Liam Cahill admitted it had been a “dark day for Tipperary hurling” after a shocking 18-point defeat to Cork ended the Premier county’s competitive interest in this year’s championship at the earliest possible juncture.
A “gutted” Davy Fitzgerald was left bemoaning several critical decisions by the match officials after his Waterford hurlers were pipped by a last-gasp Clare ‘65’ in Ennis.
There’s no point worrying about permutations. Sometimes it’s very simple: the four Munster teams hurling today all need to win.
TAILTEANN CUP
For generations of Cork hurling men and women, the seat of national power seemed less an ambition than a sovereign right, a Rebel privilege assigned from the heavens.
I’ve said it before and I will say it again: we in the GAA world are our own worst enemies.
They're used to it by now, sadly too used to it.
It feels irrational, unconscionable, an act of almost lunatic self-sabotage, as unthinkable as the curators of the Louvre facing the Mona Lisa to the wall, rendering her enigmatic and haunting smile invisible to the public.
The provincial football championships are a punch bag for every critic. Let’s look at what actually happened last Sunday.
Darragh Foley has had more Good Friday than Easter Sunday football experiences in his 15 seasons with Carlow.
Hurling Man is having a meltdown.
Limerick hurling star Cian Lynch is expecting twins with his girlfriend Dayna Slattery.
A natural-born winner, Galway manager Pádraic Joyce surely cringes when reminded of his managerial record against their most bitter rivals, Mayo.
I’m going for Mayo and Kerry to get the business done today, with every likelihood that Clare could be on the receiving end of a sobering double-digit defeat at the hands of the Kingdom.
At the halfway stage of the Munster and Leinster round robins, the hurling landscape remains the same. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Meath star Emma Duggan may not quite be at Taylor Swift levels of celebrity.
The GAA has announced the return of Kellogg’s GAA Cúl Camps for this summer which will run from late June through to the end of August.
There is an extensive catalogue of catastrophic boardroom decisions in Irish sport stretching back to the foundation of the state.
The seedings for the Sam Maguire and Tailteann Cup competitions, ahead of Tuesday's draw, have been finalised after the completion of the Ulster and Leinster Football Semi-Finals this weekend.
John Kiely has expressed “devastation” for Peter Casey after the Limerick hurler was stretchered off with a serious ankle injury that has almost certainly ended his season.
Fifty-one days after Jim McGuinness’s second coming as Donegal manager was confirmed, the draw for the 2024 Ulster championship took place.
In 1985, after 99 years in business, Coca-Cola, the world’s most iconic drinks brand, decided to change its secret formula for making the beverage.
Skorts may be one of the hottest fashion trends for the season ahead.
Davy Fitzgerald paid little heed to the doom and gloom around Waterford in the build-up to this year's Munster SHC as his Déise side blocked out the outside noise before delivering a powerful victory against Cork.
Limerick’s supreme power, when lifted by John Kiely to their brilliant summer shine, has been a capacity to excommunicate their rivals from the church of hope.
Today, Limerick hurlers set out to become the first team in the 137-year history of the All-Ireland hurling championship to win five All-Ireland titles on the spin.
Donegal blew open the race for the Ulster championship at Celtic Park after they sensationally dumped newly crowned Division 1 League champions Derry out of the race, ending the home side’s dream of securing a hat-trick of Anglo Celt Cup wins for …
The famous line ‘if you build it, he will come’ from Kevin Costner’s Field of Dreams movie springs to mind as we anticipate this weekend’s first full houses in Championship 2024.
Lee Chin shines like a beacon on the pitch every time he togs out for the Wexford hurlers, but he stands for so much more outside the white lines.
It would be the rhetorical equivalent of one of those high-summer David Clifford or Con O’Callaghan or Aaron Gillane detonations of genius that bring a glow of wonder to Croke Park.
A hot day. A big crowd. The tar melting on the road. The mountains visible over the stand. The smell of chips and burgers. The kids with ice cream. The green and gold and red and …
One sports story captured the imagination of Ireland in the summer of 1990. And it wasn’t the All-Ireland football championship.
Like any great house reduced to a husk of its former self, a tottering listed building in need of urgent renovation, the inclination is to remember the rivalry between Dublin and Meath – broiling, volcanic, savage, elemental and electrifying – in …
Dublin v Meath Croke Park, 4:30pm
KERRY’S Ladies GAA football team has signed a major partnership deal with a leading provider of supplements.
Clare finally enjoyed an overdue change of fortune in last weekend’s Allianz League Division 1 final holding out against an archetypal Kilkenny rally to secure their first title since 2016.
Mickey Harte is the GAA’s Man for All Seasons.
Last Sunday I settled down in front of the television to watch the double bill of Allianz League finals. Just for good measure I had my iPad open to keep an eye on the two big Premier League games. I was in seventh heaven.
A goalkeeper who once tried to dupe his family into paying a fake £10,000 ransom demand is back in prison.
Pat Spillane and Darragh Rooney share a house in the south Dublin suburb of Clonskeagh. They’re buddies with a mutual love of Gaelic football. They are also rivals and today their respective teams, Sligo and Leitrim, clash in the Connacht …
A is for Antrim – Ireland’s second most populated county (651,322) last won the Anglo-Celt trophy in 1951 and last appeared in an UIster final in 2009. The legacy of the conflict haunts them.
The GAA has defended its decision to report Supermac’s to Meta over an April Fool’s post, saying “the use of any registered trademark is not permitted, in jest or otherwise”.
Next Saturday’s league final pitches two teams together who are ravenous for some national silverware. Four-in-a-row Leinster champions Kilkenny will contest their fourth straight national final and, while they’ve lost the previous three to …
New NFL recruit Charlie Smyth has admitted winning a contract with the New Orleans Saints feels "surreal".
There is scarcely time to draw breath in this helter-skelter speed dating GAA season.
The 2024 Allianz League produced a multitude of talking points. But the question I was asked most often was, ‘What of Kerry?’
IF his job-spec does not require a Patrick Mahomes-like golden arm, still there is burgeoning evidence that Brian Howard’s role in unleashing the best of Dublin would win the regal Kansas City quarterback’s approval.
Croke Park, 4.0 Live on TG4
When Waterford camogie star Niamh Rockett underwent knee surgery, it threatened to derail a sporting career that she had spent her whole life working towards. She was told she could wind up in a wheelchair by the age of 30 if she kept playing …