Emmet Bolton

It’s not always the earth-shattering moments or the big stuff that stays lit in your mind. One of the inevitable thrills of watching sport is that eve(...)

Kildare defender Emmet Bolton has retired from intercounty football after over 10 years with the county’s senior team. In 2010 when Kildare were edg(...)

Mayo 2-17 Kildare 0-14 Kildare’s championship run came to a shuddering halt at sunny MacHale Park, Castlebar before a crowd of close on 15,000 wher(...)

Kildare 1-22 Offaly 2-14 In a game that bore little resemblance to the provincial fare they had been involved in, Kildare and Offaly produced a barns(...)

If there’s to be a shock at all in the football championship this weekend, this has the look of where we might have it. Kildare were impressive for (...)

Kildare 1-15 Offaly 1-13 Pat Flanagan bemoaned what he claimed was a common absence of fair play for “so-called lower teams” after Offaly’s narrow def(...)

In two-year increments Kildare’s challenge to Dublin has slipped away since the 2009 Leinster final. The tale is told most graphically by the bookm(...)

Kildare 0-16 Laois 0-16 “Games, games, games,” Kildare manager Jason Ryan was hardly downbeat. “Competitive games — that’s really important for us.” (...)

Kildare 1-12 Laois 1-9 Emmet Bolton’s last-minute goal earned Kildare a vital win over struggling Laois at O’Moore Park.Kildare were facing relegati(...)

Kilkenny have wheeled out the big guns for Sunday’s Division One A relegation play-off against Clare. As expected manager Brian Cody has given instant(...)