Derek McGrath has criticised the “sweeper” characterisation of Waterford on RTÉ’s Up For The Match programme on Saturday.

Not many counties have managed the full set in the one calendar year but this was all about the moment Galway captain David Burke trotted up the steps of the Hogan Stand just after five o’clock and raised the last bit of silverware high above his head.

Long after they stepped from the field and handed back the maroon shirt, Galway’s celebrated men of ’87 and ’88 continue to look out for one another.

The tragic passing of Tony Keady last week, and the outpouring of sympathy it provoked, illustrated yet again the ties that bind the GAA fold.

Former Hurler of the Year Tony Keady has died in hospital in Galway after suffering a serious illness earlier this week.

It remains a mystery why RTÉ hasn’t cashed in on the Irish people’s love of nostalgia.

It’s not the malaise that shadows the Galway senior hurling team that exercises Tony Keady most. 

Tiny Armagh nine-year-old Jesse McParland shocked Britain’s Got Talent judges and wowed the crowd with her performance on the show last night.

Galway hurling legend Tony Keady says the GAA will make another terrible mistake if they follow through on Andrew Shore’s 48-week ban.

Kilmacud Crokes claimed the One Direct All-Ireland Senior Sevens Hurling title for the first time at Glenalbyn this evening.

Six people have died on our roads so far this bank holiday weekend.

A mother of five and a woman in her 20s were among six victims killed in separate road traffic crashes on both sides of the border over the public holiday weekend.

Eveo Solutions has become the first Irish manufacturer of electric charging stations after spotting a gap in the market, and has the UK and Norway firmly in its sights, writes Trish Dromey.

A 36-year-old employee with a serious gambling addiction has been given a suspended two-year sentence for stealing almost €50,000 from a Brown Thomas store in Galway.

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Just as he brought some fresh thinking to hurling as a player, Donal Óg Cusack has thankfully extended the same as a pundit.

Praveen Halappanavar will be grateful “to his dying day” to the critical care staff at Galway University Hospital for the care they gave to his wife Savita before she passed away.

Looked at in isolation, Galway’s feat in winning back-to-back All-Ireland titles in 1987-88 represented a major leap forward for a county more used to feeding off scraps from hurling’s elite.

Perhaps most vitally, they boasted then a certain dash of JR’s winning lawlessness.

Teagasc feed and nutrition expert Tim Keady has been awarded the prestigious Sir John Hammond Award at the British Society of Animals Science’s annual conference at the University of Nottingham.

THE Wild Geese, a team of US marines based in England, are amongst eight sides competing in the inaugural Thurles Sarsfields International Hurling 13s this weekend.

TWO weeks ago, on the day Galway faced Dublin in the Leinster semi-final, three former greats came out with stinging criticism of John McIntyre’s players in a newspaper article.

WAYNE KINGSTON and Tadhg Crowley will contest next Saturday’s Munster Junior C final at Killumney following impressive semi-final wins.

Police in the North will today carry out a painstaking investigation into a car bomb attack by dissident republicans.

THE man accused of murdering Swiss student Manuela Riedo in October 2007 sold Ms Riedo’s mobile phone to his sister’s boyfriend nine days after the killing, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

The Central Criminal Court has heard that the DNA of a Galway man accused of murdering Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo in October 2007 was found inside a condom that had been found at the scene of her death.

MONAGHAN United eased to their third successive win in the eircom League First Division when they dominated a lifeless Athlone Town at Kingspan Century Park.

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Ireland beat Wales 7-5 at the Clan Naofa Boxing club in Dundalk last Friday night in a keenly contested Boy 4 international.

The National Boy 1,2 & 3 Championships commenced at the National Stadium in Dublin yesterday with thirty seven preliminary round and quarter final bouts in the Boy 1& 2 categories.

THE Camogie Association is not budging on the venue for the All-Ireland senior club final between St. Lachtain’s from Kilkenny and Antrim side O’Donovan Rossa.

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John Toal could be back playing football as early as June.

It's been 15 years since Cork and Galway met in an All-Ireland hurling final, the year of the double and the day Joe Cooney had a first half to dream about. However the second half belonged to Cork and Tomás Mulcahy.

FORGET about boots and ambush advertising. You want controversy? Let’s go back a few years, to 1989.

An MRI scan has today confirmed the worst for John Toal - the talented Armagh midfielder is to be sidelined from football for at least a year.