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Some Miners make it, just like their canaries On the back of Tyrone’s Minor/Senior All Ireland double there has been a lot of guff about the future of Tyrone football. The so-called experts reckon that of any successful All Ireland Minor team, as few as maybe three or four will make it through to represent [...]

EDEL Hanley kicked ten points as Tipperary captured the TG4 All-Ireland Ladies intermediate title with a three-point victory over Clare at Croke Park on Sunday. The Premier County made it third time lucky against their Munster rivals this year, having fallen to two defeats against the Banner County earlier in the season. This hard-fought victory [...]

Eva Mendes. Seán Óg’s Rebel Belle Mars have relaunched their iconic ‘Mars a Day Helps You Work Rest and Play’ campaign with a little help from their friends in the GAA and other sports. The PR blurb from Mars tells Talking Balls that every sports star had a different way of relaxing the night before [...]

Referees to Get them Out More Often. Yellow Cards that is. That much maligned and endangered species, the GAA referee, is to be given additional powers if plans before next month’s special congress are passed. Under the new proposals, players that receive a yellow card will be replaced by a substitute for the remainder of [...]

They’re behind you! The toppled Twin Towers look everywhere for the Twin Spires of Omagh. Martin Breheny, Sean Moran, Cliona Foley, Vincent Hogan – household names to GAA fans country-wide. All stand charged of unprecedented levels of begrudgery and sour grapes following Tyrone’s seismic victory over Kerry last Sunday. Is it because the famous green [...]

The Heavenly Kingdom GAA fans in the Kingdom and Tyrone are gradually winding down at work these few days before they head up to Dublin for the weekend and the craic. Fans in both counties are going frantic buying t shirts, spraying cars, braiding their hair – and of course growing beards. In other words, [...]

Barry McElduff again shows his support for Tyrone Tyrone’s appearance in the All Ireland Final is causing some consternation among the non GAA fraternity and, sadly it has to be said, amongst mischief makers. In Strabane Unionists have expressed some disquiet that the Tinnies scupltures have donned the now obligatory Tyrone strip to celebrate the [...]

Ahead of the All Ireland – sqeaky bum time for Tyrone supporters This week in Talking Balls, with all the hype about beards, we sent Resident Expert Ger Manas out on the highways and byways of Tyrone. No, not in search of a ticket (by the way if you have any send them in), but [...]

Gregory shows partial support for his Tyrone Brethren The Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure in the North, Gregory Campbell made the headlines during the week when he attended the opening of the new St Brigid’s GAC Grounds in Musgrave Park, South Belfast. St Brigid’s has established itself and grown dramatically by taking advantage of [...]

Uplifting support – Where did this lassie get her ticket? As All Ireland frenzy reaches fever pitch in Tyrone and Kerry, with all the hype and hullaballoo about the match of the decade, it seems that many ‘true GAA fans’ will not be able to get into Croke Park. Who then are these hoors that [...]