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Paul Rouse
Paul Rouse
Paul Rouse is an historian, author, broadcaster… and former Offaly football boss. He specialises in sport and Irish culture.
‘What will the GAA be like in 20 years time?’
‘What will the GAA be like in 20 years time?’

So Dublin is not to be divided for GAA purposes?

Fri, 02 Feb, 2018

2016 Images of the Year
Playing rights of all must be respected

Why did the mess that was the first advertisement for the position of director general strike such a chord with the membership of the GAA?

Fri, 26 Jan, 2018

The battle facing the GAA in rural Ireland
The battle facing the GAA in rural Ireland
The death of clubs in Laois – and elsewhere – should it come to pass is rooted in the realities of modern life, writes Paul Rouse

Fri, 19 Jan, 2018

Where is our national sports policy, Minister Ross?
Where is our national sports policy, Minister Ross?

Reading evidence is one of the great challenges of the modern world. It is something that has become much more challenging in the age of the internet and, in particular, with the rise of social media platforms.

Fri, 12 Jan, 2018

Limerick v Offaly - GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Qualifier Round 2
Stepping back into the past with a new pair of boots

A new pair of football boots are sitting on a rack in a shop in the midlands.

Fri, 05 Jan, 2018

The glorious birth of Irish sportswriting
The glorious birth of Irish sportswriting

The relationship between sport and the media changed in Ireland on Christmas week in 1880.

Fri, 29 Dec, 2017

Leading GAA’s new era is strictly business
Leading GAA’s new era is strictly business

There is a fascinating line in the job description issued by the GAA as it seeks a new Director-General.

Fri, 22 Dec, 2017

Cockfighting, cruelty, and Ireland’s history of bloodsports
Cockfighting, cruelty, and Ireland’s history of bloodsports

The renewed growth of cockfighting in Britain is a reminder that the ways of the past are not easily shaken, writes Paul Rouse.

Fri, 15 Dec, 2017

Do GAA clubs make the best use of their membership?
Do GAA clubs make the best use of their membership?

Back in 1909, Michael Collins was the secretary of the Geraldines GAA Club in London. He was still a very young man — yet to assume the political leadership that saw him become one of the most influential Irishmen ever born — but he had an intimate understanding of the things that make a great GAA club.

Fri, 08 Dec, 2017

No money or medals can save you from sporting end
No money or medals can save you from sporting end

Listening this week to the former rugby international Luke Fitzgerald talking about his retirement from the game was a reminder that there is only one certainty in every sporting career: it will end, writes Paul Rouse.

Fri, 01 Dec, 2017

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