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RTÉ News
3 hours ago
- Climate
- RTÉ News
Camogie Championship Round 2: All you need to know
SATURDAY All-Ireland Championship Group 1 Limerick v Wexford, Mick Neville Park Rathkeale, 4pm Tipperary v Cork, The Ragg, 4pm All-Ireland Championship Group 2 Kilkenny v Waterford, UPMC Nowlan Park, 12.30pm Derry v Galway, Owenbeg, 2pm TV Tipperary v Cork will be streamed live on the Spórt TG4 YouTube channel ONLINE You'll find score updates and match reports on RTÉ Sport Online and RTÉ News app. RADIO Score updates on RTÉ Radio 1's Saturday Sport. WEATHER Saturday: A band of showery rain will spread from the west through the morning and afternoon. The rain will clear into the Irish Sea, with sunshine and a scattering of showers following, some heavy in the northwest, with the chance of thunder. Highest temperatures of 15 to 20 degrees in moderate to fresh southwest winds, veering westerly. For more go to Group 1 Limerick v Wexford This is a must-win affair for both counties, who were defeated in their opening outings. Limerick were never in it against Cork and had a day to forget while Wexford were edged out by Clare in a game that was considered critical in terms of making the quarter-finals. Both these teams will still harbour ambitions in that regard but a second reverse here would have them focusing on the other end of the table and avoiding the trapdoor to intermediate in 2026. Tipperary v Cork Cork sauntered to a 38-point victory over Limerick but The Ragg is a different venue to Páirc Uí Rinn and with all due respect to the Shannonsiders, Tipperary are a different calibre of opposition. Last year's league champions get their campaign under way after sitting out the first round with a vociferous home crowd certain to be in their corner, and should provide the three-in-a-row chasing Rebels with exactly the type of examination Ger Manley would want before we reach the knockout stages. Group 2 Kilkenny v Waterford Kilkenny posted a 26-point win away to Derry last weekend and have been making incremental improvements since the beginning of the season under new manager Tommy Shefflin and skipper Katie Power in her 18th season in black and amber. Waterford have yet to overcome their neighbours at championship level since returning to the top tier and they too have a new manager, with coach Mick Boland stepping into the fray after Jerry Wallace departed following the league. The Déise are desperate to return to the All-Ireland final after reaching the 2023 decider and victory on enemy territory in their first outing of the 2025 championship would represent a huge boost. Derry v Galway, Owenbeg Traditionally slow starters, Galway will be pleased to have opened their campaign with victory over Dublin. Without any provincial action, it was a first outing since the disappointing defeat in the Division 1A league final. Retaining their senior status with a degree of comfort was a fine achievement for Derry in 2024, but they have lost nearly two-thirds of the starting team since and suffered a heavy loss in Owenbeg to Kilkenny last Saturday. Their crunch games are probably yet to come but last year's All-Ireland finalists cannot afford to treat the Oak Leafers lightly.
