Referees chief Willie Barrett believes match officials can no longer be accused of playing for draws.

GAA president-elect Larry McCarthy has revealed he flew approximately 80,000 air miles in the last three months of his successful campaign to become the 40th president of the GAA.

It's at times like these you realise hurling never needed to be recognised as a UNESCO-protected cultural activity for it to be fortified.

This decade has been a fusion of revolution and domination.

New Offaly chairman Michael Duignan said he wants to unite Offaly GAA again after his election to the role at last night’s county convention in O’Connor Park.

Michael Duignan has said he will continue working for RTÉ if elected chairman of Offaly County Board.

Two-time All-Ireland winner Michael Duignan will go head to head with incumbent Tommy Byrne for the position of Offaly GAA chairman at next month’s county convention.

Lovely hurling.

A disastrous start to their Joe McDonagh Cup campaign has left Offaly in a battle to avoid relegation to hurling's third tier.

Tom Morrissey doesn’t blanch at the question.

The Limerick academy I was involved with for three years was about fostering a culture of doing things the right way — and not necessarily all about winning. Some people in the county had issues with me over that but I never had anyone say a single negative thing to my face, writes Anthony Daly

Waterford County Board chairman Paddy Joe Ryan has claimed the GAA and the Munster Council “would love to” demolish the Gaelic Grounds and Fitzgerald Stadium.

Here are the main talking points in the GAA world over the weekend.

"I had a bad injury myself in that area, and my young lad had as well. It's life-changing."

I watched the Limerick-Galway game in the RTÉ Studio in Montrose yesterday afternoon, just after Michael Duignan and I had watched the Tipperary-Cork game live.

Leitrim and Roscommon’s motion calling for the GAA not to renew their broadcasting deals with Sky Sports and eir won’t be considered until the current contracts conclude in 2021.

Horse sports received plenty of recognition at the RTÉ Sports Awards on Saturday night, but it was James McClean who collected the top award.

Cyril Farrell has tipped Joe Canning to win hurler of the year — but believes Galway’s Gearóid McInerney should have been one of the three players nominated.

John Coleman on the pressure facing All-Ireland final referee Fergal Horgan.

I can stand over my comments because I know, hand on heart, I’m not trying to stick a knife into any fella. Because I’ve been that fella. Pundits have said I was the best in the country. And they’ve given me flak and urged me to retire, writes Colm Cooper.

Ducking the issue of Sunday’s performance, Davy Fitzgerald seized the underdog factor, writes PM O’Sullivan.

Galway hurling captain David Burke doesn’t believe any team employing a sweeper will lift Liam MacCarthy and has claimed Waterford could benefit from not having Tadhg De Búrca available for next month’s All-Ireland semi-final against Cork.

Anthony Daly has defended his former teammate Davy Fitzgerald’s use of the sweeper system, though he doesn’t agree with the Wexford manager’s attack on Daly’s fellow RTÉ pundits Michael Duignan and Henry Shefflin, writes Larry Ryan.

Davy Fitzgerald opened two barrels on RTÉ’s hurling pundits’ criticism of the sweeper system after Wexford’s qualifier defeat earlier today, writes John Fogarty.

Dónal Óg Cusack will be in the Clare dugout at the redeveloped Páirc Uí Chaoimh when the Banner take on Tipperary in the All-Ireland quarter-final, but he hasn’t yet set foot in the revamped stadium. 

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Yesterday was tough, in more ways than one. I wasn’t in Thurles because I watched the game from the RTÉ studios in Montrose. It felt weird but, in another way, it was easier. 

Too many games is never a bad complaint but this past weekend’s inter-county GAA action and affairs takes a lot of digesting.

Former Galway defender Greg Kennedy says he can’t stand the fist-pumping done by the current crop of players.

Offaly great Michael Duignan has revealed his deep frustration with the state of hurling, claiming that the most talented players are being straight-jacketed by defensive tactics.

BIGGEST hurling story of 2015, thus far? No question there: Henry Shefflin’s retirement.

Wexford boss Liam Dunne has taken aim at pundits Michael Duignan and Ger Loughnane for remarks they made about his team two years ago.