The 2020 All-Ireland Hurling final, scheduled for December 13, will be just the 13th Senior Hurling Championship game played in the final month of the year.

The competition will run on a straight knockout basis.

Although some Cork county finals may run as late as October 11, county board chairperson Tracey Kennedy believes the championship program unveiled today affords the Cork hurlers and footballers sufficient preparatory time ahead of their provincial semi-finals.

In the Munster Minor Hurling Championship, Donal Óg Cusack’s Cork meet last year’s beaten provincial finalists, Clare.

Don MacMonagle shares the story behind his favourite photograph.

Cork’s senior and intermediate club finals will take place on the weekend of October 3 and 4 after the county competitions control committee agreed on the schedule over the weekend.

Cork manager Ronan McCarthy has criticised the second-rate structuring of the 2020 All-Ireland football championship, describing as unacceptable that football teams must make do with a straight knockout format whereas the hurling championship will have a backdoor.

Having only one Limerick man in the current Munster academy? That is not a cause for concern but a positive sign of a successful, province-wide rugby development programme, Munster chief executive Ian Flanagan insisted this week.

Kerry football manager Peter Keane will have six uninterrupted weeks with his panel ahead of the county’s Munster semi-final against Cork, a knockout fixture Kerry chiefs have no issue with Cork having home advantage for.

Kerry will honour their home and away arrangement with Cork for November’s Munster SFC semi-final, a knockout fixture to be played at Páirc Uí Chaoimh which will spell the end of one team’s interest in the championship.

"I’d often go out for the start of a training session or even a match wearing a pair and then decide on another pair."

Two Kerry club chairmen believe GAA pitches could have been opened earlier than yesterday.

Kieran McGeeney has pinpointed the All-Ireland winning Kerry side of 2000 as the hardest and 'most aggressive' football team he ever played against.

Kerry great Tomás Ó Sé, part of the last team to win a knockout All-Ireland in 2000 before the qualifier series, has urged the GAA to go a step further this year and introduce a full open draw.

The St Patrick’s, Blennerville man reported that the possibility of missing out on what might be their only opportunity to don the green and gold was upsetting for some of them before it was confirmed the Munster MFC will go ahead later this year.

The death has taken place of Kerry’s two-time All-Ireland senior football championship winner John Joe Sheehan.

There was a recent case before the WRC (Workplace Relations Commission), where a pastry chef in Co Kerry, who was dismissed when she became pregnant, was awarded €33,600 from her former employees.

Ladies football chiefs in Kerry are considering playing their adult club championship games on Monday nights.

The 2004 Munster Hurling Final meeting of Cork and Waterford has been the most-watched GAA match so far in TG4’s All-Ireland Gold series this year.

Slowly but surely life is trickling back to the streets of towns across Kerry but as businesses open their doors, safety remains a prime consideration.

Few if anyone has served the GAA for as long as Gerald McKenna. The current president of the county board recalls those times and discusses where the GAA is now with John Fogarty.

The Kerry manager hopes that when the county game does come back that time is allocated to complete the national leagues.

Reports in Galway this evening claim former Kerry coach Donie Buckley will work with Claregalway for the forthcoming season.

Kerry chairman Tim Murphy says people will have to acknowledge there is a risk to returning to a form of normality.

Several county boards are preparing to finish up their championships in late September to give more time to their county teams.

Former Kerry captain Ambrose O'Donovan has claimed that current skipper David Clifford, and top forwards nationwide, badly need greater protection from referees.

Classic soccer and GAA, as well as a re-examination of an infamous Outback crime feature in today's highlights

AFL player and former Kerry minor star Stefan Okunbor has opened up on the shocking racism he endured as a young black man living and playing football in Ireland.

John Fogarty looks at how the rest of the GAA calendar will play out.

From running fitness classes in Waterville with Micko to winning seven All-Ireland medals, great Kerry footballer Eoin 'Bomber' Liston talks life and football with Anthony Daly.

Dublin defender Eoin Murchan says it would have been difficult for referee Conor Lane to know if he took too many steps in scoring his famous goal in last September’s All-Ireland final replay win over Kerry.

The live streaming of Kerry club fixtures — whenever the GAA sanctions a return to games activity — will be pay-per-view, county board chairman Tim Murphy has revealed.

Is anything really new?

In an extract from his autobiography ‘ About That Goal ’, Offaly great Seamus Darby reveals his friendship with the man whose life he changed forever, Tommy Doyle.

GAA president John Horan has been told the Kerry County Council would not have been able to cope during the height of the coronavirus crisis without the assistance of the sports organisation.

As much as we’d come to associate this time of year with glorious hurling weekends magnified by the sport’s highly satisfying new format, we may have forgotten the soundtrack that usually accompanied football around now: the din of complaints and demands for a “new championship structure”.

Dublin great Kevin Moran has revealed his surprise that the current Sky Blues group have managed to eclipse the successful Kerry team of his era, admitting he thought Mick O'Dwyer's team was untouchable.

Q&A with Neamh Woods, Tyrone senior football captain.

Colm O'Rourke has revealed that he tried to become Meath manager on three occasions but was knocked back each time and now believes his chance has gone for good.

Cork great Noel O'Leary has opened up about his epic struggles with Paul Galvin, admitting they did 'tango' at times but clarifying that it never got to personal sledging.

Bearing in mind they went on to claim 25 All-Ireland medals and nine All-Stars between them, it’s incredible to think that the first four men in that list were cruelly exposed that day as Meath took them for five goals.

Sheffield United’s influence on the Ireland squad is well established and another home-grown starlet, Leo Gaxha, intends swelling the legion.

Kerry fans tired of watching reruns of Seamus Darby's famous five-in-a-row-ending goal will get some relief as the June schedule for All-Ireland Gold was released.

Arts Editor Des O'Driscoll looks at the weekend's small-screen highlights.