The race to become the next Meath senior football manager looks set to be a straight shoot-out between Robbie Brennan and Lar Wall, with those two names understood to be the only nominations by clubs for the Royal post after Colm O’Rourke’s […]

It would be wise to have a few layers on when measuring the temperature around Meath football at the minute because you certainly won’t be warmed by much of the talk going around the county.

The banter was back and forth during the week, two legends of the game taking it in turns to wind each other up ahead of a massive game for their respective clubs.

There were nights during the 149 days that Longford didn’t have a senior football manager in place in 2021 when their chairman Albert Cooney would wake with the vacancy and the search to fill it the first thing on his mind.

A fresh reminder of the frustrating complexity of the GAA’s decision-making process came in the light detail contained in a short press release from Croke Park on Saturday outlining decisions taken at a Central Council meeting.

The rules of Piggy in the Middle: two players pass a ball to each other, while a third player tries to intercept the pass. The third player is called the Piggy in the Middle. After each successful pass, the players on the outside chant ‘Piggy in […]

After Dunderry won their first Meath senior football championship in 1995, the celebrations were later recounted in a piece for this newspaper by David Walsh.

The GAA needs to bring in Ticketmaster-style dynamic pricing for All-Ireland tickets. With the Association apparently in dire financial need, it’s time to embrace state-of-the-art profiteering.

A proposal to reform the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, with fewer matches and a greater element of jeopardy, has been approved after a meeting of the GAA's Management Committee and Central Council in Croke Park.

For the parents of Oisín Kelly, the pain doesn’t ease but the impulse to carry his torch persists. Thirteen months after he was taken from this world, far too young, they are still preaching the gospel of blood donation.

?The jerseys don’t fall as squarely from the shoulders as they used to and the thinning scalps bobbing around the pitch are domed reminders that nobody is getting any younger.

This time next year, Croke Park will be the stage for one of the most awaited spectacles in decades.

?Not that fresh evidence of Michael Murphy’s pre-eminence in Donegal football was required, even in inter-county retirement, but he provided some anyway with a haul of 1-5 to drag Glenswilly out of a seven-point hole against Four Masters in the […]

In their bid to be crowned Tipperary senior ladies football championship winners for 2024, the Moyle Rovers club in Clonmel will have two generations of the Cronin family to call upon.

Cian O’Neill is to take over as head coach to the Kerry footballers while former Kerry footballer Aodán Mac Gearailt will be a selector, thus completing Jack O’Connor’s backroom team for 2025.

The race to become the next Meath senior football manager looks set to be a straight shoot-out between Robbie Brennan and Lar Wall, with those two names understood to be the only nominations by clubs for the Royal post after Colm O’Rourke’s […]

It would be wise to have a few layers on when measuring the temperature around Meath football at the minute because you certainly won’t be warmed by much of the talk going around the county.

The banter was back and forth during the week, two legends of the game taking it in turns to wind each other up ahead of a massive game for their respective clubs.

There were nights during the 149 days that Longford didn’t have a senior football manager in place in 2021 when their chairman Albert Cooney would wake with the vacancy and the search to fill it the first thing on his mind.

A fresh reminder of the frustrating complexity of the GAA’s decision-making process came in the light detail contained in a short press release from Croke Park on Saturday outlining decisions taken at a Central Council meeting.

The rules of Piggy in the Middle: two players pass a ball to each other, while a third player tries to intercept the pass. The third player is called the Piggy in the Middle. After each successful pass, the players on the outside chant ‘Piggy in […]

After Dunderry won their first Meath senior football championship in 1995, the celebrations were later recounted in a piece for this newspaper by David Walsh.

The GAA needs to bring in Ticketmaster-style dynamic pricing for All-Ireland tickets. With the Association apparently in dire financial need, it’s time to embrace state-of-the-art profiteering.

A proposal to reform the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, with fewer matches and a greater element of jeopardy, has been approved after a meeting of the GAA's Management Committee and Central Council in Croke Park.

For the parents of Oisín Kelly, the pain doesn’t ease but the impulse to carry his torch persists. Thirteen months after he was taken from this world, far too young, they are still preaching the gospel of blood donation.

?The jerseys don’t fall as squarely from the shoulders as they used to and the thinning scalps bobbing around the pitch are domed reminders that nobody is getting any younger.

This time next year, Croke Park will be the stage for one of the most awaited spectacles in decades.

?Not that fresh evidence of Michael Murphy’s pre-eminence in Donegal football was required, even in inter-county retirement, but he provided some anyway with a haul of 1-5 to drag Glenswilly out of a seven-point hole against Four Masters in the […]

In their bid to be crowned Tipperary senior ladies football championship winners for 2024, the Moyle Rovers club in Clonmel will have two generations of the Cronin family to call upon.

Cian O’Neill is to take over as head coach to the Kerry footballers while former Kerry footballer Aodán Mac Gearailt will be a selector, thus completing Jack O’Connor’s backroom team for 2025.