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S Paul Rouse: Don't think game manipulation for gambling couldn't happen here
The GAA at national and local level is a lucrative opening for betting companies. Those laying bets will be attempting to fuse local knowledge, blind faith, traditional beliefs and more into a decision-making process that is fraught with risk

Thu, 30 Oct, 2025

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S Paul Rouse: How National Hunt became part of Irish identity 
Horse racing was understood to be Ireland’s national sport before the establishment of the GAA in the late 19th century.

Thu, 23 Oct, 2025

Cape Verde v Eswatini - FIFA World Cup 2026 African Qualifier
S Paul Rouse: Cape Verde emotion underlines Ireland's need for an identity 
There is the sense of a wider national apathy. The days when the national team playing a World Cup qualifying match would have dominated all sporting discourse in the country are now long gone.

Fri, 17 Oct, 2025

Manchán Magan 16/3/2025
S Paul Rouse: There was nobody in this world like Manchán Magan 
Manchán himself has pointed out that he had no real interest in sport, but the way that TG4 presented Gaelic games from the late 1990s offered an entirely new dimension to Irish life.

Fri, 10 Oct, 2025

Patrick Horgan celebrates scoring his sides second goal 25/5/2025
S Paul Rouse: When it comes down to it, there is nothing that beats playing
The only advice to be offered is to play as long as you can. Then play longer. And if you’ve stopped, go back and begin again.

Fri, 26 Sep, 2025

Dublin v Armagh - GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Round 2
S Paul Rouse: GAA must do more to stand against cowards who claim the tricolour for exclusion
The Association's capacity to bind communities together is vital in a changing Ireland.

Fri, 19 Sep, 2025

Paul Rouse: Croke Park rodeos and hurling on Boston Common — our deep sporting links with America
S Paul Rouse: Croke Park rodeos and hurling on Boston Common — our deep sporting links with America
A new exhibition at Croke Park will sketch out the countries' intertwined story

Fri, 12 Sep, 2025

Around The Games - Olympic Games Paris 2024: Day 15
S Paul Rouse: Sport is making the entire globe our hometown
Everything to do with this process of globalising sport has accelerated.

Fri, 05 Sep, 2025

Bayern Muenchen v Borussia Moenchengladbach For DFL
S Paul Rouse: Tale of football's working-class heroes a record of a different ball game
Gary Imlach’s book My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes documents a time before a Transfer Deadline yellow ticker.

Fri, 29 Aug, 2025

Kerry v Cork - Senior
S Paul Rouse: Sweet times when I was paid to be wrong about GAA
We're in predictions season again. And, as per usual, all of us are guessing.

Fri, 22 Aug, 2025

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