Malachy Clerkin: Madcap Sunday finish is just another indignity heaped upon the 2025 national leagues
It would have made sense to push the end of the hurling league back to next week and let the fooball breathe but instead it’s a blitz finish
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GAA members killed, the Dutch rave scene and an outstanding coming-of-middle-age story
Lost Gaels by Peader Thomspson; The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club by Richard Foster; Sweet Vidalia by Lisa Sandlin
Teacher who denies she is ‘GAA catfish’ gets interim injunction to restrain disciplinary process
Niamh Farrell secured a short-term order restraining a school from progressing a disciplinary process against her
James Abankwah catches Hallgrímsson’s eye, and Ireland rugby team ‘far from a crisis’
Gordon D’Arcy on how Ireland can move forward; Gerry Thornley on new optimism in Irish women’s team; and the race to become the next IOC president
Time to revisit proposal to scrap football league finals
Dignity of the competition being sacrificed over doubt as to what counties actually want to reach a final and win it
Ciarán Murphy: Surely Antrim are entitled to some home comfort
Ulster GAA’s decision to insist on moving Armagh game from Corrigan Park to Newry unlikely to end well
Minister defends €10m investment in NFL game at Croke Park
Patrick O’Donovan says multisport municipal projects would be better placed to secure Government funding than standalone ones
Central Council use rule amendments to close goalkeeper loophole
All the Gaelic football rule changes were accepted and will be in use from this weekend
Ciarán Murphy: ‘Solo and f**kin’ go, will ye' - how the new football rules are landing in Junior B
The game is slightly better, slightly faster, slightly more vertical, and slightly more fun to play. And all those minor improvements add up to a major impact
Mobile scanners to bring lung health checks directly to communities in north Dublin and northeast
Coolock woman says if her cancer diagnosis was not caught as early as it was her prognosis would have been a lot worse
Girls and sport: ‘You don’t really aspire to be something that you don’t see. There’s a lot more to be done’
Camogie player Niamh McGrath reflects on keeping girls – and mothers – playing sport
Laochra Gael: Bríd Stack’s near-tragedy in Australian football movingly recalled in powerful TG4 documentary
Television: ‘This surge of pain shot up my head, down my back. I remember falling to the floor and just screaming,’ she says
Diversity, gender balance and money spent properly are priorities as Minister for Sport announces €31.3m in core funding grants
Sums range from €1.65m for Special Olympics Ireland to €37,000 for taekwondo
Ciarán Murphy: Some GAA fans want saving from new goalkeeping reality
To say proposed change would punish Tyrone, Monaghan and Armagh is to misunderstand the problem
O’Neill’s sees profits rise by 70% amid fall in materials and packaging costs
Company is best known in Ireland for its association with the GAA but has expanded its reach internationally in recent times.
GAA Congress is well past its use-by date as a governing forum
Shooting down of motion to align rule on kit and equipment manufacture with EU law reflected badly on everyone
Five things we learned from the GAA weekend: Football is for forwards again, and Mayo find some x-factor
Cork rue lack of efficiency in front of goal; Jarlath Burns says he is concentrating on just one presidency
GAA’s future threatened by demographic time bomb
With rural depopulation and more and more people living in Dublin, there’s a crisis in the GAA that you should care about
GAAGo gone as association moves forward with re-branded GAA+
Hurling handpass reform rejected at congress but football championship change sails through
GAA annual congress: Jarlath Burns confirms new streaming service GAA+
In-house service will replace GAAGo and will stream live games from the start of the championship
GAA annual congress: Motion on tightening hurling handpass defeated
Tipperary motion to prohibit using the hand holding the ball to make the pass fails
D-Day for Conor O’Donovan’s 17-year crusade to clean up the handpass
Tipperary All-Ireland winner takes his case to GAA annual congress
Seán Moran: Ratios shift ominously as the GAA fights to hold its audience
Declining overall attendances visible in the battle for TV ratings
Proposal to allow GAA clubs make facilities available to other sports to be voted on at Congress
Proposal by Central Council on a new All-Ireland SFC and Tailteann Cup format from 2026
Five things we learned from the GAA weekend: Michael Murphy’s comeback grabs the headlines and Kerry have a Clifford conundrum
Donegal’s favourite son gets headstrong welcome back from Armagh captain
Paddy Cullen’s legacy will endure as one of the greats who forged Gaelic football’s most storied rivalry
Cullen and the Dublin team of the 1970s are eternally connected with their Kerry counterparts
Limerick’s Tom Morrissey: Players are not being compensated fairly for the commitment they give
At intercounty level, are players the last of the amateurs? Look at Croke Park on All-Ireland final day: everyone in that stadium is being paid
The NFL is coming to Dublin but why are we paying €10m for it?
In the News podcast: Croke Park will host Ireland’s first NFL regular-season game later this year with the Pittsburgh Steelers the 'home team'
Noel McCaffrey: Clubs need a rebalance - please don’t sit on the fence
Clontarf proposal requires players to play at least four club matches to be eligible for intercounty
Documentary on GAA referee abuse lets players, coaches and fans off the hook
Television review: GAA referee David Gough provides fascinating insights but overall this film needs to dig deeper
Gaelic Players Association’s support of amateur status cannot be guaranteed, Parsons warns
Report finds intercounty players are incurring average expense loss of €4,602
Gaelic Players Association flags resistance to ‘stretching’ intercounty season
Playing National League in early January ‘a no-no’, says GPA head Tom Parsons
NFL’s €10m shakedown of Ireland shows they’re the best-dressed welfare spongers in the world
Irish Government to fork out €10m to help mega-wealthy Pittsburgh Steelers host a home game in Croke Park
Seán Moran: GAA’s new ideas have familiar feel, but what will games be like in nine years?
Director general Tom Ryan has called for ‘unfettered thinking’ in advance of the association’s 150th anniversary
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