    There has been huge interest and support among the Irish Community in Adelaide for O’Neills; they have enthusiastically welcomed the presence of such a well-known brand

  5. Jim Nelson: Ahead of the Curve, Ahead of His Time
    In the GAA | March 09, 2015

    Jim Nelson: Ahead of the Curve, Ahead of His Time

    (Pictured: Jim Nelson is carried off Croke Park by then County Chairman Oliver Kelly (RIP) and team doctor Alistair McDonnell (MP) following the Saffrons Semi-Final victory over Offaly.)

    Antrim GAA, Ulster hurling and the entire hurling community in Ireland today mourns the passing of Jim Nelson.

    A legend of the game, Jim is perhaps best known for taking a brilliant Antrim team to the All Ireland hurling final in 1989. The St Paul’s clubman was rightly regarded as one of the greatest hurling coaches around having influenced a generation of players and fellow coaches. As a player Jim won 3 Antrim Senior Hurling Championship medals with St John’s as well as a number of Senior Football championship medals. He was admired and respected throughout Ulster and Antrim in particular for his success in coaching Camogie and hurling, and for his influence on the game.

    In the last few years Jim was a key man in the coaching set up with the Loughgiel Shamrocks team that won the All Ireland club title