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Paul Rouse

Dublin v Meath - Leinster GAA Football Senior Championship Final

Paul Rouse: Be it Croke Park or Camp Nou, home advantage counts

Dublin were so utterly dominant in every phase of the Leinster final was as if the teams were playing two different sports

Fri, 04 Dec, 2020

Tir Chonaill Gaels v Kilmurray Ibrickane - AIB GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Club Championship Quarter-Final

Paul Rouse: When football, not hurling, was Waterford's game of choice

The idea of organised games was seized with passion; all across Waterford there was massive interest with great crowds turning out to games. But every game played was a football one.

Fri, 27 Nov, 2020

Cork v Kerry - Munster GAA Football Senior Championship Semi-Final

Paul Rouse: Why an All-Ireland B Football Championship is a deeply flawed concept

This championship has also served to do is to remind us of the beauty of a straight knockout competition

Fri, 13 Nov, 2020

Roscommon v Armagh - GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Round 4

Paul Rouse: Time for GAA to deliver a clear picture on its broadcasting policy

We are only at the beginning of the change that the internet is bringing to how sport is organised.

Thu, 05 Nov, 2020

Paul Rouse: How do we measure Christy Ring's greatness?

It is impossible to discuss the greatest ever hurlers without Ring being central to the conversation, writes Paul Rouse. But there is another key intangible — how a sports person makes you feel

Fri, 30 Oct, 2020

Mark Moran is tackled by Gary O’Donnell 18/10/2020

Paul Rouse: It’s late in the year but story of the season just getting started

There's a number of fascinating games this weekend

Fri, 23 Oct, 2020

Tipperary v Waterford - Allianz Hurling League Division 1A Round 1

Paul Rouse: GAA must now be prepared for Championship wipeout

If the Government follows the advice of Nphet and moves to Level 5, then it is impossible to see how the championship can be played

Fri, 16 Oct, 2020

Discovering the truth in the GAA’s war effort

Acknowledging that many of its members fought in the British army does not diminish the GAA’s contribution to Irish society or the fact that many others of its members fought in 1916 and in the War of Independence, writes Paul Rouse

Fri, 09 Nov, 2018

Sport is whatever you want it to be

When you turn right off the Howth Road, coming out from Dublin city and you cross the wooden bridge onto the North Bull Wall, the sheer diversity of the world of sport announces itself.

Fri, 02 Nov, 2018

Keating portrait truly a picture that paints a thousand words

You can find hurling in the most unexpected places, says Paul Rouse.

Fri, 26 Oct, 2018