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.

THE leaders of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Labour Party are heading west today for their first three-way debate of the campaign and the first ever to take place as Gaeilge.

A CLAIM that some clubs had “burned” their GAA membership cards because details on them were given in English was made at the Cork convention over the weekend.

A snapshot of Irish life at the start of the last century has gone online today.

DELEGATES at the Saturday session of annual GAA Congress in Newcastle, Co Down, were more amenable to agreeing recommended changes in hurling than football.

WE call on the Taoiseach to stand by the Government’s statement on the Irish language (December 2006) wherein it is pledged, inter alia:

IRISH people are proving to be good at complaining at EU level when they have a problem.

Proposals to revolutionise the teaching of the Irish language are being discussed at an education conference in Dublin today.