Wed, 27 May, 2020
Sat, 23 May, 2020
Thu, 16 Apr, 2020
Winner of eight All-Ireland medals, part of a famed hurling dynasty, Eoin Larkin has been one of the finest forwards of his generation. He spoke with PM O'Sullivan.
Sat, 26 Oct, 2019
In the last 30-odd years, four All-Ireland senior football finals have gone to a replay — the deciders of 1988, 1996, 2000, and 2016.
Tue, 03 Sep, 2019
33 years ago, Kerry met Meath in Croke Park, with the greatest team of all running out of road and the Royals on the rise. An email conversation with Liam Hayes stirred some memories on Gaelic football and sportswriting, now and then
Sat, 03 Aug, 2019
It didn’t garner any headlines but Jim Gavin also hit the centenary mark in this year’s Leinster championship.
Sat, 13 Jul, 2019
Paul Keane in preview box Andy McEntee is a manager on the up, on the verge of elevating Meath to a first Leinster final in five years, having already masterminded a return to Division 1 in the Allianz league.
Sat, 08 Jun, 2019
Eleven years ago, Bryan Cullen was an employee of Ulster Bank. It was merely a means to an end. Having graduated three years previously with a sports science and health degree, the job made little sense but for the fact he was playing inter-county football and the bank were associate sponsors of the All-Ireland SFC.
Sat, 25 May, 2019
A documentary comparing the current cardiac scoring of the Down and Meath panels that faced off in the 1991 All-Ireland final has saved a number of lives.
Mon, 08 Apr, 2019
Mickey Burke, Meath’s longest serving player, has admitted securing a belated return to Division 1 of the Allianz League was his big target for the year.
Fri, 29 Mar, 2019
One of the tactical moves of the year?
Thu, 03 May, 2018
Meath footballer Cillian O’Sullivan has welcomed the green light to redevelop their Páirc Tailteann GAA base, describing it as “long overdue”.
Wed, 14 Feb, 2018
Dillon remained underrated both inside and outside his own county, right up until he announced his retirement yesterday morning, writes Kieran Shannon
Wed, 29 Nov, 2017
Such supremacy is as a measure of the GAA’s negligence as it is of Dublin’s exemplary management, from John Costello to Jim Gavin, writes Kieran Shannon.
Wed, 20 Sep, 2017
Pat Flanagan has revealed that it was his wife who informed him that he had been axed as Offaly senior football team manager on Tuesday evening.
Fri, 07 Jul, 2017
Former Louth manager Paddy Carr believes referee Brendan Gorman “lost control of everything towards the end” of the county’s remarkable qualifier defeat to Meath in 2002.
Tue, 30 May, 2017
To have an airport called after you demands a wider international celebrity most Irish sportspeople simply do not have, writes Paul Rouse.
Fri, 07 Apr, 2017
Recently-retired Kilkenny star Jackie Tyrrell has delivered a stinging broadside against Ger Loughnane for his recent comments about Brian Cody.
Wed, 07 Dec, 2016
The GAA’s standing playing rules committee meets in Croke Park this evening where the black card is certain to be discussed.
Tue, 11 Oct, 2016
Mon, 03 Oct, 2016
Five All-Ireland finals that went to replays have produced lessons that can be applied today...
Sat, 01 Oct, 2016
When Down hammered an ailing Kerry side in the 1991 All-Ireland semi-final, team manager Pete McGrath was greeted by a breathless and beaming county administrator Dan McCartan.
Sat, 17 Sep, 2016
At the end of last month, GAA president Aogán Ó Fearghail was asked if he was worried about the standard of games in the football championship this summer.
Tue, 19 Jul, 2016
BROADCASTER Hector Ó hEochagáin is on the move again to celebrate TG4’s 20th anniversary.
Tue, 12 Jul, 2016
Fri, 24 Jun, 2016
Strapping Meath defender Mickey Burke reckons he was “made out to be the baddie”’ after the biting saga that followed the Royals’ last clash with Dublin.
