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Irish Daily Mirror
03-08-2025
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- Irish Daily Mirror
What time, TV channel is Dublin v Meath on today in the All-Ireland ladies Final
Dublin are the bookies' favourites here to repeat their Leinster Final victory over Meath at Croke Park. That afternoon, in the curtain raiser to the Meath versus Louth Leinster Final, Dublin finished strongly to pull away in the last quarter. In the lead up to this one Meath have dismissed the idea that fitness was the issue, but they certainly appeared to flag late on. They've had almost two months to work on the issues arising out of that one. An impressive dismissal of Tipperary was followed up by a six point All-Ireland semi-final victory over holders Kerry, that really announced the Royals as serious contenders again to regain a crown they last won in 2022. Dublin had to go to extra-time to defeat Galway in the All-Ireland semi-final. A lovely back heel flick goal by Carla Rowe helped them. Rowe and Hannah Tyrrell are two players that Meath will have to watch, but then Dublin also have to curb the threat of Vikki Wall and Emma Duggan. Many of the players on both sides have won All-Ireland medals at Croke Park so they know what it's all about. It could come down to how the younger stars on both sides embrace the day. We saw Cork freeze when the screw was turned in the hurling final and Donegal start very slowly to trail by 0-12 to 0-4 against Kerry after 16 minutes of the men's football decider. So a fast start and staying with the game through sticky patches is vital. The teams looks evenly matched and with the way Meath dismissed Kerry and their star quality up front it looks a real 50/50 game with very little between the sides. Where is the game being played? The game is being played at Croke Park What time is throw-in? Throw in is at 4.15pm Can I watch the game on TV? The game is live on TG4 Is the game being streamed online? Yes, the game will be live streamed on TG4 Betting Odds: Dublin: 8/13 Draw: 8/1 Meath: 17/10
Irish Daily Mirror
09-07-2025
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- Irish Daily Mirror
Meath's Jordan Morris taking 'a big enough risk' but loving the journey
Jordan Morris says he is taking a 'big enough risk' playing with two partially torn knee ligaments, but he's 'loving it at the minute.' Morris' season looked over when he collapsed in agony back in March in Meath's Division 2 defeat by Louth at Inniskeen. An ambulance came for the Kingscourt forward with boss Robbie Brennan almost certain afterwards that it was a season ending knee injury. It would later emerge that Morris had suffered a fractured leg and a grade two tear to his posterior and anterior cruciate knee ligaments. But the full extent of the damage was never made public, with Morris (24) getting the all clear to play on from leading surgeon Ray Moran without going under the knife for surgery. Morris was moving freely on Meath match days and it soon became apparent that his 2025 inter-county race may not be run. Lo and behold, Morris came in as a sub after 45 minutes of the Leinster Final meeting with Louth at Croke Park. And although the Royals didn't win that one, Morris has started all four Championship games since, culminating in a magnificent 1-6 from play haul in the shock All-Ireland quarter-final victory over Galway. He also fired a brilliant individual goal, which proved crucial in the All-Ireland round robin victory over Cork. Morris hit two points from play in the draw with Roscommon and one point from play against Kerry before exploding against Galway. The flying forward missed his first three shots in the All-Ireland quarter-final, but it didn't deter him, as he went on to terrorise the Tribe rearguard, turning over the ball that led to his own game changing goal from Matthew Costello's pass. After losing James Conlon for the season, Morris' presence on the inside line has been vital for Meath. 'Basically I was told there's maybe a 40percent chance players who go back with a grade 2 tear can fully rupture it,' said Morris. 'So that's the risk I'm playing with at the minute. It's probably a big enough risk. But there's a 60percent chance I won't do it. 'It is in the back of your mind at times. You just have to manage it as much as you can. I'm playing with a risk and I'm loving it at the minute so it's great. 'It feels all good at the minute anyway. All the work and rehab is paying off. The TUD Sport, Health and Science student, who made his Meath senior debut back in 2020, continued: 'Probably the overriding feeling straight after the Louth game was that my year was done. 'It probably took maybe a week or a week and a half to get a full grasp of what happened. 'I went to see Ray Moran and he said he was happy enough with the structure of the ligaments. He said just rehab away at it. So there was no surgery required at all thank god. 'The doctors and physios I was dealing with were very good. They laid out a pathway straight away. 