GAA Talk

The GAA’s 125 Celebrations will take on a special club focus this weekend when clubs the length and breadth of the country and those overseas celebrate Lá na gClub.
Association President Criostóir Ó Cuana has called on members everywhere to engage with their local clubs next Sunday.
Clubs have been encouraged to celebrate the GAA’s century and [...]

Tipperary may have pushed their greatest rivals, Kilkenny, at the home of hurling on Sunday, but Liam Sheedy has admitted it was tough to see the league title slip away.
However, the Tipperary boss took plenty of positives from the Sunday’s match and they should wipe away any memory of Kilkenny’s 17-point hammering of the [...]

Kilkenny hurling chief Brian Cody says he is unlikely to have any of his walking wounded available for Sunday’s National Hurling League final against Tipperary in Thurles.
Cody’s Cats are looking to regain the league crown that has eluded them for the past two years as they have been scything through all challengers in the [...]

The small Tipperary village of Grangemockler takes centre stage in the GAA’s 125th anniversary celebrations on the weekend of May 16/17.
A weekend of events is being organised by Grangemockler, the home club of Michael Hogan who was buried in the village following the events of Bloody Sunday 1920.
The celebrations start with a commemorative mass [...]

Always the master of understatement and as cute as fox, Brian Cody has dismissed suggestions that his Kilkenny side has brought hurling to a new level.
Speaking at an Allianz press conference in Dublin on Wednesday, Cody, the six-time All-Ireland-winning manager, repeatedly refuted the notion that his current crop of players has raised the “bar” to [...]

Tyrone sharpshooter Stephen O’Neill is desperately hoping to be fit in time for his side’s Ulster opener.
The All-Ireland champions take on provincial crown holders Armagh in five weeks’ time in an eagerly-anticipated clash and O’Neill, who made a late cameo for the Red Hand last season after being away from the panel for much [...]

Tipperary have suffered a massive blow with the news that brothers Eoin and Paul Kelly will play no part for them in Sunday’s NHL Division One final with Kilkenny.
Brilliant forward Eoin has not featured at all in the Premier County’s league campaign to date with a long-standing back problem keeping him sidelined.
He had been [...]

That legend that is handball ace , Paul Brady, has not surprisingly secured his place on the team which will represent Ireland at the World Handball Championships in Portland, Oregon next October. The Cavanman will also be in action in the Irish Open Doubles trials this weekend.
Brady pairs up with long-time partner, Michael Finnegan but [...]

It’s a brave  manager that would leave a player of the calibre of Eamon O’Hara on the bench for a National League final, but Sligo boss Kevin Walsh has opted to do exactly that by keeping former All-Star in reserve for Saturday evening’s NFL Division Four final against Antrim at Pearse Park in Longford.
To [...]

The GAA are certainly going all out to celebrate their one and a quarter centuries of existence. Some weeks ago we had the incredible fireworks display at the start of the league campaign at Croke Park. No harm in that, but one must ask the question about the cost of all this and the possibility [...]