Thu, 23 Jun, 2016
Thu, 19 May, 2016
Last year, the GAA’s disciplinary system was again the source of controversy.
Sun, 15 May, 2016
Fri, 22 Apr, 2016
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Fri, 25 Mar, 2016
A Co Cavan estate agent sold a Dublin woman’s holiday apartment in Turkey before “falsely and dishonestly misleading her and misappropriating” the €42,000 proceeds in a personal AIB bank account, a judge was told yesterday.
Tue, 15 Mar, 2016
After seeing through the mark last Saturday, playing rules committee chairman Jarlath Burns was quizzed about the possibility of introducing a trial to Gaelic football limiting the number of consecutive hand-passes.
Sun, 06 Mar, 2016
DCU 6-14 Athlone IT 1-7: Monaghan’s Shane Carey fired a brilliant 3-6 as holders Dublin City University made a strong statement of their intention to capture back-to-back Sigerson Cup titles for the first time.
Wed, 27 Jan, 2016
Rarely does a day pass in this country without a wonderfully evocative image appearing in the national papers from some sporting event or other and yesterday’s shot in these pages of Patrick Cronin striking the sliotar amidst the floodlights and flurries of snow during Cork and Waterford’s pre-season meeting in Mallow certainly ticked that particularly box.
Fri, 15 Jan, 2016
Playing rules committee member Seán Boylan wants cynical play punished in real time on the field of play.
Thu, 14 Jan, 2016
Diving will not be upgraded to a black or red card this year, as the GAA’s playing rules committee requires more time to study the area.
Tue, 12 Jan, 2016
Fri, 13 Nov, 2015
Thu, 29 Oct, 2015
Meath’s four-time All-Ireland-winning manager Seán Boylan says the rules of Gaelic football need to be simplified and changed to stop rewarding foul play.
Fri, 23 Oct, 2015
Tue, 29 Sep, 2015
It’s become a feature of both Éamonn Fitzmaurice’s and Jim Gavin’s reigns that they tend not to select Under 21 players for big matches. It begs the question, why not?
Sun, 20 Sep, 2015
Meath clubs have rowed in behind football boss Mick O’Dowd and reappointed him for a further two-years.
Tue, 11 Aug, 2015
Now that the unthinkable has happened and Meath have lost to Westmeath, is it time to revisit Martin McHugh’s much ridiculed explanation for the decline of Gaelic football in the county?
Mon, 29 Jun, 2015
David Cameron is preparing for another term as the UK's Prime Minister, the Limerick woman who along with her young daughter died in a road crash in Poland on Wednesday, had just moved into a new family home in Norway and Memphis Depay has vowed to help bring the glory days back to Old Trafford. These are some of the latest and most read news stories on irishexaminer.com this morning.
Fri, 08 May, 2015
Sean Boylan knows a thing or two about bringing Dublin down, and while the legendary Meath manager sees no obvious stumbling block to prevent the Dubs running amok in Leinster again this year, he sees problems ahead for Jim Gavin’s side.
Finally one of the GAA’s core issues — teenage player burnout — is getting a proper airing. Is the organisation ready to address a problem that’s literally eating away its future? Writes Eoghan Cormican.
Sat, 17 Jan, 2015
Meath 1-14 DCU 1-14: Meath will have key attackers Stephen Bray and Mickey Newman available for their O’Byrne Cup clash with Dublin.
Mon, 12 Jan, 2015
COMEDIAN Oliver Callan doesn’t lose sleep about the Irish public figures and celebrities he skewers on his weekly satirical RTÉ radio show, Callan’s Kicks.
Sat, 01 Nov, 2014
Sean Boylan junior was often seen standing beside his father when the legendary Meath manager would run on the pitch at the end of games, but the youngster still chose a career far away from football.
Wed, 13 Aug, 2014
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