John Fogarty asks what previous All-Ireland final replays can tell us about Saturday’s game?

All-Ireland winner Bryan Sheehan on learning the art of free-taking from Maurice Fitzgerald and why Kerry football is in a good place, despite the exodus of its All-Ireland winning stars.

The surprise U-turn by the new council came after the new office of the Planning Regulator intervened and warned that "the substantial parcel of lands" was outside the core area of Knightstown

Famous Kerry footballer Mick O’Connell and a neighbour are battling with county council and department of local government planners opposed to land on Valentia Island, Co Kerry, being designated for low-density housing

In the third of a five-part series on the local elections, Kevin O’Neill profiles the revamped Cork City North-West district

The Department of Foreign Affairs is contacting British authorities after fears were raised that submarines using sonar may have caused the deaths of a record number of Cuvier’s beaked whales off the Irish coast.

Goalkeepers of the Year

Autopsies are being carried out on several dolphins that have washed up on beaches in the last month.

This year the worst on record as 56 mammals wash up on beaches

The world of wine is a large place and columns like this I hope help distil it down to a manageable size.

TOMORROW, the pinnacle of the GAA season is reached, but it’s an occasion about much more than a game of football between two hyper-trained teams, writes Michael Clifford.

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It’s not just a jersey they hand you, but one with a number, and often that number counts.

Many a campaign was plotted in the front room of John and Maureen McNamara’s house on Shamrock Hill in Clonmel, many a victory celebrated, many a defeat mourned, many a cup of tea shared over the years on good footballing days and bad.

Two Presentation sisters died in a double drowning incident after going for a swim at Inch Strand, in Co Kerry on a fine summer’s evening in a calm sea, the inquest into their death was told yesterday.

Today, I beg the kind indulgence and understanding of my long-suffering readership as I take a first, nervous step into the world of confessional journalism.

She was a woman of many names. Also known as ‘Mary O’Connor’, ‘Mary the Shop’, and ‘Mary the Pensioner’, it was the title of ‘Mary John B’ that charmed her the most.

Kerry legend Mick O’Dwyer has expressed concern over the direction Gaelic football is taking.

All season long Donagh Kelly (Ford Focus WRC) has been a consistent barometer of pace in the Triton Showers National Rally Championship. 

WHEN Kerry won one of the most dour and tactically conservative All-Ireland finals in recent memory, last September, it would have been easiest to have put it down to tradition. Kerry win All-Irelands because that is what Kerry traditionally do. 

Sean Kelly thinks it would be "a disaster" for the GAA to run off all its fixtures in the one calendar year.

When outfoxed by superior coaching methods or tactics, Kerry have been swift to absorb lessons and make the necessary changes, writes Paddy Heaney.

Discarded plastic causing the death of a dolphin might be an ominous portent of things to come, a marine lobby group has warned.

All 13 members of a pod of long-finned pilot whales which live-stranded on a beach in Co Donegal yesterday morning have died despite the best efforts of locals to save them.

The Queen didn’t do a parachute jump, but Limerick yesterday exuded a spectacular summer glow for the opening of the Special Olympic Ireland Games.

Two local authority housing projects are to be built in Cork City as part of a €5m investment.

You can observe a lot just by watching,” the quote machine that is Yoggi Berra offered and reading a book on and with Dennis Bergkamp in recent days, we’re guessing the Dutchman would agree.

One of the country’s premier Irish cultural festivals, which is expected to attract up to 10,000 visitors by the weekend, is under way in Killarney.

A 92-year-old US woman who met her colourful Irish husband in most unusual circumstances will tonight recall the event.

How has the ‘look’ of Gaelic football’s most storied rivalry changed over the years?

Those who knew him well saw globe-trotting millionaire John O’Connor as a dynamic, complex, mercurial, and generous man and paid their due tributes yesterday.

Given almost 50 league campaigns have come and gone since, it’s quite possible the last time Kerry failed to score in a half of league football before last Sunday came after 1966.

As emigration threatens the survival of GAA clubs in one of its greatest strongholds, senior figures in the association are to hold a special meeting on the situation in Kerry tonight.

Valentia, home of Gaelic football legend Mick O’Connell, have informed the Kerry County Board they will be unable to field an adult team this year due to a player shortage.

Former Cork footballer Niall FitzGerald, who died last week, was a key member of the teams which lost the All-Ireland senior finals of 1956 and 1957 to Galway and Louth respectively and he also played in three losing Railway Cup finals with Munster.

It was the kind of send-off he would have loved — a packed house, music, humour, sporting people, and, most importantly of all, friends from all over the country.

Everyone has a “Páidí story” and they came yesterday as fast as the man himself ever ran around Croke Park.

The man considered to be the most stylish gaelic footballer in GAA history has delivered a withering indictment of the game he once loved and adorned.

With the All Star footballers flying into New York today for the first time since 1990, it’s worth going back to the first trip in 1975 which involved a unique exhibition remembered with affection around here.