Belfast’s St Patrick’s Day festival should become a three-day weekend event to rival some of the world’s largest cities, a report from Féile an Phobail said.

As the new Páirc Uí Chaoimh half opened last July for the All-Ireland quarter-finals, many would have seen it as an incredible chance to lay down a marker for the future of the GAA in Cork.

Hear the one about the Kilkenny man who played for Munster? Or even better, about the Kilkenny GAA man who now works with Tipp GAA? Ian Dowling is a walking quiz question, but wherever he turns up, success seems to follow...

‘A great asset to the club, a great man to have’

Every county in Ireland needs more services and facilities and the social glue applied by boots-on-the-ground workers like the GAA’s GPOs, writes Brendan O’Brien

In the yellow taxi - literally - from JFK when the text comes through.

In the 60s the population in Limerick’s northside was growing, and there was a sense those people would be well served by a new GAA club.

Sarah Sexton is smiling but the moistening of the eyes reveals the hurt. A tough, uncompromising defender, an inspirational leader, her ethos is centred on the primacy of the unit, the team.

It is all happening for Oulart-The Ballagh. The camogie and hurling teams completed a Leinster double before Christmas and now dream of welcoming two AIB All- Ireland trophies by the end of March.

For St Finbarr’s, hope comes through the bloom of youth.

There are some words that look out of place sharing the same sentence. Jose Mourinho and modest. Paul O’Connell and ordinary. Kilkenny and football.

Austin Stacks became the first Kerry team since 1991, and only the second club from the county, to be crowned All- Ireland U14 Féile Peil na nÓg champions after a dramatic final yesterday.

Blackrock take on St Finbarr’s tomorrow in the second round of the Cork senior hurling championship, but whereas 30 years ago that was a county final pairing, this season both clubs are struggling.

GAA president Liam O’Neill lamented that sideline abuse of young players remains a problem.

If Wexford footballer Ben Brosnan’s ball-handling is noticeably better than everyone else’s in 2015, it’ll be because he has had such a key role in the production of his gloves.

Clare might have made an underwhelming fist of defending their All-Ireland title but 2014 has still been a very special year for Conor McGrath, confirming the 23-year-old’s status as one of the country’s leading hurlers.

He has seen Páirc Uí Chaoimh through its various incarnations, and steered Cork GAA through both heady and turbulent times. Whenever Frank Murphy steps down as GAA Board secretary, it will bring to a close a truly remarkable era of administration on Leeside. But that’s only half the story.

The departure of Donal O’Grady will not derail Limerick’s Munster

Cork will not mount any further opposition to the decision to run the Féile na nGael without top-tier competitions in both 2014 and ’15.

Donal Óg Hodnett is the only debutant in the Cork side named to take on Westmeath in their Allianz Football League Division 1 opener at Páirc Uí Rinn on Sunday (2pm).

I want to start with a question — what is it about Limerick and fine sunny summer days, Munster championship, against big opposition?

GAA chiefs look set to introduce drastic revisions to their Féile na nGael competitions following “horror stories” of the preparations by some teams in the All-Ireland U14 competitions.

With three contested positions and three other officers retiring at the end of their five years’ service, yesterday’s attendance at the Limerick GAA convention in the city’s Strand Hotel was the highest for a number of years.

De La Salle manager Derek McGrath says his club’s third Waterford hurling title is the perfect response to critics within the county.

Changed and exciting times in Limerick.

A GAA club has accused the organisers of Féile of failing them following their expulsion from the competition.

Aghabullogue were last night considering their options following the weekend’s Féile na nGael camogie finals in Dublin.

St Brigid’s, Dublin claimed a unique All-Ireland double on Saturday.

Controversy reigned at the All-Ireland Féile na nGael Under-14 competition in Dublin last night, with Cork side Aghabullogue thrown out of the Division 1 camogie competition.

After months of preparation for clubs across the country, the 2012 Féile na nGael finally comes into view.

Dublin manager Anthony Daly has admitted Conal Keaney is almost certain to miss next Saturday’s crunch All-Ireland senior hurling qualifier against Clare.

The first inkling I had that something was wrong was sometime before 5am when I heard a car go through the estate — Meadowbrook in Glanmire — with the driver beeping and roaring out the window.

St Brigid’s became the fifth Dublin team in a row to win the Féile Peil Division 1 final after a comprehensive 1-6 to 0-0 victory over Portlaoise in O’Moore Park yesterday.

The GAA's Director General has insisted a new mid-sized stadium for the greater Dublin area remains on the association’s agenda, the Irish Examiner has reported.

The GAA’s Director General has insisted a new mid-sized stadium for the greater Dublin area remains on the association’s agenda.

The GAA’s Director General has insisted a new mid-sized stadium for the greater Dublin area remains on the association’s agenda.

As they face into the unknown this Saturday, an All-Ireland semi-final in Parnell Park against the experienced Loughgiel Shamrocks of Antrim and Ulster, if the young hurlers of Na Piarsaigh need inspiration they don’t have to look very far.