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Eugene McGee (Gaelic Football Manager)
Eugene McGee (16 November 1941 – 5 May 2019) was an Irish Gaelic footballer, manager, trainer, selector, Gaelic games administrator and journalist, who is best known for his time as manager of the Offaly senior football team. McGee guided the Offaly team to success in the 1980, 1981, and 1982 Leinster Senior Football Championship, and to the 1982 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship title. McGee was in charge of Ireland when they toured Australia for the 1990 International Rules Series. He was also in charge for the 1987 International Rules Series and Seán McCague was his assistant manager on both occasions. In 2004, McGee was intermediary in a dispute between Offaly's International Rules Series player Ciaran McManus and the Offaly County Board when McManus questioned the selection of a new manager. McGee chaired the Football Review Committee (FRC) during Liam O'Neill's GAA presidency that led to adjustments to the game such as the introduction of a black card. He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seán Kelly (Irish Politician)
Sean Kelly may refer to: Sports * Sean Kelly (cyclist) (born 1956), Irish professional road bicycle racer * Seán Kelly (Galway Gaelic footballer) (born 1997) * Seán Kelly (Kerry Gaelic footballer) (1925–2012) * Sean Kelly (Scottish footballer) (born 1993), Scottish footballer * Sean Dylan Kelly (born 2002), American motorcycle racer * Sean Wirtz (born 1979), figure skater who has competed as Sean Kelly Music * Sean Kelly (Australian musician) (born 1958), founder of the Australian 1980s band Models * Sean Kelly, Australian guitarist and member of TISM between 1983 and 1991 * Sean Kelly (Canadian musician), founder of band Crash Kelly * Sean Kelly, singer and guitarist for The Samples Other * Seán Kelly (politician) (born 1952), Irish Member of the European Parliament * Sean Kelly (Irish republican) (born 1972), IRA Shankill Road bomber * Sean Kelly (writer) (born 1940), Canadian author, wrote for ''National Lampoon'' * Sean Dorrance Kelly, professor of philosophy at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaelic Games
Gaelic games () are a set of sports played worldwide, though they are particularly popular in Ireland, where they originated. They include Gaelic football, hurling, Gaelic handball and rounders. Football and hurling, the most popular of the sports, are both organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). Women's versions of hurling and football are also played: camogie, organised by the Camogie Association of Ireland, and ladies' Gaelic football, organised by the Ladies' Gaelic Football Association. While women's versions are not organised by the GAA (with the exception of handball, where men's and women's handball competitions are both organised by the GAA Handball organisation), they are closely associated with it but are still separate organisations. Gaelic games clubs exist all over the world. They are Ireland's most popular sports, ahead of rugby union and association football. Almost a million people (977,723) attended 45 GAA senior championships games in 2017 (up 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Longford Leader
The ''Longford Leader'' is a weekly newspaper, which has published in Longford, Ireland since 1897. History The ''Longford Leader'' was founded, as ''The Longford Leader and Roscommon, Leitrim and Westmeath News'', as a local newspaper with a Nationalist perspective, in 1897, by local activist and M.P., J. P. Farrell, and fellow M.P., Jasper Tully; it was one of a range of Nationalist projects on which they partnered. Farrell was the official proprietor and first editor. It was published on Saturdays, and priced at one penny. As of 2002, the ''Leader'' was owned by four shareholders, local businessmen Eugene McGee (holding 47%) and Padraic Gearty, and Patricia Murray and Michael Dolan. In that year, it was fully acquired by Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH), for 9.1 million euro, after a competition between SRH and the parent company of the ''Cork Examiner''; it made a profit of around 1 million euro for that year, up over 50% from the previous year, with a staff of 20. SRH's pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liam O'Neill
Liam O'Neill is a Gaelic games administrator, who served as the 37th president of the Gaelic Athletic Association. He is from County Laois. Biography A former chairman of the Leinster Council, O'Neill initially sought the GAA presidency at the 2008 Congress, but Christy Cooney defeated him. In June 2010, O'Neill became the first person to declare his candidacy to succeed Cooney. He became president-elect at the annual GAA Congress in April 2011 following the withdrawal of three other candidates, and succeeded Cooney in the post on 14 April 2012 at the Congress held at Killenard in Laois - becoming the 37th president of the GAA.Kerry GAA report on election (Some reports refer to him as the 38th; the founding President, |
Ciaran McManus
Ciaran McManus is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for the Tubber club and for the Offaly senior county team from 1996 to 2011 and won a Leinster Senior Football Championship medal in 1997 and a National Football League Division 1 in 1998 and Division 2 in 2004. Before breaking into the senior team he helped Offaly to win the Leinster Under-21 Football Championship in 1995. He played for Ireland in the International Rules Series in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. He also played for UCD, winning a Dublin Senior Football Championship in 2002. At one time McManus returned from Finland and Germany to attend training sessions and to play in games. In 2004, McManus became involved in a dispute with the Offaly County Board over its selection of a new manager. Honours * Leinster Under-21 Football Championship (1): 1995 * Leinster Senior Football Championship (1): 1997 * National Football League, Division 1 (1): 1998 * National Football League, Divisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Rules Series
