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The 42
25-05-2025
- Sport
- The 42
Wexford stop Kilkenny from securing perfect run, Davy Fitzgerald's Antrim relegated
WEXFORD ENDED KILKENNY'S hopes of a perfect qualifying run with a 2-19 to 1-15 win at Chadwicks Wexford Park today. It was a tight opening with each side registering 0-3 after 10 minutes. However, Wexford scored nine of the next 10 points to earn the hosts a 0-12 to 0-5 half-time lead. Kilkenny had the wind advantage in the second half, but an early Rory O'Connor goal gave his side further breathing space. The visitors continued to look second best thereafter, and Lee Chin's goal with 11 minutes remaining all but sealed a victory for Keith Rossiter's side. Advertisement Kilkenny continued to fight, and a late TJ Reid goal reduced the deficit to eight points, but Derek Lyng's men never seriously threatened a comeback. The impressive Chin, contributed more than half of his side's points and finished with 1-13. Reid was Kilkenny's top scorer with 1-4. Elsewhere, Offaly beat Antrim 3-15 to 1-16 at Glenisk O'Connor Park. The result saw the visitors relegated from the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship. Davy Fitzgerald's side had their work cut out for them after Niall O'Connor received a straight red card in the seventh minute for a stamp on Charlie Mitchell. By that stage, the hosts were already boosted by an early Brian Duignan goal, and Dan Ravenhill then found the net from a penalty to give his side a 2-1 to 0-4 advantage in the early stages. Antrim showed resilience in adversity, however, and a couple of points from James McNaughton helped them draw level just before the half-hour mark. Offaly, though, finished the half strongly to secure a 2-9 to 0-11 lead at the break. The influential Duignan continued to impress in the second half as he contributed three scores early on to help Offaly move six points clear of their rivals. Three successive points from McNaughton gave Antrim hope, and the county's star performer also hit a goal to cut their rivals' lead to just a single point. But Offaly responded well to that setback, with Killian Sampson's goal coming just two minutes after they conceded. Duignan added another point from a free in the dying stages as his side saw out a hard-fought victory.
Irish Independent
25-05-2025
- Sport
- Irish Independent
Munster Hurling championship: Cork v Waterford, Limerick v Clare – follow all the action as it happens
Live | Niall McIntyre Welcome to GAA championship live blog with hurling's Munster and Leinster championships the main focus of today's action. It promises to be another day of drama. Follow all the action around the grounds here. Just now Game on in Páirc Uí Chaoimh. 3 minutes ago Frank Roche in Tullamore: OFFALY 3-15 ANTRIM 1-16 Salvation for the Offaly hurlers - but where to next for Antrim and their manager, Davy Fitzgerald? Not for the first time this summer, the beleaguered Saffrons paid a heavy price for their indiscipline as they lost to a jittery Offaly and paid the ultimate price – demotion to the Joe McDonagh Cup. And yet, in the circumstances, the hosts made life incredibly difficult for themselves as they retained their Leinster senior status and demoted Antrim in the process. They had all the elements, literally and metaphorically, in their favour when they led by 2-9 to 0-11 at half-time. They had the backing of a second half gale and an extra man, an advantage they had held from the seventh minute after Antrim defender Niall O'Connor was sent off. Referee Michael Kennedy flashed a straight red after consulting with his umpires, GAA+ replays indicating a stamp on Offaly danger man Charlie Mitchell. That four-point interval lead had stretched to six by the 44th minute, but Offaly then endured a horrendous 20-minute scoring famine. For a while, it appeared as they were playing with treacle in their boots and – even against the wind – 14-man Antrim slowly started to believe, cutting the lead to a goal shortly beyond the hour. Mitchell, who had a strong shout for Man of the Match, gave home fans some belated reason to cheer with a superb point from the stand side touchline. But then, in the next play, Antrim went on the offensive and after a surreal bout of pinball in the Offaly goalmouth, James McNaughton buried to the net for a 65th minute goal that left just a point in it. Offaly must have been fearing the worst when Brian Duignan's goal chance was blocked by Stephen Rooney. But then sub Eoghan Cahill's clever pass from the left touchline located Killian Sampson in space, and he nailed the most important goal of Offaly's season. A Duignan free completed the scoring, but Offaly can be thankful that they didn't suffer the consequences of a desperately poor second half that yielded just 1-6. Much earlier, they had looked firmly in the box seat after Mitchell released Duignan for a smartly finished goal inside 90 seconds; and then when Dan Ravenhill drilled home a low 14th minute penalty awarded for a foul by Conor Boyd on Mitchell. 12 minutes ago The Munster games are next up at 4.00 with Waterford and Cork fighting for their lives. Cork need to win to qualify for the Munster final while a win would see Waterford take third place. 29 minutes ago Full-time in Parnell Park, and Galway hold on for a five point win to book their place in the Leinster final. 