GAA director general Páraic Duffy says the world has changed completely since 2010 when the organisation told the government selling their media rights to a “foreign channel” was out of the question.

It wasn’t the All Star that capped James O’Donoghue’s marvellous 2013 season but the wink that greeted it.

Central Council is likely to defer the new age rule on inter-county minor teams until next year, GAA director general Páraic Duffy has revealed.

Jose Mourinho and Roy Keane have a bit in common. If anyone in the party is travelling business class, it shouldn’t be the suits.

A former mayor of Newbridge finished a marathon “in a fairly fast time” at a time he was claiming a chest infection prevented him from returning to his job, according to Kildare County Council.

In Kerry, a county with so many All-Ireland medals, what kind of person would be agreeable to the general populace as a radio sports host?

Thank you to Michael Clifford for his outstanding article on Roy Keane (Irish Examiner, Jun 16) and his comments on the Irish team/fans’ attitude and performance.

PATRICK O’SULLIVAN was last night ratified as the new chairman of the Kerry county board after he defeated Johnny Mulvihill by 183 votes to 59 votes in the election at the annual convention in the Malton Hotel in Killarney.

IN September 1955, the 19-year-old Mick O’Dwyer was a spectator in Croke Park when Kerry’s traditional football skills triumphed over the science and swagger of a much-hyped Dublin side.

Diarmuid O’Flynn and Fintan O’Toole argue both sides of the debate

KERRY County Convention last night voted unanimously to give the Central Council the power to open Croke Park to non GAA activities after the present agreement with rugby and soccer expires.

TUESDAY evening before six o’clock and Kerry selector Eamon Fitzmaurice is pacing out and aligning training cones in Killarney with the precision of an engineer.

MUNSTER’S GAA administrators have suffered a blow with the decision of provincial deputy chief Danny Nelligan to pursue an alternative career.

BY his own admission, GAA President Christy Cooney favoured “fresh blood” in is choice of chairmen of 31 national committees, which he announced at a meeting of the Central Council in Cork following the completion of Congress.

KERRY chairman Jerome Conway has called for a reappraisal of the drug-testing procedures the GAA are obliged to comply with, saying that Aidan O’Mahony’s unfortunate experience in being subjected to media scrutiny in advance of his hearing highlighted the need for a “privacy rule” to be introduced.

KERRY GAA officials will defend Kingdom captain Paul Galvin all the way to the Disputes Resolution Authority in a bid to have his proposed six month ban shortened.

KERRY County Secretary Eamonn O’Sullivan seems likely to continue in office for possibly a further two years.

MUNSTER Council chairman Sean Fogarty believes the GAA should explore the possibility of establishing their own television channel.

GREATER consideration needs to be given to counties to assist them in meeting the huge annual costs of preparing inter-county teams, said Kerry County Board secretary Eamonn O’Sullivan at last night’s Munster Convention.

CROKE PARK will be this weekend’s big winner, its coffers raking in over €3 million from GAA fans.

KERRY GAA Secretary Eamonn O’Sullivan has tackled Croke Park over the low level of expenses for stays in Dublin on the weekends of All-Ireland football semi-finals and finals.

TWELVE months ago, in Páirc Uí Rinn, Kerry were participants in the first floodlit game in the Allianz National Football League against Cork.

KERRY GAA chiefs face a battle to replace Páidí Ó Sé as the county’s football manager after a three minute phone conversation on Thursday night that went disastrously awry.

KERRY GAA chiefs have set up a special executive team to probe Sunday’s violent assault on AIB Kerry SHC semi-final referee, Gearóid O’Regan.