The International Rules Series is a senior men's international rules football competition between the Australia international rules football team (selected by the Australian Football League) and the Ireland international rules football team (selected by the Gaelic Athletic Association). International rules football is played using a set of compromise rules devised by both governing bodies. While the International Rules Series matches use some rules from Australian rules football, the field, ball and uniforms of both teams are derived from Gaelic football. The competition originated in the 1980s, with four series played in that decade. It was contested annually between 1998 and 2006, and then featured sporadically over next eleven years, with the last series contested in 2017 and no future series scheduled as of September 2024. At the height of its popularity, a series was played over two Test matches in October/November after the completion of the AFL Grand Final and the Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seán McCague
Seán McCague ( – 24 November 2022) was an Irish Gaelic games administrator, footballer, referee and manager who served as the 33rd president of the Gaelic Athletic Association (2000–2003). He became the first Monaghan man to hold that office. Career McCague was born in Scotstown, County Monaghan. He played football at junior level there. However, he won a Monaghan Senior Football Championship with his club (Scotstown) in 1974. An injury to his back ended his playing career prematurely. He managed the Monaghan senior football team from the late 1970s. He managed his county team to the 1979 Ulster Senior Football Championship (SFC) title and then led it to two further Ulster SFC titles, as well as the National Football League title in 1985. The 1979 title win was Monaghan's first for 41 years. He served as Ireland assistant manager under Eugene McGee for the 1987 and 1990 International Rules Series. He was also a referee. Mc Cague was also involved in administration as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ireland International Rules Football Team
The Ireland international rules football team is the representative team for Ireland in international rules football, a compromise between Gaelic football and Australian rules football. The team is made up of Irish players from the Gaelic Athletic Association and Australian Football League. Prior to 2006, an under-19 and under-17 team had participated in a similar series, while a women's team participated in 2006. Currently, the Ireland team plays at least one of its home games at Croke Park, with recent alternative venues being Pearse Stadium in Galway in 2006, the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick in 2010 and Breffni Park in Cavan in 2013. At present the only team Ireland plays is the Australia international rules football team, on an annual basis in the International Rules Series. As of 2015, Ireland have won ten of 19 series, won 21 of 40 test matches played and participated in two draws, all since the inaugural 1984 Series. Squads 2017 squad (Tour to Australia) * Aidan O' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The42
''The Journal'' (formerly styled as ''TheJournal.ie'') is an online newspaper in Ireland. It was a mixture of original and aggregated content, before moving to entirely original content. The website was founded in early 2010. It was edited by Jennifer O'Connell from 2010 to 2011, and by Susan Daly between 2011 and August 2019, when Sinead O'Carroll stepped into the role with Daly's promotion to Managing Editor. The publication employs approximately 75 people. Content ''The Journal'' produces 70 original pieces of content per day. The website was originally divided into four components: ''TheJournal.ie'' itself for Irish and international news and opinion; ''Fora'' for business news; ''The42'' (formerly ''TheScore'') for sports news; and ''The Daily Edge'' for entertainment and gossip. ''The Daily Edge'' ceased operations on 29 March 2019 and ''Fora'' on 9 April 2020. Fora was wound down due to a decline in advertising revenue prompting the parent to reduce its costs in the wake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Examiner
The ''Irish Examiner'', formerly ''The Cork Examiner'' and then ''The Examiner'', is an Republic of Ireland, Irish national daily newspaper which primarily circulates in the Munster region surrounding its base in Cork (city), Cork, though it is available throughout the country. History 19th and early 20th centuries The paper was founded by John Maguire (MP), John Francis Maguire under the title ''The Cork Examiner'' in 1841 in support of the Catholic Emancipation and tenant rights work of Daniel O'Connell. Historical copies of ''The Cork Examiner'', dating back to 1841, are available to search and view in digitised form at the Irish Newspaper Archives website and British Newspaper Archive. During the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War, the ''Cork Examiner'' (along with other nationalist newspapers) was subject to censorship and suppression. At the time of the Spanish Civil War, the ''Cork Examiner'' reportedly took a strongly pro-Francisco Franco, Franco tone in its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
