Cork’s two-time All-Ireland midfielder Tom Kenny has joined John Meyler’s management team ahead of their All-Ireland preliminary quarter-final the weekend after next.

The GAA world yesterday began to pay its respects to Dublin football great Anton O’Toole, 68, following his death after a 15-month battle with cancer.

Tralee is buzzing for hoops. The Complex is gripped by Saturday night fever. Even football people are backing the basketball team in their droves and they’re not just following the Star. First cousins Darren and Fergal O’Sullivan are important figures in the Tralee success story. Ahead of tonight’s National Cup semi-final with Pyrobel Killester at the Mardyke Arena, they explain how a town became united behind the Warriors

Maurice Fitzgerald was best man at his wedding and four other takeaways.

On the basis that former manager Pat O’Shea and Laois boss John Sugrue are unavailable or not interested and potential candidates for the future like Declan O’Sullivan and Seamus Moynihan aren’t ready, the shortlist to be the next Kerry football manager is just that — short.

AT the halfway point of the decade, I selected the players who were best positioned to make any all-decade side.

To grasp just how novel this upcoming All-Ireland final will be, you need only look at the sideline and the profile of the two selectorial teams compared to who was there last year, writes Kieran Shannon.

Former team-mate Len Gaynor has paid tribute to the memory of the late Tipperary hurling legend Mick Roche, whose death was announced yesterday at the age of 73.

This Thursday evening Castleknock play in their first senior football semi-final. Formed in 1998, they truly are the nouveau riche of Dublin GAA. Their story is a heartening one, their defiance to make their presence felt in west Dublin all the more impressive with the mammoth St Brigid’s for company.

Once he was on Jim McGuinness’s wedding invite list. Now he’s on Jim’s blacklist. And his own club’s list of suspended members. 

Former Cork hurling captain Ger Fitzgerald believes the county’s management team have shown a ruthless streak in dropping five members of their panel in the wake of a disappointing league campaign.

You may recognise the name but not the face while the scale of her achievements has probably been lost on you as well.

In the absence of Dublin, it seems nobody can call the clash of Donegal and Kerry in today’s All-

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At a get-to-know-you meeting with the media earlier this year, Jim Gavin showed journalists footage of Dublin football from the 1970s and 1980s.

Over the course of almost half a century, Liam Sammon has been in service to Galway football. Now he hopes a new generation can restore county pride.

Kilkenny’s nine-time All-Ireland medallist Noel Skehan believes Henry Shefflin doesn’t need to match his all-time SHC record this Sunday to prove he is the greatest hurler of all time.

Given the amount of young Galway players jettisoned at senior level, it’srefreshing if a little unusual that Anthony Cunningham has placed so much trust in the inexperienced.

Michael Kavanagh, the winner of eight All-Ireland medals with Kilkenny, has ended what has been a glittering inter-county hurling career.

DUBLIN may be the capital city but it’s a small one by European standards and the county’s footballers have begun to realise that in the wake of their first All-Ireland senior football title in 16 years.

BRIAN DOOHER yesterday announced his decision to retire from inter-county football, 17 years after making his senior debut for Tyrone.

CERTAIN suggestions have solidified into accepted fact in Ulster in the last decade.

FRANK CUMMINS is generally recognised as being one of the greatest hurlers of all time, certainly one of the greatest midfielders.

DARRAGH Ó SÉ played his 67th championship match for Kerry in last September’s All-Ireland final.

ALL-IRELAND winner Ger ‘Sparrow’ O’Loughlin is set to be named Clare senior hurling boss following the resignation of Mike McNamara and his management team last night.

WE may witness the end of an era in Ulster football tomorrow and it seems fitting that Down should be the team primed to bring down the curtain.

WHEN St Vincent’s face Meath’s Seneschalstown in Parnell Park tomorrow it will be the first time in 23 years that the fabled Dublin side last poked a toe in the provincial waters of the Leinster Club Championship.

The Bulmers sponsored GUI Cup and Shield finals at Shannon will be recalled for the breakthrough by several clubs of long standing in the destination of the All-Ireland pennants.

ARMAGH have been in the last two All-Ireland finals and based on yesterday’s performance at Croke Park, that trend is set to continue in September.