A cancellation of the league could save Meath’s footballers from Division 1 relegation, and leave Cork in Division 3.

The LGFA confirmed they have chosen to mark their primary spring competition as well as others null and void as a result of the coronavirus shutdown.

Up to 18 counties may have to restructure their club championships if the blanket ban on GAA activity extends into April, writes Eoghan Cormican.

Sport may shrink in significance in these unprecedented times but the sight of empty stadiums and speculation over the fate of previously ‘untouchable’ events as the Olympic Games and European Championships hammer home just how serious things have become.

Let’s face it, decades ain’t what they used to be. There was a time was when you knew where you stood with a decade. The sixties? Flower power and beards. The seventies? Sideburns and disco. The eighties? Everything was massive: shoulder pads, mobile phones, hair. You used to be able to tell a decade simply by looking at the trousers involved.

As the Irish Examiner reported last month, the recommendations of the national fixtures taskforce are so extensive that they will require a roadshow and a special congress. What can be described as the highlights and lowlights of the document?

Thirty-seven thousand feet above the United Kingdom as I flew towards Brussels last Monday morning, I read every word of all six pages in Examiner Sport about the departure of the history-making Dublin manager, Jim Gavin.

Paul Rouse on the changing culture of The Sunday Game and why now faces its biggest challenge

We take a trip down memory lane and check out what happened on this day in years gone by.

To grow up in Offaly in the 1980s was to live in a sporting wonderland. The hurlers and then the footballers and then the hurlers, again, performed feats that are without parallel in the history of the GAA.

The Camogie Association has made the decision to postpone all fixtures involving Limerick, Kerry and Wexford teams after players fell ill following an outbreak of gastroenteritis at last weekend’s double-header fixtures Croagh Kilfinny GAA grounds.

Chloe Foxe is taking time out from completing a college assignment to chat. The conversation flows, the 21-year-old at ease with discussing sport and life.

Gaelic Games has overtaken soccer as Ireland’s favourite sport, according to a major national sports survey.

There’s still a few days to be crossed off the calendar but we’ll go out on a limb here and suggest that the first September in living memory without a pair of All-Ireland men’s senior finals at its core will come and go without the sky falling in and the very fabric of the GAA having been ripped asunder.

A return to the U21 grade at inter-county level and minor jumping from U17 to U19 are being considered.

Cork manager John Meyler wasn’t surprised Clare won through to the Munster final with a home win over Limerick.

HawkEye is unlikely to be in operation at Páirc Uí Chaoimh for any stage of this year’s provincial or All-Ireland championships.

The future of TV sport, especially amongst the young, may not be Sky. It will be online, writes Jack Anderson.

With the détente between the Irish Hockey Umpires Association and Hockey Ireland in place, the EY Hockey League will tip off this weekend after two weeks of cancellations.

The Club Players Association (CPA) has claimed the GAA’s hierarchy have shown “no appetite” to make meaningful changes to the master fixtures calendar for the benefit of club footballers and hurlers.

Gaelic Players Association (GPA) chief executive Dermot Earley has expressed annoyance at how the GAA have performed a u-turn by supporting the addition of more games to the senior All-Ireland championships.

 

It’s the morning of the 1916 All-Ireland hurling final. The Tipperary hurlers are in Dublin — they walk down the quays and turn left onto Sackville Street.

You wouldn’t want to be paranoid. Or you might think Tipperary were being punished for reaching an All-Ireland semi-final.

Cork 0-12 Limerick 0-10: There were angry scenes at the end of the Munster senior camogie final as Cork hit two points in the sixth minute of injury time to defeat Limerick in Kilmallock.

For years now this column asked itself: ‘what exactly does Allianz see in the national football and hurling leagues that most of us don’t?’

Former Donegal football physiotherapist Dermot Simpson has revealed two-thirds of the county’s injuries in 2014 and 2015 were due to training.

The introduction of a second tier All-Ireland senior football championship following the provincial competitions is on the cards if the proposals up for debate are anything to go by.

The Ulster Council have hit back at suggestions they “disrespected” hurling by playing extra-time in Sunday’s AIB Ulster Club hurling final.

The Cork Ladies Football Board has hit out at the LGFA as dual players potentially face another fixtures clash, despite negotiations between the LGFA and Camogie Association.