Karl O Connell
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Top marks all round as Monaghan turn the tables on Dublin again
- Gaelic Football
- January 27, 2019, 17:47
Monaghan 2-13 Dublin 1-13 Nothing warms a small town in January like sending the Dubs home with their hides tanned for them. In front of 8,556 perish(...)

Ryan Wylie and Monaghan ready to come back for more
- Gaelic Football
- January 17, 2019, 01:00
Crunch the numbers on Monaghan’s 2018 Championship campaign and you come up with some intriguing scoring returns. Players recognised as defenders – w(...)

Dublin take seven All Stars but Rory Beggan pips Stephen Cluxton
- Gaelic Football
- November 1, 2018, 06:45
Dublin’s record equalling four-in-a-row All-Ireland success has been complemented by seven PwC All Stars in the 2018 awards selection but for the fift(...)

Darragh Ó Sé’s 2018 football team of the year
- Gaelic Football
- September 5, 2018, 11:30
1. Stephen Cluxton (Dublin) Still the best around. Rory Beggan had a fine year but would Cluxton have tried that mad shot against Tyrone? No chance. (...)

GAA Statistics: How important is it to play county minor and U21?
- Gaelic Football
- August 23, 2018, 10:00
It’s been a long, and for some players more than others, a winding road to Croke Park for the All-Ireland senior football final. The Dublin and Tyron(...)

Jim McGuinness: Monaghan abandoned game plan and saw a chance slip away
- Gaelic Football
- August 14, 2018, 06:00
When the dust settles this week, there will be a feeling of aching regret in Monaghan. The day passed a fine team by and they can’t get it back again.(...)

Tyrone slow, quick, slow their way to the All-Ireland final
- Gaelic Football
- August 12, 2018, 17:41
Tyrone 1-13 Monaghan 0-15 Ten years later Mickey Harte is returning to September football. A manager who ruined Armagh’s application for greatness, g(...)

Darragh Ó Sé: Galway hardly in the ideal mindset to face Dublin
- Gaelic Games
- August 8, 2018, 07:00
If you were a player in the Galway camp this week, the biggest job you’d have ahead of Saturday would be shaking the doubts that have come into your h(...)

Monaghan’s desire overwhelms a listless Galway
- Gaelic Football
- August 4, 2018, 20:21
Galway 0-8 Monaghan 0-16 Kerry for the holidays then. Fairly bloodless in the end as Monaghan’s desire overwhelmed a listless Galway who will b(...)

Jim McGuinness: Kerry in unfamiliar position of not controlling their destiny
- Gaelic Football
- July 31, 2018, 07:00
There must be a strange atmosphere in both the Monaghan and Kerry training camps this week as both sides disentangle themselves from the consequences (...)