TG4 has announced details of 52 GAA games they will cover in early 2020, including 30 Allianz League matches.

On the weekend that the Allianz Hurling League teams sit their opening exams, our headmaster assesses the best and worst boys in the class so far.

Hurling took a step closer to Intangible Cultural Heritage recognition from UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) last night as a GAA delegation made a presentation to members of the body in Paris.

Let’s get the moany bits, all the more relevant after the week that was in it, out of the way quickly.

Séamus ‘Cheddar’ Plunkett has penned an interesting open letter to Laois hurling supporters via the ‘Friends of Laois Hurling’ Facebook page today.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Hurlers receiving a second yellow card, could be allowed a replacement, similar to the black card rule in football, after a wide ranging report by the GAA's Hurling 20/20 Committee was revealed at

Huge question marks hang over both Cork and Tipperary. Sunday’s semi-final showdown will provide the answers, argues Donal Óg Cusack.

Don’t allow Dublin slide into the second tier — that was the plea from Galway manager Anthony Cunningham after his side beat Dublin in the relegation decider in Portlaoise on Saturday evening last.

FOOTBALL Man to Hurling Man, Cork city centre bar, early part of last decade: “What do you think of the International Rules?”

IT was honours even in this meeting of the touring All Star teams of 2008 and 2009 in Hurlingham on Saturday, a fitting result to what was an entertaining affair.

AFTER a much-anticipated meeting of the county board last night in Ennis, the Clare hurling crisis looks set to continue, with senior hurling manager Mike McNamara still in place, despite the stated wishes of the overwhelming majority of the panel of 2009.

All Ireland hurling champions Kilkenny capped their all-conquering year as six of the team that this year claimed the county's first ever four in-a-row were named today in the 2009 GAA All-Stars hurling team, sponsored by Vodafone.

WHEN Pat Gilroy was announced as the new Dublin football manager, most commentators were taken by surprise.

There is one change in Tipperary's Minor Hurling team to play Cork on Sunday as well as some positional changes from the team which defeated Kilkenny in the semi-final.

IT’S been a roller-coaster ride for Mickey Harte and his Tyrone football marvels this season.

HURLING takes a back seat in one corner of Waterford on Friday night.

There was a dramatic twist in the election of the Galway hurling manager last night when Mattie Murphy was chosen by the seven-man committee but then rejected by the hurling board that had set up the committee.

WHEN it rains, it pours - particularly where disgruntled Wexford hurling fans are concerned.

CORK versus Clare in the Munster SHC semi-final this Sunday, televised game from Thurles, and with it a singular honour for Newtownshandrum, one of the smallest parishes in Cork County, perhaps in the entire country.

Kerry are poised to install Maurice Leahy and Eddie Murphy as their new management duo at senior and U-21 levels respectively.

The Tipperary senior Hurling management team have delayed selection of the All-Ireland final line-up untill Wednesday evening.