Category: Sport

Echo Leading Lights Sports Awards 2020: David ‘Crocker’ Kinsella, Volunteer Award

Echo Leading Lights Sports Awards 2020: David ‘Crocker’ Kinsella, Volunteer Award

Sport

DAVID "Crocker" Kinsella is the longest serving hurling coach in Thomas Davis GAA Club, having been an ever present figure at juvenile ...

Echo Leading Lights Sports Awards 2020: Leon Johnson, Volunteer Award

Echo Leading Lights Sports Awards 2020: Leon Johnson, Volunteer Award

Sport

AT THE start of the year Leon Johnson decided to encourage people in his community to get out and be active by ...

Echo Leading Lights Sports Awards 2020: Ruth Gavigan, Volunteer Award

Echo Leading Lights Sports Awards 2020: Ruth Gavigan, Volunteer Award

Sport

ONE OF Crumlin GAA Club’s great servants, Ruth Gavigan was, this year, honoured for her tremendous work. A former camogie player with ...

Echo Sport Replay: O’Reilly on a career that cracked the glass ceiling for Irish women rugby referees

Echo Sport Replay: O’Reilly on a career that cracked the glass ceiling for Irish women rugby referees

Sport

By Stephen Leonard THE MOMENT Clondalkin native Helen O’Reilly picked up the whistle, she embarked on a journey that would see her inflict ...

Echo Leading Lights Sports Awards 2020: Robert Taaffe, Coach of the Year

Echo Leading Lights Sports Awards 2020: Robert Taaffe, Coach of the Year

Sport

By Stephen Leonard DESPITE the colossal challenges faced throughout 2020 as a result of the Covid outbreak in Ireland back at the close ...

Echo Leading Lights Sports Awards 2020: Clondalkin Celtic FC, Club of the Year

Echo Leading Lights Sports Awards 2020: Clondalkin Celtic FC, Club of the Year

Sport

By Stephen Leonard IN A year that saw sports clubs right across the board faced with unprecedented challenges and even the existence of ...

Woolley takes Euro bronze

Woolley takes Euro bronze

Sport

AFTER nine months out of competitive action, Tallaght’s Jack Woolley made a return at the European Taekwondo Championships Olympic Weight Categories in ...

Roche thrilled to help propel Peas’ to Cup

Roche thrilled to help propel Peas’ to Cup

Sport

By Daire Walsh THEY say all’s well that ends well and that certainly holds true for Peamount United striker Stephanie Roche who was ...

‘It will live long  in the memory with me and my family’

‘It will live long in the memory with me and my family’

Sport

By Daire Walsh Clondalkin’s Chris Shields has said it was his proudest moment in football to lift the FAI Cup on behalf of ...

DCT United Over35s offering great service to community

DCT United Over35s offering great service to community

Sport

DCT United was set up by a group of like-minded friends with the idea stemming from the COVID-19 lockdown, founding member Joe ...