Liam Silke

28 results

Mayo’s Cillian O’Connor celebrates his team’s win over Galway in Limerick. Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho

Mayo strike early to smooth the path into the Super 8s

Gaelic Football
Seán Moran
July 6, 2019, 22:29

Mayo 2-13 Galway 1-13 Mayo, the great survivors of qualifier football over the past four years, made up for their only lapse – last year – by reachin(...)

Galway manager Kevin Walsh has won his last seven matches against Mayo. Photograph: Bryan Keane/Inpho

GAA Statistics: Galway are made to thwart right-sided Mayo

Gaelic Football
Eamon Donoghue
July 4, 2019, 05:30

Galway’s defensive system is made for predictable attacks, and that’s why it holds up so well against Mayo. In their last seven wins over Mayo – they(...)

Galway’s Damien Comer (right) comes under pressure from Kildare’s Fergal Conway in the All-Ireland football championship quarter-final last year. Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho

Galway step forward again as much changed cast lines up in Salthill

Gaelic Football
Seán Moran
June 15, 2019, 06:00

Connacht SFC final: Galway v Roscommon, Pearse Stadium, Sunday, 4.0 (Live RTÉ) It has slipped under the radar that this match constitutes a record fo(...)

The upside of missing so many players is that others get a chance to put their hands up, for example corner forward Antaine Ó Laoi. Photograph: Morgan Treacy

Galway move within touching distance of another final

Gaelic Games
Seán Moran
March 22, 2019, 06:00

Galway footballers travel to Omagh on Sunday firmly in control of their fate in this year’s league. If they win, they advance to the final, probably t(...)

Ballyhale Shamrocks’ Colin Fennelly on his way to scoring a goal against Naomh Éanna in the Leinster semi-final at Wexford Park. Photograph: Bryan Keane/Inpho

GAA Allianz Hurling League and All-Ireland club final previews

Gaelic Games
Seán Moran
March 16, 2019, 06:00

SATURDAY Allianz Hurling League Division 1 quarter-finals Galway v Wexford, Pearse Stadium, 1.30, Live TG4 The first of two championship rehearsals(...)

DCU’s Thomas Galligan with Liam Silke of UCD in the Sigerson Cup quarter-final at Belfield on February 6th. Photograph: Oisin Keniry/Inpho

Seán Moran: GAA need to apply themselves better to the role of colleges

Rugby
Seán Moran
February 13, 2019, 07:00

Billy Morgan has been around the Sigerson Cup for a long time, his association stretching back more than 50 years to the two medals he won with UCC in(...)

Corofin’s Kieran Fitzgerald is getting ready for his and the club’s sixth semi-final in 11 years – this time against Donegal champions Gaoth Dobhair. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho

Kieran Fitzgerald: Slogging away with 60 days to go for 60 minutes of football

Gaelic Games
Seán Moran
February 12, 2019, 06:00

It has been a feature of the rising level of discontent with the current AIB All-Ireland club championships schedules that players with the most exper(...)

Kieran Molloy (right) in action for Corofin, who will face Donegal’s Gaoth Dobhair in the All-Ireland club semi-finals next Saturday, the same day his college, NUIG, is due to take on UCC in the last four of the Sigerson Cup. Photograph: Tommy Dickson/Inpho

Sigerson semi-finals could be moved over club fixture clash

Gaelic Games
Seán Moran
February 8, 2019, 06:00

A meeting at lunchtime on Friday will decide whether next weekend’s Sigerson Cup semi-finals are to be moved to Sunday to avoid a clash with the All-I(...)

UCD’s Evan O’Carroll scores a goal during the Sigerson Cup match against DIT at Belfield. Photograph: Bryan Keane/Inpho

Sigerson Cup: UCD turn on the style to book quarter-final slot

Gaelic Football
January 30, 2019, 21:27

UCD overcame DIT on a scoreline of 3-14 to 0-6 to book their place in the quarter finals of the 2019 Sigerson Cup. The South Dublin college were domi(...)