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Aya Abdul Samei born in Egypt, brought up in Muscat, neither a GAA stronghold. Til Now! Gaelic football is an Irish sport and to field an Arab goalkeeper for a tournament may not have been the most obvious choice. But Aya Abdul Samei, an Egyptian, born and brought up in Muscat, proved to be the [...]

It was National League success on the double for Wexford at Parnell Park yesterday when they lifted both the Division One and Two camogie titles at the expense of Tipperary and Antrim respectively. The Division One side – captained by newlywed Aoife O’Connor who delayed her honeymoon to lead out the Purple and Gold – [...]

Antrim will face their toughest test this season today as they take on Wexford in a bid to become National League Division 2 champions. The game will serve as a double header with Wexford also competing for the Division 1 title against Tipperary. A win today would see the Saffron girls move into Division 1 [...]

Daithi O Se wearing Peile – and Talking Balls Regular readers will know that in Talking Balls we are obsessed with balls – big balls, small balls, even the balls the girls play with, big and small. If it’s balls, we want to talk it and about it. You can imagine how our attention was [...]

Captains from Wexford, Tipperary and Antrim contesting the 2009 National League Division One and Two deciders were in Croke Park on Tuesday with President of the Association Joan O’Flynn ahead of the finals which will take place on Saturday next April 25 in Parnell Park. Wexford and Tipperary clash in the Division One final, while [...]

Emma: Talking Balls has tried hard to avoid watching Celebrity Bainisteoir, but the other evening we happened into a house where it was on and the hoors that lived there wouldn’t turn it off. The two teams were Sneem from Kerry and St Patrick’s from Limerick. The GAA remains an amateur organisation, reliant on people [...]

GAA pitch invasions by people who have no business there could be a thing of the past The Powers That Be are to lobby government asking for legislation outlawing pitch invasions on the grounds that someone could get hurt. Talking Balls understands that supporters from counties such as Armagh, Monaghan and Waterford and the five [...]

Good day at the office and another Kerryman Francied. Meanwhile Donaghy gets revenge by tweaking thon nipple. GAA fans round Armagh wept silently into their Buckfast over Easter with the news that Francie Bellew, Paul McGrane and Paddy McKeever had decided to leave the Orchard. Every cloud has a silver lining as full forwards the [...]

Mon Dieu, Mon Dieu – C’est la monde, GAA style. Peter the Great meets a French lookalike. What have Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Milwaukee and the town of Liffre in Brittany, France got in common? Well, As Micheal O Muircheartaigh might say, none is a GAA stronghold. Until now that is. With gaelic games increasingly [...]

Tyrone delegates to Congress will not be impressed by the administrative sleight of hand that saw their motion to abolish the International Rules kicked for touch. As is usual within the GAA, where it is most unusual to call a spade a spade, much rather a handheld implement with a long shaft that can be [...]