Irish Examiner
4 hours ago
- Sport
- Irish Examiner
Tipperary make one change to starting team for All-Ireland U20 final
Tipperary U20 hurling manager Brendan Cummins has made one change to his starting line-up for Saturday's All-Ireland final against Kilkenny from the side which defeated Clare in the Munster decider. Team captain Sam O'Farrell comes into the starting line-up in place of David Ryan. O'Farrell, who started for the Tipperary seniors in their Munster Championship victory over Waterford earlier this month, was initially named to start in the Munster U20 final against Clare but was replaced by Ryan before the throw-in. O'Farrell stepped off the bench in the second half. Read More Tipp's senior starlets in safe hands with goalkeeping great Cummins There are two other seniors stars in the Tipperary team in Darragh McCarthy and Oisín O'Donoghue. McCarthy has been a regular starter for the Tipperary seniors this year while O'Donoghue made an impactful appearance off the bench against Waterford, scoring 1-1. Tipperary, who lost last year's final to Offaly, are seeking their first All-Ireland title at this grade since 2019 while Kilkenny last won the title three years ago. The Cats d efeated Dublin in the Leinster final. Saturday's game at Nowlan Park throws in at 3pm. It will be broadcast live on TG4. TIPPERARY: E Horgan (Knockavilla Donaskeigh Kickhams); C O'Reilly (Holycross Ballycahill), A O'Halloran (Carrick Swan), P O'Dwyer (Killenaule); A Ryan (Arravale Rovers), J Ryan (Holycross Ballycahill), S O'Farrell (Captain, Nenagh Éire Óg); J Egan (Moycarkey Borris), A Daly (Knockavilla Donaskeigh Kickhams); C English (Fr. Sheehys), C Martin (Cappawhite), D Costigan (Moycarkey Borris); D McCarthy (Toomevara), P McCormack (Borris-Ileigh), O O'Donoghue (Cashel King Cormacs). Subs: D English (Fr. Sheehys), S Butler (Kilsheelan Kilcash), M Cawley (Nenagh Éire Óg), C Fitzpatrick (Drom & Inch), J Hayes (Moycarkey Borris), J Ormond (JK Brackens), P Phelan (Upperchurch Drombane), D Ryan (Arravale Rovers), R Ryan (Holycross Ballycahill)
RTÉ News
12 hours ago
- Sport
- RTÉ News
Tom O'Meara in a New York state of mind for Lory Meagher decider
They have a saying in the US military, 'no man left behind'. The New York hurlers do their best to live by a similar creed but with the visa situation being what it is, and the general uncertainty of the Trump regime, it's not always possible. So it is that one or two who might ordinarily have been part of the New York hurlers' shot at Lory Meagher Cup title success this weekend will be at home. "It's not a thing of the past," said Tipperary man and New York hurler Tom O'Meara of visa difficulties. "Even with the current situation, Trump has halted applications for F and J visas. It's always a battle. Not everyone is lucky enough to be able to travel home. Look, we lost out on a couple of lads probably that couldn't travel home but you're always going to have that in America." O'Meara is one of the lucky ones. He counts the Astoria neighbourhood in Queens as home these days and works in construction as a project manager. Three times a week, he makes the hour or so journey to Gaelic Park in The Bronx for training. It's two and a half years since he first settled in New York and he sees a life stretching out ahead of him there. "I'm lucky enough to be on a visa that gives me three years and it can be renewed for another three years," he said. "As I said, not everyone is as lucky. I love it out there and I do see myself staying for the foreseeable. I'm from rural north Tipperary and I'd find it very difficult to adapt back after living the big city life!" O'Meara captained the Tipp New York club to championship success in 2024 and helped them retain the title in 2025. He is joined in the county setup by several more Tipp men. Some, like Portroe's AJ Willis, who hit 1-08 against Monaghan in last weekend's Meagher Cup semi-final, are players, while others are involved in the management. New York feels like home at this stage though O'Meara acknowledged that a lot of his free time is spent at the hurling club. He likes going into Central Park with pals too, for a puck around. It was novel at first drawing attention from interested passers by but the questions and the queries about the stick and ball game soon got old. "Every Tom, Dick and Harry is asking you what's that?" said O'Meara. "I'm sick of telling them it's hurling. It's usually, 'What? Curling?' I say, 'No, not curling, hurling'. I've just resorted to, 'Ah, it's cricket' and they seem to walk away. You get a lot of that, and gawking stares." If nothing else, he's spreading the hurling gospel. Not that it has fully caught on just yet. There's just one home grown player in the New York hurling squad. "James Breen, he's born and reared in the Bronx, a great hurler," explained O'Meara. Men like former Cork senior Sean O'Leary-Hayes and 2017 All-Ireland winning Galway forward Johnny Glynn are picking up the slack in the meantime. Glynn has embraced New York more than any of them, lining out for the senior footballers previously. He's currently the GAA board's vice-chairman. Lory Meagher Cup final opponents Cavan, no doubt, will have their hands full with the big forward who clipped two points in the 1-29 to 2-13 defeat of Monaghan. "He's a cult hero out there now," said O'Meara. "Any man that watches hurling knows Johnny's ability in the air. He's been one of the best to field a ball. He always keeps himself in very good nick, a hard trainer also. He's still well able to go." This is the first season that New York has been included in the hurling's fifth-tier competition. There have been suggestions that they're too strong for the grade. "I can see where they're coming from, saying that," shrugged O'Meara. "Galway had the same set up back in the day, getting straight to a semi-final in the Liam MacCarthy. It can be an advantage or a disadvantage. Like, for the first 10 minutes of the Monaghan game we were sitting ducks. "I don't think we scored at all. We hadn't played any competitive games. In New York, you can't organise any competitive match to the same standard. So there are positives and negatives to it."
