The GAA will delay, until next week, making a decision on extending the suspension of Gaelic Games activity beyond March 29.

The GAA will wait until next week to make a decision on extending the suspension on organised Gaelic Games activity beyond the current March 29 date as a result of the coronavirus crisis.

The unique Christian message to the power of the GAA that was the John 3:7 sign made famous for over 30 years at stadiums around Ireland had its final day out in Limerick yesterday as Frank Hogan, who married his deep faith with a passion for Gaelic Games, was laid to rest in Mount Saint Lawrence Cemetery.

At Congress two years ago, the GAA voted to prohibit the sponsorship of any GAA competition, team, playing gear or facility by a betting company.

Gaelic Games remains narrowly the nation’s favourite sport, Katie Taylor is by far the most admired athlete, and the Irish rugby team have been dethroned as Team of the Year.

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.

A robot has been used to precision line seven playing pitches ahead of the long-awaited Renault GAA World Games 2019 at the Sports Campus of Waterford Institute of Technology.

Imagine what must have been going through the minds of folk in the hurling communities of North Kerry or the Glens of Antrim last Sunday as word filtered through that Laois had gone and blown the bloody doors off the championship with that explosive performance against Dublin.

We are lucky at home to have three super young boys as neighbours.

Antrim senior football manager, Lenny Harbinson, has labelled the inertia around the crumbling Casement Park stadium an “absolute disgrace”, after their defeat to Tyrone in the Ulster Championship quarter-final on Saturday.

We had the Holy Communion in the house last week, our two boys decked out in their three-piece suits like they were about to appear on The Sunday Game, and along with the rest of their classmates, they enjoyed the ceremony and celebrations under gorgeous May sunshine.

What would a United Ireland look like? Would it mean the end of the Irish language? Would we see King Billy’s Day competing with dear old St Patrick?

GAA director general Tom Ryan has claimed the organisation’s authorities felt they were “bullied” into hosting the Liam Miller Tribute Game in Páirc Uí Chaoimh last summer.

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

On Monday evening just past, probably after a few of them would have seen footage of a brawl below in Kerry on their Twitter feed on their way out the door, the 2018 Clare senior county hurling champions Ballyea returned to the Local Inn, where for the second consecutive night they were welcomed by a special constituency of people.

When Limerick trailed Cork by six points with almost as many minutes of normal time to go in the All-Ireland semi-final, John Kiely would have been forgiven if he started to think like most Limerick supporters undoubtedly and understandably were at the time.

When Special Congress passed the new hurling proposals last Saturday, it threw up all sorts of new challenges and opportunities that it may not even have thought about.

Back in 2004, long before several of Jack McCaffrey’s teammates hauled Mayo defenders to the ground to prevent them from receiving a kickout in the closing moments of an All-Ireland final, his father Noel, along with some other eminent academic colleagues, conducted a study into the attitudes of Irish athletes towards cheating.

A full hour after the astroturf had settled, crowds were still coming through the turnstiles in the Bronx.

A Laois GAA County Board official has told clubs at a county board meeting to "prepare for war" against other sports.

Top table officers at the Duhallow convention in North Cork have stressed the importance of the national anthem and tricolour remaining central components of GAA match-days.

All-Ireland winning Down boss Pete McGrath believes the GAA erred badly by not taking full advantage of Joe Lennon’s remarkable mind.

It’s not just a jersey they hand you, but one with a number, and often that number counts.

To get an idea of just how driven and focused Jim Gavin’s Dublin are to put back-to-back All Ireland titles together, cast your mind back to the first rather than the last game of this year’s national league.

When to drink or not to drink, that is the question anyone involved with a team must ask.

KILKENNY hurling legend DJ Carey has warned of increased levels of burnout in young players following the decision to change the age of the minor intercounty grade to U17 from 2018.

A few months before Bryan Cullen would become the first Dublin man in 16 years to lift Sam Maguire, the then director of football operations at Chelsea, Mike Forde, spoke at a conference in Liverpool about a bit of a continuing professional development tour he took in on Stateside.

Who will enter the national consciousness in 2016, and go from someone only an anorak or dedicated ‘Irish Examiner’ reader might know to a name — possibly even a face — that the casual sportsfan, even a Tubs or D’Arcy, might recognise? Here are tips offs about some names you can later brag to mates that you told them about them first.

The absence of a single gambling-preventative rule in the GAA’s Official Guide is totally unacceptable, according to Galway County Board chairman Noel Treacy.