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News.com.au
5 hours ago
- General
- News.com.au
Scott gives credit to fiesty Eagles
AFL: Cats coach Chris Scott has addressed the media, following his side's hard fought win over the Eagles.
The Irish Sun
15 hours ago
- Sport
- The Irish Sun
Paddy McCormack the two-goal hero as Tipperary crowned All-Ireland U20 hurling champions with impressive win vs Kilkenny
PADDY McCORMACK was Tipperary's two-goal hero as they saw off Kilkenny at Nowlan Park in the All- Ireland Under-20 final. McCormack blasted 2-1 before Conor Martin's clincher completed his 1-4 tally in front of 14,455 fans on Noreside. Marty Murphy bagged a consolation goal in stoppage time for the Cats. A strong wind was emphasised by Kilkenny's first two frees. Tipp were penalised for thrown passes twice and Michael Brennan was on hand to punish them on both occasions. But even with the conditions, the Cats were set up to contain the Premier. Read More on GAA Martin scored the first point from play to level. Oisín O'Donoghue won two quickfire frees for Darragh McCarthy points. In between, the Cashel targetman got a point. Most read in GAA Hurling When Cathal English and McCormack arrowed over, Tipp led by four. Kilkenny picked their way back into it with four of the next five points. They sought a leveller before the break but Adam Daly sent Tipperary in with a 0-10 to 0-8 lead. 'Like something out of the French Revolution' - RTE GAA pundit Donal Og Cusack slams Dublin star's reckless swipe But the Premier could not be contained after the break. In the battle for possession under a puck-out, McCormack swept on to the loose sliotar and raised a green flag. A long-range Daly point made it 1-14 to 0-10. Four Brennan points kept Kilkenny's hopes alive as far as the 51st minute. O'Donoghue then turned over Neary and fed McCormack for a low finish to lead by nine points. Martin then sealed it in the 56th minute with his goal before Murphy's consolation as skipper Sam O'Farrell lifted the trophy. TIPPERARY : E Horgan; C O'Reilly, A O'Halloran, S O'Farrell 0-2; A Ryan, P O'Dwyer, J Ryan; J Egan, A Daly 0-2; C English 0-2, C Martin 1-4, D Costigan; D McCarthy 0-5f, P McCormack 2-1, O O'Donoghue 0-3, 1sl. Subs : C Fitzpatrick for Costigan 50 mins; M Cawley for Egan 54; J Ormond for Martin 57; S Butler for McCormack 59; P Phelan for Daly 60. KILKENNY : S Manogue; D Vereker, R Garrett, I Bolger; E Lyng, T Kelly, C Hickey; T McPhillips, J Neary 0-1; E Lauhoff, A McEvoy, M Brennan 0-11, 8f; E McDermott 0-1, M Murphy 1-2, R Glynn. Subs : J Dollard for McPhillips 14-20 mins temp; A Ireland Wall for McEvoy 40; Dollard for McPhillips 50; G Kelly 0-1 for Hickey 51; S Hunt for McDermott 54; J Hughes for Glynn 58. REFEREE : S Hynes (Galway). 1 Sam O'Farrell of Tipperary with the James Nowlan Cup after the GAA Hurling All-Ireland U20 Championship final Credit: Ray McManus/Sportsfile
ABC News
a day ago
- General
- ABC News
AFL round 12 Demons vs Saints, Eagles vs Cats live updates — blog, scores and stats
The Saints are desperate to arrest their form slump as they take on the Demons, who arrived in Alice Springs chasing a third win in a row. Later, the bottom-placed Eagles host the Cats in Perth. Follow the live blog below, keep up to date with all the latest stats in our full ScoreCentre, and tune in to our live radio coverage.
