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Ben O'Carroll
Ben O'Carroll (born 2001/2002) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays as a forward for St Brigid's and the Roscommon county team. He has also played Sigerson Cup football. O'Carroll is a native of Hodson Bay, near Athlone. With the Roscommon under-20s, he won the 2021 Connacht Under-20 Football Championship, and then played in the 2021 All-Ireland Under-20 Football Championship final. He made his senior debut for Roscommon in the 2023 National Football League, scoring 1–2 in a victory over Tyrone and collecting the "man of the match" award afterwards. By 2024, he was expected to begin any Roscommon game. However, injury limited his playing time for Roscommon, as well as his playing time for St Brigid's in the Roscommon Senior Football Championship, and he had hip surgery towards the end of the year. With his club, O'Carroll was "man of the match" in Corofin's 2023 Connacht Senior Club Football Championship The Connacht Senior Club Football Championship is an annual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaelic Football
Gaelic football (; short name '')'', commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by kicking or palming the ball into the other team's Goal (sport), goal (3 points) or between two upright posts above the goal and over a crossbar above the ground (1 point). Players advance the ball up the field with a combination of carrying, bouncing, kicking, hand-passing, and soloing (dropping the ball and then toe-kicking the ball upward into the hands). In the game, two types of scores are possible: points and goals. A point is awarded for kicking or hand-passing the ball over the crossbar, signalled by the umpire raising a white flag. Two points are awarded if the ball is kicked over the crossbar from a 40 metre range marked by a D-shaped arc, signalled by the umpire raising an orange flag. A goal is awarded for kicking the ball ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corofin GAA (Galway)
Corofin GAA is a Gaelic football club based in Corofin, County Galway, Ireland. It is a member of the Galway branch of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). The club serves the two parishes of Cummer and Kilmoylan and the village of Belclare. Corofin are the 2019–20 All-Ireland Club Champions, after winning their third-successive All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship final by defeating Kilcoo of Down in January 2020. History The club has had a long association with the GAA dating back as far as its inception. Corofin born and long time local parish priest, Dr Patrick Duggan, who was then Bishop of Clonfert was Michael Cusack's first choice to be the clerical patron of the new association in 1884. However, the Bishop (then 71 years of age) declined the invitation on health grounds, and directed the delegation to the more youthful Dr Croke the Archbishop of Cashel. The current club was formed in 1925 as a result of an amalgamation between Corofin and Belclare. Wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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2000s Births
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''Samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ), "to hiss". The original name of the letter "Sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conor Glass
Conor Glass (born 28 September 1997) is a Gaelic footballer and former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He signed with Hawthorn as a category B rookie in October 2015 and was subsequently drafted with their fourth selection and sixty-second overall in the 2016 rookie draft. He retired at the end of the 2020 season and returned to Ireland. Sporting career Glass captained the Derry minors side in the All-Ireland semi-finals. Glass was recruited by Hawthorn as a class B rookie in 2015. Arriving in Australia in July 2016, Glass played 6 games for the Box Hill development squad that included the squad's victorious grand final team. After a full summer pre-season training regime, Glass had played 12 games in the Box Hill's senior team before getting a call up for the Hawthorn team. AFL career He made his debut for in their fifty-two point win against at Domain Stadium in round eighteen of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Walsh (Gaelic Footballer)
Shane Walsh (born 4 June 1993) is a Gaelic footballer who, since 2022, plays for the Kilmacud Crokes club and, since 2013, for the Galway senior team. From 2010 to 2022, he played for the Kilkerrin–Clonberne club. Club Kilkerrin–Clonberne Walsh played for the Kilkerrin–Clonberne club in North Galway from 2010 to 2022. That club competes in the Galway Intermediate Football Championship. Kilmacud transfer On 30 July 2022, news emerged that Walsh was seeking a transfer to Kilmacud Crokes, the Dublin SFC title holder. On 1 August 2022, Walsh confirmed his intention to join Kilmacud Crokes in time to play in the upcoming Dublin SFC. In a brief statement, he mentioned that he was studying and living in Dublin and that, while he intended to return to his home club of Kilkerrin–Clonberne before the end of his playing days, a switch to the Stillorgan-based club was "the right move" for him. His transfer was completed on 25 August. Walsh made his debut as a substitute agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AIB GAA Club Player Awards
The AIB GAA Club Player Awards (also referred to as Club All Stars) are awarded annually to the best player in each of the 15 playing positions in Gaelic football following the completion of the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship. Additionally, one person is selected as Player of the Year. The ceremony occurs at Croke Park, with the first event having taken place on the evening of Saturday 21 April 2018. The evening involves a banquet. The winning players are selected by members of the media who have an interest in Gaelic games. The awards were instituted in 2018, having been suggested by the Donegal GAA, Donegal County Board the previous year. Coman Goggins, Aaron Kernan, Eoin Larkin and Billy Morgan (Gaelic footballer), Billy Morgan officially launched the first event. AIB (Allied Irish Banks) had, at that time, sponsored the competition for almost three decades, hence the company's involvement. Corofin GAA (Galway), Corofin won the first three available All-Ireland Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
