Sports Pictures of 2005
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All Ireland SFC final, Tyrone V Kerry, Croke park
GAA Emotion
Brendan Moran (sportsfile, Dublin) took this picture. He says "generally at the final whistle one picture you want is the manager celebrating or reacting. What happened this year, with the crowd running on, the gardai and stewards making a cordon, and that makes it quite physical around that area.
I came up the sideline - we're allowed up a certain distance along the line - and Mickey Harte was 20 feet away. I was quite near him but there were cameras and other photographers around - there ws jostling, but it was good natured.
Mickey did a TV interview, his daughter came over, but then Brian Dooher came out of nowhere. Hate put his head on Dooher's shoulder. In Doohers speech he mentioned Cormac McAnallen."
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Cork's Gemma O'Connor celebrates with team mates
Winning the All-Ireland senior Camogie final at Croke park on September 18th, 2005.
Dan Linehan (Irish Examiner) says "I've covered camogie finals for the last nine or ten years and without fail, it presents some of the best picture opportunities. Camogie players ... are more expressive than their male counterparts. As a result you get incredible pictures, not just of joy and celebration, but of sorrow and dejection. This picture ws takena fter the final whistle - it was almost as if they presented themselves to the camera. I was just drawn to take the picture."
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Kilbrittan National School Team
With captain Pauric Deasy, celebrate their Sciath na Scoil final victory at Pairc Ui rinn, Cork, on May 31st, 2005
Des barry (Irish Examiner) says "It is my favourite sporting event of the year. i have been covering the Sciath na Scoil finals for over 10 years and it offers more picture opportunities than All-Ireland Finals. What makes it so specia? There are no inhibitions with the kids, there is a wonderful innoncence in everything they do, whether it is playing, celebrating or dealing with defeat. Regarding the action shots - theya re fantastic - they jump into the air or they jump right into the lens!."
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Limerick's Garryspillane's Donie Ryan celebrates victory
Garryspillane beat Kilmallock in the Limerick SHC Final at the Gaelic Grounds on October 16th 2005.
Dan Linehan (Irish Examiner) says "Final wins like this are always special. Garryspillane have never won the county senior title so this was a bit of history in the making. As I ran onto the field after the match, i noticed this guy falling o the grround. In all the mellee you are rtying to keep an eye on four or five possible shots at any time and I decidd to go after this guy. I took four or five shots and ten had to wait until he got off the ground before I could identity him by the number on his back."
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Cork's Corona Boots
All Ireland SHC quarter-final, Cork V Waterford, Ceoke Park
Brendan Moran (Sportsfile, Dublin) says "I got a tip-off. one of our lads noticed something yellow on the boos as the team parade was heading in my direction. He texted me so I used my longest lens to zoom in and I just started taking pictures. We do this pre-match stuff as a matter of course but never send it out.
The match started and I took this picture of Niall McCarthy and the logo on the boot came up in that as well. To be honest, I forgot about it until the next day. All the papers were doing their follow-ups on the Sunday matches and that usually focuses on a sending-off or a controversey. So we decided to send out the boot picture as something different.We could not have imagined the response. Within minutes the phones were hopping. Despite the publicity, we wee not in collusion the the PR company who arranged the deal with the Cork Players. We got negative publicity, so be it. We are always trying to pick up on something different, likie fellows wearing Lance Armstrong bands, or the Paddy Power logos on the hurleys two years ago. We are not out to get players into trouble. There was no conspiracy. "
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Hurling Championship launch
Giants Causeway, County Antrim
Ray McManus (Sportsfile, Dublin) says "Its a little different to covering a game, it's a planned, set up shot. Th order in which the players line up (Cork's Sean Og O hAilpin, Wexford's Michael Jacob, Kilkenny's James McGarry, Waterford's Eoin Kelly) is dicated by height, but even as I see the shot again I see I might have done it differently. "
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The real on the pitch
NHL, Galway v Tipperary, Pearse Stadium
Ray McManus (Sportsfile, Dublin) says "It was just an ordianry league game, Galway against Tipperary, and I'd asked for permission to go into the umpires dressing room before the game. I wanted a photograph of them putting on their white coats before the amtch started, but that wasn't working. Eventually they came out, and while they were waiting for the referee they just formed a line. i didnt set it up, i think most times you'd know thay's ben done. One of them was looking at me and I asked him to keep talking "
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Gaaa Match
Taken during 1976
Taken by Josef Koudelka in Ireland during 1976. You can see more of his Pictures here
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Labels: Championship, Cumann Luthcleas Gael, Football, GAA, Gaelic, Gaelic Athletic Association, humour, Hurling, Jokes, Michael Cusack, Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh, The Sunday Game, Up for the Match
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