The Irish Sun
2 days ago
- Sport
- The Irish Sun
Mairead O'Brien warns Kilkenny that Waterford ‘running faster than ever' after skorts row ahead of All-Ireland clash
MAIRÉAD O'BRIEN has warned Kilkenny that Waterford are ready to hit the ground running — and they have been running faster than ever before. Today, Michael Boland's Suirsiders get their Glen Dimplex All-Ireland Championship Group 2 campaign underway against the Cats, who already have a win under their belt after thumping Derry last weekend. 2 Dual star Mairead O'Brien warned Kilkenny that Waterford are working harder than ever Credit: Michael P Ryan/Sportsfile 2 Kilkenny players return to the changing room before the Leinster Senior Camogie final against Wexford Credit: Michael P Ryan/Sportsfile The action throws in at UPMC Nowlan Park at 12.30pm and O'Brien cannot wait to don her shorts and try to take down the Cats. The game's postponement — after the players insisted they would be lining out in shorts — was a regrettable plotline but ultimately led to the alteration of the rule on playing kit by a 98 per cent majority at a Special Congress, allowing players to choose shorts or skorts. And O'Brien, 22, said: 'Yeah, we were delighted. We got the news at training and we were just about to do our running bloc. I swear we've never run so fast all year. Read More on Camogie 'It is a massive step. There was an issue with comfort levels but the players were listened to and the results were pretty significant. And any step forward for keeping younger girls involved is great. It was frustrating to have the Munster final postponed 16 hours before when all the preparations had been made to optimise our performance. We had been training well and had a good win over Tipperary to get there. 'I suppose as a group we're just driving it forward and just focusing on the Championship now. And I think the management team we have currently is phenomenal. 'The commitment they've shown is as much as the girls'. We're all just kind of working together and pushing forward as a group and trying to get the best out of each other.' The postponing of the Munster final and the fact they had a bye for the first week of the Championship means Waterford are perhaps more rested up than they would like to be. Most read in GAA Hurling But given she hit the Cats for a brace of goals on the way to defeat in the league in March, Tommy Shefflin and Co will definitely be forewarned about O'Brien's threat — and even if they were not, Caoimhe Keher Murtagh would inform them. Cats star Keher Murtagh was a colleague of O'Brien as UL won the Ashbourne Cup for a second season on the trot, and they were both in the third level Team of the Year. Young Kerry LGFA fan steals the show with sign during All-Ireland final win over Galway But whereas Keher Murtagh's Rower-Inistioge are a storied, traditional The camogie club was only established in 2011 to field an Under-12 team but O'Brien has been at the core of everything that has been good about them since, highlighted by her tally of 1-4 as they defeated Tipperary outfit Fethard by 2-5 to 0-10 in the Munster junior club final last November. She explained: 'The first adult team was put out in 2017, we won the junior in 2019 and then obviously last year we had a good run of luck. 'As a group, our main aim was to get back to the county final and try and win it. We probably bottled a lot of disappointment from the year previous. But to be fair, we used it to our advantage and went back training that bit earlier and worked really hard through the year. 'Once we got out of the county, we were definitely in bonus territory, and unknown territory. 'The lads involved were great when it came to the big days. They never kind of picked up on the occasion too much. Their main point is just to go out and enjoy it and work really hard. And that's what happened.' 'UNBELIEVABLE' The smile breaks out just thinking about Modeligo's odyssey and what it meant in the small country parish. She added: 'It was just unbelievable. We had a few good celebrations. We just enjoyed it. When we were enjoying it, we were just playing well. The whole community was behind us. 'And in the Munster final, they were definitely a 16th player. We were struggling for scores in the second half and had phenomenal support that got us over the line.' With that club success behind her, and experience of playing in one All-Ireland final already at a young age when the Déise went down to Cork in 2023, O'Brien is at the top of her game at the moment, alongside celebrated camogie county stars such as Beth Carton, Niamh Rockett, Lorraine Bray and Brianna O'Regan. But football has also been part of her story — a former dual operator, O'Brien stepped away from the big-ball squad this year as she was completing her final year in physiotherapy at UL. Everything right now is zoned in on the next couple of months with Waterford camogie — and today's date with the Cats ensures that it is no soft launch. She said: 'They beat us in the league but we would be looking to improve our performance from then. We got off to a good start but in the second half we didn't maintain it. 'I don't think we've ever actually beaten them in Championship so hopefully we will put that right this time.'
The Guardian
2 days ago
- Business
- The Guardian
‘Don't tell them ... they'll all come': why are so many sea-changers moving to Geelong?