'I think I was given maybe eight weeks to get back on the pitch and I think I managed to get back in six, pushing and driving it on. 'I'm taking a bit of a risk as it is, but with the year we were having, I couldn't miss out on it. So I was just trying to do everything I could to get back on the panel and matchday squad.' He continued: 'I would have been rehabbing three times a day, injections and stuff like that to get back on the pitch. And then the S&C work you have to do. 'It's mad within even a week of not playing how much you can lose a bit of match fitness. 'I think that was probably a thought in my mind and on the physios', to get back to that level of gameplay. It was so hard to go back to it. 'The S&Cs, Philip Campbell and David Drake, are probably one of the best I've ever worked with. 'They got me back in a position to get out on the pitch in the Leinster final, so I can only thank them.' All that hard work paid off in spades against Galway as Morris propelled Meath to a first All-Ireland semi-final since 2009. His left handed fisted point under massive pressure was a huge score, while his bounce dummy and step move for one of his second half points had the crowd purring. 'It's probably something I've worked on,' he says. 'I played a lot of basketball down through my younger years. 'It probably combines with the basketball and GAA kind of aspect to be fair. 'Robbie gives you the freedom of the park. He wants you to go out and try these different things. 'Look, if you make a few mistakes or turnovers, he's not going to hold a grudge about it. 'He wants to see them 'creative turnovers,' as he calls them. He's probably had a good effect on my game. 'He's allowing me to go out and express myself a bit more. That's probably the impact Robbie's having on me. 'I've probably done a good bit of work with Niall O'Donoghue, our Performance Coach, these past couple of years. 'The three misses (against Galway). You just think about the next ball. If you start thinking about them it might ruin your game and it affects different things. 'The work I've done with Niall just proved to me that no matter what happens, it's the next ball and that's what I try to do anyway. 'From a personal point of view, the new rules probably blended into my type of game. I think as a team as well, it probably suits us down to the ground. 'Maybe the last couple of years we've been talking about breaking down the defences and things like that. 'Moving away from that type of style of defence has suited us, I think, as a group. That's probably helping us out a bit.' *** Jordan Morris was named the PwC GAA/GPA Player of the Month in football for June
BBC News
02-07-2025
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- BBC News
The GAA Social with Louth goalkeeper Niall McDonnell
This week's GAA Social podcast sees Oisin and Thomas joined by Louth goalkeeper Niall helped his county to win the Leinster title for the first time in 68 years in May as they beat Meath in the the podcast, he discusses his breakthrough into the Louth panel under Ger Brennan, the goalkeeping position under the new rules and that memorable Leinster final at Croke can download and listen to the GAA Social on BBC Sounds here.
Irish Daily Mirror
01-07-2025
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- Irish Daily Mirror
Big news coming out of Louth on Ger Brennan's future amid Dublin vacancy
Ger Brennan has stepped down as Louth manager after two years in charge - paving the way for a possible move into the vacant Dublin job. The surprise news has emerged this evening in the wake of Dessie Farrell's departure as Dublin boss after their All-Ireland quarter-final defeat by Tyrone at the weekend. Former Dublin and St. Vincent's All-Ireland winning player Brennan had the option of a third year at the Louth helm, having been in charge for two seasons. Brennan took over from Mickey Harte, who left Louth after three years to join Derry, before moving on after one year to take up a post as Offaly joint manager. Having landed a first Leinster title in 68 years, Louth will be devestated to lose Brennan with county chiefs once more on the lookout for a manager. Brennan also guided Louth to last year's Leinster Final, where they lost out to Dublin, before going on to make the county's first ever All-Ireland quarter-final after a famous preliminary quarter-final victory over Cork at Inniskeen. Brennan was the bookies early favourite to replace Farrell, with Declan Darcy also high up in the betting, while it's almost certain Dublin GAA will sound out Jim Gavin again. A Louth GAA County Board meeting is set to take place this evening, where Brennan's departure will be confirmed. Louth's season ended with a whimper after their magnificent Leinster title win as they crashed out to Donegal in the preliminary quarter-finals, having lost All-Ireland group games to Monaghan and Down, before defeating Clare. The future does look bright for Louth though after they landed a Leinster under-20 titles this year and made the Leinster minor final.
