Conor McGregor has turned himself into police custody in New York. A chaotic night extended to a chaotic morning for the UFC as the organisation’s most celebrated star Conor McGregor began his Friday being questioned by Brooklyn police. The authorities had wanted to speak with the Crumlin native after his Thursday night rampage at the […]

8 years ago

Many hurlers fancy themselves over a line-ball, Maher gave an exhibition

8 years ago

Can we not just appreciate the magic? Can we not just sit back, shut up and enjoy the show? Can we not just marvel at the poetic levels of skill that our hurlers are now producing every time they grace a playing field? It seems some of us can’t. It seems that some of us […]

8 years ago

The Irish Grand National Never fails to deliver. With Willie Mullins and Gordon Elliot combining to saddle 17 of the 30 runner field, the Easter Monday showpiece always looked likely to be heading south to Clonsutton or staying in county Meath. That was exactly how it turned out with Elliot saddling the winner in General […]

8 years ago

A stroke of Brian Cody genius. When Padraig Walsh was first moved from his natural number 5 position back to full back last year, plenty of eyebrows were raised. It was the opening round of the 2017 League against Waterford, and the Tullaroan man was named at number three on the Cats’ team sheet. It […]

8 years ago

Football isn’t dead. Just look at Cavan and Roscommon’s eight goal thriller to decide the destination of the Division Two title. While the narrative still very much revolves around defensive tactics in the gaelic football sphere, these two showed that attacking football can still exist. The League treated us to some enthralling entertainment over the […]

8 years ago

It completely threw Wexford

8 years ago

They didn’t know how to manage him but it’s hard to blame them for that. After a while, the Dublin defenders resorted to fouling Damien Comer. Have you any other solutions to stop the man who becomes a hungry gorilla any time the O’Neill’s size five comes even remotely close to him? Like a bull […]

8 years ago

We talk of a crisis. Brian Cody laughs. As Kilkenny stuttered through the opening rounds of this year’s Hurling League, their obituaries were being written by many. This is the end of the road for them. They just don’t have the young lads coming through. How will they cope without Jackie, Michael, JJ, Richie and […]

8 years ago

The wide open spaces of Croke Park. And Cavan are renowned for their defensive football. Mattie McGleenan’s men did their very best to put those impressions to bed on Sunday afternoon in GAA HQ. Within 8 minutes, the Ulster men had the Roscommon men rattled twice. Lively corner forward Conor Bradley ghosted through for an […]

8 years ago

Where else would you get anything like it? It’s hard to think of anywhere. Semple Stadium on the last day in March. Eventually the lights were required to ensure players’ vision wasn’t compromised. It’s tempting enough, however, to believe that the skill on show from 5.00 all the way up to 9.30 would have lit […]

8 years ago

The League is important. Relief was scrawled across every Mayo face in Ballybofey when they staved off the drop in the most dramatic circumstances on Sunday. People said they wouldn’t care. Maybe they shouldn’t but they do. Now just think about the counties below them for a second. Think about your Waterfords, your Limericks and […]

8 years ago

Some marvellous scoring talents have illuminated hurling over the last few years. We’re looking for ten of the highest scorers of all-time in the inter-county hurling championship. Most of these lads have taken frees at some stage in their careers but they’re still the creme de la creme. We’ll give you a little hint. Three […]

8 years ago

He remembers it like it was only yesterday. He talks about it as if it was happening right in front of him for the first time. Mickey Harte will never forget it. Owen Mulligan’s goal in the 2005 All-Ireland quarter final replay against Dublin is the most fondly remembered green flag in GAA history. Panache, […]

8 years ago

Tough or just plain pointless. Training can be a slog. Some Friday evenings we’re just not up for it and some Sunday mornings we might as well be still in bed. When you don’t want to be there, there’s no worse place in the world you want to be because everything is going to be […]

8 years ago

You want people to know you go but you don’t want them to know that you want them to know. But you do want them to know. Otherwise, why would you go? We all have our reasons. For many lads, improving sporting performance is what drags them from the couch to the bench. For others, […]

8 years ago

There’s a big game taking place in Semple Stadium on Saturday evening. Half of the Premier County will be drawn to the home of hurling for their League semi-final clash with Limerick. The 7.00 throw-in is ideal for most of them. Farmers will have time to get the cows milked. GAA fanatics will be able […]

