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The Irish Sun
a day ago
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- The Irish Sun
Ladies Gaelic football championship opening round a goalfest with huge wins for Laois, Clare, Sligo and Limerick
MO NERNEY starred as LAOIS got their TG4 All-Ireland intermediate campaign off to a winning start against ROSCOMMON. And the O'Moore County did so by easing past the Rossies 3-11 to 2-7 in Portlaoise. 2 Mo Nerney the standout performer 2 Clare finding the net with ease A goal from Nerney after Emily Lacey landed four points helped Laois to lead by 1-8 to 1-5 at the interval with Caoimhe Lennon netting for the Connacht side. Laois opened up a seven-point lead when Nerney got her second goal from a penalty. And they pushed on from there with Lauren Kearney getting their third goal. Lennon responded for Roscommon with her second major. WESTMEATH began their shot at glory with a win when they defeated DOWN by 2-9 to 1-10 at Ballynacargy. Read more in GAA The Lake County — with Caoimhe Kilmurray and Sarah Dillon prominent — led 2-5 to 0-6 at the end of the opening half. Down hit back with a goal from Niamh Rice early in the second period but, with goalkeeper Aoife Temple saving a penalty the hosts held on to win. Meanwhile, MONAGHAN were 2-11 to 1-13 victors over their Ulster neighbours CAVAN in Clones. A goal from Aishling Sheridan helped Cavan lead by six points at the break, with Éabha Sherry converting a 12th minute penalty for the Farney. Most read in GAA Football Sherry got her second goal of the match after 40 minutes and with interval substitute Holly McQuaid hitting 0-5, four of them from play, Monaghan edged out their neighbours to claim victory. And in Ennis, CLARE ran out easy 5-12 to 2-6 victors over OFFALY. A strong opening half laid the foundation for Clare's triumph. Tipperary GAA star 'had to do live apology on RTE' the day after cursing during All-Ireland interview - Two goals from Ellie Hanrahan and one from Megan Downes saw them lead by 3-9 to 1-1 at the interval. They pushed on from there with Lucy Shanahan and Edel McNamara also finding the net in an impressive display. Meanwhile, SLIGO got their TG4 All-Ireland junior title bid underway with a routine 2-11 to 2-4 win over DERRY in Owenbeg. LIMERICK scored a facile 7-23 to no score win over minnows KILKENNY. Elsewhere, ANTRIM also proved far too strong for LONGFORD with a 4-15 to 0-5 triumph. RESULTS: TG4 All Ireland Intermediate Championship Group 1: Laois 3-11 Roscommon 2-7 Group 2: Westmeath 2-9 Down 1-10 Group 3: Monaghan 2-11 Cavan 1-13 Group 4: Clare 5-12 Offaly 2-6. TG4 All Ireland Junior Championship Group A: Sligo 2-11 Derry 2-4 Limerick 7-23 Kilkenny 0-00 Group B: Antrim 4-15 Longford 0-5.
Irish Independent
2 days ago
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- Irish Independent
Ladies football round-up: Laois off to winning start against Roscommon
Laois, relegated from the senior grade last year, got their TG4 All-Ireland intermediate campaign off to a winning start when they defeated Roscommon by 3-11 to 2-7 in Portlaoise.
The 42
2 days ago
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- The 42
Mo Nerney's double helps Laois to opening championship win
LAOIS, RELEGATED FROM the senior grade last year, got their TG4 All-Ireland intermediate campaign off to a winning start when they defeated Roscommon by 3-11 to 2-7 in Portlaoise. A goal just before the break from Mo Nerney, after Emily Lacey landed four points, helped Laois to lead by 1-8 to 1-5 at the interval, with Caoimhe Lennon getting the first of her two goals for Roscommon. Laois, winners of the TG4 All-Ireland IFC title three years ago, opened up a seven-point lead when Nerney got her second goal from a penalty and they pushed on from there with Lauren Kearney getting their third goal before Lennon responded for Roscommon with her second goal. Westmeath, who defeated Laois in the TG4 Leinster IFC final, got their championship campaign off to a winning start when they defeated Down by 2-9 to 1-10 at Ballynacargy. Westmeath, with Caoimhe Kilmurray and Sarah Dillon prominent, led by 2-5 to 0-6 at the end of the opening half. Down hit back with a goal from Niamh Rice early in the second half but Westmeath, with goalkeeper Aoife Temple saving a penalty, held on for victory. Advertisement Monaghan, beaten by Cavan in the Ulster semi-final, got revenge when they emerged 2-11 to 1-13 victors at St Tiernach's Park in Clones. A goal from Aishling Sheridan helped Cavan lead by 1-8 to 1-2 at the break, with Éabha Sherry converting a 12th minute penalty for Monaghan. Sherry got her second goal of the match after 40 minutes and with interval substitute Holly McQuaid hitting 0-5, four of them from play, Monaghan edged out their neighbours to claim victory. A strong opening half display laid the foundation for Clare's 5-12 to 2-6 win over Offaly in Ennis. Two goals from Ellie Hanrahan and one from Megan Downes saw them lead by 3-9 to 1-1 at the interval. They pushed on from there with Lucy Shanahan and Edel McNamara also finding the net in an impressive display. Meanwhile, the race for TG4 All-Ireland junior title also got under way this weekend with Sligo repeating their group win over Derry last year with a 2-11 to 2-4 win in Owenbeg. Limerick scored a facile win over Kilkenny while Antrim also proved far too strong for Longford. Results TG4 All Ireland Intermediate Championship Group 1 Laois 3-11 Roscommon 2-7 TG4 All Ireland Intermediate Championship Group 2 Westmeath 2-9 Down 1-10 TG4 All Ireland Intermediate Championship Group 3 Monaghan 2-11 Cavan 1-13 TG4 All Ireland Intermediate Championship Group 4 Clare 5-12 Offaly 2-6 TG4 All Ireland Junior Championship Group A Sligo 2-11 Derry 2-4 Limerick 7-23 Kilkenny 0-00 TG4 All Ireland Junior Championship Group B Antrim 4-15 Longford 0-5
