KCLR Sport

Former Liverpool and Ireland star Ray Houghton speaks to Harry Shorthose at the Carlow Soccer Awards.

Following the announcement of her dream retirement fight, Croke Park this September against Flora Pili, Katie Taylor dropped into KCLR studios on Saturday 6 June to talk about her journey to the fight, fight camp, and how she plans on getting her hand raised as a three-time undisputed champion.

All the reaction from Carlow’s TG4 Leinster Final win over Longford in Newbridge , following our live commentary on KCLR Plus , thanks to Dan Morrissey and Co.

Last weekend, Peter Lynch reclaimed the Irish marathon record with a fantastic run at the London Marathon. Before returning to his training camp, he dropped into the KCLR studio for a chat about his latest achievement and what he’s planning next.

This Sunday, Tullow RFC face Athy RFC in the Bank of Ireland Provincial Towns Cup Final in Edenderry. We’ll have full live commentary on KCLR Plus. Ahead of the big game, we visited the Blackgates to soak up the excitement and chat with some of those involved. We also caught up with the women’s team, who recently secured their All-Ireland League status with a play-off win over Shannon. This previe...

Celebrations continue as the connections of I Am Maximus who won a second Aintree Grand National. The Willie Mullins trained Paul Townend runner power home to take the victory. Let's hear now from Mullins and Townend but first let's remind ourselves how they won with the help of ITV Racing. A big thanks to Dave Keena for the interviews.

Rory McIlroy's become only the fourth golfer to retain the Masters title after winning by one shot. The defending champion carded a final round 71 to finish on 12 under-par - just ahead of world number one Scottie Scheffler at Augusta. He follows in the footsteps of Jack Nicklaus, Nick Faldo and Tiger Woods in securing green jackets in back-to-back years. Last year's runner-up Justin Rose was part...

Tullow are through to the Bank of Ireland Towns Cup Final following their semi final victory over Naas over the weekend. The game was live on KCLR Plus thanks to New Moon Indian Restaurant Tullow, afterwards Brendan Hennessy spoke to players, coaching staff and some stalwarts of the club.  At the time of publishing the final is due to take place in Edenderry on Sunday April 19th.

Ahead of Championship 2026 we hear from Carlow captain Mikey Bambrick along with Mayo's Aidan O'Shea, Armagh's Oisin Conaty and Kerry's Sean O'Shea.

Carlow win in Croke Park in football for the first time since 1971 and capture the division 4 title, hear all the reaction. Join us to get the reacction of Bernard and Willie along with Joe Murphy, Colm Hulton and Conor Doyle.

Carlow have secured promotion to division 3 following their 4-22 to 2-5 win over Leitrim in Netwatch Cullen Park. We went to Carlow to chat to Joe about completing part 1 of the 2026 mission and about what is coming next. Murphy is also part of the under 20 management team and they open their Leinster campaign on Wednesday night against Meath in Netwatch Cullen Park.

Carlow have been promoted to division 3 after a 4-22 to 2-5 win over Leitrim at Netwatch Cullen Park. They'll play Longford in the final at Croke Park next weekend. Hear all the reaction now on the KCLR Sport podcast.

Promotion is still in Carlow's hands despite today's 1-19 to 1-14 defeat to Longford at Glennon Brothers Pearse Park. Up next for Joe Murphy's side are home games against London on Saturday March 15th at 6 pm and then Leitrim at 1 pm on Sunday March 22nd. A win in either game is enough to earn a place in division 3 as well as a Croke Park showpiece.   The Carlow ladies winning streak continued bea...

All Star and former Mayo footballer Keith Higgins is now in charge of the counties under 20 side. At this weeks launch we caught up with him to chat about the new rules, coaching players with the new rules in mind and the emergence of Kobe McDonald. The under 20 championship begins for Carlow on Wednesday March 25th when they host Meath in Carlow, after that they play Longford in Longford before f...

Kilkenny's Seanie Maguire scored twice as Cork City beat Wexford 4-1  in the first division. In the Premier division Thomastown's Colm Whelan started as Bohemians beat  Derry 1-0 at the Ryan McBride Brandywell. Elsewhere Jimmy Keohane captained Galway to a 1-all draw away to Shels, Shamrock Rovers beat St Pats 2-0 and Dundalk drew 1 all with Drogheda. Padraig Amond skippered Waterford as drew nil-...

Carlow made it 4 wins from 4 in the Allianz Football League over the weekend beating Waterford 1-26 to 15 points at Netwatch Cullen Park. It was also a great weekend for the Carlow Ladies who won a historic 5th match in a row beating Derry 2-12 to 1-7. Following Saturday's win Brendan Henessy got the reaction of Christopher Blake, Conor Crowley and Manager Joe Murphy.

It was a good Valentines weekend for the men's and ladies' footballers of Carlow with both teams maintaining their 100 percent records in the league. The men beat Tipperary 1-=17 to 1-14 in Semple Stadium while the ladies over4came Offaly 2-8 to 12 points in Kilcormac. The camogie team were unluck top miss out against Derry, losing by a point, that game will be covered by Camán Caint. .

By the rime you listen to this the Electric Ireland Sigerson Cup for 2026 will be over but before the game Dublin legend James McCarthy and former AFL and Laois star Colm Begley joined us for an evergreen and forever relevant conversation on the benefits of college football, handling retirement and facing Carlow.  

Chris Blake kicked 8 points as Carlow beat Wicklow 1-15 to 2-9 in last night's Allianz League Division 4 encounter at Netwatch Cullen Park. It's a second win in a row for Carlow. After the game we got the reaction from the Carlow camp and from Wicklow boss Oisin McConville who spoke about the standard of officiating in division 4 !

Last week we spotted a story in the Carlow Nationalist about Edel Hayen, who is now in her 25th season with thew Carlow Ladies Footballers. We invited Hayden on the KCLR Sport show to have a chat about her long service to the county and what keeps her going.

On Sunday before Kilkenny played Offaly in the hurling league, we met Kilkenny minor football manager Eoin Hennessy for chat about the work he is doing with his young squad.

Carlow opened their Allianz League division 4 campaign with a 2-16 to 1-15 win over Antrim at the Rogers Casements club in Antrim.  We had the game live on KCLR and afterwards Brendan Henessy got lots of reaction from players, management and analysts.

Carlow collected silverware last night beating Wicklow in the O'Byrne Shield Final. 2-13 to 1-7 the final score. The game was live on KCLR and our match commentator Brendan Hennessy got all the reaction.

Last week Carlow's Niall Culleton earned his spot on the PDC tour where he'll mix it with the best including Luke Littler, Luke Humphries, Gerwyn Price and Gian van Veen. We had a chat with Culleton about what lies ahead and his journey so far.

Carlow enjoyed a 2-15 to 3-9 win over Laois yesterday in the Dioralyte O’Byrne Shield semi final in Rathvilly. Ross Dunphy and Colm Hulton with the goals for Carlow. After the game we caught up with Carlow manager Joe Murphy and forwards Conor Doyle and Colm Hulton as well as Laois boss Justin McNulty. We also hear from Aaron Amond, Ciara Kavanagh and Bronagh Nolan who were winners at the Carlow G...