MANY people will have noted that this year’s All-Ireland winning hurling captain, Michael Fennelly, wasn’t on the first 15 for the decider with Tipperary.

THE GPA banquet in the Citywest Hotel, Dublin on Friday night was a different affair to previous ceremonies.

IF ever proof was needed that Kerry and Cork people are as thick as thieves, it was provided in Listowel on Saturday night.

MOVES against county mangers is a relatively new phenomenon in the GAA.

THE GAA was incelebratory mood last weekend and was itself widely celebrated.

ON Sunday I had the privilege of attending an intriguing club decider in Killarney – the Kerry IFC final.

THE Irish Examiner teamed up with the Munster Council in Limerick on Saturday to honour the best footballers and hurlers from the province over the past 25 years.

JUST as we thought things were getting quiet on the GAA front, a number of books has brought gaelic games into the headlines in the final weeks of October.

MUNSTER Council chairman, Jimmy O’Gorman, admitted he was “very worried” in this newspaper last week that proposals might come from on high in Croke Park to eliminate provincial championships.

THE Vodafone All Stars have come and gone and when the GPA Awards are announced in a couple of weeks, it will bring the curtain down on another year of inter-county activity.