BEFORE I talk about anything this weekend, it’s only right of me to heap praise on the best broadcasting station out there. I am of course talking about TG4 and I don’t think too many will argue with me after seeing their production last weekend. I could of course be accused of being biased given the […]
JOE BROLLY: A Saturday in Castlebar
March 9, 2025
ON Saturday I got a lift to the Mayo game with a lad from Ballina. As we got close to MacHale park, two hours early, there were parking spaces everywhere. “There’s one,” I said. He drove past it. “There’s another one.” He drove past it. “I don’t know how to reverse Joe,” he said. “How did […]
FEATURE: The kings from play
November 15, 2024
Former Gaelic Lifer John Hughes, proprietor of @TheNumbersGael, has looked at football’s top scorers from play from 10 onwards SCORES from play are some of the most valuable currency in Gaelic football and John Hughes, proprietor of X account @TheNumbersGael, has crunched the data to look at the players who lead that chart from 2010 […]
JOE BROLLY: More boring than baseball
September 29, 2024
A MODERN coach/manager has finally broken ranks to say what we are all thinking. This week, Professor Niall Moyna, a state of the art expert who has managed DCU to four Sigerson Cups, was a selector and advisor to the St Vincent’s All-Ireland winning club team of 2008 and an integral part of Pat Gilroy’s […]
GAA greats come together for golf day in memory of Paul McGirr
September 23, 2024
By Shaun Casey THE Spirit of Paul McGirr foundation is bringing together some of the biggest names in GAA to help raise much-needed funds for their tireless charity work in a golf classic hosted at the Lough Erne resort on Friday, September 27. Former Tyrone and Dromore footballer Sean O’Neill, a managing director at MFC, a […]
Kingdom challenge a step too far for Armagh
July 12, 2024
By Niall McCoy HAVING so obviously been weighed down with emotional baggage in their All-Ireland quarter-final win over Roscommon, Armagh’s load should be so much lighter when they come up against Kerry in Saturday’s All-Ireland semi-final at Croke Park. The Orchard County were far from impressive in their 2-12 to 0-12 win over the Rossies, […]
DECLAN McCOY: Wishing away the seasons
June 17, 2024
I WAS struck by an interview David Clifford gave recently where he essentially said you can’t wish away the season just to wait for an All-Ireland final. ‘If you do start looking too far down the line, you’re not living in the present at all. You’re kind of wishing the time away. Even the time […]
McEneaney expects Monaghan to “come out fighting”
May 30, 2024
By Shaun Casey FOLLOWING a ten-point drubbing at the hands of Kerry in the opening round of the All-Ireland series, former Monaghan player and manager Eamonn McEneaney expects the Farney County to “come out fighting” against Louth this weekend. McEneaney knows better than most how the build up to this one will go, having managed […]
Breffni breakthrough: A look back at Cavan’s u-21 dominance
March 21, 2024
It’s a decade since Cavan completed their four-in-a-row of Ulster u-21 titles. Jack Brady looks back on how it impacted the county’s fortunes. Michael McMullan writes… MICKEY Graham, Dermot McCabe, Peter, Larry and Jason Reilly came within a late rally of the 1996 All-Ireland u-21 title. Graham’s goal levelled matters in Tom Semple’s field before […]
JOE BROLLY: The story of David and Adam
November 26, 2023
DAVID Clifford. Scored 12 points in the Kerry intermediate final last weekend then missed the vital one at the end to force penalties. It’s all very well scoring the unimportant ones. What a loser. Used to be you could drive two miles to see a game of football. Nowadays, you have to drive 300 (to […]