Irish Examiner
12 hours ago
- Sport
- Irish Examiner
Tipp's senior starlets in safe hands with goalkeeping great Cummins
Into the safe hands of Brendan Cummins Tipperary's senior starlets have gone these past couple of weeks and the U20 manager is indebted to Liam Cahill. That may sound unusual seeing as the likes of Darragh McCarthy, Oisín O'Donoghue and Sam O'Farrell are fully qualified for the underage grade and an All-Ireland medal is on offer on Saturday, but Cummins considers them on loan from his old team-mate Cahill. 'No egos,' he says of their working relationship. 'That's a big help. They're senior hurlers in my view, the lads that we have, and we get them back to play U20 and we're very grateful. 'The biggest test was the Munster final with Sam O'Farrell and there was no way his workload would allow him to play three games in six or seven days. We were grateful that we had access to Sam for 15 minutes at the end of the game. 'The senior team is the priority team, like, and I know that from being part of it. Our job is to get players as quickly as possible through our experience ready to play senior hurling for Liam Cahill in the next couple of years. 'That is the job description, and if in the middle of that we can win something, great. The longer we stay in the championship, the more time we have with the players and the more time we have to develop them. 'We have got to the end of the road with them now the last two years, which has given us an extra couple of weeks of preparing for the big occasion and that experience helps. Every game in senior hurling is a big occasion. 'Me and Liam have a great relationship. There's never any hassle, never any problems because we're both driving to make sure Tipperary have the best players ready to play for the seniors and they're the flagship team.' If last year's Munster title and All-Ireland final appearance came against the head, this season's achievements haven't. And yet after losing to Limerick on opening day, it appeared expectations had swallowed them up. Cummins and his management team of Thomas Costello, Fintan O'Connor and Paddy Stapleton asked the players, 'What are you going to do about it?' The winning run that's followed has been quite the response. 'You want to build that bit of character and resolve. The group have a lot of that themselves so we wouldn't be taking a major credit for that, but the experience that we have from Fintan, Paddy and Tom has been helpful. They have seen all the highs and lows and the conversations they had with the players after the Limerick game certainly helped them to recalibrate for the next challenge, which was Cork away. 'Like everyone else, we were wondering, 'What's going on here?' and Limerick were way better than us on the night, the way they fought and chased. So, there were lessons to be learned. A bad experience is no good unless you learn from it and the group as a whole all learned from that night.' Kilkenny have home advantage for this final but the crowds are back for Tipperary hurling. 'I'm sure Tipp supporters will come and get behind the players because there is a little bit of momentum building but sport is very fickle,' warns Cummins. 'You have to keep building. You can't ever rest. You're all the time trying to get more out of yourself. 'The senior hurlers, I know what they have been doing in the background, I know what Liam went through last year inside and outside the county. I'm delighted for him now that things are going well for him and the players have responded. There is momentum and it's our turn now to try and push it on a little bit.' Cummins predicts Kilkenny will put in a ferocious challenge. 'I'm anticipating huge physicality, great structure in the way they play. Mark Dowling has done a massive amount of work with them and they will have a lot of hurt from last year when they lost to Offaly in Tullamore. They would have been disappointed with how it went like we were in the All-Ireland final. 'Both sides are well-matched physically and the way they are prepared to play and certainly Kilkenny handled Leinster really well. Dublin were coming into that final having beaten Offaly and Galway and were on a real high and Kilkenny just quenched them. Even in the first half against the wind and before the sending off, they were five or six up. There is going to be nothing in this game.'
