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Some looper wrote a book called Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. It gives succour to the view that women are the gentler of the species and men the mucksavages. Obviously the good scribe has never attended a junior camogie match or a ladies football match. Talking Balls rarely ventures out these [...]

Tales are emerging form Brazil that Edson Arantes de Nascimento, better known to most of us as Pele, may have derived his famous name from where other than the influence of an Irish Christian Brother from Kerry. Pele was born in Três Corações, Brazil, the son of a Fluminense footballer Dondinho. His initial nickname was [...]

Some of you Talking Balls readers out there may be too young to remember the excitement round Italia 90. Certainly Talking Balls is. So we cast our net far and wide to get the expert view of a few oul codgers that remember the good old days. “Ireland played England in the first game. It [...]

The current economic situation has led many athletes to pull in their horn spending-wise. We’ve seen this week the Government say, basically that you can’t take the knickers off a bare ass, that they haven’t enough money to buy their round, so the GPA and the rest of us can swing for it. Nowadays you [...]

Paul Brady will be available for Cavan’s Ulster SFC semi-final against either Donegal or Antrim after returning from his latest handball success in California. Brady confirmed his number one status on the world handball stage when he defeated legendary American player David Chapman on Friday night to claim his fifth consecutive US Men’s Open title. [...]

Damien Cassidy has criticised RTE Sunday Game presenter Pat Spillane over his comments in the wake of the Oak Leafers hotly contested encounter against Monaghan at Celtic Park. Cassidy slammed: “A lot of it was bar-stool talk. You would expect someone with the level of knowledge he has of the game, apparently, and the level [...]

Sully – he may be gone, but could Setanta be coming back? 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. *** We hear the usual buzzwords round county squads at [...]

Ireland’s Got Talent No word yet of any oul badness after the launch of the camogie championship the other day. Usually when two or more Camogs are gathered there’s jaegerbomz goin’ off right, left and centre. There was the expected rush on Sun shimmer for the photoshoot of course, but when these yokes get their [...]

The heroics of the all-conquering Down Gaelic football teams of the 1960s will be relived in a special night of nostalgia in the Cardinal Ó Fiaich Library and Archive, Armagh, on Monday 15 June, at 7.30 p.m. A special feature of the event will be a show of extended cinema newsreel and television footage of [...]

Pat spent a long apprenticeship talking balls here before he made it on national television. So, anyone that thought myopia was a condition that only affected the last Dublin manager may think again. Then again, we suppose we should be thankful that Pat Gilroy actually talks to the media and doesn’t fire the toys out [...]