The recommendation is part of the fixtures review taskforce’s report.

It came as a great relief to us that the sky didn’t fall in on Sunday. If anything, the majesty of the troposphere over Croke Park that evening seemed to signal approval of the move of the All-Ireland Senior Club Championship finals from March 17 to January.

Ballyboden St Enda’s captain Ryan Basquel has echoed TJ Reid’s criticism of the changes to schedule of the All-Ireland senior club championships.

Nemo Rangers' All-Ireland senior club football semi-final against three-in-a-row seeking Corofin has been fixed for Ennis' Cusack Park on Saturday, January 4.

Irrespective of how the result pans out, there is nowhere else in the world Kathryn Coakley would rather be tomorrow than lining out alongside her best friends in the black and amber of Mourneabbey.

There's two senior provincial finals and three All-Ireland ladies finals in store this weekend.

The Clare senior footballers will be without their two All-Star nominees next season as captain Gary Brennan has joined Jamie Malone in opting out of the squad.

Clonmel Commercials and JK Brackens will contest the Tipperary football decider this Saturday (Semple Stadium, 2.30pm), the Templemore club less than pleased with the decision to take the final out of its traditional Sunday slot.

It’s All-Ireland camogie finals weekend and despite some critical commentary on the game (or the rules) over the past year, there is a good buzz about Sunday, generated from an exciting championship with plenty of positive talking points.

Seventeen Kerry players are in line to make their All-Ireland senior final debut on Sunday afternoon.

James Owens will be the All-Ireland SHC final man in the middle for the second year running on Sunday week.

Aidan Murphy and Cathal Toal contest what looks an evenly balanced All-Ireland senior bowling final at Tullysaran in Armagh on Sunday.

Passing to the goalkeeper in Gaelic football may become a thing of the past after Special Congress in October, GAA president John Horan has revealed.

“When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I see over the bed post is a blue and gold string. So you can imagine what it’s like in my house, can’t you?”

As 2018 comes to a close, we can reflect on a year of top-class bowling, but even some of those who achieved most will have a few regrets as the Christmas pudding is served.

The man who recommended the change for minor from U18 to U17 insists the decision has been a major positive for the GAA.

Ciaran Kilkenny had scratched plenty off his bucket list before this.

A championship like no other. A champion team like no other.

Sean Óg Ó hAilpín has bemoaned Cork’s recent difficulties in Croke Park and suggested that John Meyler’s side would have “hammered” Limerick in the All-Ireland semi-final had the game been transplanted back to Munster.

Conor McGuigan and Éamon Bowen clash in a fascinating All-Ireland intermediate bowling final on Sunday, in the feature score of the second All-Ireland series at Tullysaran in Armagh.

The curtain fell on the Derek McGrath era in Thurles last Sunday, but Ennis offers a more fitting set of bookends to his term in charge of Waterford, writes Michael Moynihan

Mild-mannered. Genuine. Diligent. Workaholic. As Páraic Duffy prepares to wave goodbye as GAA director general this Saturday, there has been similarities in the tributes paid to him. Rightly too: He is all of the above but we can add steeliness to it.

Páirc Uí Chaoimh stadium director Bob Ryan has cast doubt about the venue being able to host Allianz League double bills in January and February in the future.

Páirc Uí Chaoimh stadium director Bob Ryan has cast doubt about the venue being able to host Allianz League double bills in January and February in the future.

Dublin’s Noelle Healy was named as the 2017 TG4 senior Players’ Player of the Year at the annual All-Stars banquet on Saturday night.

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.

Thomas Mackle will be bidding for a special place in bowling history when he defends his Hurley’s of Midleton King of the Roads title at Ballincurrig next weekend.

Con O’Callaghan was sitting in a substitute’s seat in the Hogan Stand last Sunday as Dean Rock prepared to kick the winning point for Dublin.

Cork camogie keeper Aoife Murray described Sunday’s one-point win in the All-Ireland senior final as “the best drug ever — if you could bottle it we’d be very rich people”.

The drama came late in Croke Park yesterday, the old promise issued by B-movie producers coming back into vogue at the very end of this camogie All-Ireland senior camogie final.

Orla Cronin got her first Cork senior camogie call-up in 2012 at the tender age of 16. 

Conor Lehane knows from experience that Saracens will be facing a freak of nature if he plays in the Champions Cup semi-final in Dublin on Saturday.

Introducing more extra-time matches and freeing up September fits into Páraic Duffy’s long-standing agenda to make more space for club activity.

Mary White gives the lowdown on the eight teams in the top division of the Lidl NFL...

They fetched up in Davin Park, Carrick on Suir on the Sunday before Christmas for the South U21 hurling final. The last day out. The last match of a magical year. In the past, St Mary’s of Clonmel might have approached such a fixture hoping for the best. These days they approach such fixtures – yes, even South Tipp finals – expecting the best.

It’s been three months since Cork lost to Wexford in the senior hurling championship — for the first time in 60 years.

Paul Rouse on the battle for the All-Ireland and an independent Irish State

Waterford hurler Patrick Curran has warned that U21 success is no guarantee of senior glory in the years ahead.

Captaining Tipperary means facing up to searching questions on and off the field. Brendan Maher has been doing that all year, and when you ask him if the Premier County’s record against Kilkenny is something he’s conscious of, he doesn’t back down at all.