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An impressive display from Clare was not enough to get them over the line in their first game in Division One of the National League, following their promotion since last year’s All Ireland junior success. They lost out by the narrowest of margins to Tipperary, 0-8 to 1-6 in Cashel, but were most unlucky not [...]

To celebrate St Paddy’s Day, Squareball is offering a free (yes free!!) Guaranteed Irish t shirt with every full order between now and the end of the month. Between us and Obama we’re gonna bust this recession wide open. . . starting next Tuesday we’re gonna drive all the snakes outta Ireland for once and [...]

Dublin GAA players rehearse, but in vain, for St Patrick’s Day Parade 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 is). [...]

Galvin’s restraint ‘heroic’ says Billy Keane Just when we stopped laughing at Colm O’Rourke’s self righteous disgust and the opprobrium he aimed at Tyrone’s Ryan McMenamin, we came across a piece written by Billy Keane in the Tyrone-friendly Irish Independent. By his own admission Keane didn’t get off his hole to actually go to the [...]

Thank God for Evanne and RTE… the BBC and UTV aren’t worth a dried shite Ulster Council Supremo Danny Murphy has echoed the feelings of Gaels throughout the province with a withering attack on the BBC and UTV. Both stations have long been regarded for their ability to make coverage of an Irish League soccer [...]

Pulling and dragging Monaghan style… put the manliness back in football sez Banty Colourful Monaghan coach Seamus McEneaney, ever the man for the bon mot and the mot juste, has given his unequivocal thumbs down to the experimental rules. Yes, he’s anything but tumescent over the changes which he thinks have taken the ‘manliness’ out [...]

Typical post-match recovery session for camogie players in Dubai Word has reached Talking Balls of goings on at the recent Dubai Gulf Gaelic Games. Considered a bolthole for teams hellbent on pre-season warm weather training and debauchery, the Games offer participants the opportunity to relax and play a bit of football, hurling, camogie, ladies football [...]

There’ll be none of this shite in Belfast… McSporran gets Aussie KO. John McSparran’s not happy, but then he never is, the Antrim Chairman. The star turn of the GAA’s ‘he’s a grumpy hoor, get him out of here’ has been wound up, yet again, by Croke Park. This time it’s the decision to award [...]

Ring battered but never broken A pitch side marriage proposal rejected or a lovers’ tiff in the stand? Did she find out belatedly under the lights in Kilmallock that he had been horsing around on the local bike or did he perhaps learn that she was the local fivespeed racer? The cause of all the [...]

By Jackie Cahill REIGNING Bord Gáis Energy Ladies National Football League champions Cork fell to a rare defeat on Sunday as Leinster kingpins Dublin made it four wins from four in Division 1B of this year’s competition. The All-Ireland champions lost by 1-10 to 1-9 at Naomh Mearnóg as Dublin repeated their 2008 league success [...]