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Gaelic Football

April 2021

Tributes have poured in for former Leitrim footballer Packie McGarty, who has died aged 88.

Leitrim mourn ‘indomitable, irrepressible’ Packie McGarty

Packie McGarty, widely acknowledged as Leitrim’s greatest footballer and one of the best ever from Connacht, has died aged 88.

March 2020

The GAA has ordered all clubs to close amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Photo by Sam Barnes/Sportsfile

Revealed: GAA may stage remaining league games as championship warm-ups

THE GAA are reluctant to abandon the 2020 Allianz leagues until such time as a cancellation is unavoidable.

February 2020

Davy Fitzgerald's Wexford have a strong recent record against Kilkenny. Photo by Ray McManus/Sportsfile

The Throw-In: How Wexford are transforming hurling, weather woe and the wild world of Division Two

On this week's episode of The Throw-In, Will Slattery and Michael Verney are joined by John Mullane and Frank Roche to review the latest weekend of Allianz League action.

January 2020

Dublin and Mayo go head to head in the All-Ireland final today

New kids on the block, backroom manoeuvres and 2020 vision - why Dublin/Mayo rivalry is entering a new era

THE temptation whenever Dublin and Mayo get up close and personal is to frame this latest clash of deadly foes in the context of what happened before.

November 2018

Massive potential in new Kerry set-up, insists Burns

Whatever happens in Sunday's Munster Club SFC final, Micheál Burns will likely be running straight through to a new season with Kerry.

Farewell to Weeshie: Kerry footballer James O’Donoghue places The Legion flag on GAA broadcaster Weeshie Fogarty’s coffin at his funeral in St. Mary’s Cathedral, Killarney yesterday. Photo: Don MacMonagle

'Be brave and imaginative and don't miss a chance'

Counties are urged to be brave and imaginative by backing the extensive suite of proposed football rule changes at Saturday's Central Council meeting.

April 2018

St Ronan's College captain Jamie Haughey celebrates. Photo: Sportsfile

Smyth the hero as St Ronan's claim first title

Oisin Smyth scored a stunning late point to give St Ronan's College their maiden Hogan Cup title at Croke Park.

February 2018

Brogan's career hangs by thread after surgery

Bernard Brogan may have played his last competitive game in a Dublin jersey after the five-time All-Ireland winner underwent surgery for a cruciate knee ligament injury.

November 2017

Eamonn O’Hara, here in action earlier in the campign, will line out for Sligo against Mayo in All-Ireland Masters final in Ballymote today

Old dogs are mad for more hard road in Masters finale

You know about the GPA and you've likely heard of the CPA, two organisations lobbying on behalf of their section of the broader GAA membership. But what of the GMA?

Corofin manager Kevin O'Brien. Photo: Sportsfile

Corofin hungry for more as they renew rivalry with Brigid's

Last month's success in Galway made it five in a row for Corofin but that's parked now. There is more glory to be chased.

Chris Barrett applies some sun block during Ireland International Rules Squad training session at St Mary’s Park in Adelaide yesterday. Photo: Sportsfile

All the breaks go Australia's way as Ireland prepare for survival battle

If outbreaks of bad luck come in threes, Joe Kernan has been handed a full set as he prepares to lead Ireland into tomorrow's (5.10am Irish time) International Rules Test against Australia in Adelaide.

October 2017

After years of enthusiastic disapproval, I've started to see the good in international rules

At this time of the year I usually launch an attack on the international rules series, mocking its ugliness, self-importance and downright pointlessness. Not this year. It took just four words to change my mind.

September 2017

Hugh Hourican owner of The Boars Head on Capel St with All Ireland Winners Paddy Andrews and Eoghan O’Gara .

'It still hasn't sunk in' - Dublin players keep the party going after three-in-a-row victory

Dublin's three in a row victory was celebrated all over the capital into the small hours, and beyond.

August 2017

McCaffrey magic - Player ratings from Dublin's demolition job on Tyrone

Dublin and Mayo will do battle once again in Croke Park on the third Sunday in September following after the defending champions dismantled Tyrone yesterday. Here is how the players rated.

Kieran Donaghy of Kerry in conversation with Aidan O'Shea of Mayo. Photo by Ray McManus/Sportsfile

'I don't agree with some of the insulting comments' - Peter Canavan responds to Stephen Rochford's critics

Peter Canavan has hit out at the harsh criticism Mayo manager Stephen Rochford received following his decision to deploy Aidan O'Shea at full back to mark Kieran Donaghy in last weekend's All Ireland semi-final draw.

