The Short Grass Kildare Nationalist Sports Podcast

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 hours later, Clane are in action in the Leinster Junior Hurling Final and there is plenty of chat on those games too. 
And with the fixtures for the Allianz National Football and Hurling Leagues confirmed the new inter-county season is looming large as well.

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 inter-county scene slowly begins to come into focus again. 

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.
Tributes are also paid to the retiring trio of Daniel Flynn, Ellen Dowling and Claire Sullivan after their wonderful careers in a Kildare jersey, and there is also the usual round up of other sports around Kildare.