Irish Times
08-06-2025
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- Irish Times
Derek Lyng praises Kilkenny's hard work as they shrug aside Galway for six-in-a-row
Far from perfect, or the finished article for that matter, but a win is a win. Particularly in a Croke Park final. That was the gist of Derek Lyng's assessment of Kilkenny's sixth consecutive Leinster final success. The Cats never really cut loose, nor were they required to, whilst shrugging Galway aside for the second time in this season's campaign. Not even when Galway got it back to a four-point game on a couple of occasions late on did Kilkenny supporters really fear relinquishing their hold on the Bob O'Keeffe Cup. Onwards then to an All-Ireland semi-final in four weeks, but is it fair to suggest that Kilkenny haven't truly been road-tested yet? READ MORE 'I think we have been,' contested manager Lyng. 'From the start of the Leinster campaign, all we've been spoken about as is being favourites. 'We've had to put a huge amount of work into each game, and we prepare for each game like any other. It doesn't matter who you're playing. 'I think it's probably taken for granted that we're going to go out and win these games, but a huge amount of work goes into it, particularly from the players. They do it all, and we've been working very hard at that. I feel we've been tested in different games, at different stages. We lost to Wexford, and against Dublin we would have been disappointed with a spell in that game as well, as we were today. 'Look, regardless of who we're playing, we know we're going to have to find another gear or two for the next day and that's the reality of it. That's something we'll go after, and we're looking forward to that, but we took this campaign very seriously and we got our reward today. 'We're Leinster champions and that was the objective. At the same time, yeah, we know we've a lot of work to do.' Galway manager Micheál Donoghue dejected after the game. Photograph: Bryan Keane/Inpho Lyng borrowed from his predecessor Brian Cody's sporting vocabulary when describing the performance as 'decent'. 'It was about getting the result, the performance overall was decent, I thought,' he said. 'We know there's a lot of room for improvement. We go into a knock-out phase now. Everything ramps up. We have a few great weeks that we're going to have to really utilise and work very hard in, and just get our heads down to be ready for the next step.' Kilkenny's highlights reel contained plenty of moments of defensive excellence, with Huw Lawlor's soaring fetches at the back most impressive. If they are to go on and end their decade-long wait for an All-Ireland win, Lawlor's miserliness at the back is going to be required. 'It's a brilliant skill to have,' said Lyng of his full back's aerial ability. 'Somebody that can attack the ball and just pluck it from the sky like that. He was excellent and it gives a lift to everybody around him as well, that confidence that you have in a full back. 'I thought, overall, the effort, not just from Huw, but from everybody that was involved, was excellent. I thought our work-rate was very good and maybe it dipped a little bit at times but I thought a bit of resilience to take back the game under our control near the end was very positive as well.' Former All Star forward Eoin Cody missed out again and hasn't featured since the Cats beat Antrim. Lyng had positive news on that front. 'We just didn't take a chance on him,' he said. 'If he had had a setback, that would have been his year over. Eoin is actually looking very strong so hopefully the next couple of weeks will bring him on an awful lot. Hopefully we will have him the next day.' [ Leinster SHC final: Unflappable Kilkenny can contain the Galway bounce-back Opens in new window ] Galway are still alive in the Liam MacCarthy Cup race and will face a preliminary quarter-final winner in a little under a fortnight. Manager Micheál Donoghue took crumbs of comfort from the fact that when they landed some belated blows on Kilkenny in the final 10 minutes or so, they drew blood. 'In the build-up, people were saying, 'We're back, we're back' and that we have big opportunities,' said Donoghue of the pre-final talk locally. 'Look, we have huge belief and trust in the group. The disappointing thing is when you see what they did for a 10-, 12-minute period in the game ... look, that's the positives we're taking out of it and that's what we'll try and build on as we move forward.' Is Project Galway, mark II, ultimately a bigger job than Donoghue had anticipated? 'No, I wouldn't say a bigger job,' responded the 2017 All-Ireland winning manager. 'Obviously there's the disappointment of today and I suppose the narrative will be that it's probably similar to previous years and previous teams. But we know what we have in the squad and we'll try and take the positives out of it and move forward.'
