The GAA wasn’t found wanting when it came to cancelling all activity because of the coronavirus pandemic — a precedent was set over 100 years when the Great Flu swept the country, writes Joe Ó Muircheartaigh.

The proposed national club fixtures oversight committee will be given the power to disqualify tardy counties from championships.

Armagh conquered a storm as they battled to a deserved win over Kildare with just 14 men at the Athletic Grounds.

Football life without former captain and talisman Gary Brennan will be a huge challenge for Clare in the 2020 Allianz League, but manager Colm Collins is bullish about the Banner County’s prospects of holding their own in Division 2 for a fourth successive year.

Laois narrowly missed out on a place in the intermediate semi-finals in 2019, finishing a point behind Tipperary in the group stage.

New Kerry U20 football boss John Sugrue has slammed the changes that have been made to the age grade as “farcical”, suggesting the GAA is too quick to respond to criticism when it comes to football.

Darragh Fitzgibbon has acknowledged that while there’s no question about the talent of the Cork hurlers, their “work-rate and attitude” has been a problem at key times.

Two of the chief proposals put forward by the fixture calendar review taskforce recommend changing the All-Ireland SFC format

Cork football manager Ronan McCarthy admits the threat of Tier 2 football has added pressure to the 2020 season.

There is something wonderful about a senior county final. Good weather day, bad weather day, any type of day. The whole occasion is so intimate.

I was very pleased with the outcome of the GAA Special Congress in the splendid facilities at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Offaly are the second Division 3 county to confirm they will vote against the proposed second-tier football championship at Special Congress on October 19.

Leitrim, Limerick, Sligo, Waterford, and Wicklow will support the creation of a second-tier football championship at Special Congress on October 19.

The underlying narrative behind the decision to stage the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan is that it is an opportunity to give a huge impetus to the game in a country where it is — relatively speaking — a marginal presence.

All-Ireland winning Kerry footballer Mike Quirke will be put forward for ratification as the new Laois manager on Monday next.

Tens of thousands of Tipperary supporters turned out at Semple Stadium tonight, to welcome home the Tipperary Senior Hurling team who won the All-Ireland Championship yesterday, after defeating Kilkenny in the decider at Croke Park.

GALWAY qualified for the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Semi-Final, having survived the severest of stress tests from a vibrant Waterford at Semple Stadium.

In early June, I hopped into my car in Tullycrine in west Clare, made the short journey south west to Killimer before boarding the 1pm Shannon Ferry to Tarbert. Kerry were playing Laois in Tralee so going to Austin Stack Park is as handy for me as a trip to the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick.

The two teams promoted from Division 3 of the Allianz League next year may yet earn a reprieve from the proposed second-tier championship.

Limerick have been among the great underachievers of camogie in recent years and no-one has been more frustrated than the players themselves.

The headings on the pages of Monday’s newspapers proclaimed Dublin’s record ninth provincial title in a row.

It was a tough time for everyone involved in Wexford camogie in the spring, as the Seniors began the National League without a manager and unable to field a team.

There is no saving to be made by county boards from one of their flagship teams exiting the All-Ireland championship as early as mid-June, Galway treasurer Mike Burke has claimed.

Tipperary camogie player Nicole Walsh is recovering at home after her frightening injury caused the abandonment of Saturday evening’s All-Ireland Championship meeting of Tipp and Waterford at The Ragg.

Former Cork hurler Lorcán McLoughlin believes the county would be better served by finishing third in the province, rather than progressing to yet another Munster final.

GAA president John Horan has asked the newly formed fixtures review group to bring three proposals to Congress 2020 in a bid to resolve the Association’s calendar crisis.

Reduced media profile is not a good reason for counties to shy away from a two-tier Gaelic football championship, argues former Cork manager Brian Cuthbert, who wants the GAA to grasp this opportunity for change and also scrap the minor championship.

No need for a telescope when Colm Bonnar scans a metaphorical eye over the hurling landscape in Carlow.

Further evidence that the GAA is the process of profound structural change was revealed at this week’s meeting of the Cork County Board.

For a while there on Saturday, it was as if Leitrim had misunderstood the instruction to put the clock forward and had instead wound it all the way back to 1994, when they won the Connacht title.

Elle Sorensen and Amy Ahearne’s nerves of steel saw Crescent win back the Munster Schoolgirls Senior Cup title over last year’s vanquishers Mount Mercy at Garryduff via a shoot-out.

Wexford camogie have lost half of their €9,000 WGPA grant for failing to field a team for Saturday’s Division 1 league fixture away to Cork.

Keeping Tyrone to a single point in the first half of their league opener — and that a dead ball converted by goalkeeper Niall Morgan — is testament to the early development of new Kerry manager Peter Keane’s defensive strategy, says Ronan McNamee.

Connacht counties increased their spending on inter-county team preparations by 8% to €4.88m in 2018, audited figures show.

All-Star attacker Ian Burke insists Galway are capable of winning the All-Ireland this year but says their principal target is to retain the Connacht title.