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Irish Independent
08-07-2025
- Sport
- Irish Independent
Wicklow crush Louth by 48 points, but hard to see how anyone wins on days like that
Wicklow 11-23 Louth 1-5 Echelon Park, Aughrim With 10 minutes still to play in Aughrim, we discovered that Echelon Park's digital scoreboard doesn't count beyond nine goals; once you hit 10, it returns to zero. Maybe that's for the best. That's not intended as a smart comment towards the Wicklow GAA County Board; how many among us have attended a game that saw one team's goal count go into the double figures, let alone at a county grounds, typically home to a county's most-keenly-contested games? As oversights go, it's hardly a glaring one. It's also not intended as a jibe at Louth camogie; they have endured a hugely difficult season, suffering hammering after hammering – Saturday's wasn't even the worst of the lot – but they have continued to tog out. They only conceded one of their five fixtures in the 2025 championship, and players with that kind of stick-to-it spirit deserve fairer competition. There is also skill within their ranks: nippy forward Amy Murray was their best player, but credit, too, to the likes of the combative Aoife Malone-Gregory and goal-scorer Jane Carter. The Camogie Association has had to rethink things in 2025 with stronger counties no longer permitted to enter 'second' teams. That some weaker counties could not play in 2025 made the equation more complicated. So it's hard to know what the right answer is to that conundrum – but it certainly isn't this. A season such as the one Louth have endured in 2025 does nothing but make life trickier for those trying to promote inter-county camogie in the Wee County. Closer to home, it's equally true to say Wicklow benefited very little from this, if at all. The bigger picture is positive for the Garden County at the moment, right enough. Their campaign, as a whole, was solid enough to reach the last four of a tough competition, and they can point to that as another sign of progress. That semi-final will take place against Laois at Breffni Park in Cavan at 2pm on July 19. Last Saturday's match also doubled up as the previously deferred Leinster Junior Camogie final, so there was a trophy at the end of it for Wicklow. But lifting it in front of a crowd of about 70 people – an understandably low attendance, given that a hammering was always the most likely outcome – will probably not live long in those players' memories. Laois's surprise win over Armagh sees them top the table and, on past history with Laois, Wicklow will probably feel more confident about facing the O'Moore County than the Orchard County. Previous results also suggest, however, that Wicklow still have a way to go to bridge the gap between themselves and Laois; but they are good enough to be competitive in two weeks' time, and they deserve support in the Breffni County. It will certainly be a better game than the one witnessed last weekend, albeit witnessed by very few. Wicklow also conducted themselves well on Saturday. They were as professional and ruthless as they had to be to put the game beyond doubt as quickly as possible, but once the match was secured, they did not try to rub it in Louth's faces. They seemed content with taking points, and some of their later goals were not actually attempts at three-pointers; on the one day they weren't crying out for a bit of luck, a few bounces and miscues did go their way. Wicklow manager Rob O'Neill spoke to Louth's players afterwards; O'Neill wants what's best for Wicklow, first and foremost, but he also wants what's best for the game: everybody needs counties such as Louth to plough on and, one day, reach their potential. ADVERTISEMENT Learn more There were bright moments amid the gloom for Louth, none brighter than when Jane Carter knocked in a goal before the break. But, like all of Louth's bright spots, it didn't last long. There was still time for Aisling O'Toole to score Wicklow's seventh and last goal of the half, though O'Toole's three-pointer came from what was, in all likelihood, an attempt at a point, but one that dipped under the crossbar. Wicklow finished with 11 goals; usually an unthinkable number but, on this day, a figure that had looked possible from a very early juncture. Wicklow were 2-4 to 0-1 clear of Louth by only the seventh minute, and they were dominating Louth's puck-out to such an extent that you knew things could only descend further for the Wee County. Alas, Wicklow ultimately won by 48 points, and there is no utility in going into a traditional match report on that kind of game. They scored 33 times, and almost half of those scores were goals. Louth's 1-5 did add occasional punctuation to Wicklow's many scoring runs, but it was not nearly enough to stop this game becoming the dullest of spectacles. WICKLOW: Leanne Lifely, Faye Corrigan (0-1), Casey Kelly, Hannah Doyle, Jane Butler, Eimear O'Toole, Sarah Lambe, Shannagh Goetelen (0-1), Sive Byrne (1-1), Niamh McCormack, Sophie Bermingham (3-1), Aoife Nic Dhonnacha (0-2, 1f), Aishling O'Toole (2-5), Elizabeth Bourke (4-7), Ciara Connolly (0-5). SUBS USED: Shauna Ryan for Goetelen (H/T), Holly Byrne for Lifely (H/T), Daisy Summer Cullen-Dunne for O'Toole (H/T), Lifely for Bourke (48), Aoife Molloy (1-0) for Connolly (48) LOUTH: Niamh Fennell, Áine McKeown, Clodagh Fennell, Rebecca Kirwan, Katie Mathews, Ellen McCarthy, Róisín Killen, Aoife Malone Gregory (0-1, 1f), Aoife McCabe, Aoife Laurence (0-1), Jane Carter (1-1, 1f), Caoimhe Cunningham (0-1), Amy Murray (0-1), Aoife Dillon, Aoibhin Killen. SUBS USED: Paula Lohan for Dillon (41), Julie Guinan for Aoife McCabe (41), Sarah Cahill for A Killen (44).
