Eight week ban for Davy Fitz
*Davy Fitzgerald. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill DAVY FITZGERALD has received an eight week ban for comments criticising Limerick referee Johnny Murphy.
*Davy Fitzgerald. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill DAVY FITZGERALD has received an eight week ban for comments criticising Limerick referee Johnny Murphy.
*Colm Fitzgerald. A son of controversial Antrim hurling manger, and Clare hurling legend, Davy Fitzgerald, was given a fully suspended 12-month prison sentence after he admitted stealing €35,000 from his then employer, Bank of Ireland, to feed his “out-of-control gambling addiction”.
*James, Kaitlyn, Jaime and Bobby Ferns. ENNIS’ Ferns family finished as third place finalists in the twelfth series of Ireland’s Fittest Family.
*Colm Fitzgerald. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill A SON of former All-Ireland winning Clare hurler and manager, Davy Fitzgerald, appeared in court today to affirm guilty pleas to thieving a total of €35,000 from a bank in his native Clare.
*Seadna Morey gets away from Declan Dalton. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill TWO-TIME All-Ireland winner Séadna Morey has announced his retirement from inter-county hurling.
*Sixmilebridge goalkeeper, Derek Fahy. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. WHILE specialised role of goalkeeper is a pivotal cog that is difficult to settle on for a number of clubs, Sixmilebridge have been extremely fortunate to have such a distinguished lineage of stoppers over the past 35 years.
*Paul Flanagan. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. TWO-TIME All-Ireland winner Paul Flanagan has announced his retirement from inter-county hurling.
*Davy Fitzgerald. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill DAVY FITZGERALD has been announced as the new manager of the Antrim senior hurlers.
*John Joe Costelloe at his home in Kildysart. Photograph: John Mangan. KILDYSART’s John Joe Costelloe has been following Clare hurling teams since 1974 and is regarded as one of the most genuine GAA supporters in the county.
*Shane O’Donnell. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill THE WHEEL turns full circle for Shane O’Donnell this Sunday when eleven years after his indelible All-Ireland Final debut as a carefree teenager, he faces the same opponents at the same stage in an almost eerie decider rematch against the Rebels once more.