8 years ago

Is fearr Gaeilge briste na béarla cliste. If you asked a group of GAA people to name two of the best supported teams in the country, chances are that Cuala and Slaughtneil would be mentioned more than once. The vibrant Cuala ultras and the infectious Slaughtneil spirit takes over the stands and spreads onto the […]

8 years ago

What might have been. The funny thing about those who make it to the top of any sport is that quite often they could just as easily have made it to the top of another. In Ireland, there is a GAA club in every parish, there’ll be a rugby club in every town. Young stars […]

8 years ago

The gift that keeps on giving. TG4 have been bossing GAA coverage for years now but it’s only recently that they’re getting the credit. From broadcasting the best of the brilliant Under-21 Championships to local club games all over onto the League clashes that we wouldn’t see anywhere else, Teilifís Na Gaeilge ensures we always […]

8 years ago

And they say the League doesn’t matter. Anyone who tries to tell you that inter-county teams and supporters aren’t taking the League seriously is probably a spoofer. The weekend just past was like a high octane, top drawer Gillette Soccer Saturday. Teams were falling, others were soaring in every corner of the country from Ballybofey […]

8 years ago

There’s nothing more annoying. The whole of Tipperary and many of the wider hurling public bemoaned the red card that was issued to Premier County midfielder Ronan Maher in his side’s clash with Dublin in Croke Park on Sunday. The county’s former midfielder Shane McGrath summed up the general bemusement at the decision. If Ronan […]

8 years ago

Aidan Harte is still having nightmares. Jack O’Connor gave an exhibition on how to nail the toughest skill in hurling in Wexford Park on Saturday afternoon. Plucking a high ball from the air in the midst of a sea of bodies – half of them trying to take the hand off you, the other half […]

8 years ago

What Mayo need is more lads like him. Kevin McLoughlin took most of the plaudits for his 13 steps, his nerveless ping off his weaker right to save Mayo’s bacon and to send Donegal down at the death. We’ve seen this before from him. He’s a leader, he’s done it on countless occasions in the […]

8 years ago

Right when they needed it. It may have effectively been a dead rubber, Dublin won’t be overly concerned by it but don’t let that fool you, that was a big win for Monaghan in Croke Park on Sunday. With his side finishing up in third place in the League and just behind Dublin and Galway, […]

8 years ago

This looks set to be a bumper weekend of GAA action. With two National Hurling League quarter-finals taking place, a host of final round Football clashes and the All-Ireland club finals on the menu, GAA fans will be spoiled for choice on Saturday and Sunday. From Portlaoise to Croke Park all the way up to […]

8 years ago

These bad boys are gone, but they’re never forgotten

8 years ago

Jacob Stockdale has been announced as the Player of the Six Nations. The Ulster winger ripped it up in his remarkable debut campaign. Scorer of seven tries in just five games, he’s now out on his own as the competition’s record try scorer. “I think [Jacob] Stockdale is like a new age Savea. He just […]

8 years ago

The out ball. When the backs are under pressure to clear their lines, when the opposition are in their face, hassling, harrying and hooking and they don’t have the time to look up and pick the perfect pass. Sometimes defenders have no other option but to lump it down the field and hope for the […]

8 years ago

Were you tuned into the club championships this year? The club championships aren’t over that long. These are the clubs that have the bragging rights over the whole county. Some of them enjoyed good provincial runs afterwards while some of them fell at the first hurdle. We give you the county, you tell us who […]

8 years ago

First and foremost, Tipperary is a hurling county. It just goes to show hard it can be to change the general conceptions in sport and in the GAA that the Tipperary footballers still aren’t that well supported from within their own county. If there’s any team that deserve backing from their people, if there’s any […]

8 years ago

And with good reason too. Just imagine the damage this will do the community. Just stop for one second and think about the youngsters, the parents and the players. Let’s just think about Na Fianna GAA Club . The North Dublin club found out on Thursday afternoon that their main pitch along with two of […]

8 years ago

That was the moment that changed everything

8 years ago

The man with all the responsibility. We’re talking about the man who’s been hitting his county’s frees in their League campaign to date. Of course, it hasn’t been the same fella who takes every single free. In the League, players are often rested and rotated. In that case, we took a look at the games […]

8 years ago

Longford are doing alright. When Denis Connerton took over as manager more than three years ago, his main task was to bring stability back to the county. On the back of successive relegations that left them lying low in Division Four, he would have a fair job ahead of him, but fast forward a couple […]

