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24th December 2019As the year comes to an end – it’s a nice honour to have some of my photos featured in RTÉ’s Sporting Decade in Pictures, Balls.ie’s favourite sporting photos of the year, Balls.ie’s Top 50 GAA images of the year – and of course Sportsfile’s top 100 photos of the year. https://twitter.com/RTEsport/status/1209392114045505536 https://twitter.com/ballsdotie/status/1207585108015714304 https://twitter.com/ballsdotie/status/1209097574214512640 https://twitter.com/sportsfile/status/1204097917377798148 23 November 2019; Éire Óg players Jordan Morrissey and Brendan Kavanagh, right, celebrate as Brian Glynn of Portlaoise looks on after the AIB Leinster GAA Football Senior Club Championship Semi-Final match between Portlaoise and Éire Óg at MW Hire O’Moore Park in Portlaoise, Co Laois. Photo by Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile [...]
19th July 2018Great to get into this week’s Getty Images European Sports Pictures of the Week with an image from the Galway v Kerry All-Ireland Quarter-Final game at Croke Park. The Kingdom’s Jason Foley jumping over his Tribesman rival Ian Burke, but Galway went on to claim a famous victory. [...]
21st December 2014  This is a picture I took of a very different looking Croke Park. It was late on Saturday night on the 2nd of August and I was after watching my native Kildare narrowly succumb to Monaghan in an All-Ireland SFC Qualifier after extra-time, having earlier seen Armagh knock Meath out of the championship also. After the players had left the pitch I headed straight into the photographer’s room, under the Hogan Stand, to send a celebration photo of Monaghan captain Conor McManus and then got onto going through the rest of my pics from the day to see what I had left to send. As all the other photographers left I decided to call it a day and remembered I had some things to gather from pitchside. I walked through the player’s tunnel and was greeted by this theatre or stage like setting of Croke Park at nearly ten o’clock at night. There was nobody else around, just a weird silence and calm after a busy day at GAA headquarters. The lights were placed there earlier by ground staff to try and dry the pitch and encourage grass growth ahead of another busy afternoon of football the following day. It gave the famous stadium a very dramatic look, along with the other lights left on in the Cusack stand. I took a few different versions of the scene and raced back into the photographer’s room to send them off quickly. Luckily my colleague Seán O’Flaherty, on the picture desk, back at our office in Portobello, was there to send it out and it got published in Irish Independent and Irish Examiner the following Monday and made Sportsfile’s A Season of Sunday’s 2014. See the full set of Sportsfile Images of 2014 here: https://www.sportsfile.com/more-images/1412028/5000/     [...]
9th June 2014Story Behind the Photo: Nash Penalty Now that the new penalty rule in hurling is in place, 1 on 1, goalkeeper v taker, here’s a look back at the last ever “Nash Penalty“, where the taker could lift the ball from the spot but strike it as close to the goal as they wished. It was the Cork goalkeeper Anthony Nash himself who got the final go at it, in the 2014 Munster SHC Quarter-Final replay against Waterford, with Stephen O’Keeffe racing from his goal to stop the effort. The rule was subsequently changed the following week to disallow players striking the ball from past the line. 8 June 2014; Cork goalkeeper Anthony Nash takes a penalty that was saved by Waterford goalkeeper Stephen O’Keeffe. Munster GAA Hurling Senior Championship, Quarter-Final Replay, Cork v Waterford, Semple Stadium, Thurles, Co. Tipperary. Picture credit: Piaras Ó Mídheach / SPORTSFILE [...]
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24th December 2019As the year comes to an end – it’s a nice honour to have some of my photos featured in RTÉ’s Sporting Decade in Pictures, Balls.ie’s favourite sporting photos of the year, Balls.ie’s Top 50 GAA images of the year – and of course Sportsfile’s top 100 photos of the year. https://twitter.com/RTEsport/status/1209392114045505536 https://twitter.com/ballsdotie/status/1207585108015714304 https://twitter.com/ballsdotie/status/1209097574214512640 https://twitter.com/sportsfile/status/1204097917377798148 23 November 2019; Éire Óg players Jordan Morrissey and Brendan Kavanagh, right, celebrate as Brian Glynn of Portlaoise looks on after the AIB Leinster GAA Football Senior Club Championship Semi-Final match between Portlaoise and Éire Óg at MW Hire O’Moore Park in Portlaoise, Co Laois. Photo by Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile [...]
19th July 2018Great to get into this week’s Getty Images European Sports Pictures of the Week with an image from the Galway v Kerry All-Ireland Quarter-Final game at Croke Park. The Kingdom’s Jason Foley jumping over his Tribesman rival Ian Burke, but Galway went on to claim a famous victory. [...]
21st December 2014  This is a picture I took of a very different looking Croke Park. It was late on Saturday night on the 2nd of August and I was after watching my native Kildare narrowly succumb to Monaghan in an All-Ireland SFC Qualifier after extra-time, having earlier seen Armagh knock Meath out of the championship also. After the players had left the pitch I headed straight into the photographer’s room, under the Hogan Stand, to send a celebration photo of Monaghan captain Conor McManus and then got onto going through the rest of my pics from the day to see what I had left to send. As all the other photographers left I decided to call it a day and remembered I had some things to gather from pitchside. I walked through the player’s tunnel and was greeted by this theatre or stage like setting of Croke Park at nearly ten o’clock at night. There was nobody else around, just a weird silence and calm after a busy day at GAA headquarters. The lights were placed there earlier by ground staff to try and dry the pitch and encourage grass growth ahead of another busy afternoon of football the following day. It gave the famous stadium a very dramatic look, along with the other lights left on in the Cusack stand. I took a few different versions of the scene and raced back into the photographer’s room to send them off quickly. Luckily my colleague Seán O’Flaherty, on the picture desk, back at our office in Portobello, was there to send it out and it got published in Irish Independent and Irish Examiner the following Monday and made Sportsfile’s A Season of Sunday’s 2014. See the full set of Sportsfile Images of 2014 here: https://www.sportsfile.com/more-images/1412028/5000/     [...]
9th June 2014Story Behind the Photo: Nash Penalty Now that the new penalty rule in hurling is in place, 1 on 1, goalkeeper v taker, here’s a look back at the last ever “Nash Penalty“, where the taker could lift the ball from the spot but strike it as close to the goal as they wished. It was the Cork goalkeeper Anthony Nash himself who got the final go at it, in the 2014 Munster SHC Quarter-Final replay against Waterford, with Stephen O’Keeffe racing from his goal to stop the effort. The rule was subsequently changed the following week to disallow players striking the ball from past the line. 8 June 2014; Cork goalkeeper Anthony Nash takes a penalty that was saved by Waterford goalkeeper Stephen O’Keeffe. Munster GAA Hurling Senior Championship, Quarter-Final Replay, Cork v Waterford, Semple Stadium, Thurles, Co. Tipperary. Picture credit: Piaras Ó Mídheach / SPORTSFILE [...]