Declan Bogue Armagh may have made their first Ulster semi-final since 2014, but they could be

Two years ago, Gaoth Dobhair were beaten by 12 points in the Donegal Championship and walked out of the ground a broken team. Mervyn O’Donnell took over as manager and made one pledge — that he was going to restore honesty to the club.

His name was at the centre of this week’s frivolous All-Star arguments, but newly-crowned All-Star goalkeeper Rory Beggan is keeping himself at the top of the agenda by scoring an audacious point from play in Scotstown’s Ulster club win over Burren on Sunday.

Scotstown survived a black card for Kieran Hughes, 13 first-half wides and a penalty shout at the death to eventually squeeze past Burren, but if luck was a finite resource, they can expect little of it in the upcoming semi-final against Eoghan Ruadh Coleraine.

A former three-time All-Ireland winner who works as a Clinical Specialist Physio in the Trauma and Orthopaedics ward in Craigavon Hospital, has insisted that a ‘one-punch fatality’ is inevitable on GAA playing fields if the current cycle of violence is not halted.

Monaghan’s Darren Hughes has labelled as “embarrassing”, some of the proposed changes to Gaelic football that the GAA’s Standing Committee on the Playing Rules have floated last week.

McGurk lost his marriage, home, and freedom through a crippling addiction that saw him defraud his employers of more than £500,000 to feed his gambling.

The three strands of Darren Hughes’ life come together to sustain the Monaghan midfielder; football, family, and farming as he shares a day in a way of life that is rapidly diminishing in rural Ireland.

When Chris Kerr spoke out on his struggles to cope with depression, it stunned the sporting community in Antrim. Now the Saffrons keeper is coming out the other side, and proving an inspiration on and off the pitch, writes Declan Bogue

Kerry's change strip, corporate soirees, refs on the rise and other league talking points. Our writers wrap up a packed Allianz League weekend.

Kerry's change strip, corporate soirees, refs on the rise and other league talking points. Our writers wrap up a packed Allianz League weekend.

Eamon McGee admits he and his brother Neil were unwilling to sign a public statement suggested by the Donegal panel to back manager Jim McGuinness in the wake of the fallout with former star, Kevin Cassidy, in 2011.

If you want to play to the galleries at this time of the year, then get out the violin and play a lament for the club. 

Kieran Shannon talks about the in-house game a week out from a championship match, commonly known as As versus Bs.

Betrayal. It’s the one word that leaps out from the pages of Jim McGuinness’ book Until Victory Always — A Memoir.

Kieran Shannon looks back at three epic encounters on Sunday, June 26, 2011 that proved to be momentous moments in shaping the destinies of three provincial championships.

Brazilians have decided poverty is too high a price to pay for football

The ‘turning a blind eye’ mentality may be fuelling violence on GAA playing fields, writes Conall Ó Fátharta

James Horan has become the latest in a long line of inter-county manager to have a go at RTÉ, accusing the national broadcaster of being biased in the run-up to last September’s All-Ireland final defeat at the hands of Donegal.

You’d hardly have noticed but there’s no William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year award this winter.

Kevin Cassidy will, after all, share a flight with Jim McGuinness and several of his former Donegal team-mates when this and last year’s football GAA-GPA Opel All Stars fly out to New York next month.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Jim McGuinness is set to come face to face with Kevin Cassidy on November’s All Stars trip to New York.

The biggest cheer at Croke Park yesterday was reserved for victorious manager Jim McGuinness, who was hailed by Michael Murphy as the man who brought Sam Maguire back to Donegal after a 20-year absence.

For a while, Jim McGuinness let himself smile and enjoy the moment.

Only this week, I was reminded why Jim McGuinness’s first All-Ireland title as coach of Donegal was much longer than two seasons in the making.

An indignant Jim McGuinness refused to participate in yesterday’s post-match press conference until a journalist was removed from Croke Park’s interview room.

And then there was just one — if Ronan Clarke gets back at all.

The Armagh County Board will cite an incident involving a member of the Laois official party at their meeting with Central Hearings Committee (CHC) tomorrow night.

Deadlock: Dublin v Meath 1991

A STELLAR year for sports books?

DONEGAL captain Michael Murphy claims his former team-mate Kevin Cassidy was wrong to contribute a book documenting his season with the county.

JIM McGUINNESS maintained it’s more important to look forward instead of back during his first public appearance since axing two-time All Star Kevin Cassidy from his panel.

WE were sitting in a café on the Ormeau Road, talking football, when Declan Bogue told me that he was writing a book.

BEYOND the sound and fury surrounding Kevin Cassidy’s expulsion from the Donegal senior football panel, the calls for mediation, managers forbidding players to attend social events and all the rest of it, there’s a book.

The disagreement between Donegal manager Jim McGuinness and axed defender Kevin Cassidy is such that the All-Star feels that he has played his last inter-county game.

Ewan MacKenna on the controversial axing of Donegal footballer Kevin Cassidy

All-Star wing back Kevin Cassidy has been dropped from the Donegal senior football panel, following suggestions that Jim McGuinness was unhappy with the defender's participation in a newly-published book.

THEY’VE been getting a little bit hot and bothered over a book up in Donegal, if you haven’t heard.