8 years ago

Carlow’s players were delighted, and understandably so. For 33 years they’d been down. That’s a long time especially when the bottom is so bleak. The bleakest part about it all must be the casual throwaway comments by outsiders who don’t actually know what’s going on inside the county and don’t mean any harm but then […]

8 years ago

“It’s like comparing apples with oranges. It’s not the same.” This was always going to happen. From the moment Andy Moran bumped into Maurice Deegan on Sunday in Mayo’s League clash with Tyrone, comparisons were always going to be drawn Diarmuid Connolly’s now infamous altercation with linesman Ciaran Branagan last year. The Dublin forward received […]

8 years ago

Another day and another nail in the coffin. Just put yourself in the shoes of these camógs for a second. A lifelong dream, a far fetched ambition. When they trekked over to their first ever training session all of those years ago with their clubs, that was the start of this journey. With a hurl […]

8 years ago

Credit where it’s due. Limerick hurling is on the rise. Two All-Ireland under-21 Championships in the last three years. Graduates from those winning panels combined with the survivors from the county’s last Munster championship triumph in 2013 is a fair assembly of talent. They’ve a good man at the helm, too. A manager who has […]

8 years ago

A GAA solution to a GAA problem. They dug their own hole and now they’re they’re trying to climb back out of it. Last weekend was a disaster for the GAA. After leaving themselves with absolutely no wiggle room, an icy blast meant that was exactly what would be needed. Everything was up in the […]

8 years ago

But maybe he shouldn’t be a sub at all. Despite it being meant as a compliment, no player wants to be dubbed a super sub. It’s the danger of impacting the game from the bench that you might be labelled as such, but in reality, what other option do players have other than to come […]

8 years ago

Stand up and fight. Defenders will go out to bully forwards out of the game. Corner backs are renowned for it. They’ll be in your shorts, they’ll be pulling and dragging out of you even when the ball is down at the other end of the field. They’ll try to intimidate you. That goes on […]

8 years ago

That’s what these lads are capable of. Every one of the 45 hurlers who took to the Gaelic Grounds on the Bank Holiday Monday should be proud of themselves. Whether they played for 100 minutes or two minutes, each one of them played a part in what was the most thrilling game of hurling we’ve […]

8 years ago

Paddy’s night but GAA players were in bed early. The Sunday of a Bank Holiday weekend and members of club teams and county teams will be tucked in before midnight again. Games, club and county, fell victim to the snow all over the country this Saturday. Another icy blast has seen a portion of National […]

8 years ago

The scenes. The only way to celebrate a Grand Slam triumph, these Irish lads will be celebrating for quite a while. Rugby players are well known for their ability to let their hair down as soon as the opportunity arises and these Irish lads are no different. After claiming a historic Grand Slam title on […]

8 years ago

Meaning the Hurling League semi-finals can’t go ahead next weekend. Another weekend has been lost and the GAA are paying the price for leaving themselves with so little room for error, so little room to wiggle in their grand fixtures plan. In fairness, they can’t be held responsible for the weather, but they dug their […]

8 years ago

In and out again. Less than 20 seconds after being brought on, Waterford’s Maurice Shanahan received a straight red card for an off the ball clash with Cork’s Tim O’Mahoney in the sides’ relegation decider in Páirc Uí Rinn on Sunday. Many have claimed that it is the quickest sending off in GAA history. It […]

8 years ago

Some games survived. Galway showed that it hasn’t been luck, it hasn’t been fortune that has put them at the very top of the Allianz League Division One table. Kevin Walsh’s men have come in for plenty of criticism for their rigid, defensive style but with the League group stages now one game from completion, […]

8 years ago

Today has been a weird day in the GAA. Another icy blast forced every second National League game and a host of club games all over the country into postponements on Sunday morning. Many of them have been rescheduled for the Bank Holiday Monday with GAA players from Cork to Derry unable to socialise on […]

8 years ago

The supporters won’t have a clue who’s who or who’s playing where. Here’s the Dublin team that was named on Friday evening to take on Galway on Sunday. We will have live score updates here from Pearse Stadium, throw-in at 2pm! 👐 #UpTheDubs pic.twitter.com/8B3nazyqt6 — Dublin GAA (@DubGAAOfficial) March 18, 2018 In fairness, at this […]

8 years ago