Bernard Brogan: Slow start for Ireland not an option against Australia
Ireland captain Bernard Brogan has stressed the importance of avoiding a slow start when he and his team-mates face Australia at Croke Park on Saturday. A listless first-half display by Ireland in...
View ArticleVIDEO - GAA's Páraic Duffy: International Rules may go Stateside
GAA director general Páraic Duffy has confirmed that the International Rules series will continue and raised the possibility of playing a Test in the US. Ahead of tomorrow’s...
View ArticleBloody Sunday 1920: GAA marks 95th anniversary of Croke Park killings
The 95th anniversary of the British Army killings of 14 people at a sports match in Dublin, which became known as Bloody Sunday, is to be marked later. The troops opened fire on the crowd at a Gaelic...
View ArticleInternational Rules: A bluffer’s guide
Ireland host Australia in Saturday’s International Rules test at Croke Park - a 19th meeting since their inaugural clash in GAA headquarters in 1984. The game is a hybrid adaption of our very own...
View ArticleAFL: Australia coach Alastair Clarkson allays fears over Dublin cold
While their teammates are sweating through 40-degree weather at pre-season training in Australia, the AFL's elite players will attempt to defend their International Rules title in temperatures close to...
View ArticleIreland survive late scare to secure tenth series win
Ireland 56 Australia 52 This Australia team was hyped up as the best yet - although Ireland’s 56-52 win on Sunday in Croke Park turned out to be pretty comfortable - bar the final five minutes. A late...
View ArticleIreland survive late scare to secure 10th series win
Ireland 56 Australia 52 This Australia team was hyped up as the best yet – although Ireland’s 56-52 win on Saturday in Croke Park turned out to be pretty comfortable – bar the final five minutes. A...
View ArticleInternational Rules: They wanted a good start – they got a battle
For an event whose attendant publicity had laboured metaphors of marriage and coming together, the very first international rules Test turned out to require a different set of vows altogether. This...
View ArticleAustralia lose to Ireland in 2015 international rules
Australia's AFL 'Dream Team' have been outclassed by their amateur Irish counterparts, going down 56-52 in the International Rules Test in Dublin. Ireland led for much of the contest but had to...
View ArticleAustralia keen to show off their best talent against Ireland
It’s 11 years since the international rules series had a pre-Test media conference in Croke Park with nothing to talk about. The current format of the one-Test series doesn’t provide any entrails to be...
View ArticleIreland outclass Australia's AFL 'Dream Team' in International Rules Test
In four-degree weather in Dublin and playing with the Gaelic football, Australia are cruelled by wayward kicking, going down 56-52 to the amateur Irish...
View ArticleGray leads the way in attack, but Ireland wins IRS (Port Adelaide Football club)
(Source: Port Adelaide Football club) ROBBIE GRAY flew Australia's flag up forward on Sunday morning, but even three overs to the Port Adelaide livewire were not enough to help his nation over the line...
View Article'You'd be crazy' not to play IRS, says Hodge (Hawthorn Football Club)
(Source: Hawthorn Football Club) LUKE Hodge says AFL players would be 'crazy' to pass up the chance to play International Rules if they get the chance. The Virgin Australian International Rules Series...
View ArticleAussies shaded in IRS Test (Western Bulldogs)
(Source: Western Bulldogs) IRELAND has regained the Cormac McAnallen Trophy in thrilling fashion after Australia's dramatic comeback fell just four points short at Croke Park in the Virgin Australia...
View ArticleJoe Kernan proud of players as Ireland resist late Australian charge
Ireland 56 [3-11-5] Australia 52 [1-13-7] Ireland’s International Rules Test victory on Saturday night was an impressive display – although late slippage caused unexpected levels of anxiety – against a...
View ArticleTwo-match International Rules series set to be revived
The international series evokes a range of reactions but no one can argue with its resilience. Having hit various crises over the past 10 years and watched its carefully stockpiled credits from the...
View ArticlePhilly McMahon calls for the return of a two-Test series
Given the long year he’s just had Philly McMahon can feel entitled to a holiday. That said he would have liked a second International Rules Test against Australia, having starred in Saturday night’s...
View ArticleAussies' pride is on the line
Looking at Australian head coach Alastair Clarkson and his captain Luke Hodge sitting at the top table, you can see that the excesses of previous years have been curbed, such as the time visiting...
View ArticleWallabies eyeing historic grand slam
Rugby World Cup finalists the Wallabies will be chasing an elusive grand slam, when they tour the northern hemisphere next year. The Australian Rugby Union (ARU) announced on Friday a five-Test tour,...
View ArticleKernan still showing that he's no ordinary Joe
Tonight, he will complete the full set. Joe Kernan will have managed at club, county, provincial and international level. Impressively, they have all come in that order. Even more impressively, he has...
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