Offaly GAA

Five things we learned from the GAA weekend: Nothing beats being there

Football format needs a rethink; Offaly on the march; Road trips prove successful; Waterford out despite second win

Sunday GAA Championship - live updates: as they happened

Follow along for live commentary with seven matches scheduled between the All-Ireland Championship and Tailteann Cup

Offaly claim Under-20 hurling All-Ireland on intoxicating night

Adam Screeney key to six-point win over Tipperary at packed Nowlan Park

Faithful supporters enthralled as Offaly’s young guns capture new imaginations

A talented new generation of Offaly hurlers are back contesting All-Ireland finals and sparking hopes of a return to senior glory in the coming years

Offaly bandwagon rolls on in quest for sustainable hurling success

The Faithful beat Dublin on Wednesday to secure the Leinster U20 championship crown to set up All-Ireland title decider

Leinster U20 hurling final: Adam Screeney excels as Offaly claim back-to-back titles

Big crowd in Portlaoise sees Offaly set up All-Ireland final against either Cork or Tipperary

Tailteann Cup wrap: London beat Offaly to record first championship win in 11 years

Donegal native Ciaran Diver finishes with 1-5 for the exiles in their 14-point hammering of Offaly in Tullamore

Dublin boss Dessie Farrell says 2023 level ‘will not be good enough this year’

Defending All-Ireland champions have 20 points to spare on Offaly in Leinster semi-final

Gaelic football previews: Donegal aiming to build on win over Derry

Jim McGuinness’s Donegal side defend unbeaten record this season as they lock horns against old rivals Tyrone

No split loyalties for Ciarán Kilkenny as he targets Faithful scalp

Dublin veteran Ciarán Kilkenny has Offaly connections but has never experienced championship action against the county until now

‘I’ve been very lucky’: Babs Keating on barefooted feats, surviving cancer and why hurling counties should quit Croke Park

The GAA great, who turns 80 next week, reflects on his joys and mistakes, and shows why he remains a force of nature

Offaly beat Laois in Portlaoise for first time since 1978 in Leinster Championship

Offaly’s cause helped significantly by 20th-minute red card for Laois corner back James Kelly

Old gang is back for Dublin as Meath face daunting task

Laois, Down, Kildare, Louth and Armagh should progress in respective competitions

All-Ireland football championship 2024: How the teams rank from 33 to 1 after the league campaign

Who ranks as the main All-Ireland contender heading into the first weekend of championship action?

Division Three round-up: Westmeath need to pick themselves up for final

Dessie Dolan’s side lacked spark in defeat to Sligo while Antrim send Wicklow down to Division Four

Cork turn on the style to hammer Offaly in five-goal display

Alan Connolly fires a hat-trick for Cork as defeat consigns Offaly to Division 1B next year

Division Three round-up: Offaly ease relegation concerns as they beat Wicklow

Wicklow are now pointless from five games and look set for relegation

Kilkenny’s third-quarter barrage turns the tables on Offaly at Nowlan Park

Cats outscore Offaly by nine points during crucial phase after trailing by six points at the break

NFL Division Three round-up: Westmeath stay in race with scrappy win over Limerick

Liam Kerr scores two goals as Ulster Down continue fine league campaign by seeing off Offaly in Newry

Division Three wrap: Pat Havern leads the way with six points as Down overpower Antrim

Offaly miss a late penalty as they fall to Clare; Westmeath work past Wicklow to maintain 100 per cent start to the league

Offaly’s Adam Screeney swimming against the tide of hurling’s modern power game

Will the gifted if slightly-built young Offaly hurler Adam Screeney be able to cope with the unprecedented physical demands of the modern game at senior level?

Signs of hopeful green shoots manifest in Offaly hurling

Cork continue to find it difficult to master their traditional old hurling rivals Kilkenny

Séamus Casey’s late point earns 13-man Wexford a dramatic draw with Offaly

Offaly had edged themselves into a two-point lead as the game moved into additional time

Clinical Waterford prove too strong for Offaly in Tullamore

David Fitzgerald’s side get off to fine start with 12-point win and three goals

NHL Division 1A: Counties’ priority will be a top three finish to guarantee elite status next year

NHL Division 1A: Cork hurlers will want to kick on from 2023 whereas Waterford and Wexford will want to forget it

NFL Division Three: A fine line between playing in the All-Ireland SFC or the Tailteann Cup

League promotion remains flashing target for Down while Wicklow look to maintain Division Three status

Five sports stars to watch in 2024

A big year beckons in 2024 for promising young Irish sporting stars Jake O’Brien, Lauren Walsh, Nick Griggs, Adam Screeney and Nikki Wall

Ciarán Murphy: The great Johnny Flaherty earned a permanent place in the nightmares of Galway people

Flaherty was the key man in the two most groundbreaking days in Offaly’s history

Offaly and Kinnitty hurling great Johnny Flaherty dies

Flaherty scored one of the most treasured goals in hurling history as Offaly beat Galway in 1981 to win a first All-Ireland

O’Loughlin Gaels hold firm as Kilcormac-Killoughey leave themselves with too much ground to cover

Second half was vigorously contested by Offaly opponents Kilcormac-Killoughey

Tullamore player receives 24-week suspension for referee push

Another Tullamore club member receives 12-week suspension for attempted trip on linesmen

Kilcormac switch on summer hurling to overwhelm Naomh Éanna

Two goals in a minute help Offaly champions Kilcormac-Killoughey defeat Wexford's Naomh Éanna to advance in the Leinster club hurling championship

Tullamore player and official face proposed 96 and 48-week bans

Ulster Council await report after referee and linesman assaulted in provincial club junior football quarter-final

GAA awaiting referee Barry Tiernan’s incident report after Leinster club SFC clash

Game between Tullamore and Summerhill marred by supporter coming on to field and pushing official to the ground

Referee assaulted after Tullamore’s defeat in Leinster club championship

On a big day for county finals, there were also wins for Kilmacud and Naas in football and Clonlara in the Clare hurling final

Summerhill’s success overshadowed by shove on referee

Crossmaglen Rangers fight back to claim another Armagh title, while Coolera-Strandhill deny St Molaise Gaels in Sligo

Shane Lowry’s Ryder Cup experience allows him a taste of the team sports he grew up with

Lowry’s commitment to team golf is taken as a fait accompli because this son of Offaly grew up playing team sport

Tullamore claim 29th Offaly senior football title following victory over Ferbane

Meath senior football final between Ratoath and Summerhill will be a repeat of last year’s final

Martin Murphy steps down as Offaly senior football manager

Former All-Ireland Under-20 winning manager Declan Kelly is seen as a leading contender

Tipperary hit championship record points total as they ruthlessly outclass Offaly

Munster side qualify for All-Ireland quarter-final as Offaly have no match for their pace and skill

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