Croke Park stadium director Peter McKenna says attracting American football, including NFL games, to the stadium is part of a long-term strategy designed to help the GAA to maintain its financial independence.

With just over three weeks to the Croke Park Classic, a programme of events around the American College football game between Penn State and the University of Central Florida (UCF) has been announced.

John Ri Manhattan College, a modestly-sized third level institution in the Bronx with a modestly-ranked athletics department, resonates quite deeply with the GAA in New York.

Next August’s College Football Croke Park Classic will bring Bandon’s Sean Galvin home. John Riordan spoke to the University of Florida kicker ahead of today’s clash at Penn State. Getting to one day play in Croke Park was the plan all along for Sean Galvin.

Getting to one day play in Croke Park was the plan all along for Sean Galvin.

Páraic Duffy loves American sport.

Thousands of American football fans are expected in Dublin next year for the opening game in the college football season.

Two of the North's largest charities, the Ulster Cancer Foundation and Action Cancer, have abandoned merger plans, it was announced today.

The British government was under growing pressure tonight to introduce a ban on smoking in bars, restaurants and all workplaces in Northern Ireland as a trial for the rest of the UK.