“People trained like alcoholics in those days. They didn’t like people to know they were training.”

“When the game was over, Loughnane slumped to the ground in frustration, and as he thumped his hurley off the turf, one could imagine his feelings and those of the many other Clare people in the ground. It was a sad setback for a hopeful team and one that may take some time to get over”

Munster Interprovincial football manager Ger O’Sullivan is adamant his team stand a great chance of beating Ulster in Sunday’s semi-final despite four of the province’s six counties being Division 4 teams.

Hundreds of mourners yesterday turned out to celebrate the life of hurling great, Jimmy Smyth in his home Clare village of Ruan.

The death has taken place of Seamus Coughlan, a member of Cork’s All-Ireland winning senior football team of 1973.

Kerry duo’s selection for the Martin Donnelly interpro series is a huge boost, writes Diarmuid O’Flynn

EVERY GAA parish has one — a character, a living embodiment of the club and its history.

THE last time a team scored seven or more goals in a Munster hurling final was in 1936.

Down’s innate sense of their own worth comes from schools success – and nowhere is more pronounced than in St Colman’s in Newry. Brendan O’Brien paid a visit to the home of the All-Ireland SFC colleges champions

All-Ireland winner Niall Gilligan has turned down an initial approach to link up with the Clare senior hurling panel for the 2010 campaign.

ALL-IRELAND winner Niall Gilligan has turned down an initial approach to link up with the Clare senior hurling panel for the 2010 campaign.

MUNSTER begin the defence of their Martin Donnelly Inter-provincial hurling championship this afternoon in Fermoy when they face Ulster (1.30pm), followed by the football semi-final between the same two provinces.

THERE are those who say we’re in enjoying a golden age in hurling now, but it’s not the first.

IN Joe Kernan’s eyes, he is as good as any footballer in the country.

JOE KERNAN had confided to his 1977 playing colleague Jimmy Smyth last week what he intended to do at half-time in yesterday's All-Ireland final to boost his players.

BENNY TIERNEY may have discarded the goalkeeper’s mini-rainbow jersey but he remains one of the game’s most colourful characters.

AS he says himself, Jimmy Smyth went from being a quiz question to a statistic on Sunday afternoon, when Armagh finally managed to lay their Croker demons to rest.