McCarthy resigns

Teddy McCarthy has resigned from his position as Laois Senior Hurling Manager after one year in charge The Cork native claims he is unable to give the necessary and required commitment at this present time due to his own work schedule. McCarthy has wished Laois GAA all the best in the future...

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Hendre Marnitz post Connemara

Buccaneers have opened their Connacht Senior League campaign with a 33-6 win over Connemara Callum Bolland, Enda O'Brien, Ger Walsh, Martin Staunton and Alex Hayman crossed the whitewash for the Buccs with the rest of the points at Dubarry Park coming from the boot of debutant Gerard Fallon The Pirates next league game is away to Corinthians on Saturday September 8th Buccs head coach spoke to our reporter Cian Murray after the gam...

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Belmont V Kilcormac Killoughey preview

Our reporter John Leahy has been speaking to Kilcormac Killoughey manager Danny Owens and Belmont boss Nicholas Claffey ahead of Saturday evening's Offaly hurling quarter final (6pm) ...

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Midlands Paralympians Schedule

Thursday August 30th Damien Shaw (Mullingar) - Individual Pursuit C2 Qualifiers - 11.05-11.50 - Velodrome Damien Shaw (Mullingar) - Individual Pursuit C2 Final - 16.10-16.25 - Velodrome Friday August 31st Fran Meehan (Killurin) - 1km time trial B Final - 09.30-10.20 - Velodrome Saturday September 1st Ailish Dunne (Mountmellick) - F11/12 Discus Final - 10.35-11.35 - Olympic Stadium Damien Shaw (Mullingar) - 1km Time Trial B - 09.30-10.25 - Velodrome Sunday September...

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Duff retires

Damien Duff is to retire from international football. After winning 100 caps for Ireland, the Fulham winger has confirmed that he won't be making himself available for the upcoming qualification campaign for the 2014 World Cup. The 33-year-old was widely tipped to end his Ireland career after the disappointing Euro 2012 campaign - he told reporters after the game that he had already made up his mind about his international future. His delay in following the example of Shay Given had prompted...

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Medals for Midlands athletes in Croatia

Two local athletes have added to Team Ireland's medal haul today at the European Transplant & Dialysis Games in Croatia. Edenderry's Declan Guing has taken Gold in the Field Ball throw event to add to his bronze in the Bowling singles event earlier this week. Ireland's youngest athlete - Laois's Robbie Lyons - has picked up silver medals in the 200m track event and 4 by 100 relay race. Yesterday, the Swan 18 year old scooped two silvers and a bronze. The 26 strong Team will return to Ireland tomorrow nig...

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Laois Dialysis Woman secures Sliver and Bronze at 7th European Transplant & Dialysis Games in Croatia.

Alison Honner, is overjoyed with her success in representing her country for the first time at the 7th  European Transplant & Dialysis Games which are taking place in Zagreb, Croatia. The 26 year old woman from Pike of Rushall, Portlaoise, secured a Sliver medal in her age category (18-29 years) in Bowling today and yesterday she competed in Badminton and made the semi-final for which she was awarded a Bronze medal. Excited...

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Leinster & Connacht 2012/2013 Preview

By Podge O'Donnell  The 2012 2013 season is fast underway with all four provinces putting their final finishing touches to preseason. Midlands Sports will be following Leinster and Connacht throughout the coming season and providing in depth analysis and up to date coverage of all the action as it unfolds. Both the Leinster and Connacht squads have Midland representatives and we have put together a preview of what can be expected in the coming months.    Leinster...

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Athlone Town Football Club is planning a move to a community and co-operative owned structure for the club. A meeting will be held this Thursday at 8.30pm in the Shamrock Lodge Hotel Supporters. Athlone Town CEO John O’Sullivan spoke to Will Faulkner about the proposal. ...

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Barry Kelly to referee the All-Ireland Hurling Final

Westmeath's Barry Kelly is set to referee the All-Ireland Hurling Final between Kilkenny and Galway on September 9th It will the third time the Mullingar Shamrocks clubman has been in charge of the All-Ireland decider The St Brendan's Community School, Birr teacher was also the man in the middle for the 2008 and 2006 Finals, both of which were won by Kilkenny Colm Lyons of Cork will referee the curtain raiser Minor Final between Tipperary and Dub...

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Midlands Cup double for Laois Cricket Club

John Ozenbrook led the Laois 1st team to victory in the Wallace Cup Final against Knockharley CC from Navan yesterday. John who was on the 1st tee in Mountrath Golf Club at 6.30am yesterday morning in the captain’s prize and won the gross prize went from the golf course to North Kildare Cricket Club to lead the team to victory. It was a day for the young players to show there skill with Matthew Auret scoring 50 and taking 4 wickets and brother Clint scoring 36 and giving away only 11 runs...

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Rob Henshaw interview

Athlone's Rob Henshaw marked his first start for Connacht with a try in the Western Province's 45-11 friendly loss to Premiership champions Harlequins at the Stoop on Saturday  The Buccs' youngster who was part of the Interpro winning Connacht Under 20s side earlier this year got over the tryline after blocking down a kick  He's delighted to be getting some pre season gametime ...

