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Kieran Shannon

Munster must do more than just stand up and fight

Well, is this what they had in mind when they talked about a return to old values?

Tue, 19 Apr, 2016

Finding the real storylines behind the 2016 GAA league season

There’s hardly another GAA weekend like it for stirring so many permutations and palpitations... and exaggerations.

Tue, 05 Apr, 2016

A night on the town can sometimes be the right call for players

When to drink or not to drink, that is the question anyone involved with a team must ask.

Tue, 22 Mar, 2016

GAA have league and championship wrong way around

Watching the national leagues over the weekend, it not only felt a bit like summer – it felt what summer should be a bit more like.

Tue, 15 Mar, 2016

Running on ego dangerous thing for a fighter’s mind

It was a rough weekend for the big name that works out of John Kavanagh’s Straight Blast Gym.

Tue, 08 Mar, 2016

Swim Ireland must learn lesson from Gráinne Murphy debacle

We always thought of her as the future. 

Wed, 02 Mar, 2016

It might be a pain but drug testing enhances the GAA

There can be few things more irksome and irritating as a GAA player than losing a game in Croke Park and then finding you’re one of the players being drug-tested straight after.

Tue, 23 Feb, 2016

Comfort not an option when it comes to winning edge

In sport, you can’t get too comfortable in your surroundings. 

Tue, 16 Feb, 2016

Coaches realising humility can be true path to greatness

“It begins with humility.”

Tue, 09 Feb, 2016

Meath v Armagh - Allianz Football League Division 2 Round 1

Gaelic football badly needs some sleeping giants to roar

Last month before his current charges Fermanagh played his native Down in a Dr McKenna Cup game, Pete McGrath gave a revealing insight into the Down psyche.

Tue, 02 Feb, 2016