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ALL eyes will be on Cork and Wexford in the final game of Division One of the National League next weekend to determine who will meet the winners of Kilkenny or Tipperary in the League final. Following Cork’s 0-15 to 0-5 victory over Limerick at Mallow yesterday, Wexford and Galway are on four points, Cork [...]

DUBLIN City University captured the prestigious O’Connor Cup for the first time in the competition’s history as they edged out former winners University Limerick in a thrilling final played at Jordanstown on Sunday. The Ladies Football Colleges final weekend ended in fitting fashion with a riveting decider as DCU, appearing in their very first final, [...]

Former dual star Denis Walsh has been installed as the new Cork hurling manager. The St. Catherine’s clubman was named as Gerald McCarthy’s successor tonight after being chosen by the three-man selection committee comprising Jimmy Barry-Murphy, John Fenton and Denis Coughlan. Like outgoing selector Teddy McCarthy, he holds the distinction of having won All-Ireland hurling [...]

DUBLIN V CLARE (Sun Naomh Mearnóg 2pm) Neither Dublin or Clare have any chance of qualifying for the league final, so this Group One tie is for pride only. Clare are unlucky to be pointless following a narrow defeat to Tipperary and a loss to Kilkenny, these results not reflecting the good work being done [...]

St Paul’s, Kilrea will take to the field tomorrow in the All-Ireland Junior ‘C’ Final against Hazelwood College, Dromcollogher, in Ratoath. It is a huge achievement for the Co Derry school. Coach Shiela Kearney says: “We’re a small rural school with a limited number of players. There’s also a cut off age for some of [...]

St Patrick’s Day – Portumna reach the Promised Land, not the Holy Land Our team of reporters round the land shine a light into the orifices of the GAA to look at those small but insignificant details that make the GAA the world’s greatest sporting organisation (unless you work for RTE’s Late Late Show that [...]

The ‘Pull Down’ – Already banned in other sports. GAA Rules Enforcer Liam O’Neill certainly is no holds barred in trying to get the new ‘controversial’ rules through Congress next month. On the one side you have O’Neill and his merry men who have had enough of the pulling and dragging and general feckin’ about [...]

No Beatin’ about the Bush – Other sports have had no problem attracting high profile fans. If you’re lookin’ a bit of craic and god knows what else, get yourself down to the Abbey Court Hotel in Nenagh for the annual Congress of Cumann Camógaíochta na nGael. The weekend will also mark the swansong of [...]

Former Guantanamo inmates have a lot to offer the GAA inside and outside the wire. The world’s second most famous Offaly man Brian Cowen told the media last week that Ireland would be happy to take a number of the Guantanamo prisoners into Ireland. You know the familiar story, isolated extremists who have become detached [...]

Managerial Roundabout a Cash Cow Milked by Manager Near You! Rambling about amidst all of the furore raised by Mark Conway and the One True Belief faction last year over pay for play, was a sizeable elephant in the room. His name? Paid Managers, dumbo. This week outgoing president Nicky Brennan has stated unequivocally that [...]