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Irish Independent
a day ago
- Sport
- Irish Independent
Kildare referee Brendan Cawley to take charge of All-Ireland senior football final
It will be the Sarsfields club man's first time taking charge of an All-Ireland senior football final, having made his senior inter-county debut as a referee six years ago. He officiated Kerry's All-Ireland quarter-final victory over Armagh last month as well as the Ulster final between Donegal and Armagh, which Jim McGuinness' side won after extra-time. He was also the man-in-the-middle for their provincial first-round victory over Derry. Monaghan's Martin McNally is his stand-by referee on the day, which will be Cawley's 30th championship game as referee. Kildare GAA lauded Cawley's 'dedication, consistency and composure' in a statement on X saying it was a matter of when rather than if he'd get the top job, having previously taken charge of the All-Ireland club football final in 2024 when Derry's Glen defeated Roscommon's St Brigid's. 'His dedication, consistency, and composure have long marked him out as one of the very best in the game, and it is fitting that he now takes charge of this prestigious fixture,' wrote Kildare GAA. Cawley follows in the footsteps of Sean Hurson who threw the ball-in for last year's decider between Armagh and Galway. He'll be the first Kildare man to referee the final since 2005 when Michael Monaghan took charge of Kerry's victory over Tyrone.
Irish Times
4 days ago
- Sport
- Irish Times
Live GAA updates: Kildare and Limerick contest Tailteann Cup final, Kerry meet Tyrone in All-Ireland semi-final
Fixtures: All-Ireland SFC semi-final: Kerry v Tyrone, Croke Park, 5pm Tailteann Cup final: Kildare v Limerick, Croke Park, 2.30pm Key Reads Dean Rock: Tyrone need to try something unexpected to shock Kerry Denis Walsh: Jack O'Connor keeps making his case in Kerry court of opinion Malachy Clerkin: Forget burning tricolours and immigrant effigies, Croke Park is where our culture is this weekend Seán Moran: Tyrone need to produce more to threaten Kerry Johnny Doyle: 'One point to spare for Kildare will do me and we'll all go home happy then.' 1 minute ago Kildare v Liemrick are first up. Here are the teams named during the week. No word of any changes yet anyway. Kildare : Cian Burke; Harry O'Neill, Ryan Burke, Brian Byrne; Tommy Gill, David Hyland, James McGrath; Kevin Feely, Brendan Gibbons; Colm Dalton, Alex Beirne, Callum Bolton; Ryan Sinkey, Darragh Kirwan, Daniel Flynn. Subs : Didier Cordonnier, Jack McKevitt, Mark Dempsey, Mick O'Grady, Kevin Flynn, Aaron Masterson, Rian Teahan, Darragh Swords, Brian McLoughlin, Niall Kelly, Eoin Cully. Limerick : Josh Ryan; Jason Hassett, Darren O'Doherty, Mark McCarthy; Killian Ryan, Iain Corbett, Tony McCarthy; Tommie Childs, Darragh O'Hagan; Paul Maher, Cillian Fahy, Danny Neville; Emmet Rigter, James Naughton, Peter Nash. Subs : Jeffrey Alfred, Cormac Woulfe, Tadgh O Siochru, Conall O Duinn, Barry Coleman, Sean Clancy, Diarmuid Buckley, Darragh Murray, Rory O'Brien, Andrew Meade, Rob Childs. 2 hours ago Four games left in the intercounty football summer and 50 per cent of them are on in Croke Park today. First up, Kildare take on Limerick in the Tailteann Cup final, woth throw-in at 2.30. Later, at five o'clock, it's Tyrone v Kerry in the All-Ireland semi-final. We'll be with you well into the evening, by which time the temperature will hopefully have dipped to something a bit less Saharan. It's a hot one!
RTÉ News
14-06-2025
- Sport
- RTÉ News
Dolan bros looking to keep Lilies feelgood factor going
It will be a busy weekend in the Dolan household this weekend as three brothers make their way to Newbridge for a much-awaited double header featuring the Kildare hurlers and footballers. Paul and James will arrive at Cedral St Conleth's Park early in the day to link up with the hurlers as they prepare to face Dublin, while brother Niall is on the senior football panel that will host Offaly in the Tailteann Cup quarter-finals. Their father, Liam, a Tipperary native is a well-known referee within Kildare GAA circles and so the occasion will be a real family affair for the Dolan clan. Last Sunday, Paul put in a sterling performance at half back as Kildare, who had already secured Division 1B hurling for 2026, won the Joe McDonagh Cup for the first time. Dolan stormed into the game in the second half especially with a monster point and some terrific tackling. That win gives Kildare an immediate chance to test themselves at the higher level when they play Dublin in the All-Ireland preliminary quarter-final on Saturday. "We played very well in attack in the second half, but I think we can thank our full-back line for the win against Laois," Dolan said. "The lads made some brilliant tackles at crucial times when it looked like Laois might have been in on goal. "It was due to them that we had the platform to go up and get the scores at the other end. "It's a very surreal experience and I don't think I have fully grasped it yet," Dolan said. "But there are a lot of great people helping out behind the scenes in Kildare hurling. The pathway is there but the quality of coaching is top class too and that is really helping us. We have some coaches with real passion and that is evident. "John Doran has spoken about our good underage structures, and we are blessed to have some top, top coaches like Eoin Stapleton, Cian Hogan, Adrian Kinsella, Johnny Enright, Tom Walsh. Those lads have some passion for Kildare hurling and the amount of work they have done in the past few years bringing players through to the senior team is unreal." Part of the player pathway for the Kildare hurlers is to emerge from the development squads and then try to ally that experience with club, schools and colleges' hurling. It is telling many of the Kildare team played hurling for DCU including Dolan, captain Rian Boran, the excellent Simon Leacy, Daniel O'Meara, Cian Boran, James Burke, David Qualter, Darragh Melville, Liam O'Reilly, Jack Higgins, and Conor Dolan. Further down the learning ladder then, Dolan's club, Éire Óg Corra Choill, had six players on Kildare U14 development squads who travelled to Wicklow and Laois in the past few weeks. The hurling pathway is becoming clearer, and with an ever-increasing population hopes are high that Kildare can continue to achieve more at a high level across the grades. "We are certainly in a good place at the moment," Dolan says. "But there has been a huge amount of hard work put into it. "St Conleth's will be packed on Saturday and from a promotional point of view that is going to be huge. "These are the days you work hard for. "But we are under no illusion about the step up at hand now," he says. "Aside from facing Dublin, even next year playing in Division 1B and the Leinster championship we know the fight we will have on our hands. "I can only imagine the pre-season we will be facing," he says, laughing. "But you know what? It will be worth it too to get to test ourselves at that level." For now, they face a Dublin side that left it late to show any real form against Galway last day out. They may have to go to battle with injuries to some key players just six days after that seismic win over Laois, but Dolan feels they will enjoy every moment of what lies ahead. "Look, only a year ago we faced Derry in a Christy Ring Cup final game in front of a three quarter-fill Hogan Stand. And we had to work hard to get past that. Then last Sunday to see the crowd that came to support us and kids now looking up to us now when normally always it would be the footballers in the county that the kids look up to. "But we had so many clubs filling buses last Sunday and all of that drives you on. It makes us so happy to see. Hopefully we can keep inspiring them. "When we look back, we lost our first-round McDonagh Cup match against Kerry, but we drove on the work-rate after that. We felt there was more in us. That feeling after the Kerry game meant we put everything into the season after that. "Against Laois, the fact that we won the first day in the group stages gave us belief. It's dangerous playing a team in a final that you had already beaten but the management team made us believe we were good enough to be there."
