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GAA fans living in the UK can watch live Football and Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship action in commercial premises from this weekend thanks to an agreement between the GAA and Setanta Sports. The agreement means that the big matches from these crucial stages of the All-Ireland Championship season will be available in up to 45,000 [...]

The Tipperary team to face Mayo in the All-Ireland Minor football quarter- final at Tullamore next Monday shows three changes from the team that lost to Kerry in the Munster final at Pairc Ui Caoimh on July 5 last. Aldo Matassa takes over at midfield in place of Jack Lonergan. Johnny McMahon is promoted to [...]

Cork v Tipperary, Páirc Uí Rinn, Saturday 3.30pm Tipperary’s championship season hinges on this away outing to the All Ireland champions. The Premier County have yet to give their best performance this year, and with Claire Grogan (just back from holidays) and Eimear McDonnell (finger injury) listed among the subs, it will take a mighty [...]

Conor. . . Micheal. . . The way you make me feel. . . Mayo corner forward Conor Mortimer hit the headlines last week for his unusual goal celebrations during the Connacht Football Final. After stretching the onion bag, Mort wheeled away and pulled up his Mayo shirt to reveal a white tee shirt with [...]

Antrim’s John McSparran – a key man in the hurling intrigue. What else has he got in that boot? Talking Balls can reveal at last that the goings on around the hurling championships over the last week or two have been our doing. Yep, we’ve been behind it, in cahoots with Croker, the biggest shambles [...]

Pitch invasion. Try this yourself next time you’re in Croke and see what happenns! Let’s hope that the teams playing in Croke Park over the next week, who have put in thousands of hours on the training pitch, will not be undone by the ridiculous decision to relay the Croke Park pitch days before the [...]

Swine Flew Over the Autumn Tests With bookies taking odds on whether GPA industrial action or an explosion in the swine flu pandemic will be first to lead to the postponement of the All Ireland series, GAA watchers were a taken a bit by surprise at the news that the Aussies will not be coming [...]

Cúl kid alright, but no sign of the 125! One the biggest success stories every summer is the annual Cúl camp. Mothers up and down the country look forward to those four days of bliss when their little gaels take themselves off to the local GAA club. That means the mammies have time to get [...]

The RAF GAA team in action, not an offensive weapon in sight. . .Only the sound of trumpets blowing loudly. Talking Balls loves it when some bollix get hoist by his own petard as our mercurial friend William would have it. . . Some years ago the PSNI, in a flurry of self congratulatory publicity, [...]

MEATH bounced back from their TG4 Leinster Ladies SFC defeat to champions Dublin with a 1-13 to 0-10 victory against Armagh in Sunday’s first round of All-Ireland qualifiers. The Royals succumbed to rampant Dublin in the provincial semi-final but they showed good form at Kingspan Breffni Park on Sunday evening to account for Armagh by [...]