Football Championship

Kildare veteran Kevin Feely still holding out hope for a breakthrough in Leinster

At 33, the former professional footballer continues to be the engine of the Kildare midfield

Armagh make their bench boost count: What we learned from the GAA weekend

Cork hurling have a custody battle on their hands; Wicklow demonstrate their bouncebackability

Just when you least expect it, Leitrim do something extraordinary

Offaly inspire Gaelic games wholesome fact of the week

Roscommon net five first-half goals in comfortable New York win

Daire Cregg red card does little to slow Roscommon’s challenge

Kieran McGeeney welcomes hard-fought Armagh win over battling Tyrone

Malachy O’Rourke says his team proved their spirit and quality

Conor Turbitt point the difference as 14-man Armagh require extra-time to dispatch Tyrone

Ben McDonnell goal forces Ulster opener to extra-time at the Athletic Grounds

Wicklow reign supreme over washed-out Carlow

Oisín McConville’s side set up enticing duel with Dublin

Leitrim hang on for first over Sligo in 15 years

Hosts leave comeback too late as Leitrim advance to meet Galway

Cork progress against Limerick but plenty of wrinkles need ironing out

Strange Munster SFC game saw home team lose its way in second half and both sides play better against the wind

Five-goal Westmeath overpower Longford to reach Leinster quarter-final

Mark McHugh’s side to face Meath in Leinster Championship last eight

Tipperary come from behind against Waterford to set up Munster semi-final with Cork

Michael O’Brien nets for the Déise in Fraher Field defeat

‘There was a hatred ... and respect’: Tyrone’s dip defuses rivalry with Armagh - for now

For years Tyrone and Armagh brought the best and the worst out of each other; now it seems all too one-sided

Kevin McStay: ‘Football can never be allowed to decline into such a state again’

McStay set to head new Gaelic football expert advisory group following Jim Gavin’s Football Review Committee

Laois to face Kildare in Leinster quarter-final after impressive win over Offaly

Laois go on green-flag run in Tullamore

Mayo cruise to victory over London in Connacht quarter-final

Impressive display of shooting by Mayo as they tallied up scores from two-point range

All-Ireland SFC power rankings: Where is your county in the pecking order?

Heading into first weekend of championship, Donegal are in great shape, Kerry are still king. Here is how all sides are looking

Gaelic games previews: Offaly look to kick-start season, Tyrone aim to rise to Armagh

Galway women take on Cork in search of their county’s first Division One league title

Malachy Clerkin: It’s clear Gaelic football rules aren’t quite right yet – but throw it in, ref

Any other tweaks and nips and tucks to football rules will have to wait until after the championship

‘It changed the mentality’: when Laois won the league, only to fall in the Battle of Aughrim

Being crowned NFL Division One champions 40 years ago was ‘something special’, recalls former manager Kieran Brennan

Leinster Football Championship needed a shake-up, Louth provided the blueprint

After Dublin’s provincial run ended last season, more counties are daring to dream

Tyrone and Armagh know victory in heavyweight tie will only bring them to the start line

Ulster is a notoriously tricky province to negotiate without the added difficulty of a preliminary-round match

Kevin Quinn longing for some good old days in Wicklow football

A nephew of Wicklow All-Star Kevin O’Brien, Quinn fondly recalls the Mick O’Dwyer era in the Garden County

GAA: RTÉ to televise 35 live championship games this season

Championship coverage to begin with Armagh v Tyrone in the Ulster championship

New York GAA’s future in the championship at risk amid rising costs and visa issues

There is a significant drop-off of players coming from Ireland, manager Ronan McGinley says

‘Not something that’s driving me to play on’: Aidan O’Shea on 18 unbroken seasons with Mayo

Stalwart forward hails fresh approach and energy of manager Andy Moran

Seán Moran: Unlike the All-Ireland, league wins are always contextualised

Donegal’s gratifying takedown of Kerry shows they are on the right track but it won’t define their season

Sam Mulroy: ‘Someone ending that cycle of Dublin winning Leinster was so, so important’

Louth are being held up as the team that have inspired everyone in this year’s championship to dream big

Donegal’s dominance from restarts leaves Kerry with an overwhelming problem

Meath did a similar number on Cork in the Division Two final, underlining a renewed focus on the strategy

From North Macedonia to Munster, it doesn’t pay for teams to be hopeless for long

More and more sports bodies realise the value of keeping teams in the running for glory for as long as possible

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Once again, league has become the football season’s focal point

High-voltage league conclusions have been charging up since the turn of the century

Roscommon weather the storm, while Dublin deal with Con job: What we learned from the weekend’s GAA

Tipperary continue their player churn; Kildare continue their slide

Donegal’s Ulster championship match against Down to be played in Letterkenny

County Board confirm upgrade works will not be completed in time

Derry light up the league while Cork hurlers consider change in goal: What we learned from the weekend’s GAA

Armagh’s lack of depth costing them; Attacking returns for Dublin

GAA Congress: Motion to extend intercounty season to August withdrawn

A motion to discontinue All-Ireland preliminary hurling quarter-finals was successful

Malachy Clerkin: The GAA’s split season is a success – so why are we still debating it?

It’s okay for those of us who said the GAA were mad to move the All-Ireland finals from September to admit we were wrong

Motion to restore All-Ireland minor deciders as senior finals curtain raisers to go to GAA congress

Push for football final to be in second week of August also among motions at meeting

Galway left Tralee with more than just a draw: Five things we learned from the weekend’s league action

Kieran McGeeney bemoans kickout ‘piggery’, while Meath and Cork impress

Poor structures, underage failures and ageing stars: Why has the Dublin conveyor belt stopped?

Ger Brennan may well cut All-Ireland winners from his panel but there’s no evidence that the young guns exist to replace them

Donegal v Kerry was everything good about the league: Five things we learned from the weekend’s GAA

Louth and Cork football teams are going in contrasting directions

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