AgeAction chief executive Paddy Connolly says the GAA are in a great position to help the elderly during the coronavirus crisis, writes John Fogarty.

A few months before he won the 1999 US Open, the late golfer Payne Stewart was gifted for his birthday a nylon bracelet by his son Aaron with the letters WWJD emblazoned on them, writes John Fogarty.

As the Allianz Leagues throw-in, our writers look ahead to the major storylines which will dominate the weekend's action.

It's not what’s in the chalice that worries Dessie Farrell; it’s the size of it.

Dessie Farrell has been handed the reins of Dublin senior football after they were given back by Jim Gavin last Saturday week.

This would be classed as a get-out-of-jail operation for Ballyboden if they hadn’t been making a habit of such escapes.

The morning after attending last month’s All-Stars ceremony at the Convention Centre, Jim Gavin headed for Kilmessan in Meath and Fergies pub.

Holders Kilmacud Crokes kept alive their ambitions of back-to-back Dublin SFC titles when accounting for 14-man Clontarf by 0-16 to 0-8 in their quarter-final at Parnell Park yesterday.

The words have only just come out Tom Gray’s mouth when immediately he regrets them.

Dublin U20 manager Tom Gray has criticised the media for failing to research the real reasons behind the county’s senior domination and for being too quick to link it to financial assistance.

A Dublin football panel without a St Vincent’s club representative just doesn’t seem right.

When infrastructure requires the sacrifice of communities it seems only better-off areas with political connections can stand up to projects, writes Michael Clifford.

The John West Féile Division 1 Camogie title remains in Cork as Éire Óg ended Sarsfields’ bid for four in-a-row an exciting final at Castle Road.

Shortly before the Leinster hurling championship began, Marty Kavanagh admitted that Carlow would be targeting the Dublin game in particular.

A cynic, according to Oscar Wilde’s Lord Darlington, is “a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing”.

A groundbreaking study of a leading GAA club has found that for every euro invested into it there is an equivalent benefit of €15 in social value for the community.

The Dublin Footballers have received a major boost as they prepare for their 'drive for five'.

The cost of the long-awaited MetroLink project could be substantially higher than the original €3bn figure.

An 82nd-minute penalty from Chris O’Leary gave UCC a dramatic win over DCU in a tense Fitzgibbon semi-final tonight. Tom Kingston’s side held on, despite a late, late penalty appeal from their opponents, to celebrate a first final appearance in six years.

Eir Sport insist they remain committed to club championship coverage, despite not broadcasting any matches since April.

The Belfast rape trial ended last week. The past few weeks saw the mix seethe, as preoccupations intersected in Belfast’s Court No. 12: crime, celebrity, sex, power, class, sport. All of it.

Shane O’Donnell will miss most, if not all, of Clare’s 2019 Allianz Hurling League Division 1A campaign after he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the prestigious Harvard University.

The Club Players Association (CPA) appear to have been shown short shrift for a second time today after incoming GAA president John Horan’s inaugural speech.

DCU were always in control of this all-Dublin clash between two colleges hoping to reach their first Fitzgibbon Cup final and they will now hope to bring the trophy back to the capital for the first time since 2001.

Kanturk (Cork) 3-13 Middletown Na Fianna (Armagh) 0-12: Kanturk cruised into the All Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling Final today with a comprehensive dismissal of Ulster Champions Middletown Na Fianna of Armagh.

Dublin defender Jonny Cooper has admitted that he and some of his three-in-a-row All-Ireland winning colleagues avoided alcohol all year.

Pat Ring grimaces when he recalls the dark days. Tomorrow, Ring will send his Foxrock-Cabinteely side into battle against Cork outfit Mourneabbey, in what is the Dublin club’s third successive All-Ireland semi-final appearance.

Rathnew manager Harry Murphy has called on the Leinster Council to give Wicklow the opportunity to pull off their own Aughrim ambush next summer.

An exhibition of free-taking from Brian Turnbull ended Cork’s 10-year wait for an All-Ireland minor final appearance, writes Eoghan Cormican.

Brian Cody will mark 19 years in charge of Kilkenny’s senior hurling team after he was confirmed as manager for 2017 following a meeting of the county board in Nowlan Park last night.

Dublin 2-12 Wexford 0-12: Dublin claimed their first provincial title in four years as they overcame Wexford by six points in their Electric Ireland Leinster MHC final at Croke Park yesterday.

There was late drama at today's EirGrid All-Ireland U21 football semi-final between Mayo and Dublin at O’Connor Park in Tullamore.