Barney Breen. That name rings a bell. Wasn’t he the chap in charge of the Leitrim footballers in 2013? Didn’t he win a Connacht medal with them, too, as a player back in ’94?

Michael Darragh Macauley is in new territory.

Jason Lonergan of Clonmel Commercials believes that a win over Tir Chonaill Gaels in the Club All-Ireland senior quarter-final on Sunday would be a huge statement for Tipperary football and set the standard for future generations.

Ballyboden St Enda’s 2-9 Portlaoise 1-11: Not so much a game won as one frittered away.

The GAA’s Interprovincials are in danger of being cancelled after all six games were postponed due to Storm Desmond over the weekend.

London GAA chairman Noel O’Sullivan has described their decision to allow the British Army compete in next year’s local championships as a “landmark move”.

When Paddy McConigley was growing up kicking football for his local Fanad Gaels club at Triaghalough in north-west Donegal, little did he know where the wind on the gusty peninsula would take him.

Corofin (Galway) 0-09 Tir Chonaill Gaels (London) 0-02

Corofin (Galway) 2-13 Ballintubber (Mayo) 1-7

The day you get ahead of yourself is the day you’re in trouble

At 27, Paudie Kissane still hadn’t played Championship football for Cork. But he retired with one All-Ireland title, two Munster crowns, three National Leagues and an All Star award. And now he’s plotting Kerry’s downfall.

Ireland Olympic team manager Patsy McGonagle has rejected the assertions made against Gaelic games and the GAA by Jerry Kiernan.

Paul Coggins insists his London side are undaunted by the prospect of facing Mayo on their home patch in Sunday’s Connacht final.

Limerick maintained their place at the top of Division 4 of the Allianz Football League this afternoon, while there were wins also for Tipperary, Offaly and Clare/Carlow this afternoon.

Dr Crokes 3-12 Tir Chonaill Gaels 0-06

Dr. Crokes (Kerry) 3-12 Tir Chonaill Gaels (London) 0-6

It all feels pure pantomime.

Colm Cooper, the standout footballer of his generation, has questioned the amount of rules tinkering taking place in Gaelic games at the moment, suggesting that if the current laws were enforced, then most problems would be solved.

Winter training is an undeniably hard slog in London, but it’s almost become second nature to Brian McBrearty.

He might have been kicking the odd sideline flag in frustration towards the end of the game but Paul Curran was never in doubt his Ballymun Kickhams team were going to come away from Mullingar with the Leinster title.

Dr Crokes captain Kieran O’Leary believes the club’s successful defence of their Munster title is largely down to the players’ maturity.

Dank Sundays in December aren’t the stage for a carnival, but there was the faintest sense of a football freak show at Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday.

Dr Crokes 0-19 Castlehaven 0-12

Two Offaly football heavyweights met in today’s county SFC final in Tullamore with Rhode pulling through to claim their 25th title, moving them within one of Tullamore on the honours list.

If it’s good enough for the likes of football superstars like Robin Van Persie and Frank Lampard, then it’s good enough for Ireland’s exiled GAA players.

Fermanagh’s footballers were last night trying to travel home after adverse weather caused travel chaos in London.

Manager Paul Coggins is convinced that London's long-awaited Championship win over Fermanagh on Saturday will not be a flash in the pan.

GAA chiefs cross-channel have yet to conclude their inquiries into allegations a player had his ear bitten in a Warwickshire senior football league game last week.

KILMURRY-IBRICKANE are a formidable footballing outfit and St Gall’s will be under no illusions about that fact when they go head-to-head in today’s All-Ireland Club final.

EARLY season training with a twist. Enda Coughlan has grown accustomed to the hard slog during the months of February and March in recent years, trying to calibrate his body for the rigours of the football season ahead.

KILMURRY-IBRICKANE captain Enda Coughlan believes his side’s recent practice in playing against 14 men was instrumental in achieving victory in Sunday’s bad-tempered All-Ireland Club SFC final against Portlaoise.

KILMURRY-IBRICKANE boss Michéal McDermott dedicated yesterday’s All-Ireland Club SFC semi-final triumph to defender Declan Callinan, who missed the game through a controversial suspension.

IT’S only the early stages of the GAA season but already Michael McDermott is a busy man.

KILMURRY-IBRICKANE boss Michael McDermott is optimistic long-serving attacker Odhrán O’Dwyer will be fit for Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC quarter-final against Tír Chonaill Gaels in Ruislip.

Newtownshandrum ace Ben O'Connor received a record number of nominations as the winners of the 2009 AIB Provincial Club Player of the Year awards were announced today.

London GAA chairman Tommy Harrell has welcomed the decision of TG4 to broadcast live coverage of the AIB All-Ireland senior club football quarter-final between Tir Chonaill Gaels and Kilmurray-Ilbrickane next month.

Corofin (Galway) 2-07 Tir Chonaill Gaels (London) 0-06

NEW Dublin boss Pat Gilroy will have to make do without some key players for the first few months of his reign following Kilmacud Crokes’ Leinster club final victory over Rhode.