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Daily Mirror
4 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Kerry Katona shares health diagnosis after finding lumps
Kerry Katona has shared her diagnosis after she was left 'worried' over discovering several lumps on her jaw last week, leading to the star undergoing treatment. Kerry Katona has given an update on a new diagnosis after discovering mysterious lumps on her jaw and undergoing treatment. Last week, the mum-of-five admitted in her weekly column that she was 'nervous' after the discovery led to her booking an emergency dentist appointment. And now, she has shared that the appointment led to treatment and has left her in 'agony'. "I've been in a lot of pain this week – it's been so tough. The lumps in my jaw I wrote about last week turned out to be an infection, so I had to get three root canal procedures at once," she wrote in her New! Magazine column this week. Kerry continued: "I've been in agony ever since and just wanted to stay in bed –but with work so hectic right now, I can't do that. Wish Dental has been amazing at looking after me, so I want to thank them. "I'm filming Celebs Go Dating and having to act cheery when I'm in agony. I just want to get back to being the Kerry everyone wants. Fingers crossed for some recovery," she concluded. Kerry previously admitted that she is a 'hypochondriac', explaining how her mind automatically goes to the worst case scenario. She said: "I'm still feeling really run down after being ill last week. I had to get an emergency dentist appointment because I had so much pain on the left side of my face. I've got lumps on my jaw which they are going to test to see what is wrong, but the dentist thinks it's to do with my glands. "I'm a massive hypochondriac at the best of times, so I'm feeling a bit nervous about it all, to be honest." Previously, Kerry even shared how her health anxiety mixed with some 'unbearable pain' had her fearing she had cancer. After doctors found blood in her cervix during a check last year, Kerry said: "When I got that news, in my head I thought 'I've got cancer, I'm going to die'." The news left Kerry 'terrified' and even considering marrying her-at-the-time partner Ryan Mahoney so that he could be a legal guardian of her daughter DJ, whose dad George Kay died in 2019. However, thankfully, "It's crazy how much a woman's body goes through and what stress can do to our cycles," she said the following week.
Irish Examiner
4 hours ago
- Sport
- Irish Examiner
Undercooked? Understrength? What shape will Kerry be in come knockout fare?
All-Ireland SFC Group 2: Kerry 1-28 (1-7-14) Cork 0-20 (0-3-14) The concern for Kerry is no longer the extent to which they'll be undercooked and insufficiently scrutinised when pitching up at Croke Park for an All-Ireland quarter-final. The concern now for Kerry is who'll be available when they pitch up at Croke Park. Diarmuid O'Connor's return lasted one game. A groin issue that flared up during the win over Roscommon sidelined him on Saturday and will keep him sidelined for the Meath fixture. Beyond that, who knows. What is known is how shy of championship minutes the midfielder will be whenever his second return materialises. Paudie Clifford's return lasted 31 minutes. After kicking possession into Paul Geaney on the half-hour, Clifford turned to the sideline and raised his hand. He was whipped a minute later. A hamstring problem, we were informed after. Having sat out the Roscommon win because of injury, you'd have to question why he was risked here if not fully right coming back in. Paul Geaney (shoulder) wasn't long out to the line after him, Barry Dan O'Sullivan (knee) already there since the 21st minute after departing very gingerly. Mark O'Shea replaced O'Sullivan and deputised impressively. He won an early second-half Kerry kickout that ended in a Killian Spillane point. He won a Cork kickout that ended with David Clifford converting from outside the arc. He forced Ian Maguire to overcarry for a free Seán O'Shea converted from outside the arc. The problem for Kerry is that they are now threadbare on midfield options and heading in that direction where the half-forward line is concerned. Say that injuries mean Joe O'Connor and Mark O'Shea are the midfield pairing for the Meath game. Read More As it happened: Kerry blow Cork away with impressive second half display Seán O'Brien is then the last remaining bench option behind them and he hasn't seen action since being introduced late in the second half of the Munster semi-final six weeks ago. One wonders if at any point between now and the end of this championship Jack O'Connor will have the opportunity to put out a half-forward line of Joe O'Connor, Paudie Clifford, and Seán O'Shea. Of course, the manager is choosing to view the injury situation as glass half full. 