Larry Mahony

NFL Game in Wembley

Add comment October 28th, 2008

Finally got to see a real live American Football game when I went to the game between New Orleans Saints and San Diego Chargers played in Wembley Stadium London on the October Bank Holiday Weekend.

The Saints won 37 - 32 in a very exciting, high scoring game.

Harps girls win the Junior Club Camogie Title again

Add comment November 18th, 2007

Check out all the Harps camogie news on the new Harps Camogie website.

Congratulations to the Harps camogie team who won the All Ireland Junior Club Camogie title for the 2nd year in a row beating Keady of Armagh by 2-8 to 2-7. A great game that swung back and forth finally decided by a point from Aine in injury time.

Here are lots of photos from the day - Some kindly set on by Annette Ryan (nee Walsh) and some from Marian, thanks to both.

I can probably get bigger, better quality copies of most of them if anyone wants them.

Here’s a report of the game on Hoganstand website.

The full set of photos on flickr.

New Hurling Blog

1 comment February 20th, 2007

A new hurling related site, www.hurlingblog.com. News, results, fixtures, roll of honour, all-stars… everything and anything to do with hurling.

France spoil Croke Park Party

Add comment February 11th, 2007

Croke Park opened it’s doors to the sporting world today as Ireland played host to France in the RBS 6 Nations Rugby. A fantastic occasion and a great atmosphere which was unfortunately spoiled by France grabbing a last minute try to snatch victory 20-17.

Ireland seemed overawed by the occasion in the first half and not for the first time were slow to start. On the other hand France started in great form and Ireland were lucky not to be further behind than 13-3. But once again they dug in and showed heart and determination to pull it back to 11-13 at half time, all the points coming from Ronan O’Gara, including a nice opportunist try. The second half was much better from Ireland and they edged in front 14-13. Unfortunately they failed to push home any advantage due to a combination of poor handling and terrible application of the advantage rule by the kiwi ref Steve Walsh. In the 78th minute O’Gara looked to have sealed it as his penalty made it 17-13 but Ireland promptly threw it away by failing to secure the kick off and then allowing Clerc to waltz over in midfield.

A bitterly disappointing finish puts an end to the crazy expectations of a grand slam. When you play poorly for half a game though you can’t have any complaints. Hopefully O’Driscoll and Stringer will be back for the clash with the English in 2 weeks time and the team can raise their performance and get back on track for a shot at the championship.

And I’ll be there! Have tickets for the England game and can’t wait for it. Should be another great occasion and hopefully this time the right result.

As an aside - the stadium looked great as always but it was interesting to see how much smaller the rugby field is than the GAA pitch. The goals were in a good 20 metres at each end and sidelines were in 10 metres or so. I never realised the difference between the 2 and it just shows how much ground gaa players must cover. Further testament to the incredible fitness levels of “amateur” players.

Harps: All-Ireland Junior Camogie Champions

Add comment November 20th, 2006

Check out all the Harps camogie news on the new Harps Camogie website.

Congratulations to The Harps camogie team who yesterday won the All-Ireland Junior Club Camogie final by beating Keady of Armagh on a score of 1-7 to 0-5. The game was played in O’Moore park, Portlaoise in terrible weather conditions on a cut-up pitch, it was bad enough sitting in the stands, don’t know how they play in that. They played great all through, led for most of the match and an early second half goal set them on the way to the title.

They only won their first Laois County title this year so it’s been a great couple of weeks for them to go on and win Leinster and now the All-Ireland. Click on the little picture above to see a bigger team shot. Click on the 2 links below to read reports on the game.

1. Leinster Express / LaoisToday.ie website
2. Camogie.ie website