The Irish Sun
3 days ago
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- The Irish Sun
Jennifer Duffy and Monaghan on revenge mission against Cavan in All-Ireland intermediate championship after league loss
JENNIFER DUFFY continues to look forward despite defeat the last time she faced Cavan. And tomorrow, the Monaghan ace has the chance to gain revenge when the Ulster neighbours square off in Group 3 of the TG4 All-Ireland intermediate football championship . Regularly used at full-back, centre-back or midfield previously, Duffy has added another string to her bow in 2025. Despite donning the No 6 jersey for the Farney's TG4 Ulster IFC semi-final against Cavan in Smithborough at the beginning of the month, she was actually stationed on the edge of the square and helped herself to an excellent haul of 2-2. Even though the O'Neill Shamrocks star was handed a similar role in a win over Clare in the NFL Division 2 campaign earlier this year — when she bagged 2-1 — Cavan were surprised to see Duffy being deployed as the fulcrum of the Monaghan attack. But Duffy explained: 'It was something in the league that I was just carrying an injury and they literally said, 'Right, we'll put you inside'. It kind of worked. I'd say Cavan didn't really expect me to be inside. Read More on LGFA 'They actually have our ex-goalie coach in with them. I was full-back when he was over us and now I'm full-forward. It probably was a bit of a shock to their system. 'They didn't really know that I was going to be in there, but I play there for club.' Despite Duffy's haul, the Breffni ladies won that day on a score of 2-15 to 3-8. But they will have to contend with Duffy's attacking prowess again in the sides' championship opener in Clones tomorrow, a curtain-raiser to the men's All-Ireland group-stage clash of Monaghan and Clare. Most read in GAA Football Given she expects their opponents to have a vocal following after winning Division 3 and the Ulster intermediate championship, Duffy is hopeful the Monaghan public will come out to support her team. She added: 'Cavan always have a good crowd with them, especially now. When teams are winning, you'll always have plenty of support to back them up. Every time we play them it is a derby, so you know you're going to get a good battle. Young Kerry LGFA fan steals the show with sign during All-Ireland final win over Galway 'Even people getting in early for the men's game, they'll get the end of our game. 'It might actually start people to think, 'Oh, maybe we'll start supporting them'. It has nearly pushed us to be giving an even better performance, now that you know there is going to be a bigger crowd there.' Duffy's hopes of evening the score with Cavan should be boosted by the fact she has always been seen as a big-game player — while most footballers are elevated to senior inter-county status in relatively low-key affairs, the polar opposite was the case for her in 2019. In the same year, she was part of an impressive Monaghan side that made it all the way to an All-Ireland minor 'A' championship final. Having already overcome a Meath team spearheaded by future double senior All-winner Emma Duggan, Duffy lined out at left corner-back when the Farney lost out to A mere 13 days on, she was drafted straight into the Monaghan senior starting line-up for their crunch TG4 All-Ireland SFC relegation play-off against And with Duffy being one of three players to rattle the net in a 3-18 to 1-10 victory led by Louise Kerley and Cora Courtney, it was a memorable introduction to the highest level of ladies football. STEPPING UP She recalled: 'They were like, 'Right, you're going in midfield', and I was like, 'Oh, OK.' 'A few of us stepped up that day. When you're that young, you're a bit naive to what is going on. You're happy enough to go in and play. I don't think at the time I knew how much the game meant. 'The older girls, there was no way they were going to be relegated. When I think back now, I think there was so much power put into that day, that the girls were just like, 'We need to win this'. 'When I was young, you look up to Cora Courtney and when she tells you to do something, you do it.' Since then, Duffy has always been learning — and now she is always teaching as well, and hoping to inspire others in the same way she was. Since graduating from DCU, Duffy has been working steadily as a teacher at her own alma mater, Our Lady's Secondary School , Castleblayney. Fourteen years ago, she was in teachers , Nicola Fahy, play in Monaghan's TG4 All-Ireland SFC final defeat to Cork. In 2020, the duo would line up together in defence in championship games against Tipperary and Duffy smiled: 'She would have taught me in school, so it was nearly nostalgic thinking I was actually getting to play with her then come that late stage.' 1 Jennifer Duffy in action for Monaghan Credit: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile
RTÉ News
17-05-2025
- Sport
- RTÉ News
Jenny Higgins keeping her Rossies dream alive after double ACL blow
