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Cody points to goal as 'bit of a downer' for Offaly
15.06.2008 23:28
ireland.com
THERE'S NO nice way of saying this, but neither Brian Cody nor Joe Dooley was being totally honest with us in the aftermath of this latest Leinster hurling fiasco.
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McDonnell happy as Armagh sort out Cavan and statistical incongruities
15.06.2008 23:28
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ULSTER SFC QUARTER FINAL: Armagh 0-17 Cavan 0-13: ARMAGH ROLLED into Kingspan Breffni Park yesterday under the cloud of a couple of unlikely statistics. They'd never beaten Cavan at the venue and had to go back to the Ulster final of two years ago to locate their last win in summer football.
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McGrane heeds timely reminder
15.06.2008 23:28
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THEY WERE favourites and Cavan hadn't looked a major threat in their win over Antrim but Armagh manager Peter McDonnell, taking his first steps in the senior championship with a county that has bagged six of the last nine Ulster titles, was still a happy man to have secured the result and a little vexed at the assumptions made on his team's behalf.
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Lucky Cork complete amazing escape
15.06.2008 23:28
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MUNSTER SFC SEMI FINAL: Cork 2-9 Limerick 0-12: LIMERICK BRAVEHEARTS were stunned as Cork staged a Houdini-style comeback to snatch a dramatic late win in the Munster senior football semi-final at the Gaelic Grounds yesterday.
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Sending off may cost Kerry captain Galvin
15.06.2008 23:28
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MUNSTER SFC SEMI FINAL: Kerry 1-14 Clare 0-5: MOST PEOPLE have heard of the beautiful game, but this could be best termed the "ugly game" as Kerry easily accounted for a desperately disappointing Clare but lost captain Paul Galvin to a red card in the process before an attendance of 11,000 at the Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney, yesterday.
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Dublin come up short of tantalising finishing post
15.06.2008 23:27
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LEINSTER SHC SEMI FINAL: Wexford 2-13 Dublin 0-19: A YEAR ago in Nowlan Park, Nicky Lambert bent over a long-range free, lifted it and struck it perfectly to put Dublin out of the Leinster senior hurling championship.
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Leitrim bow out with brave display
15.06.2008 23:27
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CONNACHT SFC SEMI-FINAL: Galway 2-14 Leitrim 1-13: THE PARTING shot from Leitrim in this year's All-Ireland championship ought to have caused a few blushes for the GAA powerbrokers yesterday.
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Coulter's crucial intervention turns the tide for Down
15.06.2008 23:27
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ULSTER SFC QUARTER FINAL REPLAY: Down 1-19 Tyrone 0-21 (AET, normal time score was 0-16 each): AFTER A television interview, Mickey Harte slipped out the side gate of Páirc Esler after 10pm and the two-time All-Ireland winning manager cut an isolated figure before a family member appeared to provide some consolation. Past glories, no matter how great, count for little against the immediate pangs of defeat.
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Board criticise Dolan remarks
15.06.2008 23:27
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THE LEITRIM GAA County Board yesterday moved to distance themselves from remarks reportedly made by county senior football manager Des Dolan in a Sunday newspaper.
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Hackett points Meath to crown
15.06.2008 23:27
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KEHOE CUP (SH) FINAL: Meath 1-20 Carlow 0-17: A FORTUITOUS goal on the cusp of half-time by the outstanding Niall Hackett sealed Carlow's fate and put Meath firmly on the road to claiming the Kehoe Cup for the eighth time at O'Moore Park yesterday.
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Kerry reach decider
15.06.2008 23:27
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MUNSTER JFC SEMI FINALS: Kerry 2-9 Clare 1-7: KERRY'S ABILITY to score goals at vital junctures in the opening half saw the 2006 All-Ireland junior champions hang on in the last quarter to reach the Munster final after an entertaining affair at Fitzgerald Stadium in Killarney yesterday.
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Antrim cruise to victory as Down's challenge collapses
15.06.2008 23:27
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ULSTER MHC FINAL: Antrim 3-18 Down 0-5: ANTRIM CRUISED to their 50th Ulster Minor hurling title with this facile victory over a disappointing Down in yesterday's final in Casement Park.
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Antrim show resolve to retain their crown
15.06.2008 23:27
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ULSTER SHC FINAL: Antrim 3-18 Down 2-16: THREE SECOND half goals set up Antrim for victory over Down in this highly competitive and entertaining Guinness Ulster SHC final in sunny Casement Park yesterday.
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Féile feel-food factor failing as frets fobbed off
15.06.2008 23:27
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LOCKER ROOM: A fine competition is in danger not from the fall-out from parents choosing not to have their children stay with unvetted strangers but from a doctrinaire insistence on telling them what to do with their own kids
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Reality check for Harrington after topsy-turvy time in San Diego
15.06.2008 23:27
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US OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP: FOR ANY player with genuine major aspirations, the reality check comes on a Sunday after you've put the ball into the tin cup on the 18th green - the 72nd hole - and made the walk t 15cb o the recorder's hut to a background harmony of players' names still being introduced on the first tee.
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