'Mark O'Shea came on and gave us a great platform in the middle, caught some great ball. You lose one man, another man comes in and grows. That's great for the morale of the panel,' said Jack. 'Killian [Spillane] came on at half-time, kicked two great scores. Tony [Brosnan] came on and kicked a great two-pointer. Dylan [Geaney] showed his class when he came on. We needed all them lads.' David Clifford of Kerry celebrates after scoring his side's first goal. Pic: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile The first half was a gut check in places for the visitors. Of course, it would have been far more of a gut check if they hadn't been gifted the buffer of an early goal. The irony that after a week in which Micheál Aodh Martin's long kickouts to an overloaded left flank were heavily criticised, it was a short restart to Brian O'Driscoll, intercepted and finished by David Clifford, that undid Martin and Cork. A Clifford point, from another lost Cork restart, assisted in pushing them 1-4 to 0-2 clear on 12 minutes. Playing into a near gale, that was a significant cushion to have constructed. As the half wore on, the Cork restart stabilised. Its Kerry counterpart, meanwhile, wobbled. Five consecutive Shane Ryan restarts were lost. They were not punished, though. Mark Cronin and Mattie Taylor drilled goal chances straight at Ryan. Taylor was later foiled by a Jason Foley hand as he went to pull the trigger. Colm O'Callaghan swung Cork back in front approaching the hooter. Brian Hurley, after the hooter, landed a crowd lifting two-pointer. 0-13 to 1-7 at the break. A three-point lead, such were the elements, was never going to be sufficient. And so that point of view was quickly proven right. The third quarter began with yellow cards to Jack O'Connor, David Clifford, and Brian Hurley, and black to Joe O'Connor and Paul Walsh. The latter four cards were for an unseemly episode that broke out on the way back to the dressing-rooms at half-time. Kerry were back out long before Cork, learned of Joe's black and so had more time to redraw their shape. The third quarter was then taken over by referee Derek O'Mahoney and orange flags. Kerry had kicked seven two-pointers in their six games before Saturday. They kicked seven here in the second half alone. Five of them came in a third quarter that saw an 11-point swing. O'Shea and Clifford swung over frees from outside the arc for Cork breaches of the three-up rule, the kickout mark, and dissent following the awarding of a Kerry free. The latter two, the same as the Cork free brought forward 50 metres following a Seán Walsh kickout mark, were questionable and completely lacking in common sense. Their resources further thinned and a third consecutive double-digit victory recorded, Kerry remain in pole position for direct progress to the last eight. Cork, winless since April 5 and winless in five of their last six championship outings, have 70 minutes against Roscommon to rescue their summer. Scorers for Kerry: D Clifford (1-8, tp, tp free, 0-2 frees); S O'Shea (0-9, 3 tp frees, 0-3 frees); T O'Sullivan (tp), P Geaney, T Brosnan (tp), K Spillane (0-2 each); G O'Sullivan, P Clifford, D Geaney (0-1 each). Scorers for Cork: B Hurley (0-7, tp, tp free, 0-2 frees); M Cronin (0-5, 0-4 frees); P Walsh (0-3, tp); C Óg Jones (0-1 free), C O'Callaghan (0-2 each); R Deane (0-1). KERRY: S Ryan; T O'Sullivan, J Foley, D Casey; B Ó Beaglaoich, M Breen, G White; J O'Connor, BD O'Sullivan; G O'Sullivan, P Clifford, S O'Shea; D Clifford, P Geaney, M Burns. Subs: M O'Shea for BD O'Sullivan (21 mins, inj); D Geaney for P Clifford (31, inj); K Spillane for P Geaney (HT, inj); T Brosnan for Burns (59); T Morley for Ó Beaglaoich (66). CORK: MA Martin; S Brady, S Meehan, D O'Mahony; B O'Driscoll, M Shanley, M Taylor; I Maguire, C O'Callaghan; S Walsh, P Walsh, S McDonnell; C Óg Jones, B Hurley, M Cronin. Subs: S Powter for Meehan (43); R Deane for McDonnell (50); C O'Mahony for B Hurley (60); L Fahy for Taylor (65); E McSweeney for P Walsh (66). Referee: D O'Mahoney (Tipperary).
