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BBC News
29-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Gormley 'doesn't lose sleep' over last year's final omission
Cliftonville striker Joe Gormley said that he "doesn't lose sleep" over not featuring in last year's Irish Cup final was the only substitute not used during the Reds' 3-1 extra-time win over Linfield in the decider at Windsor not making it off the bench, Gormley was one of the first players over to congratulate Ronan Hale for scoring Cliftonville's third goal and says he looks back fondly on the day."You do think about it [not featuring] sometimes, but I wouldn't lose sleep over it," he told BBC Sport NI."Even though I didn't play last year because Cliftonville won it, I won it." 'It would mean the world to score' The 35-year-old is gearing up for his fourth Irish Cup final with the Reds on Saturday as they face Dungannon last year, Gormley is almost certain to start the decider having scored 20 league goals as well as the winner in the BetMcLean Cup final and the opener in the Irish Cup semi-final defeat of keen to contribute in the final with his family watching on in the stands, Gormley is just hopeful the Reds can get past a high-flying Swifts side and retain the Irish Cup."I've been beaten in two Irish Cup finals, and they were still amazing days but last year we got the win, and it was an incredible day and what a feeling following the burden of 45 years," he added. "It would mean the world to me to score this year, but as I always say if Cliftonville win, I win that is the main objective."I don't care who scores, the most important thing is we win the cup." 'The man never lets you down' Cliftonville captain Rory Hale is also eager to see Gormley have an impact in the cup final and praised the experienced forward's mentality."The man never lets you down, I can't remember the last time he missed a training session or let us down," he said."He doesn't care if he plays 90 minutes or one minute, he wants to make an impact. "It would be great to win the cup final, but it would be even better to see that man have a big say in it."Hale was named man-of-the-match in last year's final after an all-action display which helped end the Reds' 45-year wait for an Irish Cup believes there is "probably a lot more pressure" on this year's cup final than last year's due to their difficult league campaign and need to qualify for Europe."Last year we had a really good league campaign, and we ended up qualifying for Europe before the split. This year it is a lot different; we've found ourselves in the bottom six which is really disappointing, so for European football this game means a lot," he the League Cup already secured, Hale has his sights set on a cup double, which he thinks would be a great achievement after a difficult campaign on and off the pitch."A lot has gone on this season, we lost so many good players and a good friend Michael Newberry, who is always in our thoughts, so to go and do a double with the circumstances this group of players has had would be amazing, but it is only amazing if we can win the trophy. We need to win."
Belfast Telegraph
26-04-2025
- Sport
- Belfast Telegraph
Cliftonville ensure no Play-Off slip-ups with dominant display against Loughgall
Leading through a Joe Gormley goal at the break, the Reds — who needed a point to guarantee seventh spot in the Premiership — doubled their advantage through Gormley three minutes after the interval before Eric McWoods laid the third on a plate for fellow substitute Alex Parsons.
BBC News
26-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Larne seal second place with Glentoran draw
Larne played out a goalless draw with Glentoran to seal second place in the Irish Premiership which guarantees automatic qualification for European a nervy encounter at Inver Park, Gary Haveron's side withstood persistent pressure from the Glens to pick up the point they needed to finish as were multiple red cards shown after the final whistle after ugly scenes at Rhyss Campbell scored a stunning goal as Coleraine edged champions Linfield at the Swifts warmed up for the Irish Cup final against Cliftonville next week with a 1-0 win against secured seventh spot and a potential European play-off place after a routine 4-1 victory against relegated rounded off their campaign with a narrow 2-1 win against Ballymena United at Shamrock ended the season on a high as they beat promotion/relegation play-off bound Carrick Rangers 4-0 at Taylors Avenue. Ruthless Reds at Lakeview The Reds surged ahead on 21 minutes with a beautifully worked team goal. Rory Hale's clever ball found Joe Gormley, who sent Luke Conlan racing clear down the left. Conlan's pinpoint cross was cushioned neatly by Ryan Curran into the path of Gormley, who calmly guided the ball into the far minutes into the second half, Gormley doubled his tally following another slick move. Curran's incisive through-ball sliced open the Loughgall defence, releasing Axel Piesold, whose driven cross provided Gormley with an easy Reds then went further ahead on 64 minutes as Eric McWoods burst clear, drew goalkeeper Berraat Turker out and selflessly squared the ball for Alex Parsons to roll into the empty Murphy's men responded swiftly, pulling one back moments later when Ryan Waide confidently dispatched a penalty, offering the home supporters brief hope of a Jim Magilton's charges restored their three-goal advantage eight minutes from time. The lively McWoods picked out Curran at the edge of the area, and he clinically swept the ball beyond Turker and into the far corner. Campbell stars as Lurgan Blues beat Carrick Glenavon had the first attack on goal just three minutes into the Toure swung in a cross from the right that had Carrick goalkeeper Jack McIntyre at full stretch to keep the ball on 16 minutes McIntyre could do nothing about Glenavon's McGovern raced clear and was half-tackled by Carrick's Benjamin Buchanan-Rolleston, but the ball rolled kindly back into his path allowing him to neatly slide the ball past continued to dominate play and could have doubled their advantage nine minutes after, when a scramble in the Carrick box courtesy of some poor home defending, allowed McGovern to shoot, but he could only fire over the crossbar from 10 first chance came just before the break. An in-swinging corner was met at the back post by Ben McFarland, but the midfielder failed to get his header on five minutes after the break Glenavon got their second. Ben Wilson produced a smart back-heel down the right flank which found Peter Campbell on the edge of the area, and he curled a left-footed effort that nestled into the bottom left-hand was still time for two more goals, first, after missing an open goal, Aaron Heaney was played in down the right by Campbell on 76 minutes, and the forward made no mistake, drilling the ball past on 85 minutes, Campbell once more cut inside from the right onto his favoured left foot before he bent a stunning shot into the far corner beyond the outstretched Baxter's side will now prepare for Tuesday's promotion/relegation play-off first leg away to Championship side Annagh to follow.
