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In the GAA | September 25, 2017Croke Park had it all yesterday. Marriage proposals, last minute penalties, cards, tears of joy and despair. Once again the captain receiving the Cup on the Hogan Steps was wearing the Dublin jersey. What a week in sport for the County. Full credit to the six teams involved for the superb entertainment, passion and skill they brought to a warm and sunny Croke Park.
The success of the Ladies All Ireland Final raises the question, is Ireland one of the leading countries for women’s sport? And it also has some lessons for other codes.
The attendance at yesterday’s ladies finals was 42,286, making it the highest attendance for any single women’s sports event this year. There are lessons in the way that the LGFA promote their games. The championship is tiered and with every team starting out with the opportunity to get to Croke Park on finals day.
Six different teams have contested the Intermediate final over the last three years and five the junior final. This churn suggests the game is in
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In the GAA | September 21, 2017There’s nothing like a bit of Samba. If Gaelic football ever takes off in Brazil, we might have one person to thank. Amy Challoner is originally from Ireland and now lives in Hong Kong where she is involved with the GAA playing and coaching our games.
This summer, Amy visited Sao Paulo, Brazil, as part of a volunteer sports coaching project through an organization in Brazil called ACER. There, she coached Gaelic football to underprivileged children aged 7 - 15 from the surrounding areas.
Ahead of the trip, Amy got in touch with our export team at O’Neills to ask if we could provide some O’Neills children’s sized footballs to teach the children all about GAA.
Here at O’Neills we are huge supporters of the development of GAA abroad and particularly seeing the impact it can have on such an underprivileged area. The thought of a group of Brazilian children taking up the game and showing off their legendary skills with the famous O’Neills football caught our imagination.
So, to help Amy on her
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In the GAA | August 15, 2017With the growth of the GAA across every continent, the sight of an O’Neills jersey and our famous O’Neills All Ireland football in more and more exotic and unusual locations worldwide is increasingly common. The fact is that Irish people living overseas export their love of all things GAA to their host communities, and this spreads the gospel of Gaelic Games into all sorts of new environments.
Kerry Mortimer is Chairperson of the Ottawa Gaels Gaelic Football Club based in Canada's capital and she’s involved in Project North, a non-for-profit with a focus on improving literacy skills and providing recreational opportunities to Inuit children in remote Northern Canadian communities.
O’Neills Balls
Kerry’s expedition was delivering hockey equipment to seven arctic communities in three days, and being a passionate Gael with a love for Gaelic football, she brought some O’Neills balls with her to introduce the children she met to the Irish game.
She carried a few O’Neills balls up to the Arctic
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In the GAA | June 01, 2017Dublin GAA take on Carlow on Saturday on what is billed as David against Goliath. Few pundits give Carlow GAA a chance, but every Carlow player will relish the task ahead and will be dreaming of Championship glory. In truth, it’s hard for a so called ‘weaker’ county to hang on against one of the superpowers, even they get ahead on the scoreboard there is usually an air of inevitability before they are reeled in. Favourites usually have more steel, skill and a stronger bench. Still, this week the Carlow men will be preparing themselves for their clash with All Ireland champions, testing themselves against the best. Isn’t that what the championship is about?
Down the years there have been a few big shocks that have had the bookies reaching for their satchels.
Clare v Kerry 1992
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Jack O'Shea's last ever inter-county game for Kerry GAA and Seamus Moynihan's first, two weeks after finishing his leaving cert… Clare’s only provincial football title. The Munster Final in 1992 was surely just a
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In the GAA | February 17, 2017It is not just in the Model County that the famous Yellow Belly Wexford jersey is spoken of with reverence and respect. It is surprising how a few short words or a generous action from a famous hurler can fire the spirit of a young player.
The year was 1985 and it was a group of intrepid hurlers from the North headed almost as far south as they could go to compete in the Féile na nGael in Wexford.
The manager, a scholar of the game, who would refer to players and feats in training sessions that had his young players looking at him mystified and confused, decided if they were going to Wexford they had to learn about Wexford. And so each player was given obair bhaile – homework on top of their weekly skills to do on a spare gable wall. They approached it with relish.
