John Fogarty asks what previous All-Ireland final replays can tell us about Saturday’s game?

GAA president John Horan has condemned Colm O’Rourke for questioning the presence of Dublin CEO John Costello on the new fixtures calendar review task force.

With Donegal running one of the smallest football panels in the country and one of the largest backroom teams, it’s not stretching things much to suggest there are now more people operating outside the whitewash than inside.

Paul Keane in preview box Andy McEntee is a manager on the up, on the verge of elevating Meath to a first Leinster final in five years, having already masterminded a return to Division 1 in the Allianz league.

A documentary comparing the current cardiac scoring of the Down and Meath panels that faced off in the 1991 All-Ireland final has saved a number of lives.

Conor Gormley gave us ‘The Block’. Fifteen years later and its claim as the most iconic and influential split second in modern Gaelic football remains pretty robust.

The solution, for long-suffering devotees of Gaelic football, was staring us in the face all these years. Or rather it was turning its back on us.

The April fools were the GAA clubs which believed ‘club month’ would be a ring-fenced opportunity to inject momentum back into the grassroots. Our new columnist Paddy Kelly believes the first step towards correcting the Association’s biggest headache is to hand April back to the inter-county scene. Now read on...

Galway attacker Shane Walsh has admitted he found it difficult at first to get to grips with the team’s new counter-attacking strategy.

Negativity, according to new GAA president John Horan, attracts more attention than positivity so it was with extra emphasis that he delivered a plea to Congress delegates on Saturday.

Dublin’s four-time All-Star Paul Flynn has defended both the All-Ireland champions and the GPA against recent attacks by newspaper columnists.

St Loman’s Mullingar 0-13 Simonstown Gaels 1-8: St Loman’s, Mullingar, came from seven points down to defeat Simonstown Gaels of Navan and reach their first ever Leinster Senior Club final at TEG Cusack Park, Mullingar, yesterday.

Strange days. The RTÉ panel, not exactly a trio of giggly teenage girls at the best of times, are being sexist. Male-on-male sexist, that is.

Strange days. The RTÉ panel, not exactly a trio of giggly teenage girls at the best of times, are being sexist. Male-on-male sexist, that is.

When Gerry McEntee first arrived on the Meath scene as a player in the mid-1970s, he stepped straight into the slipstream of Dublin.

Teen prodigy Conor Nash has admitted that turning his back on Meath GAA and Leinster rugby to forge an Aussie Rules career was a ‘massive call’ for him.

Simonstown Gaels 1-14 Donaghmore/Ashbourne 0-8: Simonstown Gaels made no mistake at the third time of asking when capturing their first ever Meath SFC title before a crowd of 6,000 at Páirc Tailteann yesterday.

Chekhov’s gun. It’s a literary, ahem, thing. Erudite and discerning folk that they are, readers of the Irish Examiner’s sports section will be familiar with the concept. 

When Down hammered an ailing Kerry side in the 1991 All-Ireland semi-final, team manager Pete McGrath was greeted by a breathless and beaming county administrator Dan McCartan.

It’s not how the hell Tipperary have got here so much as why not. Here are 10 reasons behind their march to an All-Ireland semi-final...

Michael Quinlivan says it’s time Tipperary started backing themselves in public and quit talking down their prospects.

Kieran McGeeney fears supporters may have to be segregated in the future because of how the media perceives Ulster teams as cynical and over-physical.

Limerick footballer Ian Ryan talks movies, meals and MMA suitability in our Getting To Know You slot.

Former Roscommon goalkeeper Shane Curran claims the GPA has left inter-county players “without a voice” and is compromised by GAA funding.

Cian O’Sullivan. He’s playing but is he fit? Will he last the match? Will he even last the first half? Eeek.

Hendrix opening for The Monkees in ‘67.

Mayo’s dramatic late comeback against Dublin last Sunday will count for nothing if they fail to win Saturday’s replay.

Joe Brolly has hit back strongly at GAA President Aogán Ó Fearghail’s criticisms of The Sunday Game, saying the association wants “Rose of Tralee coverage”.

GAA president Aogán Ó Fearghail says The Sunday Game has become “predictable” and “tiresome” in its negativity.

Love conquers all. And so can pride and ego.

In February of last year, Kerry were chasing a late equalising point against Dublin in their opening Division 1 game in Croke Park when Aidan O’Mahony fell to the ground in the hope of persuading David Coldrick to award him a free.

Tyrone boss Mickey Harte last night revealed Tiernan McCann accepts he “made a mistake” after his controversial dive led to the red card dismissal of Monaghan’s Darren Hughes in Saturday’s All-Ireland quarter-final.

Good evening. Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on IrishExaminer.com today.

RTÉ GAA pundit Martin Carney has defended his decision to award Kerry’s James O’Donoghue the man of the match award in Saturday’s Munster SFC final replay victory over Cork.

Saturday evening’s game being a replay and in awful weather conditions was a difficult game to referee and Maurice Deegan will be happy to get over it with no major controversy.

Longford were forced to engage Kildare in battle in their surrogate home ground of Cusack Park in Mullingar on Saturday evening.