It's close to three years since she last donned the primrose and blue in a competitive game, but as she continues to recover from her latest injury set-back, Jenny Higgins is hopeful of lining out for Roscommon again in the future. After featuring for the Connacht side in their TG4 All-Ireland intermediate football championship semi-final defeat to Wexford on 10 July of the previous year, Higgins missed out on the 2023 inter-county season to place her full focus on a new adventure in Australia with AFL Women's outfit Sydney Swans. Yet just a week before she was due to make her AFLW bow, Higgins suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury in a match scrimmage (informal practice game) against Brisbane Lions. She eventually bounced back to play a part in Clann na nGael's excellent senior club championship final success over St Brigid's last September and had subsequently returned to the county set-up by the end of 2024. However, Higgins sustained a second ACL injury (on the opposite knee to the one she damaged in Australia) at Roscommon training on Clann na nGael's pitch in December and this has unfortunately left her sidelined for another extended period. "It won't be this year, but you never know what next year will bring." "I still feel I have very much unfinished business with the sport and I was back in better shape than I ever was after the first ACL. That's the thing about ACL recovery in many ways. It gives you time to focus on things that, with the inter-county season being so condensed, you don't actually get an off-season to work on areas of your game," Higgins explained. "The great thing about having that time away, if you channel it and you've the right mindset going into it, you can actually come back better. Be a better athlete, a better person and a better player as a result of it. I'm just hoping to use this opportunity again to be better. It's still a bit off yet. It won't be this year, but you never know what next year will bring." Higgins hasn't exactly been looking on from the outside at Roscommon's season to date as she ultimately decided to remain with the squad during her ACL rehabilitation. Additionally, Rossies boss Finbar Egan (her former Clann na nGael manager who was previously involved when Mayo won four All-Ireland senior titles from 1999 to 2003) was also quick to bring Higgins on board as part of his backroom set-up for the year to help make up in some way for her loss on the pitch. "Initially I wanted probably to step away from it. You're so disappointed. You had such expectations of the year and it's hard to be on the sideline again. It felt so raw because it felt like I was only back. I was back doing what I love and back to my best, and then to kind of think 'oh God, I'm on the sideline again'. "Thankfully I've great support there with Finbar Egan and Marie Kelly on the management team with Roscommon. They wouldn't take no for an answer and they wanted me in on the management team. They felt I could offer a lot of experience and we've quite a young squad, so they weren't letting me get away. "It was great to be involved and the girls are great. They celebrate all the little wins with me. Whether it is my first jump there in the gym one day, they were all celebrating with me. Or my first run. It just makes it that bit easier, having that community and that support network around you." Higgins will certainly have a significant part to play behind the scenes as Roscommon embark on their latest quest to win a first TG4 All-Ireland intermediate football championship since 2005. In order to reach the knockout rounds of this year's competition, the Rossies – who were relegated from Division 2 of the Lidl National Football League back in March – will need to progress out of a Group 1 that also includes 2024 All-Ireland junior winners Fermanagh and the runners-up of tomorrow's Leinster decider between Laois and Westmeath. "There's nothing easy about that group at all. Fermanagh did really well in their league campaign as well [reaching the Division 4 final]. They're a really good side. Laois and Westmeath, we have great history with them throughout the years. There'll be huge games coming up. "We know we need to be fully ready in order to compete with them, but we do feel like on any day, if we have our best players on the pitch and if we turn up and be the best we can be, then we are able to compete with the best of them." As well as her day job as a primary school teacher, Higgins is being kept busy in her role as an ambassador for the LGFA's Glenveagh Homes Gaelic4Girls programme. A 10-week initiative that incorporates coaching sessions with fun non-competitive blitzes aimed at increasing participation in Ladies Gaelic Football, Higgins has been on board with this programme since Glenveagh became its main title sponsor in 2021. Her involvement in Gaelic4Girls actually predates the Kildare-based company's partnership on this project with the LGFA – it was first launched all the way back in 2008 – and she continues to derive great pleasure from her work with this initiative. "I've been involved with the Glenveagh Homes Gaelic4Girls programme for a number of years now. Each year I find it going from strength to strength. It's particularly rewarding being a primary school teacher and being once a young girl myself, knowing the importance of sport," Higgins added. "The impact that can have on girls, particularly ladies football. It's wonderful to get involved and promote it. Especially when we do our club visits. Probably the most rewarding part is we get to go out in the community and see the impact the programme is having on the local communities, on the girls and even on the families. "We're very fortunate to have Glenveagh involved. They're to be hugely admired, it has gone from strength to strength, the investment and promotion that they put into it. To see the numbers that clubs are getting out as a result of having the Gaelic4Girls programme, it's just fantastic."