30 minutes ago Conal O'Riain hits Dublin's third goal, after good work from Ronan Hayes, leading to a few anxious final minutes for Galway. 33 minutes ago Sean Currie buries a 21 yard free to the back of the net for Dublin, cutting Galway's lead to seven with five to play. 35 minutes ago Killian Sampson responds instantly with a goal for Offaly, and that should see them home, leading by four with four to play. 36 minutes ago Goal for Antrim's James McNaughton. They cut Offaly's lead to one point with five to play. 43 minutes ago The fourteen men of Antrim are hanging in grimly in Tullamore, cutting the gap to four with ten minutes to go. 43 minutes ago Brian Concannon hits his fifth point of the day to move Galway nine clear with ten minutes left to play. 49 minutes ago Galway restore their six point lead with a point from distance from Tom Monaghan. 53 minutes ago Cian O'Sullivan cuts the gap to five but Conor Whelan responds instantly for Galway. 55 minutes ago Jack Grealish comes in for Daithi Burke, who was on a yellow card. 56 minutes ago Offaly are six ahead in the relegation decider in Tullamore. 58 minutes ago Galway surge five clear after points from Cathal Mannion and Conor Whelan. The momentum has swung in their favour with Dublin struggling against the breeze. Today 10:00 AM Galway surge three clear in Parnell Park, after points from TJ Brennan and Conor Whelan. Today 09:55 AM Chris Crummey responds for Galway after a clever pass from Rian McBride. Live Blog Software
NDTV
08-05-2025
- Politics
- NDTV
Pink Smoke Signals In Rome Call For Women Priests
Rome: Excluded from the conclave to elect a new pope Wednesday -- and more broadly from the Church's entire global priesthood -- some Catholic women were determined that their voices will be heard. In a park on a hill overlooking the dome of St Peter's and the church's Vatican headquarters, campaigners released pink smoke from flares, and demanded that women be allowed to seek ordination. "We are saying to the cardinals, you cannot keep ignoring 50 percent of the Catholic population, you cannot go into a locked room and discuss the future of the Church without half of the Church," said Miriam Duignan. "Whoever they elect needs to be brave enough to properly tackle the question of women's inclusion, because so far it has not been, even by Pope Francis," said Duignan, of the Wijngaards Institute in Cambridge. Duignan was briefly detained in 2011 after she attempted to enter the Vatican to deliver a petition in support of a priest backing the activists' cause. Had the activists taken their Wednesday protest -- a nod to the black and white smoke used by the Holy See to announce voting results -- to the Vatican, they believe a similar fate would have awaited them. "Whenever we go down to St Peter's Square, we are detained by the police ... and we are certainly not invited to go into the conclave," Duignan said "The only women that those 133 men will see in the next few days will be nuns who are cleaning their rooms and serving them food and tidying up after them." The cardinals meeting Wednesday behind closed doors in the Sistine Chapel will not hear any female opinions during deliberations expected to last days, with multiple rounds of voting. The only women they will see before white smoke rises to announce their decision has been made will be the nuns who cook, clean and serve upon them in the Santa Marta guesthouse. In the global church as a whole, women have begun to take some senior lay roles, a process that accelerated a little under Pope Francis's papacy. But even those who have studied theology and church ministry are excluded from the priesthood, and only priests hold the most senior leadership roles. "Yes, Pope Francis elevated and promoted a few women into roles of responsibility, but they are always lower in status and authority than a man," said Duignan. "Even the youngest priest in the room is the boss of the oldest, more experienced woman." 'A sin and a scandal' The campaigners say women took equal roles in worship in the early Church, before medieval reforms, and that, in Duignan's words, "the men who are going into the Sistine Chapel this afternoon know that, and they don't want everyone else to know that." Kate McElwee, executive director of the Women's Ordination Conference campaign group, described this as an injustice and a "crisis" for the church. "While the world may wait for white smoke or black smoke, we send up pink smoke as our hope that the Church may someday welcome women as equals," she said. French activist Gabrielle Fidelin called it "a sin and a scandal that women are kept out of priesthood and the conclave." According to Duignan, even after Francis's relatively reformist 12-year pontificate, only one of the 133 cardinal electors to be sequestered in conclave has taken a positive stance on women's ordination. And she was reluctant to identify him by name, in case he found himself expelled from the gathering. This despite the once taboo issue being given an airing in the Synod -- an assembly of clergy, clerics and laypeople -- which under Francis has included female members. In October last year, a report was issued after Francis approved a working party to look into the idea of allowing women to become deacons -- a step before the priesthood. It acknowledged that "the question of women's access to diaconal ministry remains open" but concluded that it was too soon to make a decision.
