One of the most interesting things in life was receiving a phone call from Eugene McGee. He didn’t waste time with small talk or even with much by the way of greetings.

Before our time, we’re reliably informed there were GAA journalists considered dedicated followers of fashion.

Longford man McGee guided the Faithful County to their famous 1982 All-Ireland final win, denying Kerry the five-in-a-row, as well as three consecutive Leinster titles and two All-Ireland Club SFC crowns with UCD.

Mr McGee, who was in his late seventies, passed away in the early hours of this morning.

Dublin forward Paul Mannion has revealed he laughs at claims their spectacular success this decade is down to money.

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.

Last weekend’s RTÉ Team Of The Year accolade for Ireland’s show jumpers may have crowned a memorable 2017 for equestrian sport in this country, but we’re not quite done for the year yet.

Derbies are the order of the day across the country this weekend, and those who choose to make the trip to Wexford, Cavan or Galway will also get to observe at least one All-Ireland title contender in action.

Myths, mishaps, and misconceptions. Inconvenient truths are plentiful in the GAA — here are 10 of the most high profile, writes John Fogarty.

In the circumstances, I suppose, the descent into hyperbole can be excused.

Derry, March 23, 2013. Overcome with emotion, Football Review Committee chairman Eugene McGee sheds a tear upon the announcement that the black card, against the odds, has received 71% support and will come into rule.

The GAA’s standing playing rules committee meets in Croke Park this evening where the black card is certain to be discussed.

Walking off the pitch in 1982 after hitting the goal for Offaly that ended Kerry’s five-in-a-row bid, Seamus Darby was collared by a supporter.

Eugene McGee has called for the appointment of full-time referees in Gaelic football to improve the standard of officiating in the game.

The answer to Brendan O’Brien’s assertion in his article ‘Professionalism in the GAA is steaming down the tracks’ (Irish Examiner, January 15) is contained in his own article when he quotes Eugene McGee as saying that it would be ‘a recipe for disaster’.

Rarely does a day pass in this country without a wonderfully evocative image appearing in the national papers from some sporting event or other and yesterday’s shot in these pages of Patrick Cronin striking the sliotar amidst the floodlights and flurries of snow during Cork and Waterford’s pre-season meeting in Mallow certainly ticked that particularly box.

Former International Rules manager Paul Earley says the introduction of the mark from a kickout can curb the number of hand-passes and resurrect the high-fielding midfielder.

GAA Director General Paraic Duffy has issued a passionate defence of the under fire football Championship, flatly rejecting Jim McGuinness’ claim that last weekend was a ‘watershed moment’ necessitating urgent overhaul.

Cork County Board chairman Ger Lane has neither ruled in nor out the prospect of the county appointing an outside senior football manager to succeed Brian Cuthbert.

So will the GPA find consensus among its members on this latest idea of theirs to restructure the All-Ireland senior football championship?

In football there always seems to be someone giving out about football, writes Kieran Shannon. 

It’ll be the wrecking ball for Cork soon enough as the bulldozers move into Páirc Uí Chaoimh. But it was county secretary Frank Murphy who was constructive, namely hitting the nail on the head when he spoke against plans to end the St Patrick’s Day All-Ireland Club senior finals.

Eugene McGee has claimed that the timing of matches brings Gaelic games into disrepute and slammed Central Council’s proposal to abandon the clock/hooter system at Congress tomorrow.

Later today, Liam Sheedy’s Hurling 2020 committee will unveil their recommendations after several months of canvassing opinion and consultation.

In any GAA table quiz worth its salt around Meath, a couple of old chestnuts will invariably crop up.

The chairman of the committee that proposed the introduction of Gaelic football’s black card believes, by and large, it has proven to be a success in its first year.

There goes another one, a forward that used to light it up but has now conceded that the game itself more than father time has dulled and worn him down.

James Horan has questioned why inter-county managers are not paid, describing the current situation as "unsustainable".

Former All-Ireland winning Dublin football manager Pat Gilroy has predicted professionalism is going to become a major challenge for the GAA.

Darren Hughes doesn’t need the platitudes of the Australian players at next week’s pre-test team dinner to appreciate just how unique inter-county Gaelic players are.

Former Kerry star Paul Galvin believes "amateurism is becoming unsustainable" in the GAA.

Gaelic Players Association chairman Dónal Óg Cusack says his views on professionalism in the GAA have changed, from wanting it as a teenager to believing now that amateurism is ‘more wholesome’.

Playing the All-Ireland senior and minor finals in August will be discussed at tomorrow’s Central Council meeting as a potential approach to condensing the club championships into the calendar year.

At this time of year, we’re supposed to be entering rugby country for the next while, but really, can a month that hosts so many county finals be more GAA than October?

The decision to split the All-Ireland SFC qualifiers into two separate sections has come in for criticism from Football Review Committee (FRC) chairman Eugene McGee.

"A good day for clubs" is how Football Review Committee (FRC) chairman Eugene McGee described Saturday’s Central Council meeting.

The much-maligned International Rules series appears to have been given another reprieve after Croke Park decided to remove it from the agenda of Saturday’s specially-convened Central Council meeting.

The death-knell for the much-maligned International Rules could toll on Saturday as the majority of counties are set to vote against its continuation.

GAA president Liam O’Neill is hopeful that steps to resolve the threatened boycott by some counties of the Munster football championship next year might be taken at next week’s Central Council meeting.

Club players are being abused and having their needs entirely ignored by the Gaelic Players’ Association (GPA), according to the head of the Football Review Committee.

If you can, try to put your championship expectations aside for one second and consider it’s Central Council time again on Saturday week.

From next month to September, 45 Championship games will be shown live on TV.