The world of GAA has said goodbye to one of its greatest sporting legends.

He was a mortal after all.

Slightly paraphrased, Jimmy Rabbitte’s immortal quote from The Commitments describes Pat Gilroy’s club.

THERE is a story, perhaps apocryphal, told by the late Dr Jim Brosnan in “Dúthaigh Duibhneach”, a wonderful chronicle of life on the Corca Dhuibhne peninsula published a number of years ago.

THEIR Premier IHC ambitions may have ground to a halt at the semi-final stage this year but St Catherine’s concluded their 2011 hurling season on a positive note when they claimed the Cork U21BHC title in Páirc Uí Rinn yesterday afternoon.

AS he left Fitzgerald Stadium last Saturday afternoon, JB Spillane reflected on the end of his Kerry championship season.

TV3 and its sister station 3e will broadcast English and Irish commentaries of this year’s All-Ireland minor hurling and football finals.

TV3 says it will decide in the next month if it will broadcast the GAA All-Ireland Minor Hurling and Football Championship finals in Irish this September.

TV3 is considering doing a bilingual commentary for this season’s All-Ireland minor hurling and football finals.

THE man synonymous with commentating on the All-Ireland minor finals in Irish hopes the tradition continues when TV3 replaces RTÉ as broadcaster of the deciders next season.

CHAMPIONS Kerry could begin the defence of their All-Ireland football title without one-third of the starting 15 from last September’s victory, but nowhere will the deficit be more pronounced than in the midfield area patrolled for the last 16 years by Darragh O Sé.

IN THEIR curmudgeonly moments, Kerry football supporters like to berate Mick O’Dwyer for his loyalty to the Golden Year greats at the expense of those hoping to prolong the Kingdom’s monopoly of the 70’s and 80’s.

HARDY ANNUALS were in plentiful supply at Cheltenham yesterday as the racing and betting extravaganza got under way for 2008. Not in the flower beds, mind, but among the throng of national hunt fans who gathered for their annual splurge.

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TG4 has announced that the station will broadcast three days of the Galway Races exclusively live on the station on Friday, Saturday and Sunday of next week's Festival.

KERRY legend Pat Spillane, nowadays best known as a television pundit and newspaper columnist, will be profiled on TG4 in their popular Laochra Gael series.

KERRY BOARD chairman Sean Walsh wants Central Council to be given the power to decide on the use of Croke Park for other sports in order to maximise the commercial potential of the stadium.

The Munster SFC semi-final replay between Cork and Kerry will take place at Pairc Ui Chaoimh at 7pm on Sunday evening, the Munster Council announced tonight.

The Munster Council will decide today whether it should defer the football semi-final replay between Cork and Kerry following the sudden death of Micheal Ó Sé.