Paddy Kennedy

8 results

The Kerry team that won the All-Ireland senior football championship in 1941 after winning a semi-final replay against Dublin – in Tralee. Photograph: Terrace Talk
Remembering when Kerry kicked ahead of Dublin 78 years ago

Saturday will be only the third championship replay between Dublin and Kerry, an infrequent rate of occurrence in 31 matches since the first meeting i(...)

Austin Stacks GAA club’s first female chairperson, Máiread Fernane. ‘I don’t want to be crying coming down on Sunday,’ she says. Photograph: Ronan McGreevy
Kerry fights to defend Kingdom’s four-in-a-row team as best of all time

They don’t do false modesty in Kerry. And why should they, when they have won 37 All-Irelands? The mural on the gable wall at the top of Rock Street(...)

How The Irish Times reported the day’s events the following morning
On this day 50 years ago: Cork residents offer to house Northern children at risk

Belfast is deserted and extremely tense. Scenes of devastation are everywhere to be seen. Every conceivable object has been used to erect barricades. (...)

How The Irish Times reported the day’s events the following morning.
On this day 50 years ago: Six killed in North as British troops arrive

Six people are killed as battles rage throughout Northern Ireland. Violence spreads from the epicentre of Derry to other towns and cities including Be(...)

Tiger Roll pictured with trainer Gordon Elliot, groom Louise Magee and owner Micheal O’Leary. Photograph: Tom Honan
Thousands greet Grand National winner Tiger Roll in Summerhill

Thousands lined the streets of Summerhill Co Meath to welcome home Tiger Roll, the winner of back-to-back Aintree Grand Nationals on Sunday evening. (...)

The Jessica Harrington-trained Sandymount Duke, which is owned by Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, has been ruled out of Saturday’s Grand National. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho
Ronnie Wood’s Sandymount Duke ruled out of Grand National

Ronnie Wood has learned you can’t always get what you want, as his colours will not be carried in the Grand National. The Rolling Stones guitarist own(...)

From left: Ciara Murphy, Ivan Tretyakov, Kirsty Burke, Anna O’Connor and Hazel Wallace ride out on the Curragh for trainer Tracey Collins. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
A stable job: The work riders of the Curragh

On the Curragh plains, the wind gives no quarter. You see the rain coming for miles, great bitter sheets of it. For the army of work riders who turn u(...)

The Console Celebration of Light for those bereaved through suicide: Console operates a 24-hour helpline for people with suicidal thoughts or people aware of others at risk on 1800-247247. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times
Five suicides in Newbridge, Co Kildare, raise fears of cluster

The tragic deaths of five young men in the Newbridge area over the past month has raised fears of a possible suicide cluster in the Co Kildare town. (...)