July 2017

We all need to lighten up a bit when we're talking about football. Photo: Sportsfile

Eamonn Sweeney: There is a malaise in the GAA of everyone taking themselves too seriously

The 2017 football championship is beginning to resemble a very long and boring episode of Liveline. Keeping tabs on it is like being the teacher of a peculiarly fractious infant class. "Miss, Miss, they're after taking Diarmuid's character." "And they're subjecting him to trial by television." "James called me a tit." "He started it Miss, he teased Aidan for taking a selfie." "Pat only told on me because he's from Kerry and he hates Dublin." "I'm not talking to him." "He pulled my hair." "This caffeine gel tastes yucky." "Miss, Miss, freedom of expression is one of the rights in the Republic but it's not absolute."

February 2017

Burns: Poor start to league. Photo: Sportsfile

Down facing mass walkout as players lose faith in management

Down's season threatens to go from bad to worse, with a number of players understood to be considering walking away from Eamonn Burns' squad, following a number of walkouts last week.

December 2016

Former Mayo joint managers Noel Connelly (right) and Pat Holmes. Photo: Sportsfile

Mayo players 'have no interest' in getting involved in fresh dispute

Mayo players were maintaining a stony silence yesterday, refusing to engage after a damning attack from their former joint management team of Pat Holmes and Noel Connelly. Sources close to the camp said that they had no interest in getting involved in a fresh dispute and described the story as "last year's news".

September 2016

Tipperary captain Brendan Maher lifts the Liam MacCarthy cup after the GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Final match between Kilkenny and Tipperary

Majestic Tipperary are All Ireland champions after victory over Kilkenny in Croke Park

There was a Tipperary hue to just about everything that happened in Croke Park this afternoon.

February 2016

Players from both sides involved in an incident in the second half after a penalty that was awarded to Mayo as Diarmuid O'Connor goes to ground

Donegal edge past Mayo in gripping Ballybofey encounter

Leo McLoone's 57th minute goal gave Donegal a hard earned Allianz Division 1 win over Mayo at a packed Ballybofey.

Sean Cavanagh gets first start of the campaign for Tyrone's clash with Laois, as Derry and Roscommon also name sides

Sean Cavanagh comes in to the Tyrone team for his first 2016 league start as Mickey Harte makes four changes from the side that beat Galway for Sunday's game against Laois.

Just like last year in Cavan, Congress delegates will be voting on many issues this week but there’s unlikely to be a vote on overhauling the football championship. Photo: Ray McManus / Sportsfile.

Gaelic Players Association urge delegates at GAA congress to opposes proposed second tier football championship

The Gaelic Players Association have issued a statement urging delegates at the GAA Congress to oppose the introduction of a second tier football championship.

July 2015

Rust seeping into Donegal's fortress football machine

Last May, Shay Given spoke in fairly awestruck terms about the Donegal Gaelic footballers he'd spent an evening with the previous summer.

19 July 2015; Aidan O'Shea, Mayo, in action against Ross Donavan, Sligo. Connacht GAA Football Senior Championship Final, Mayo v Sligo, Dr. Hyde Park, Roscommon. Picture credit: David Maher / SPORTSFILE

Comments only served to heap insult upon injury

There have been easier weeks to be from Sligo. Particularly if your despair over the Connacht final was profoundly deepened by having to listen to Ger Canning and Tommy 'Tom' Carr as events unfolded. In hell, I am convinced, there will be a never-ending loop of Canning mispronouncing 'Caheragh' and Carr stating the bleeding obvious in his speaking clock voice.

The whole ‘nothing to see here, move along now’ attitude adopted by Dublin manager Jim Gavin has made the GAA look like the rogue state of Irish sport.

Action required on this real issue

The GAA's failure to take meaningful action over the assault on Dublin's Davey Byrne by an Armagh player is making a laughing stock out of the Association's disciplinary system.

GAA president, Aogan O Fearghail has requested further information on the Davey Byrne incident from both the Dublin and Armagh management.

Time to drop the machismo act and co-operate

Keynsham sits at the confluence of the rivers Chew and Avon in Somerset, south-west England. The town rose to fame during the late 1950s and early 1960s when it featured in a series of advertisements on Radio Luxembourg for Horace Batchelor's 'Infra-draw' betting system. During the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685, Keynsham was also the site of a violent tussle between royalist forces and the rebel Duke of Monmouth.

Partnership of O'Boyle and Bradley key to reaching last eight - McIver

Derry boss Brian McIver believes a partnership between Cailean O'Boyle and Eoin Bradley will be key to his side's progression this summer.

Cork’s Barry Coffey is confronted by Meath’s much-admired physical presence in the shape of Liam Hayes, Colm O’Rourke, Colm Coyle and Liam Harnan in 1988.

Joe Brolly: 'Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play . . . it is war minus the shooting'

The irony of a Crossmaglen man throwing a spanner in the works of the rebel forces will not be lost on students of modern Irish history. The most dangerous referees are those who are drawn to making dramatic decisions. Whether they are wrong or not is of secondary importance. It was an otherwise inexplicable error by Pádraig Hughes last Sunday.

Kildare’s Niall Kelly battles for the ball against Longford’s Colm Smyth in Cusack Park last night.

Breaking down the barriers