News.com.au
29-06-2025
- News.com.au
Nurse who allegedly poisoned husband to be with killer is jailed
A prison nurse who fatally poisoned her husband after falling in love with a convicted killer learned this week she'll be spending the next 12 years behind bars. Amy Murray, 47, accepted a deal from prosecutors in Alford, US, entering a plea to murder, arson and tampering with evidence charges on June 25, according to court records. In Alford, when a defendant pleads they accept a conviction but maintain their innocence, The New York Post reported. A judge sentenced Missouri nurse Murray to 12 years on the murder charge along with seven years for the arson and four years for tampering with evidence. All of the sentences will run concurrently. Murray killed her husband, 37-year-old Joshua, in late 2018. He was found dead in the smouldering remnants of a house fire his wife had set. Authorities learned Joshua's blood contained elevated amounts of antifreeze, and three months after his death, arrested his wife, according to an affidavit. Murray, the couple's child and their two dogs had left their home in Iberia just 30 minutes prior to the start of the fire. Investigators soon learned Murray had frequent contact with a prisoner named Eugene Claypool. Murray worked as a nurse at the Jefferson City Correctional Center, where Claypool's serving 25 years to life for murder, the affidavit said. In recorded calls, Murray told Claypool she was tired of her marriage. After her husband's death, Murray told the inmate they could get married now that Joshua was 'out of the picture'.
Miami Herald
26-06-2025
- Miami Herald
Wife wanted husband ‘out of the picture,' then poisoned him to death, MO cops say
A woman accused of poisoning her husband to death so she could marry a convicted murderer has now been sentenced to prison, according to Missouri court records and news reports. The sentencing of Amy Murray, 47, comes nearly seven years after her husband was found dead in their Iberia home that had caught fire, KRCG reported, citing first responders. But as local authorities investigated Josh Murray's Dec. 11, 2018, death, they determined he had been killed before the blaze, according to the Lake Expo. An autopsy revealed the husband was poisoned with antifreeze, and his wife was revealed as a suspect in his death, the publication reported. Investigators said the fire was intentionally started. McClatchy News reached out to an attorney representing Amy Murray but did not immediately receive a response. A motive came by the way of Amy Murray's alleged relationship with convicted murderer Eugene Claypool, who was jailed in a prison where she worked as a nurse, KOMU reported. Claypool had been convicted of a Christmas Day killing of a disabled man who had won $1.7 million in the Missouri Lottery, according to the Associated Press and previous McClatchy News reporting. Amy Murray was heard in a recorded conversation with Claypool talking about how she wanted a divorce from her husband so she could marry the inmate, according to a court filing obtained by KRCG. She reportedly spoke about wanting her husband dead and 'out of the picture.' After the house fire, Amy Murray told investigators she returned home from McDonald's with her son and dogs to find their home ablaze, according to KY3 reporting. She said she was unable to get inside the home. However, a McDonald's sandwich was found on the kitchen counter, investigators said, KY3 reported. Amy Murray was arrested in February 2019 and charged with murder and arson in her husband's death, KOLR reported. On June 25, she accepted an Alford plea for charges of second-degree murder, second-degree arson and tampering with physical evidence, court records show. In an Alford plea, Amy Murray pleads guilty while maintaining her innocence, court records show. The plea allows her for a reduced sentence. She was sentenced to a 12-year prison sentence, records show. Josh Murray was a father to his son, Braden, and worked as a supervisor for Perini Construction, according to his obituary. Iberia is about a 145-mile drive southwest from St. Louis.
