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Irish Independent
13-05-2025
- Sport
- Irish Independent
Brennan shows Louth the way to their ‘holy grail'
Leinster GAA Senior Football Championship Final A winner as a player with his club St Vincent's and Dublin, and now a winner as Louth manager, the county's first Leinster Senior Football Championship title for 68 years, Ger Brennan has guided a group of players who had lost the last two finals to Dublin, and showed them the way to their 'holy grail' as some had described it – the Delaney Cup. 'It's surreal and I'm just really thrilled for the lads, the group of players, the amount of work that those guys put in, it's just incredible,' a beaming Brennan told local Louth media pitch side at Croke Park after the game,
Irish Independent
12-05-2025
- Sport
- Irish Independent
‘We've done the double!' – Dublin water polo club win Irish cup double
The women's team played out a nail-biting final against Galway's Tribes at the university pool in Limerick on Saturday. After an intense battle, nothing could separate the two teams, with the All-Ireland decider ending in a 10-10 draw. Tribes led for most of the match, but St Vincent's stayed in the game, edging ahead 10-9 in the final two minutes. However, Tribes were awarded a penalty in the dying moments and levelled the score. Both teams used their timeouts, but neither could find the winner, and the match went to penalties. St Vincent's edged the shootout 3-2, with Zoe O'Brien saving the final penalty, sealing the Irish Senior Cup title for her team. It was a heart-breaking outcome for a Tribes side making their first senior cup final appearance. The result means St Vincent's complete their own double, having also defeated Tribes on penalties in last week's league final. Clíona Colvin captained the senior team and was named in the Ladies Team of the Tournament alongside Ciara Williams and Aoife Hennessy. Meanwhile, St Vincent's faced another Galway side, Corrib, in the men's Senior Cup final, leading from start to finish, closing out the match 14-9. This marks the third consecutive Irish Senior Cup win for St Vincent's. Announcing the wins on social media, the club gave a 'big thanks' to all the players, coaches, and team managers who worked 'so hard all season' and showed incredible dedication to the club. Both senior teams are now Division One League and Irish Senior Cup champions for the season.
RTÉ News
10-05-2025
- Sport
- RTÉ News
St Vincent's ladies win Irish water polo cup on penalties
The Irish ladies senior water polo cup final turned into a nail-biter which had to be won and lost in the cruellest way this evening. It took penalties to decide the game - the All-Ireland final in water polo - as nothing separated Galway's Tribes and Dublin's St Vincents for a gruelling hour in the university pool in Limerick. Tribes led the game all the way, but Vincents ladies kept after them and went a goal ahead in the final two minutes to lead 10-9. Tribes came back after they were awarded a penalty in the last minute and although both teams called time outs with 12 seconds and one second to go respectively, neither could get the winning goal and it ended 10-10. St Vincent's ladies then won the cup on penalties, 3-2, a particularly cruel blow for a skilful and brave Tribes team in their first ever senior cup final, but either team could have been national champions. St Vincents also beat them last week on penalties in the league decider and are now league and cup champions Laura Casserly from Tribes was named most valuable player of the tournament. Erin Riordan, who swam for Ireland in last year's Olympic Games in Paris, only took up the sport when she retired in September and has won her first Irish Senior Cup medal with St Vincent's at her first attempt.