Irish Times
13 hours ago
- General
- Irish Times
Final games of SFC round-robin format will be more fun than a piñata at a children's party
It's time to mention the J word. No, not Jimmy's winning matches again. Or Joyce's Galway salvaging a draw from the clutches of championship elimination. Or Jarly Óg kicking points against the Dubs in Croker. No, the J word. Jeopardy. You wanted it, you got it. The final round of games in what is to be the last iteration of this All-Ireland senior football championship round-robin format will be stuffed with as much excitement as a piñata at a kids' birthday party. READ MORE The permutations and possibilities at play for the round-three matches in two weeks are a number-cruncher's fantasy – for peril awaits behind the gates of all the neutral venues that will host these fixtures. Armagh , the 2024 All-Ireland champions, are safe. Kerry , the 2025 All-Ireland favourites, are also safe. Monaghan , Down and Meath are also assured of a place in the knock-out stages. For the remaining 11 teams, a plethora of outcomes remain on the table. Mostly, though, the dice will be rolled for progression or elimination. This format in which three teams from each group progress has generated justifiable criticism, but there is no denying the shake-out leaves so much up for grabs in the last round of games. Group one is as tight as a sailor's knot. All four teams – Donegal , Mayo , Tyrone , Cavan – are tied on two points. In the final round of matches Donegal will play Mayo while Tyrone face Cavan. 'It's a huge game, absolutely huge,' Jim McGuinness, the Donegal manager, said when asked about the prospect of facing a previously dead but now resurrected Mayo side. That 'huge game' won't be an outlier. There will be knock-out football taking place all across the four groups in a fortnight. Take this season's group of death, group four. Galway , last year's beaten All-Ireland finalists, were on Sunday within seconds of becoming the only team with nothing left to play for in the competition. Had they succumbed to Derry at Celtic Park, coupled with Armagh's victory over Dublin , the Connacht champions would have been cut adrift from finishing in the top three. With Derry and Dublin playing in the final round of games, even a Galway victory over Armagh wouldn't have been enough to overtake Derry or the Dubs because of their head-to-head record. But Matthew Tierney's late goal has kept them alive, for now. Derry did subsequently get back down the field where Conor Doherty kicked an equaliser, but having hung over the cliff edge for so long in Derry, Galway were relieved to accept the salvation of a draw. Derry's Diarmuid Baker and Galway's Robert Finnerty at Celtic Park on Sunday. Photograph: Lorcan Doherty/INPHO 'Gladly take a point there the way we played in the game, to be honest,' Galway manager Pádraic Joyce said afterwards. 'Fair play to Derry, we knew they were going to bring a big fight and they did, they were really good. 'And I'm delighted to get out with a point because if we didn't get a point we'd be out of the championship, so at least we have something to play for in the last game. 'We're in the toughest group in it, there's no doubt about that. If we're not good enough to come out of the group we're not good enough to go on and do whatever we want to do in our own heads.' With Armagh (four points) already qualified, one wonders does manager Kieran McGeeney now rotate his squad? The game might be a repeat of last year's All-Ireland final, but it's a match for which the stakes are much greater for Galway than they are for Armagh. Galway have just one point after two games. And what now of the Dubs (2pts)? Derry (1pt) have shown signs of life again during this round-robin series. For both teams, everything is on the line in two weeks. 'That's the challenge for us now,' Dubs manager Dessie Farrell said. 'We're into knock-out football at this stage and that was always coming, maybe two weeks earlier than we would have liked. 'But that possibility was always there, so we're in it now and we just need to put the best foot forward and embrace the challenge.' As for group two, Kerry (4pts) will play Meath (3pts) in their final match while Roscommon (1pt) and Cork (zero points) will fight it out to see who joins them in the knock-out stages. In group three, Down (4pts) and Monaghan (4pts) will face off in a straight shoot-out for top spot. The carrot for the four table-toppers is direct advancement to the All-Ireland quarter-final stages, which comes with the added prize of a week's break after the round-three matches. The second and third-placed teams will play a preliminary quarter-final that weekend – meaning the successful sides there must deliver three weeks on the trot. At the other end of group two, Louth (zero points) and Clare (zero points) will contest an elimination match – winner stays on, loser goes home. Cavan suffered the heaviest defeat of any team over the weekend, a 19-point hammering, yet because of their surprise victory over Mayo two weeks ago they too remain standing 'Look, we live another day,' Cavan manager Raymond Galligan said. 'We have two weeks to get ourselves prepared. And, you know, so much is still possible.' Isn't that the truth.