The mere mention of the county's name had the lads talking in hushed tones of the famous Wexford jersey, worn by Tony Doran in the seventies. One lad asked his grandad what he knew of the Yellow Belllies and his reply was two
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In the GAA | February 03, 2017The deep red jersey with the distinctive St Brigid’s cross, one of the most elegant jerseys in the GAA. Proud but understated. It sums up the Wee County, proud of their past, understated and determined about their future.
Louth throw in their Allianz NFL 2017 campaign in Division 3 having won impressively last season in the final, overcoming a fancied Antrim team. The Wee County are no slouches and feature a young and gifted panel of players.
O’Byrne Cup Campaign
Louth qualified for the O’Byrne Cup Final overcoming old rivals Meath 1-14 to 0-10 at Páirc Tailteann. In the final they succumbed to Dublin but the signs are there for an optimistic campaign over the Spring months. Manager Colin Kelly has expressed himself pleased with results and the manner in which they have been achieved.
Division 4 Winners
Last year the Division 4 win was probably the highpoint of the season, they lost out to Meath after beating Wicklow. Then they were knocked out by Derry after a six-day turnaround. Their
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In the GAA | February 03, 2017Back in Black
Yes Sligo Black is back. We are proud to renew our association with Sligo GAA from the start of the 2017 season. The new Sligo GAA jersey features a red detail on the sleeves, dark grey shadow hoops and a Sligo crest on the lower back alongside the familiar title of the county motto drawn from WB Yeats play, The Land of Heart’s Desire. The Joe.ie sports department have already tipped it for jersey of the year!
A Warm Welcome
Welcoming the new partnership with O’Neills and thanking sponsors AbbVie and IT Sligo, Sligo GAA County Board Chairman Joe Taaffe said: “The Sligo County Board is deeply grateful to AbbVie for their continued financial support which in conjunction with our associate sponsor IT Sligo and our new kit provider O'Neill's is a fantastic combination for the coming year.
“I’d also like to compliment the company on their contribution to both the GAA community and the local economy. Their efforts ensure our children have an opportunity to acquire local jobs
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In the GAA | In the Jersey HQ | February 02, 2017Who is qualified to wear the Wicklow jersey? Some counties have them; others can only look on in envy. Remember the TV series Celebrity Banisteoir? We think turning the tables on their head would be more fun. So we’ve drawn up a Wicklow Celebrity Selection. We reckon as a unit they would pose more than a few problems.
1 Darren Randolph
You need a solid citizen between the sticks and we could look no further than West Ham keeper Darren Randolph to pull on that no 1 Wicklow jersey. Since claiming the national jersey Darren has done his county proud. A real Wicklow mountain.
2 Dustin the Turkey
At corner back we’re going for Dustin, although it’s always risky playing a turkey at corner back in case they get roasted. (Turkey, roasted? See what we did there?)
3 Fr Jack Hackett
At full back and keeping a tidy square, it has to be Father Jack. Striking the fear of God into the opposition 14. The modern game needs characters.
4 Dara Ó Briain
In the opposite corner to Dustin, we’re going for
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In the GAA | In the Jersey HQ | January 20, 2017Planes, Trains and Automobiles
A 29-hour flight or six days on a boat? Which would you choose? Cavan picked the former and Kerry the latter. And the Breifne men made the correct call judging by the outcome, the men in the blue Cavan jerseys making history.
We're talking of course about the 1947 All Ireland Football Final played in the Polo Grounds in New York, the only time the All Ireland Final has been played outside Ireland. At the time, legendary commentator Micheal O’Hehir called it the ‘greatest chapter in Irish sporting history’.
Cavan - A Strong GAA Tradition-Ballyconnell was the first recorded affiliated club in Ulster GAA - they played their first game 7 March 1886.
-Cavan camogie was traditionally strong with forty clubs recorded in the county at centenary Year
-The Anglo Celt cup presented to Ulster council by O'Hanlon family who owned the Anglo Celt newspaper published in Cavan.
-Cavan have won the All Ireland Football Championship on five occasions 1933, 1935, 1947, 1948