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

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 SHAMROCK ROVERS midfielder Matt Healy has won his first SSE Airtricity/Soccer Writers Ireland Player of the...

Photo Courtesy of Sportsfile LEEDS-born Harry Wood, Shelbourne’s attacking midfielder, has been named the SSE Airtricity/Soccer Writers...

DERRY City wide man Michael Duffy has been named the SSE Airtricity/Soccer Writers Ireland player of the month for June. The 30 year-old...