The Short Grass Kildare Nationalist Sports Podcast

This week's panel of Pat Costello, Ger McNally, Tommy O'Connell and Seamus Dillon reflect back on the superb win by the Kildare hurlers last week and ahead to a huge game for the footballers this coming weekend. There's also discussion on the burning issues in Kildare sport including the changes to the local GAA Football Championship, the return of the club action, the Kildare influence on the Iri...

Episode 24 of the Short Grass Kildare Nationalist Sports Podcast looks back on a fine win for the Kildare footballers but also defeats for the ladies and hurlers as the National League continue.   In other sporting action, the panel of Pat Costello, Ger McNally and Tommy O'Connell look forward to seeing five Kildare men in action for Ireland in the opening round of the Six Nations in Paris, and th...

The Kildare mens and ladies football teams made excellent starts to their National Leagues last week weekend and are out in action at home this weekend. The hurlers also begin their National League this weekend. All that, and more, is covered in this week's edition by the panel of Ger McNally, Tommy O'Connell and Seamus Dillon.

It's a bumper edition of the Short Grass Kildare Nationalist Sport Podcast as both the Kildare men and ladies football teams prepare to begin their National League campaigns. The panel of Ger McNally, Seamus Dillon and Tommy O'Connell look back over the O'Byrne Cup final defeat to Westmeath and also step into the shoes of Brian Flanagan to pick their starting 15 for the opening round game against...

This week's episode The Short Grass Kildare Nationalist Sports Podcast looks ahead to the weekend as both Kildare senior footballers and hurlers play for early season silverware after impressive wins last week over Dublin and Antrim. The show also includes live reaction to the announcement of the Kildare team for the O'Byrne Cup final against Westmeath.

The first Short Grass Kildare Nationalist Sports Podcast of 2026 is a busy one. The panel of Ger McNally, Tommy O'Connell, Richard Commins and Seamus Dillon look back two tough All-Ireland semi-final defeats for Sallins and Grange, and also announce the Loading and Lifting Teams of 2025 for the Senior, Intermediate and Junior Football Championships. The inter-county season is now up and running ag...

It's the last episode of The Short Grass Kildare Nationalist Sports Podcast of 2025 and there is still lots to talk about after two Kildare teams were crowned Leinster champions last weekend. The panel of Pat Costello, Ger McNally and Tommy O'Connell look back on the highs of those wins and also look ahead to Kildare's first inter-county game of the 2026 season next weekend. There are also some of...

The reflect on two Leinster Final losses for Kildare clubs last weekend but are more hopeful for this weekend coming with two more finals on the horizon.

The wins just keeping for Kildare clubs in Leinster and the panel of Pat Costello, Ger McNally, Tommy O'Connell and Seamus Dillon have plenty to talk about after a perfect weekend for the county's football teams with all three champions qualifying for Leinster finals.  This coming weekend sees the first of those finals as Athy travel to Croke Park for the Leinster Senior Football Final while 24 ho...

Naas hurlers may have bowed out of the Leinster Championship but with the Clane hurlers through to a Leinster final and three huge Leinster Football Championship semi-finals to come this weekend there is still plenty to talk about. The panel of Pat Costello, Ger McNally, Richard Commins and Tommy O'Connell also give their thoughts on the 2026 Leinster Senior Football Championship draw as the the i...

There seems to be no stopping Kildare club teams in Leinster at the moment and this week's show looks back on three wins for the football champions, and ahead to two semi-finals for the hurling champions. All that, plus everything else that is going on in Kildare sport this week.

Episode 14 of the The Short Grass Kildare Nationalist Sports Podcast looks back on another busy week of Kildare sport, and also looks ahead to three Leinster GAA Championship quarter-finals for Kildare clubs this weekend.

It turned out to be the perfect weekend for Kildare GAA teams in Leinster Championship action with four wins from four games. This week's panel of host Pat Costello, Ger McNally, Tommy O'Connell and Seamus Dillon discuss all those games as well as a busy weekend of action ahead, and all the other burning issues in Kildare sport 

Usual host of The Short Grass Kildare Nationalist Sports Podcast Pat Costello is enjoying the sun in Spain so Ger McNally assumes hosting duties as Seamus Dillon makes his debut on the podcast alongside Tommy O'Connell.  It's a busy time and Kildare sport has been in the headlines for issues on and off the pitch and the panel discuss all the latest hot topics from around the Kildare.

Episode 11 of The Short Grass Kildare Nationalist Sports Podcast sees Pat Costello, Ger McNally and Tommy O'Connell look back on Athy's brilliant senior final win over Naas, and discuss all the other goings on in Kildare sport

This week's Short Grass Kildare Nationalist Sports Podcast covers a wide range of topics and sees host Pat Costello and the panel of Ger McNally, Richard Commins and Tommy O'Connell focus on a huge weekend of county final action in store in Kildare, as well as reflecting back on Naas' seventh consecutive hurling title.

As the weeks go by, the games on the Kildare GAA calendar get bigger and bigger. Episode 9 of the The Short Grass Kildare Nationalist Sports podcast looks ahead to the Senior Hurling final. Can Naas make it 7 in a row? Or will Maynooth cause a major upset? The panel of host Pat Costello, Ger McNally, Tommy O'Connell and Richard Commins also look back on last week's huge weekend of football. Tribut...

Episode 8 of The Short Grass Kildare Nationalist Sports Podcast sees host Pat Costello host a panel with Ger McNally, Richard Commins and Tommy O'Connell looking back on last weekend's hurling action in Kildare, and an exciting weekend of football ahead.

Part 1 of Episode 7 of the Short Grass Kildare Nationalist Sports Podcast sees Ger McNally and Tommy O'Connell join host Pat Costello to look back over the last round of games across the Kildare Football Championships          

Part 2 of Episode 7 of the Short Grass Kildare Nationalist Sports Podcast sees Ger McNally and Tommy O'Connell join host Pat Costello discuss a big weekend of hurling in Kildare with two Senior Championship semi-finals and four finals to be decided

This week's episode of The Short Grass Kildare Nationalist Sports Podcasts sees Pat Costello, Ger McNally, Richard Commins and Tommy O'Connell discuss all the latest goings on in Kildare sport

The Kildare GAA Football Championships have reached the end of the groups and the knockout stages are confirmed.  The usual panel of Kildare Nationalist Sports Editor Ger McNally, host Pat Costello and regular contributors Richard Commins and Tommy O'Connell look back on an exciting weekend as well as taking a look at the best of the rest of the Kildare sporting action 

It's a big weekend in the Kildare GAA calendar as the Football Championships reach the final round of group games.  Kildare Nationalist Sports Editor Ger McNally is joined by host Pat Costello and regular contributors Tommy O'Connell and Richard Commins to look ahead to all the games, as well as going through all the possible permutations ahead of the knockout stages being confirmed.  In a packed...

The third episode of The Kildare Nationalist Short Grass Sports Podcast. Kildare Nationalist sports editor Ger McNally along with regular contributors to the paper - Pat Costello, Richard Commins and Tommy O'Connell -  dissect the news in Kildare sport, focusing this week on the second round of the Kildare Senior and Intermediate Football Championships

The focus of the second episode of The Short Grass Kildare Nationalist Sports Podcast is again the Kildare GAA Football Championships.   Host Pat Costello, Ger McNally, Richard Commins and Tommy O'Connell look back over last weekend's games and ahead at what is to come with this weekend's games.