TOO OFTEN, the Cork team which won the 1989 All-Ireland has had to gather together in sorrow rather than joy.

Dublin’s awesome rise is now a growing concern

Defeat by Cork yesterday signals the end of an era for Kilkenny

Former Dublin manager Paul Caffrey has warned the All-Ireland champions must accept the responsibility that comes with the title of being the best as they attempt to combat their recent indiscipline problems.

DUBLIN attacking star Bernard Brogan has revealed he missed the majority of the immediate post-match celebrations of last September’s All-Ireland victory over Kerry as he was undergoing a compulsory drugs test at the time.

FORMER Dublin defender Keith Barr has raised serious concerns about the level of manliness being permitted in Gaelic football after Sunday’s Allianz Division 1 and 2 finals.

THE GAA’s games presentation committee chairman Jarlath Burns has ruled out the possibility of teams changing in opposing stands at Croke Park after Sunday’s Hogan Stand tunnel fight.

Armagh's Steven McDonnell and Galway's Ger Farragher have been named as Opel GPA Players of the League in football and hurling respectively, at the inaugural 2010 Awards in Dublin today.

ALL-IRELAND champions Kerry top the nominations for the Opel GPA Football Team of the Year with 11 Kingdom players shortlisted.

GPA chief executive Dessie Farrell has called on the Government to clarify its position in relation to the players’ grants as a matter of urgency, warning that an insistence that the GAA fund the scheme would be “discriminatory”.

The Gaelic Players Association have unveiled the nominees for the 2008 Opel Gaelic Players Awards for football.

“EVERY time you win, you’re reborn. When you lose, you die a little,” said George Allen, a legendary American football coach who spent 11 years shipping the blows and sucking in the highs with the LA Rams and the Washington Redskins.

GPA chief executive Dessie Farrell has rubbished speculation that he has been touted as a potential successor to Tommy Lyons as Dublin football manager.

Dublin county board chairman John Bailey has branded a string of former county stars a 'disgrace' for sticking the boot into Tommy Lyons.

DUBLIN manager Tommy Lyons offered his resignation to the County Board following their Leinster SFC defeat to Westmeath at Croke Park.

COMPETITION for this year’s FBD All-Ireland GAA Club Golf Challenge, supported by the Irish Examiner, is sure to be red hot if the calibre of entries already received is anything to go by.

The Philip Walton Dundrum House Pro Am will take place at the Golf & Leisure Club outside Cashel in Tipperary today and tomorrow.

The Philip Walton Dundrum House Pro Am will tee off at Dundrum House Golf & Leisure Club, Dundrum, Co. Tipperary, next Tuesday 9th and Wednesday 10th July 2002.

The search is on again for the longest kicker of a gaelic football in Ireland, both man and woman.