Irish Examiner
12 hours ago
- Sport
- Irish Examiner
Tipp native O'Meara didn't envisage stepping out for New York in Lory Meagher Cup final
Tom O'Meara didn't grow up dreaming of hurling for New York, that's for sure. He remembers crying tears of happiness as a kid immediately after Tipperary's 2010 All-Ireland final win, followed by tears of sadness when his parents informed him they had to leave immediately to rescue their abandoned car. "I wanted to stay to hear Pat Kerwick singing The Galtee Mountain Boy in the Hogan Stand," smiled O'Meara. The Kiladangan man was there for the 2016 and 2019 final wins too and as recently as 2022 was a goalscorer for his club in the Tipp county SHC final replay loss to Kilruane MacDonaghs. He's well over two years into his new life in New York now though, living in Queens and working in construction as a project manager. Tomorrow, he'll return to Croke Park as a New York hurler for the Lory Meagher Cup final, against Cavan, not something he ever envisaged. "Never, not in a million years would I have thought I'd be playing for New York, let alone playing for New York in an All-Ireland final at Croke Park," said O'Meara. He isn't the only Tipp man involved with the Exiles. AJ Willis, who struck 1-8 against Monaghan in last weekend's All-Ireland semi-final win, is from Portroe. There are other Tipp men too, playing and coaching, and the manager, Richie Hartnett, is a Kerry man from Ballyheigue. Former Cork senior Sean O'Leary Hayes is part of the playing group also, along with 2017 All-Ireland winning Galway forward Johnny Glynn. "That's the best bit of it, all the different counties," smiled O'Meara. "That's what starts all the slagging and the banter." Glynn is a towering figure for New York, on and off the field. He has represented the New York footballers as well and is currently vice-chairman of the New York GAA board. "He's a cult hero out there now," said O'Meara. "Any man that watches hurling knows Johnny's ability in the air. He's been one of the best to field a ball. He always keeps himself in very good nick, a hard trainer also. He's still well able to go." This is the first season that New York has been included in the Lory Meagher Cup competition. They enter at the All-Ireland semi-final stage, taking on the team that finishes second in the group. It turned out to be Monaghan and New York beat them comfortably, 1-29 to 2-13. There have been suggestions that they're too strong for this level, considering some of the players they possess. "I can see where they're coming from, saying that," shrugged O'Meara. "Galway had the same set up back in the day, getting straight to a semi-final in the Liam MacCarthy. It can be an advantage or a disadvantage. Like, for the first 10 minutes of the Monaghan game we were sitting ducks. I don't think we scored at all. We hadn't played any competitive games. In New York, you can't organise any competitive match to the same standard. So there are positives and negatives to it." Just getting across to compete in the games has been a feat of logistics. The 31-man panel and coaching team flew into Ireland last Thursday morning and will jet back out next Monday. They've been based so far in Mullingar, where the Monaghan game was played, but will shift locations this morning to Stillorgan in south Dublin. The visa situation has caused a few headaches too. "We lost a couple of lads that couldn't travel home but you're always going to have that in America," said O'Meara. New York will face a Cavan team that topped the Lory Meagher group, striking 12 goals along the way. "It's great to be here and to get an opportunity like this," said O'Meara. "The logistics of the whole thing are massive so we just want to max out what we're capable of really and give it everything."
