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Professor Niall Moyna, part of Dublin’s backroom team for their 2011 All-Ireland triumph, has fallen out of love with Gaelic football.

The three strands of Darren Hughes’ life come together to sustain the Monaghan midfielder; football, family, and farming as he shares a day in a way of life that is rapidly diminishing in rural Ireland.

Introducing PE as a Leaving Certificate exam subject this year will have “no effect” on schoolchildren’s fitness levels because it will only attract those who are good at it.

Donnchadh Walsh has confirmed he will return to the Kerry set-up for the latter stages of their Division 1 campaign.

Hard to believe but it’s over six years since Dublin GAA’s provocative ‘Blue Wave’ strategic plan was met with a tsunami of snipes.

Mick Bohan has worked alongside Jim Gavin embedding skills in Dublin, he has helped raised standards in Clare, and now his Dublin women stand on the cusp of an All-Ireland final. At the core of everything he does is simplifying Gaelic football’s most complex skills, writes Daragh Ó Conchúir.

Managers were largely unimpressed by the mark after its opening weekend as a permanent rule in inter-county football.

Fitness trackers have captured the public imagination with sales on the up and up. But do they deliver results, asks Lorraine Courtney.

As a retired high school teacher it should come as no surprise that Barney McAleenan has his homework done. Thoroughly done, at that.

DCU 6-14 Athlone IT 1-7: Monaghan’s Shane Carey fired a brilliant 3-6 as holders Dublin City University made a strong statement of their intention to capture back-to-back Sigerson Cup titles for the first time.

Finally, someone else said it.

Dublin defender Philly McMahon has so far escaped sanction following claims of eye-gouging Kieran Donaghy in the All-Ireland final.

Steven O’Brien joined a small and exclusive group on Saturday evening.

Niall Moyna hailed the strength-in-depth of the DCU bench as the defining factor in their fourth Sigerson Cup win.

DCU 1-14 UCC 2-10 (AET): Not for one minute had Tadgh Lowe stood between the posts in either the Higher Education league or O’Byrne Cup.

The Sigerson Cup finals weekend format is outdated and increases the risk of burnout, according to Niall Moyna.

Sigerson Cup semi-final

It is hard to imagine Niall Moyna experiencing a sweeter Sigerson Cup success with DCU if it occurs this weekend.

Sigerson Cup semi-finals DCU v UCD, Mardyke (R Hickey, Clare), 2pm

Sigerson Cup: St Mary’s 0-11 DCU 1-11 (AET)

University of Ulster 0-10 DCU 3-10

Kilkenny’s Cillian Buckley has warned any ban on inter-county players playing in the Sigerson and Fitzgibbon Cups would devalue both competitions and threaten third-level sponsorships currently being offered to him and many others.

It is less a matter of what’s professional practice as what’s good practice. The best managers and management teams understand this, writes <b>Kieran Shannon</b>.

Meath 1-14 DCU 1-14: Meath will have key attackers Stephen Bray and Mickey Newman available for their O’Byrne Cup clash with Dublin.

Aviva Health Insurance is calling on secondary schools to register for the Schools’ Fitness Challenge 2015. 

Ireland is a "Third World" nation when it comes to the physical sporting health of its young people, according to a leading expert in the field.

Teenagers as young as 15 and 16 are showing early signs of heart disease, new reaserch shows.

The family of an obese schoolboy has been told their son is "a walking time-bomb".

13,000 pupils take the challenge and learn the value of exercise, says Helen O’Callaghan.

ALLIANZ HL DIV 1 SEMI-FINAL

The level of attention that a top-flight footballer pays to mundane things such as practise, hydration, rest and nutrition is extremely important if you are to maintain any success in the game.

Meath 4-18 DCU 3-06

Leinster disciplinary officials have launched a full investigation into allegations a player was bitten during Dublin’s stormy O’Byrne Cup tie with DCU.