Paddy Brophy

Westmeath 1-13 Kildare 1-7 A fine second-half performance against a Kildare side reduced to 14 players was the key to Westmeath’s surprise victory in(...)

Four of the six counties still in contention for the All-Ireland football championship contain a player who is one black card away from missing a semi(...)

A curious threat was issued by the Páirc Tailteann stadium announcer after the Round 4 qualifier games there last Saturday and Sunday had concluded. (...)

Kildare 3-20 Fermanagh 0-18 Derry, Longford, Mayo and now Fermanagh have all discovered in recent weeks that Kildare football is in rude health, the(...)

Kildare 3-20 Fermanagh 0-18 Kildare won as they pleased at Navan to secure a place in the Super 8 phase of the All Ireland Football Championship. The(...)

Kildare 0-12 Monaghan 1-10 Conor McCarthy’s 65th-minute free kick gave Monaghan their first win of the Allianz National Football League season after(...)

For all the familiarity of the finalists, Sunday’s All-Ireland football final breaks genuinely unusual ground. There hasn’t been such a sustained riva(...)

Armagh 1-17 Kildare 0-17 Saturday nights never carried this sort of fever. Armagh, the 2-1 outsiders going in, came out at the end of a barnburner, p(...)

DUBLIN 2-23 KILDARE 1-17 It would be unfair to write off Dublin 56th Leinster football title, as Groundhog Day because when a team has averaged the s(...)

Bite by bite, the championship’s bigger beasts range into view, picking the also-rans from their teeth as they go. Leinster and Ulster saw just und(...)