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MORNING HEADLINES

GAELIC GAMES Tipperary manager Declan Ryan says they have no excuses for yesterday's 18 point loss to Kilkenny in the All Ireland semi final in Croke Park. The Premier led by a point at the break but were outplayed in the second half with a final score of 4-24 to 1-15. Holders Clonkill will face Castletown Geoghegan in the semi finals of the Westmeath Senior Hurling Championship in a repeat of last year's final. Clonkill edged out Castlepollard by 1-19 to 4-6 at Cusack Park last night, the second quarter final saw St Oliver Plunketts win 0-14...

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Community Games results

It was a successful weekend for young Midlands athletes at the Community Games in Athlone Emo Rath's Gillian Keenan won the Under 12 Girls Cycling Ballyroan Abbey were second in the Under 10 Gaelic Football, losing out to Douglas of Cork in the final, while Banagher won bronze in the Under 12 Girls Gaelic Football The Under 8 gold medals in gymnastics both went to Offaly, Tullamore's Samuel Burns and Kilcormac Killoughey's Aoibhe Murphy winning their events Emer Flynn from Ferbane won...

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CCFL weekend results

  Senior Division Mountmellick Utd 1-1 Killavilla Utd Clara Town 3-0 St Peters Monksland Utd 4-0 Arlington Gallen Utd 0-3 Willow Park Premier Division Rosenallis 4-1 Birr Town Abbeyleix Ath 1-2 Willow Park Division 1 Ballinahown 2-3 Highfield Utd Clonmore Utd 0-0 Clonaslee Utd 0 Tullamore Town 3-1 Clonbonny Division 2 Coolraine 2-3 Killeigh Ramblers Edenderry Town 3-1 Noreside Celtic Gentex 0-2 Dynamoe Town Birr Town 1-5 Raharney Division 3A ...

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Local Championships Round Up

All-Ireland finalists Coolderry will face St Rynaghs in the quarter finals of the Offaly Senior Hurling Championship. Ken Hogan's side won Group One with 2-21 to 0-9 defeat of last year's Intermediate kingpins Brosna Gales this evening The Gales face Group Two winners Birr in the last eight, Birr edged out Shinrone by 0-14 to 0-11. Kinnitty's knockout aspirations were ended by Kilcormac Killoughey at O'Connor Park with Dan Curram's goal the difference as the double k's won 1-13 to 0-13 Belmont will face Kilcormac Killoughey in the quarter finals,...

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Offaly camogie team suffer semi final defeat

Offaly's first ever All-Ireland Senior Camogie Semi Final appearance ended in disappointment as holders Wexford showed their class to win by 3-14 to 0-5 at Nowlan Park this afternoon.  The Models will face Cork in the Croke Park decider next month, Cork defeated Galway in the other semi final.  Ursula Jacob struck for a goal approaching half time to give Wexford a 1-7 to 0-2 lead at the interval having played with the breeze. Katrina Parrock notched two more goals in the second half for the Leinster kingpins as they reached their...

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First team debut for Smith

Delvin's Connor Smith made his first team debut for Watford in their 3-2 win over Crystal Palace in the Championship this afternoon The Ireland Under 19 international was brought on in the second half by manager Gianfranco Zola. Smith, who was a finalist in the Sky's 'Football's Next Star' tv show, was on loan as Wealdstone last seaso...

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Robbie McCarthy reaches All-Ireland Final

Mullingar's Robbie McCarthy will face Dublin's Eoin Kennedy in the final of the All-Ireland 60X30 Softball Championship. McCarthy defeated Mayo's Dessie Keegan 21-11, 21-6 at Abbeylara to set up a fourth final in a row against Kennedy. Robbie told GAA Handball's offical website that he'll need to up his game if he's to make a successful defence of his crown: "Dessie is always a tough opponent in the big alley but I've been training hard for this. It has been a long season so far with the...

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Carlton keeping their season alive

Portlaoise's Zach Tuohy played in the full back line for Carlton in their 156-60 rout of Essendon at the MCG this morning Jarrad Waite scored 5 goals for the Blues who move into 9th place on the ladder with 2 games remaining Carlton have found form and are on a run of 4 wins from 5 matches, wins over St Kilda and Gold Coast should assure a place in the finals Carlton coach Brett Ratten and captain Chris Judd speaking to Carlton TV after the match  ...

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Friday brunchtime headlines

GAELIC GAMES Tipperary have named an unchanged side for Sundays All Ireland semi final with Kilkenny in Croke Park. Lorrha's Patrick Maher starts at centre half forward Lar Corbett is at wing forward while Shane Maher and Brendan Maher are in midfield with Noel McGrath at corner forward. Kilkenny will name their team tonight and Brian Hogan is expected to return to centre back after missing their quarter final win over Limerick through injury. The Irish Examiner are reporting...

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Fantasy Premier League

The new Premier League season is upon us...so that means it's time to chose a fantasy football team with the optimism that this could be a decent season and you'll remember to get up early on Saturday mornings to update your team. If you fancy beating our sports team and fellow listeners then join our league at 953584-232487 We'll be having leaders on the show to brag and all...&nbs...

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Round Table Discussion

Our round table discussion with Sarah Anne Fitzgerald and Kieran Feeney ...

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Olympics Homecoming

Westmeath Olympians: John Joe Nevin and Joseph Murphy interview ...

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Emmet McDonnell

New Offaly senior football manager  Emmett McDonnell spoke to us about his appointment on the Sportszone ...

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