GAA

Gaelic Athletic Association

Hurling championship: Who is currently leading the pack? Nicky English gives his verdict

Cork’s forward firepower can see off Déise as Leinster prepares for moving day

Monaghan v Derry had one of the most unbelievable finishes to a game you’ll ever see

Kerry face stiff test in Munster as Galway ready to rise to Connacht challenge

A 25-year trend has increasingly marginalised the provinces. Time to recognise reality

New All-Ireland football format is the latest to undermine the provincial championships

Limerick’s intensity and execution underline gap as Clare struggle to cope with pressure

For the Banner, the issue now is how they respond to issues that Limerick exposed in Ennis

Women in sport deserve more and better coverage

Plenty of events, such as Champions League semi-final, merit reporting in newspaper

All-Ireland football championship draw: Kerry play Donegal in first round, Dublin and Louth to meet again

Eight opening round fixtures to be played on last two weekends of May

Dublin out to reclaim Leinster throne: Five things we learned from the GAA weekend

Louth pulled from their provincial thrown, clinical Limerick leave Clare in tatters

If you think hurling referees are influenced by the scoreboard, you are right

A superb study on ‘compensatory bias’ produced some fascinating results

Limerick’s noise, Clare’s silence and a hurling statement made in Ennis

Brian Lohan’s men left chasing shadows as a reshaped Limerick deliver a commanding statement

Conor McManus: Following up on a big surprise is a different challenge for resourceful Down

Conor Laverty’s team will find Armagh pose a more varied threat than Donegal last week

Eimear Hurley sets sights on St Finbarr’s glory again after Cuala detour

‘I spent eight weekends in a row going up and down the road, which just took a lot out of me’

Waterford’s rising intensity cancelled out Tipperary’s clinical shooting display

The Déise need to learn that possession alone is not enough - it is what you do with it that defines outcomes

Should planning rules for one-off housing be relaxed? Opinions for and against

Liberalisation of the planning guidelines is necessary to support rural communities, proponents argue, but opponents point to environmental impacts and increased pressure on services

Too many head-high tackles were left unpunished in Páirc Uí Chaoimh: What we learned from the GAA weekend

Roscommon show strength in depth; the great Stephen Bennett; teams face Tailteann Cup wait; TJ Reid breaks record

Conor McManus: Armagh’s ferocity and Donegal’s depth shape the Ulster championship picture

A bad beating in the league final would have been a real setback for Donegal but Kerry can use it as a reset

Michael Jackson was breathtaking at Páirc Uí Chaoimh. But what was the 10-year-old doing at his hotel?

While the king of pop – the subject of a new biopic – was thrilling audiences in Cork in 1988, concerned reporters were offering to help James Safechuck escape

Cork showed against Tipperary that they have made progress but the next step is more complex

Ben O’Connor has changed his side’s style since the All-Ireland final implosion, but control gives you a foothold in games - variation wins them

Ex-rugby international Kathryn Dane: ‘I got exposed to concussions from a pretty young age’

Benefits of the game ‘far outweigh the risk of concussion in my mind, especially the social benefits of playing a sport like rugby’

Dublin’s slide back into the Leinster football pack continues: What we learned from the GAA weekend

Goal-shy Cork could struggle to beat Limerick on points; Galway’s novel tactical approach adds intrigue

Kobe McDonald is a reminder that GAA people are every bit as selfish as pro sports fans

Pressuring intercounty players to devote themselves to club and county is just as tawdry as the AFL picking them off for profit

Seán Moran: Despite renewed signs of life, are the provincial championships on borrowed time?

All-Ireland winners do not need them and they create structural anomalies

Man who assaulted umpire at underage GAA match given suspended sentence

Michael Kelly (41) came at victim with his arms swinging after his son got into verbal disagreement with umpire, court hears

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

Cork won’t mourn a league title lost when championship beckons: What we learned from the GAA weekend

Munster shows its might, gambling on cards, Shane O’Donnell looking sharp

Donegal’s Michael Murphy should have seen red: What we learned from the GAA weekend

Kerry prefer their losses inconsequential, two-pointers win games, and Carlow come alive

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

My friend Michael Lyster met life on his own terms

Michael met life on his own terms, often swept up in the lightness of story telling without taking himself seriously

Over the last 100 years, the national leagues have innovated and entertained

From chaotic beginnings, the leagues are now the GAA’s best contested inter-county competitions

‘A stupid split-second decision’: Apology offered to umpire assaulted during minor hurling match

Concussion and other injuries sustained by official were not caused by Michael Kelly (41)

‘Magic in human form’: Michael Lyster funeral hears of a devoted family man

Former presenter of RTÉ’s The Sunday Game remembered as ‘one of the great broadcasters and one of the great people’

Seán Moran: GAA embraces new age of streaming as ‘biggest step change’ in match coverage

GAA+ has transformed viewing possibilities in little over an at-times-turbulent decade

Michael Lyster had the skill and talent to make his job look effortless

Unflappable approach and breezy nature were key to his astounding longevity as the face of The Sunday Game

Early-season intent a warning of what is yet to come from Kerry and other things we learned from the GAA weekend

Seán O’Shea and David Clifford raring to go, Ger Brennan looks on the bright side of relegation

With more ups and downs than a trampoline park, there’s nothing like the last day of the league

Longford and Wexford are promoted with the last kicks of their campaigns, Dublin are relegated with theirs

Weekend’s football league fixtures, permutations, throw-in times and TV details, including Armagh v Kerry

Division 1 final likely to see All-Ireland rematch between Donegal and Kerry

Ciarán Murphy: Merging Gaelic games associations is inevitable, so just get on with it

When Sweden switched from driving on the left to driving on the right, the sky didn’t fall, so we can ignore the doomsayers

GAA scoremongering: football is going the way of hurling

Teams are finding ways to score ever more goals and two-pointers

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

National leagues: Roscommon end Donegal’s unbeaten run; Galway defeat Monaghan – as it happened

Tipperary beat Waterford in refixed Division 1A clash

‘She just snapped out of it’: How recordings of Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh are helping dementia patients

The Replay archive makes his All-Ireland senior finals commentary from 1985 to 2010 available online

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