GAA Talk

Isn’t it great!  Summer has come and the shadow boxing that was the football and hurling leagues and subsidary competitions during the winter and spring gives way to the real thing!  It’s that time of year again: dust the flags and the bunting down, the 2009 championship is underway!
First up is the Connacht Senior Football [...]

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 [...]

Kilkenny’s Richie Power and Kerry’s Tommy Walsh have been named the recipients of the Vodafone GAA Player of the Month award for April 2009
Power took the hurlers’ award after helping the Cats to the final of Division One of the National Hurling League, in which they were crowned champions on Sunday. The Carrickshock ace [...]

Colm O’Driscoll
The entire Cork team should go out and buy lotto tickets after this result bestowed utter heartbreak and robbed  Down of a title they seemed to have in the bag.  Cork were one-point winners of the Cadbury’s All-Ireland U21 football final over a gallant Down side at O’Moore Park, Portlaoise on Monday 4th [...]

After a disastrous National Footaball League camapaign in which they never won a game, Westmeath’s hopes of making an impact in the Championship have been given a boost with the news that Damien Healy has returned from Australia.
In a further boost to manager Tomas O’Flatharta, inspirational midfielder Martin Flanagan has returned to training after recovering [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Cork underlined their status as the biggest potential threat to Kerry and Tyrone’s All-Ireland dominance by claiming the Allianz NFL Division Two title with a comfortable five-point win over Monaghan at Croke Park on Sunday April 26th 2009
A powerful first-half display, which gave the Rebels a six-point lead at the interval, meant Monaghan were left [...]

Normal service is resumed, one might say, in the National Football League as Kerry claimed their third Allianz National League title – a record 19th in total - under boss Jack O’Connor with a three-point win over Derry in the Division One final at Croke Park on Sunday last April 26th 2009 in front of [...]

2008/9 has been a great period for Tipperary football and Sean Carey sealed it competely as the matchwinning hero as his point in the 90th minute gave Tipperary the NFL Division 3 title after a pulsating decider in Pearse Park in Longford on Saturday evening last 25th April.
The sides were level on eleven occasions [...]