Founded in 1886, Staker Wallace GAA is one of those clubs that typifies all that makes the GAA what it is — the heartbeat of small communities nationwide.

A LIMERICK GAA club has clinched a super property swap with millionaire race horse owner JP McManus.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese was the first VIP visitor to view JP McManus’s new mansion when she called for lunch during a visit to Co Limerick on Tuesday.

LEGENDARY gambler and racehorse owner JP McManus has secured a deal with a junior Limerick GAA club to swap its three-acre playing fields for a state-of-the-art sports complex on a 20-acre site nearby.

HURLING fanatic JP McManus wants a GAA pitch in the grounds of the 40,000 sq ft mansion he is completing in Martinstown, Co Limerick.