Irish Daily Mirror
06-05-2025
- Sport
- Irish Daily Mirror
Dublin Camogie champions play match in shorts as they defy skort rule
Camogie skort protests continued on Tuesday with Dublin Champions St Vincent's and opponents Good Counsel playing out their Division One League clash wearing shorts. Just days after Dublin and Kilkenny's Leinster Senior Camogie clash was threatened to be abandoned after players opted to wear shorts instead of skorts, momentum continues to grow with today's league game going ahead. It is understood that Dublin County Board instructed referees not to abandon games with players wearing shorts and will fine clubs €1 so they are technically compliant with Camogie's skort rule. The move could possibly pave the way for widespread wearing of skorts for camogie players, despite camogie rules. Dublin and Kilkenny players were forbidden from wearing shorts before their Leinster Championship clash last weekend. The two sides were forced to change into skorts before throw-in or risked the game being abandoned. Today's game represents a slice of history, with the senior camogie clash going ahead with all players from St Vincent's wearing shorts, while a number of Good Counsel players also wore shorts. It is believed that other club teams around Dublin took up the option of wearing shorts instead of skorts, and it is being reported that counties are now planning to relax the rule. A recent GPA survey found that 70% of respondents had experienced discomfort while wearing a skort, while 83% said they would like the option of wearing shorts. St Vincent's and Good Counsel in action Camogie players are obliged to wear skorts while playing under rule 6 (b). Efforts to change this rule have been voted down on numerous occasions, and the issue cannot be discussed until 2027. Aisling Maher was one of the leading voices raising awareness of the issue following the weekend's game between Dublin and Kilkenny, and was a driving force in arranging shorts-wearing for tonight's fixture. "Saturday would have been an accumulation of a load of intercounty players getting frustrated. We've gotten to a point where we're sick of this, and change is happening," she told the Irish Mirror. "Given the public support and backlash from Saturday, it gives you that push to keep going after it. From my perspective, the amount of parents whose kids love camogie but hate wearing the skort, and you're doing it for a good reason, and doing it for the people coming behind you. "On the back of that, I just spoke to our captain here, the manager, the club executive, and all the girls on the team, and we made a decision between us. We wanted to lend our voice to try and support that change. Thankfully, we gave everyone the choice to either wear shorts or a skort, and unsurprisingly, everybody opted for the shorts." Get the latest sports headlines straight to your inbox by signing up for free email alerts.
Indian Express
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
The Bhootnii movie review: 0 star review; this film lacks plot, production value, sense and sensibility
Within a few minutes of the film's opening, I asked myself: what am I doing here? Two hours, ten minutes, and what seems like a lifetime of groaning-and-moaning later, I have zero answers to that one. Horror comedies may be the flavour of the season after the 'Stree' jamboree, but even its part 2 was nowhere close to the delightful original. In this new film, we get a 'The', emphasising that this is not your random garden variety of bhootni, but a very specific one, with a double i to boot. Ergo, this one will stand apart. Which it does. It proudly and flagrantly stands apart from any vestiges of plot and production values, forget about sense and sensibility. There's a college called St Vincent's in Delhi, in which stands the Virgin Tree, around which love-struck students moon. This so-called college, which looks like a badly-constructed set, has scores of so-called students, of which our trio — Shantanu (Sunny Singh), Sahil (Nickunj Sharma), and Nasser (Aasif Shaikh) — is busy staving off needy spirits with the help of a black hoodie-clad ghostbuster called Baba (Sanjay Dutt), who quotes solemnly from the Gita about the 'aatma' being 'ajar and amar'. He also says, 'yeh chudail nahin, adhoori khwaish hai'. ALSO READ | Ibrahim Ali Khan's animated conversation with Palak Tiwari's half-brother during The Bhootnii screening fuels dating rumours. Watch Nope, I am not making any of this up. Then there's our Bhootni-in-chief, who goes by the name of Mohabbat (Mouni Roy). She has a tragic back-story, and emerald green eyes. She likes yanking 'scardey-cat' (this is an actual English subtitle from the movie, I swear) boys into the skies, and asking them, 'tumhari hobbies kya hain'? Can't see a broomstick, but anything is possible, right? There's loads of disjointed chatter about science and religion (vigyaan aur dharm), Valentine's Day and Holika Dahan, and oh, do not miss this woke stroke, 'koi Hindu Muslim ka time hai yeh'. Hear hear. It takes a film which is not even a film, just some scattered, stray ideas masquerading as one, to come up with that one. At one point the Bhootnii bats her lashes and says, I am not alive. Nor am I, dear reader, nor am I.