For the first time, Victoria's Greater Geelong has become Australia's most popular regional town, ending a two-year winning streak from the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. The latest Regional Movers Index report shows in the 12 months to the March quarter, the Greater Geelong local government area had a 9.3% share of total net internal migration, compared with the Sunshine Coast's 8.9%. Just an hour from Melbourne, the coastal town was formerly famous mostly for being the home of the Cats (the city's beloved AFL team) and the last resting place of Australia's car manufacturing industry. Now, the city is changing and growing as a wave of people are taking a fresh look. So what are they finding that is so attractive? First, everyone mentions housing: it's just so much cheaper. Then, lifestyle – a 10-minute drive to work in the morning, a walk to the park – before it's back to affordability again. It really is just so much cheaper. Tanisha Tod jokes the locals will hate her talking about it. 'Don't tell them [up in Melbourne],' she says. 'Then they'll all come.' She is standing on the jetty, Corio Bay shimmering behind her. It's postcard-pretty, this spot where she has lunch. Tod moved her young family in January 2024 from Melbourne. 'Public schools in the west of Melbourne didn't seem too promising,' she says. 'The overcrowding of schools in the west, it's like 3,000, 4,000 kids. 'We looked around. We looked at the east, rent was like $900 a week, $1,000 a week. And then I was like, you know what? Let's just go to Geelong. 'We found an amazing four-bedroom place for $600 a week, and an amazing school zone, which my daughter is in now.' Her husband was reluctant to come, but now he finishes every week in Torquay, just south of Geelong, where they go to the beach after work. Back in Melbourne, Tod was looking at taking an extra job, but now the family eat out. They go on holiday and put the kids in extracurricular activities without worrying about money. Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Malaysian-born, Tod says since moving to Geelong they have been welcomed with open arms – it's the first time she has felt 'part of the Australian community'. Geelong has a growing arts scene and great restaurant culture, and, Tod pauses, even Dave Grohl, the lead singer of the Foo Fighters, picked the bay-side city over Melbourne. 'When Covid lifted, the Foo Fighters came to Geelong to perform,' she says. 'They didn't go to Melbourne. They chose Geelong.' Geelong's influx comes amid an uptick of movement out of metropolitan areas to the regions, with capital city to regional relocations increasing by almost 11% on the last quarter, says Liz Ritchie, the CEO of the Regional Australia Institute. 'We can now see that 25% more people are moving from capital cities than the opposite direction, and actually net migration to regional Australia overall is 40% above pre-Covid average,' Ritchie says. Greater Geelong's ascent on the leaderboard is set against a background of a rise in popularity in regional Victoria as a whole; the state captured 34% of the total net inflows into all of regional Australia during the March 2025 quarter, larger than the 28% share in the March 2024 quarter. Leading the charge are millennials and gen Z, who are looking for more affordable housing and a lower cost of living outside the capitals. The managing director at the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Michael Fotheringham, says 'the outflow from the capitals to the regional centres has become stronger than the inflow'. He says prices along Queensland's Sunshine Coast have come closer into line with Brisbane recently. Sign up to Five Great Reads Each week our editors select five of the most interesting, entertaining and thoughtful reads published by Guardian Australia and our international colleagues. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Saturday morning after newsletter promotion But the rise of remote working, and concerted effort from state governments to decentralise – such as Penrith in Sydney – have made employment opportunities stronger in the regions, he says. 'The challenge historically has been housing was cheaper but employment opportunities were much more limited. What a number of states have now been successful in doing is generating real industry in those regional centres.' Beck Thistleton and her family didn't move to Geelong because of the price, but she certainly isn't complaining about it. 'My eldest, Tommi, she's autistic, she's very bright, and because it's not really a brand of autism that a lot of teachers have got a lot of training with, we were having a lot of problems with her,' she says. Tommi was running away from school, and sometimes just refusing to go. Thistleton and her husband, who were renting in Kensington in Melbourne, moved to Armstrong Creek on the outskirts of Geelong because the local school was one of the first to pilot an inclusive program for autistic kids. 'I thought I was going to have to quit work to home-school but my daughter has gone to school ever since.' The family now pay $300 a week less to live in a bigger house with an extra room and a massive back yard. Thistleton has joined the local gym, goes to yoga in the morning and says one of the things she loves is how active Geelong is. 'Because people aren't driving for 45 minutes into work every day,' she says. 'There's time for those activities, to be looking after yourself and go for a swim before work.' Jess Templeton has been selling houses in Geelong for 12 years now. The estate agent says prices are rising as interstate investors look for a bargain, people from Melbourne move down and young families scale up. 'There's opportunity in Geelong,' she says. 'Most of our listings are selling in two to four weeks. So over the last 100 homes, our average days on the market is 27. But a lot of them are selling within a week. Last week we had one, five days.' Templeton says for $500,000 there are parts of the city where you can still buy a stand-alone house on a 60-sq-metre block with three bedrooms and one bathroom. 'It would take us 12 minutes to get to the CBD,' she says. For $1m you could easily get a four-bedroom home in a nice school zone area, she says. 'That's why people are coming here.'