NZ Herald
07-05-2025
- Politics
- NZ Herald
Catholic women release pink smoke near Vatican to protest male domination
Duignan was briefly detained in 2011 after she attempted to enter the Vatican to deliver a petition in support of a priest backing the activists' cause. Had the activists taken their Wednesday protest – a nod to the black and white smoke used by the Holy See to announce voting results – to the Vatican, they believe a similar fate would have awaited them. 'Whenever we go down to St Peter's Square, we are detained by the police ... and we are certainly not invited to go into the conclave,' Duignan said. 'The only women that those 133 men will see in the next few days will be nuns who are cleaning their rooms and serving them food and tidying up after them.' The cardinals meeting on Wednesday behind closed doors in the Sistine Chapel will not hear any female opinions during deliberations expected to last days, with multiple rounds of voting. The only women they will see before white smoke rises to announce their decision will be the nuns who cook, clean and serve them in the Santa Marta guesthouse. In the global church as a whole, women have begun to take some senior lay roles, a process that accelerated a little under Pope Francis' papacy. But even those who have studied theology and church ministry are excluded from the priesthood, and only priests hold the most senior leadership roles. 'Yes, Pope Francis elevated and promoted a few women into roles of responsibility, but they are always lower in status and authority than a man,' said Duignan. 'Even the youngest priest in the room is the boss of the oldest, more experienced woman.' A sin and a scandal The campaigners say women took equal roles in worship in the early Church, before medieval reforms, and, in Duignan's words, 'the men who are going into the Sistine Chapel this afternoon know that, and they don't want everyone else to know that'. Kate McElwee, executive director of the Women's Ordination Conference campaign group, described this as an injustice and a 'crisis' for the Church. 'While the world may wait for white smoke or black smoke, we send up pink smoke as our hope that the Church may someday welcome women as equals,' she said. French activist Gabrielle Fidelin called it 'a sin and a scandal that women are kept out of priesthood and the conclave'. According to Duignan, even after Francis' relatively reformist 12-year pontificate, only one of the 133 cardinal electors to be sequestered in conclave has taken a positive stance on women's ordination. And she was reluctant to identify him by name, in case he found himself expelled from the gathering. This despite the once taboo issue being given an airing in the Synod – an assembly of clergy, clerics and laypeople – which under Francis has included female members. In October last year, a report was issued after Francis approved a working party to look into the idea of allowing women to become deacons – a step before the priesthood. It acknowledged that 'the question of women's access to diaconal ministry remains open' but concluded that it was too soon to make a decision.
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Pink smoke signals in Rome call for women priests
Excluded from the conclave to elect a new pope Wednesday -- and more broadly from the Church's entire global priesthood -- some Catholic women were determined that their voices will be heard. In a park on a hill overlooking the dome of St Peter's and the church's Vatican headquarters, campaigners released pink smoke from flares, and demanded that women be allowed to seek ordination. "We are saying to the cardinals, you cannot keep ignoring 50 percent of the Catholic population, you cannot go into a locked room and discuss the future of the Church without half of the Church," said Miriam Duignan. "Whoever they elect needs to be brave enough to properly tackle the question of women's inclusion, because so far it has not been, even by Pope Francis," said Duignan, of the Wijngaards Institute in Cambridge. Duignan was briefly detained in 2011 after she attempted to enter the Vatican to deliver a petition in support of a priest backing the activists' cause. Had the activists taken their Wednesday protest -- a nod to the black and white smoke used by the Holy See to announce voting results -- to the Vatican, they believe a similar fate would have awaited them. "Whenever we go down to St Peter's Square, we are detained by the police ... and we are certainly not invited to go into the conclave," Duignan said "The only women that those 133 men will see in the next few days will be nuns who are cleaning their rooms and serving them food and tidying up after them." The cardinals meeting Wednesday behind closed doors in the Sistine Chapel will not hear any female opinions during deliberations expected to last days, with multiple rounds of voting. The only women they will see before white smoke rises to announce their decision has been made will be the nuns who cook, clean and serve upon them in the Santa Marta guesthouse. In the global church as a whole, women have begun to take some senior lay roles, a process that accelerated a little under Pope Francis's papacy. But even those who have studied theology and church ministry are excluded from the priesthood, and only priests hold the most senior leadership roles. "Yes, Pope Francis elevated and promoted a few women into roles of responsibility, but they are always lower in status and authority than a man," said Duignan. "Even the youngest priest in the room is the boss of the oldest, more experienced woman." - 'A sin and a scandal' - The campaigners say women took equal roles in worship in the early Church, before medieval reforms, and that, in Duignan's words, "the men who are going into the Sistine Chapel this afternoon know that, and they don't want everyone else to know that." Kate McElwee, executive director of the Women's Ordination Conference campaign group, described this as an injustice and a "crisis" for the church. "While the world may wait for white smoke or black smoke, we send up pink smoke as our hope that the Church may someday welcome women as equals," she said. French activist Gabrielle Fidelin called it "a sin and a scandal that women are kept out of priesthood and the conclave." According to Duignan, even after Francis's relatively reformist 12-year pontificate, only one of the 133 cardinal electors to be sequestered in conclave has taken a positive stance on women's ordination. And she was reluctant to identify him by name, in case he found himself expelled from the gathering. This despite the once taboo issue being given an airing in the Synod -- an assembly of clergy, clerics and laypeople -- which under Francis has included female members. In October last year, a report was issued after Francis approved a working party to look into the idea of allowing women to become deacons -- a step before the priesthood. It acknowledged that "the question of women's access to diaconal ministry remains open" but concluded that it was too soon to make a decision. dc/ub/giv
