Each weekend, we select performances from Irish sports that deserve recognition. This weekend, we highlight action in Gaelic Football and Hurling, Swimming, American Football and the Olympics.
This week’s Champions of the Weekend is brought to you by Sky Ireland, one of Sport for Business’s key partners and a supporter of our coverage of Football.
St Martin’s GAA Club
The new AIB Leinster Club Hurling Champions defeated 12-time Champions Ballyhale Shamrocks on Saturday at Croke Park in the most dramatic fashion. Trailing by a point as the time ticked into the red, they won a free and then worked the ball to substitute Ben Stafford, who landed a dramatic winner to send Wexford hurling into ecstasy.
Daingean Uí Chúis CLG
Dingle won the first Kerry Championship in 77 years two weeks ago and yesterday became Champions of Munster Club Football for the first time in the most dramatic of fashions. Trailing by seven points in the second half to St Finbarr’s of Cork, for whom Steven Sherlock scored a remarkable 16 points, a series of frees and referee calls in the fourth minute of added time teed up Conor Geaney for a free from the 45 metre line, in two point range and with the last kick of the game the Kerry Champions led for the first time.
Ellen Walshe
Ellen Walshe completed a seven-medal haul for Team Ireland at the European Swimming Championships in Poland. She became the first Irish woman to win Gold when landing the 200 metre Butterfly on Sunday night.
Conor Smyth
Conor Smyth has now played two games in the NFL for the New Orleans Saints, and kicked his team to victory in both. What makes that extra special for the former Down Senior Footballer and graduate of the Tadhg Leader Academy is that they are two of the Saint’s mere three wins for the season.
Irish Olympians
Kate O’Connor, Rory McIlroy, Eve McMahon and Fintan McCarthy and Philip Doyle took the main awards at the Team Ireland Olympic Sport Awards on Saturday night.
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