The final whistle brought Waterford’s championship to an end at Páirc Uí Chaoimh last Sunday. Six attempts at qualifying from the Munster round-robin since its inception in 2018 have all been unsuccessful. Casualties pay a high price. Shot down […]

Captains from a host of senior, intermediate and junior inter-county teams gathered at Athlone Castle last week alongside TG4’s Máire Ní Bhraonáin to launch the station’s live schedule for the All-Ireland championships.

Even with a qualification bar as low as we have in the All-Ireland football group stages — where only four teams are eliminated after 24 games — you still need to win at least one match to stay in the race. If that’s not asking too much.

The news that five members of the Mayo senior football panel were apparently living together on an industrial estate in Dublin would have seemed strange in normal times.

After Dublin were beaten by Meath in the Leinster semi-final, most of the Gaelic games journalists were expecting an early exit from the championship for Dessie Farrell’s side.

Six days to what’s a major break with tradition when the Munster hurling final throws in on Saturday evening at the Gaelic Grounds.

He’ll cross the Liffey this afternoon and head for that familiar citadel. A place that, for a few electrifying months in the summer of 2002, was his very own playground.

Mayo caretaker manager Stephen Rochford, deputising for Kevin McStay while he recovers from illness, reflected on a famous win for the county in Omagh that revitalises their championship season.

These are promising times for Tyrone football, the Red Hand county fresh from a third All-Ireland Under-20 title in four years, won flamboyantly against Louth during the week.

Cork are a permanent anti-climax. Incapable of a definitive contribution, they are indifferent to defeat. Because they are deeply unserious, they play in the full knowledge that they are going to lose.

Enda Smith produced a performance for the ages, despite missing a penalty, but it was only good enough for a draw in a pulsating encounter at a windy Hyde Park

Laois snatched a last-gasp win over Offaly in a thrilling midland derby when Mark Barry blasted a penalty to the roof of the net to give them the points.

What threatened to be a nightmare night for Wicklow turned into the stuff of dreams as they ultimately hammered Waterford at Wexford Park – and, soon after, got word that they had surprisingly topped their Tailteann Cup group.

As Tommy Durnin looked certain to kick the equaliser for Louth after the hooter had sounded, Adam Crummins came flying in to make a match-winning block and ensure Down grabbed a second win in Group 3 in what turned into a stirring game at a packed […]

Cork boss John Cleary and Kerry boss Jack O’Connor found themselves in furious agreement with each other after their sides clashed in Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday evening.

The final whistle brought Waterford’s championship to an end at Páirc Uí Chaoimh last Sunday. Six attempts at qualifying from the Munster round-robin since its inception in 2018 have all been unsuccessful. Casualties pay a high price. Shot down […]

Captains from a host of senior, intermediate and junior inter-county teams gathered at Athlone Castle last week alongside TG4’s Máire Ní Bhraonáin to launch the station’s live schedule for the All-Ireland championships.

Even with a qualification bar as low as we have in the All-Ireland football group stages — where only four teams are eliminated after 24 games — you still need to win at least one match to stay in the race. If that’s not asking too much.

The news that five members of the Mayo senior football panel were apparently living together on an industrial estate in Dublin would have seemed strange in normal times.

After Dublin were beaten by Meath in the Leinster semi-final, most of the Gaelic games journalists were expecting an early exit from the championship for Dessie Farrell’s side.

Six days to what’s a major break with tradition when the Munster hurling final throws in on Saturday evening at the Gaelic Grounds.

He’ll cross the Liffey this afternoon and head for that familiar citadel. A place that, for a few electrifying months in the summer of 2002, was his very own playground.

Mayo caretaker manager Stephen Rochford, deputising for Kevin McStay while he recovers from illness, reflected on a famous win for the county in Omagh that revitalises their championship season.

These are promising times for Tyrone football, the Red Hand county fresh from a third All-Ireland Under-20 title in four years, won flamboyantly against Louth during the week.

Cork are a permanent anti-climax. Incapable of a definitive contribution, they are indifferent to defeat. Because they are deeply unserious, they play in the full knowledge that they are going to lose.

Enda Smith produced a performance for the ages, despite missing a penalty, but it was only good enough for a draw in a pulsating encounter at a windy Hyde Park

Laois snatched a last-gasp win over Offaly in a thrilling midland derby when Mark Barry blasted a penalty to the roof of the net to give them the points.

What threatened to be a nightmare night for Wicklow turned into the stuff of dreams as they ultimately hammered Waterford at Wexford Park – and, soon after, got word that they had surprisingly topped their Tailteann Cup group.

As Tommy Durnin looked certain to kick the equaliser for Louth after the hooter had sounded, Adam Crummins came flying in to make a match-winning block and ensure Down grabbed a second win in Group 3 in what turned into a stirring game at a packed […]

Cork boss John Cleary and Kerry boss Jack O’Connor found themselves in furious agreement with each other after their sides clashed in Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday evening.