VERSATILE 20 year-old forward Eoin Kenny of Dundalk has been named as the SSE Airtricity Soccer Writers Ireland Player of the month for June. He came out on top of the voting over Harry Wood (Shelbourne) with Kian Leavy of St Patrick’s Athletic in third place. Kenny topped the poll by virtue of more second preference votes after both amassed 32 votes each. With each receiving the same number of first preference votes, the count went to the second preferences with Kenny just r

History has been made with the recent election of RTE Broadcaster Marie Crowe as President of Soccer Writers Ireland where she will lead the body for the next two years. Crowe, who is presenter of RTE Radio 1's Inside Sport and currently fronting RTE's coverage of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, becomes the 34th President and the first female journalist to hold the top position in the Association's 66 year history. In accepting the honour, the versatile broadcaster and journalist pa

Photos Courtesy of Sportsfile DUNDALK club captain, Daryl Horgan has been named SSE Airtricity/Soccer Writers Ireland Player of the Month for May. The Galway native topped the SWI nationwide poll with 60 points to claim the award ahead of second placed Tommy Lonergan of Waterford on 44 points with Bohemians’ Dawson Devoy third on 36 points. Horgan whose earlier domestic career included spells at Salthill Devon, Sligo Rovers and Cork City continued to lead by example wearing t

Photos Courtesy of Sportsfile SLIGO Rovers left-winger Will Fitzgerald has been named the SSE Airtricity/Soccer Writers Ireland Player of the Month for April. The Rovers club captain topped the nationwide poll on 47 points from second-placed Kian Leavy of St Patrick’s Athletic on 33 votes with Dundalk striker, Gbemi Arubi in third spot with 24 points. Also on the short-list were Danny Grant of Shamrock Rovers, David Hurley of Galway United and Eddie Beach of Derry City. Fitzg

BOHEMIANS star man, Patrick Hickey has been named SSE Airtricity/Soccer Writers Ireland Player of the Month for March. He has continued his excellent start to the season where he quickly established himself as a key member of the Gypsies’ squad that sit proudly joint top with St Patrick’s Athletic in the SSE Airtricity Premier Division table. He secured over 50% of the first preference votes in the SWI nationwide poll and finished nine votes ahead of former Irish internation

Photos Courtesy of Sportsfile DERRY City’s flying winger Michael Duffy has been named the SSE Airtricity/Soccer Writers Ireland Player of the Month for February and is making a habit of collecting the awards. The 31 year-old topped the nationwide poll in a two-horse race to edge out Bohemians striker, Colm Whelan by a mere three votes with Bohs’ midfielder, Dawson Devoy in third place. Duffy who won the monthly gong in June of last year has continued his scintillating form at

Josef Veselsky, second from right, is presented with the 2016 Special Merit Award from left, Mark McCadden, SWAI President, Ronan Brady, Head of Marketing, SSE Airtricity, Liam Tuohy Junior and Philip Quinn Credit: Sportsfile It was with great sadness that SWI has learned of the passing of Josef Veselsky, Ireland's oldest person at 107, and a former stalwart of Irish football. Veselsky was born in Trnava, a city now in Slovakia, in 1918, just week before the fall of the Austr

World Cup-bound Roberto ‘Pico’ Lopes of Shamrock Rovers and New York-born Kelly Brady scooped the annual SSE Airtricity/Soccer Writers Ireland Personality of the Year awards at Friday’s gala ceremony in Dublin. Lopes, who captained the Hoops to an SSE Airtricity Men's Premier Division and FAI Cup double for the first time since 1987, topped the ballot of football media, ahead of his manager Stephen Bradley and Shelbourne boss Joey O’Brien. Lopes became the first player for fi

Photo courtesy of Sportsfile TUAM-born Rory Gaffney, who was such a huge influence in Shamrock Rovers clinching the double, has been named as the SSE Airtricity/Soccer Writers Ireland Player of the Month for November. The 36-year-old striker netted both goals of Rovers’ 2-0 FAI Cup final win over relegated Cork City to confirm a first Hoops league and Cup double for 38 years. The brace in front of 35,252 fans at the Aviva Stadium in early November was one of his many highligh

Photo Courtesy of Sportsfile GLASGOW-born Kerr McInroy of Shelbourne topped the Soccer Writers Ireland nationwide ballot to clinch the SWI Player of the Month award for October. In the closest vote of the season, McInroy finished marginally ahead of June winner, Derry City’s Michael Duffy, with Galway United’s Stephen Walsh in third place. The 25-year-old , left-footed midfielder was raised in Dunfermline and spent his youth career with Cowdenbeath (2008-2012) and with Celtic