Kildare GAA

Kildare star Eoin Doyle back with a bang for Naas

Former Kildare football captain Eoin Doyle has made a successful return to action with Naas, having missed the entire inter-county season with a variety of injuries.

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'He was back training the night Paul was buried. We were playing Cork in the league and he wanted to be there'

In a rivalry that stretches back half a century there is always a serious edge to any Kilkenny-Cork camogie final. Brian Dowling is meant to be lighting fires in his players and metaphorically burning blood-and-bandage effigies.

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‘Monster’ Lee Keegan the inspiration for Mayo’s great escape

How many times? There is, apparently, no upper limit to the frequency with which Lee Keegan and Mayo’s half-back line will bail them out when all else is askew and their summer is drifting away.

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Beware Kildare: Losing the Leinster final has become a ‘curse’ in the qualifiers

Whatever else about Kildare’s chances tomorrow, the omens aren’t good. They’re awful, in fact.

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Ciarán Whelan Opinion Meath powerbrokers must be brave enough to give someone like Colm O’Rourke free rein as boss

Time moves on but some memories remain etched in the mind. I can still vividly recall the day, in 2005, when news broke that Seán Boylan had stepped down as Meath manager.

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Frank Roche Opinion Stick or twist? – Kildare manager Glenn Ryan faces a real defensive dilemma against Mayo

As Pat Spillane waxed lyrical about “footballing heaven” and pressed the default ‘cute Kerry hoor’ button to install Dublin as raging-hot favourites for Sam, Ciarán Whelan sought to place the first 35 minutes of this year’s Leinster final in perspective.

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Dublin still a ‘work in progress,’ insists Dessie Farrell as drive of five puts them back into Sam picture

Dessie Farrell broke into a feint, wry, brief smile when asked about his attacking game-plan on Saturday evening.

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Ciarán Whelan Opinion Denying deadly Daniel Flynn will be key to a Dublin victory in Leinster final

The buzz would appear to be coming back into Kildare football, but will Christy Moore singing ‘The Curragh of Kildare’ reverberate around Croke Park at full-time tomorrow evening?

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Louth revival under Mickey Harte has echoes of Lilies under Micko - Johnny Doyle

There are clear parallels between Mickey Harte’s move to Louth and Mick O’Dwyer’s leap of faith with Kildare three decades earlier, according to Johnny Doyle.

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Dublin slump to fourth successive league loss as Kildare land famous victory to heap further misery on Dessie Farrell

Kildare landed a famous victory over Dublin and heaped further misery on the misfiring Dubs with relegation now a real possibility for Dessie Farrell's men after they fell to their fourth consecutive Allianz FL Division 1 loss in St Conleth's Park this afternoon.

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'We were closer than close as brothers, it just turns your life upside down. No parent deserves to bury his child'

The rogue in Niall Buckley hasn’t diminished that much with the passing of time. He’s explaining where he’s based in the US these days, originally Chicago but more and more in Deerfield Beach, a town a few miles north of Fort Lauderdale in Florida.

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‘Don’t respect Dublin because Dublin didn’t respect them the last 10 years’ – Clerkin says Kildare need to go for jugular

It’s Newbridge or a road to nowhere for Dublin this weekend as Dessie Farrell’s beleaguered troops travel to Kildare to attempt to find their first Allianz League win at the fourth time of asking.

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Second half goals see Tyrone off the mark in league as Kildare edged out by the minimum

Two second half goals gave Tyrone their first competitive win of the season as they edged out brave Kildare in this Allianz Division 1 match in Omagh.

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Kevin McStay: I’d prefer to be going well at this time of year than struggling

As cautionary tales about the vagaries of early league form go, Kildare in 2013 is a peach.

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‘That would be the one question mark you'd probably have on Kerry. What's their defensive structure going to be like?’

With three games being televised live on the Allianz Football League’s opening weekend, there’s plenty of action for the armchair fan to get stuck into.

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Why Glenn Ryan must try to inject his warrior spirit into Kildare

It had to be Kerry, didn’t it? Having lost Jack O’Connor in unexpected circumstances, Kildare’s first league match under new management has pitted them against the O’Connor-guided Kingdom. While the big opening game of the National League will be Dublin’s meeting with Armagh on Saturday evening, the following day in Newbridge offers potentially the spiciest dish of the afternoon.

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Paul Galvin to join Kildare backroom team as forwards coach

Paul Galvin is to join the Kildare football backroom team as a forwards coach for 2022.

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‘I just can’t believe I was the person up there with the cup’

The pen pictures in Kildare’s county final match programme offer one wonderfully succinct answer from Eamonn Callaghan when the Naas captain is asked to reveal his most memorable game.

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Kildare SFC round-up: Celbridge and Naas complete last-four line-up as champions Athy are dumped out

Celbridge and Naas won through their respective quarter-finals against Athy and Carbury over the weekend to complete the semi-final line up in the Kildare SFC.

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Jack O’Connor’s extra-time strike decisive as Cork finally see off Cats in epic All-Ireland semi-final

They played U2’s song Magnificent as the teams left the pitch and that’s what this was, a truly outstanding game of hurling that Cork actually won twice in Croke Park to qualify for the All-Ireland hurling final on Sunday August 22nd against the champions Limerick.

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‘I’m not concerned that Dubs aren’t favourites’ – Farrell

Dublin football boss Dessie Farrell remains unconcerned about their patchy form en route to an 11th successive Leinster SFC title and is paying no heed to the narrative that his All-Ireland seven-in-a-row-chasers are slipping back into the pack.

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Dublin retain Leinster title but questions still remain for Dessie Farrell’s All-Ireland champions 

Respectability for Kildare, more questions for Dublin.

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Colm O'Rourke Opinion Dublin doubters jumping the gun

So Dublin are no longer favourites for the All-Ireland. That’s not something that will keep them awake at night. It is the kind of background noise they are excellent at shutting out.

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Aldridge always Lilywhite to core

‘And that surely is a talking point for the rest of this decade, at least.’

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Daniel Flynn inspires Kildare as Lilies get better of Westmeath to book Leinster final place

Daniel Flynn inspired Kildare as the Lilies fired two goals inside four second-half minutes to book their Leinster SFC final place with a hard-fought victory over Westmeath at Croke Park this afternoon.

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Blow for Jack O’Connor as selector departs Kildare set-up

JACK O’CONNOR has lost a key figure in his Kildare senior football backroom team with confirmation that Ross Glavin has stepped down as coach/selector for family reasons.

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Lockdown forces Kildare to delay club championship's conclusion

The Kildare club championships will not now conclude until their inter-county teams complete their own seasons after the Government decision to maintain tight restrictions on the county for a further two weeks to help suppress the high number of cases of Covid-19.

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Irish Derby crowd likely to be hit over clash with Lilies' qualifier against Tyrone

The Irish Derby was the big loser from yesterday's Round 3 All-Ireland SFC Qualifier draw as Kildare's mouth-watering tie against Tyrone (5.0) on Saturday in Newbridge clashes with the nearby Curragh showpiece (5.20).

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Kildare GAA involved in fixture controversy as club refuses to fulfill league fixture over clash with All-Ireland semi-final

Kildare GAA have been criticised for fixing club games that clash with a number of big games involving their inter-county sides this weekend and one club is refusing to fulfill one of their fixtures.

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Kildare 'regret' over tickets: Fans begin frantic search for qualifier as clubs try to make most of small supply

Kildare GAA have conveyed their "regret" to supporters who will not be able to get tickets for tomorrow night's third-round qualifier against Mayo in Newbridge.