AS treasurer Eamonn Buckley told delegates after the 2008 accounts showed almost a 50% jump from the previous year’s figures: “You won’t have success without cost.”

GALWAY SFC champions Killererin were dumped out of this year’s competition after being taken apart by an outstanding Salthill/Knocknacarra in Corofin yesterday.

Galway 2-13 New York 0-12

THERE’S a book going to hit your shelves in a few weeks’ time, ‘Unlimited Heartbreak’, by Henry Martin — it should be made compulsory reading for every Limerick hurling supporter.

IT was 1984, centenary year of the GAA, and in Kilkenny, the land where hurling is the major religion, Ballyhale Shamrocks reigned supreme. Just once in the previous six years (1981), was their authority broken, beaten by The Village, the legendary James Stephens club in the city.

CROKE PARK on a non-match day can be a deceiving place.

HE has a dry wit, has Tipperary’s Lar Corbett, droll enough in delivery but effective nevertheless.

NEGOTIATIONS between Croke Park and the GPA to discuss official recognition for the players’ body will recommence shortly, according to Christy Cooney.

GAELIC Players Association chief executive Dessie Farrell remains upbeat about the prospects of formal recognition by the GAA despite criticism from outgoing President Nickey Brennan and the revelation that negotiations collapsed because the players’ body had requested “a specific percentage” of the Association’s income to fund their activities.

New GAA President Christy Cooney has outlined some of his plans for his three-year term of office, following his inauguration at GAA Congress in the Rochestown Park Hotel in Douglas.

ANTHONY DALY revealed he was approached by a number of counties before agreeing to manage the Dublin hurlers.

FORMER Tipperary star and All-Ireland-winning manager Nickey English fears that it may be ‘a struggle’ for the amended structure of the senior hurling championship for the next three years to get through next weekend’s Special Congress in Croke Park.

CAMOGIE President Liz Howard hopes the GAA will continue to pair their junior and senior finals with the All-Ireland U21 hurling championship decider in Croke Park as they do on Sunday for the third consecutive year.

GAA TALKS with the Gaelic Players’ Association (GPA) on official recognition for the players’ body are set to resume shortly, according to GAA president Nickey Brennan.

WHAT a magnificent match in Tullamore yesterday evening, this 2008 Christy Ring final.

The GAA and the Australian Football League (AFL) will meet in Dubai this week for talks in a bid to restore the future of the International Rules series.

In the wake of Sunday’s All-Ireland final, the fans have mixed feelings.

AWAY for just one week, come home to turmoil. Scandal, revealed by GAA president Nickey Brennan, inter-county managers getting filthy lucre for doing what every proud and decent GAA person should be happy to do for nothing.

A second candidate has been nominated to contest the election to be President of the GAA at the next Congress. Cork moved first and officially nominated Munster Council chairman, Christy Cooney.