The Guardian
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Antony Gormley review – here come the Gorminators, those welded warriors for humanity
If you think nostrils are just holes to breathe through, you've not spent enough time with Antony Gormley. A figure lying on its back, in this show of his early works, is made of solid sheets of lead, welded neatly into the form of a man, based like so much of his work on the dimensions of Gormley's own body. Two small holes at the nose are the only perforations in an otherwise uniform metal structure. They're not nostrils though, oh no: 'Two holes at the nose reinforce the notion of the body as a conduit between physical and transcendent realms.' Gesundheit! It's the kind of overblown over-justification that has always blighted the work of Gormley. His body forms dot the country, peering out to sea along Crosby Beach, standing with wings spread at Gateshead, looming out at you from the lobbies of countless bank HQs. For the past 30-odd years, Gormley has been everywhere, his simple, stark figures acting as cyphers for the very act of existence in the modern world. Where you see a Gorm, you see yourself, you see humankind, persevering, surviving in nature, in the sea, in banks. White Cube is focusing on his first steps towards becoming a household name, with early experiments in lead. These are the first footprints left by a giant of contemporary British art. The earliest, Land Sea and Air from 1977-79, is three boulder forms plopped on the ground, all grey and weathered and wrapped in lead. One is a granite rock from a beach in Ireland, the other two are water and air from the same place, though you'll never know which is which unless you pick them up or give them a quick toe punt (don't try it – the security guards are extremely vigilant at White Cube). Despite its obvious poisonous qualities, the lead wrapping acts as a form of preservation, saving these elemental materials from destruction. And destruction at the time the work was made must have felt imminent, with Europe haunted by the cold war, nuclear annihilation a constant threat. So Gormley turned to lead, the material of bullets, to save, record and preserve what we are. The middle of the gallery is filled with objects arranged in size, starting at a pea then a banana, a grenade, a lemon, a lightbulb, a club, a squash, a ball, each wrapped in lead. Next to it, lead bullets have been left a pile, a grey shape on the wall is a lead-wrapped machete. Violence, death, injury – Gormley saw it everywhere. The symbolism is incredibly heavy-handed, appropriately enough for lead, but it works. Downstairs things get more familiar, as the gallery gets filled with Gorminators, the body-shaped statues that have become his signature. One lies face down with legs spread on the cold concrete, another pulls its knees into its chest and buries its head in its arms. The largest, a walking figure in the middle of the space, has had its head swapped for a huge 5m-long building. Each work is made of lead, the welding lines acting like enormous scars across their bodies. They're desolate, desperate things. Sign up to Art Weekly Your weekly art world round-up, sketching out all the biggest stories, scandals and exhibitions after newsletter promotion The messaging might seem clear, but Gormley always pushes for grandiosity, and I think that's a shame. These can't just be left as bodies preserved against imminent death. Instead, he says things like: 'I have always thought of the darkness of the body as being equivalent to the darkness of the universe.' The insistence on the universal and transcendent, the idea of Gormley's body as a metaphor, a stand-in for wider humanity, has always grated. It pulls it all out of the real and shoves it into the realm of existential nonsense. It makes the reasoning behind the work so vague and overblown, leaving it pretty meaninglessness in the process. Which is a pity, because if you can manage to wade through the fog of waffle that engulfs these early pieces, there's something quite special here. These are works of profound fear and paranoia. The lead that has replaced the flesh on these bodies is the material of war. They are human munitions now, bullets waiting to be fired, shields ready to be sacrificed. They cower in fear or lie prone waiting for inevitable annihilation. Everywhere he looks, he seem to see death looming. The work might be a product of its time, but it still feels upsettingly relevant today Anthony Gormley: Witness is at White Cube, London, until 8 June
BBC News
24-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
2005 All-Ireland semi-final the 'most intense' game
Former Tyrone defender Conor Gormley says the 2005 All-Ireland semi-final victory over Armagh was the "most intense game" he ever played Canavan converted a last-gasp free to give the Red Hands a dramatic 1-13 to 1-12 win against their great rivals at Croke went on to win the Sam Maguire that year and Gormley believes the semi-final was the most ferocious encounter during the peak years of their rivalry when they met six times in the championship between 2002 and 2005. "To me, that All-Ireland semi-final in 2005 was the most intense game I ever played in," three-time All-Ireland winner Gormley told the GAA Social podcast."It is hard to describe. Nearly every step you took was so important and then when you got the ball, every pass mattered that day - everything mattered."The way the game ended, when Peter got the free, it was such a relief to get that game over and be on the right side of the result."Gormley, who started all three of Tyrone's All-Ireland final wins under Mickey Harte, says he would love to play in the 2005 game again now, 20 years on."It was a crazy game. The crowd was massive, and the rivalry really came to a head that day, it was a mighty game to be involved in."
