Armagh v Galway: Cold, hard, unforgiving logic points to Sam going west
IT is a rare All-Ireland Sunday when football’s two royal powers are confined to their own quarters.
Bench press, Higgins curveball, Armagh Glee and Joyce’s Ulster dominance: The possible tales of the All-Ireland final
Since taking over as Galway manager five years ago, Pádraic Joyce has come up against Ulster opposition 21 times. Galway have won 16 and drawn two of those. Their only championship defeat to northern opposition was last year’s group stage loss to Armagh, a first ever win for the Orchard over Galway in championship.
The north stars of Armagh: Lurgan and Portadown striving for better futures through football
BRIAN Seeley lives in the first of a trio of modest red brick dwellings side-by-side in the labyrinth of Lurgan’s Taghnevan estate.
Cahair O’Kane: The circle of life never feels closer to completion than at 3.29pm on All-Ireland Sunday
LIKE a champion boxer on the shoulders of his corner-men, Ethan Rafferty bellowed on the streets of Castletownkenneigh in county Cork: “One down, one to go.”
Sunday has been a decade in the making but under Jim McGuinness, sharp-shooting Donegal have their best chance to go one step further
All-Ireland SFC semi-final: Donegal v Galway (Sunday, 4pm, Croke Park, live on RTÉ2 & BBC2 NI)
Update on the search for Mickey Harte’s successor in Derry
The cut-off date of July 25 for nominations indicates there will be no major developments for at least the next two weeks.
Fr Ted’s hammer is back working at the Championship
It’s hard to believe that of all the potential solutions, the CCCC have recommended that counties seriously consider Option Two. It would bring you to mind of Logan Roy in Succession telling his children: “I love you, but you are not serious people.”
‘Down system’ and provincial winners bypassing the round-robin favoured options as CCCC ask counties for feedback on All-Ireland SFC restructure
COUNTIES have been asked to focus on either a system that mimics the Down club championship or one that sees provincial champions bypass the round robin stage amid debate over the latest proposed restructure of the All-Ireland SFC.
Cahair O’Kane: In the absence of anything else, negativity is inevitable
If there was ever a thesis done on Kieran McGeeney, the majority of its conclusions would be drawn from the 24-second clip just before Armagh went to war with Kerry twenty-two years ago.
Mickey Harte steps down as Derry manager
MICKEY Harte and Derry have parted ways after just one season.
Darragh Fitz the bill: Fitzgibbon leads the way for rousing Rebels
Cork player ratings from their remarkable All-Ireland SHC semi-final win over Limerick.
Raging red seas of Cork end Limerick’s drive for five
To the beat of Freed from Desire the Hill bounces, their mind and senses their purified by two sensation hours of sport, the long-lost sea of red is returned to an All-Ireland final.
Kinnerk’s influence gives Limerick the look of the original five-in-a-row winners
THERE were 22 minutes gone in the 2021 Munster semi-final when Peter Casey hauled Conor Cahalane to ground as he bore down on goal.
Lavey goalkeeper Jack Scullion earns scholarship with top American Football college
Lavey and former Derry U20 goalkeeper Jack Scullion is the latest GAA recruit to American Football after he signed as a kicker for college outfit Rutgers in New Jersey.
Players want split season to stay and no extension of inter-county season: Parsons
GPA Chief Executive Tom Parsons says that “expanding the season with increased playing demands is not a solution” as he revealed that 85 per cent of players continue to support the split season.