Irish Examiner
14 hours ago
- Sport
- Irish Examiner
Brian Gavin: Cork Kerry clash showed why the two-point free has to be ditched
As they so often do, Cork and Kerry gave us plenty to discuss in Saturday's All-Ireland SFC group game. There was the skirmish before half-time and like the Galway-Offaly hurling one in April there is nothing officials can do until the teams return to the field for the start of the second half. This is exclusive subscriber content. Already a subscriber? Sign in Subscribe to access all of the Irish Examiner. Annual €120€60 Best value Monthly €10€4 / month Unlimited access. Subscriber content. Daily ePaper. Additional benefits.
Irish Times
15 hours ago
- General
- Irish Times
The Schemozzle: Tiered hurling system sending ill-prepared counties round in circles
'The success of these competitions in providing competitive games and a pathway to progress is a proven concept, so much so that it has inspired football to follow suit.' Those were the words of GAA president Jarlath Burns in the programme for Saturday's triple-header of Christy Ring, Nicky Rackard and Lory Meagher Cup finals . On closer inspection, while there is a pathway, teams often find themselves ill-prepared for progress when they achieve it. The grim reality is that teams who lift silverware in the bottom two tiers usually find themselves out of their depth at the next level up. Relegation often follows, before they win again at the lower level and repeat the process. In recent years, the record of teams at the next grade up, after winning the Rackard or Meagher Cup, has been very poor. The last three champions of both competitions have a combined win rate of 17 per cent in their first season at the higher grades. The upshot is that the same counties tend to dominate the lower tiers. Instances of counties progressing up the ranks and consolidating are very rare. READ MORE Mayo, for example, have played in five of the last 10 Rackard Cup finals, winning it twice and losing Saturday's final by a point against Roscommon. Donegal have won the same competition four times since 2013, while Kildare have won the Christy Ring Cup five times since 2014. Red Hand rising – but how high? While it's happened several times in hurling, 50 years have passed since Kerry managed a unique feat in football, winning the All-Ireland senior, minor and under-21 titles in the same season. Five decades on, could Tyrone repeat it? The Red Hand are on a high at underage level, having claimed three of the last four All-Ireland under-20 titles. Their latest success was highly impressive as they beat Armagh, Derry and Donegal in Ulster. Then they overcame Kerry by six points before beating Louth, 5-16 to 0-17, in last Wednesday's All-Ireland final. Tyrone also claimed the Ulster minor championship and will now face Cork in the All-Ireland quarter-final. Having also won the Ulster minor league, they are favourites to win the All-Ireland minor title. The closest Tyrone came to the unique hat-trick was in 2008 when they won the minor and senior All-Irelands, but their under-21s lost the Ulster semi-final to eventual provincial champions Down. Tyrone seniors are currently joint-fifth favourites for Sam Maguire, but their odds have lengthened since they were unexpectedly turned over at home against Mayo on Saturday. Bragging rights for brave Barry There was a delicious championship moment in the Laois v Offaly Tailteann Cup group game on Saturday. Six minutes into second-half injury-time, with Laois trailing their local rivals by a point, 3-16 to 2-18, Laois were awarded a penalty. Stepping up to take it was Mark Barry, whose home club, O'Dempsey's, straddles the border between the two counties. A draw or victory would have ensured qualification to a preliminary quarter-final for Laois, while there was a slim chance a loss would knock them out. Barry, who hadn't scored in the match, had a decision to make – knock it over the bar and guarantee a preliminary quarter-final or risk it for the same prize by going for goal. Laois were long overdue a win against Offaly. That and local bragging rights may have swayed things. Barry buried it and Laois won by two. Every point counts for Mayo Speaking of Tyrone, there was an unusual incident at the denouement of their loss to Mayo, as noted on social media by journalist Maurice Brosnan. 'Funny moment at the end of yesterday's game,' Brosnan posted. 'Ryan O'Donoghue turns to look at the clock and gets ready to kick it out. Mayo management start roaring to keep playing, score difference could matter. So he takes off and sets up Jack Coyne for his first ever championship point.' As it turned out, it is unlikely that score difference will come into play in that group. All four sides have a win on the board, so unless both of the final-day fixtures (Mayo v Donegal and Cavan v Tyrone) end in draws, there can't be any more than two teams on the same points, meaning the head-to-head rule will apply. Quote 'Over the last few years this particular group have been questioned for our commitment and our drive and I think today we answered a lot of f**king questions.' – Roscommon joint-captain Conor Mulry was a happy man after accepting the Rackard Cup. Number: 7 Two-pointers Monaghan scored in the second half of their win over Clare , who had scored four in the first half. Neither side managed an orange flag against the wind.
