Two days after the 2005 Donegal SFC final, Jim McGuinness gathered Naomh Conaill’s panel together in the shadow of Davy Brennan Memorial Park’s stand in Glenties.

The GAA is reported to be in "advanced negotiations" with Sky Sports with a landmark deal expected to be announced next week.

GAA President Liam O’Neill has expressed his desire for the black card to be introduced to hurling.

He will be an old style uachtarán. He will be a figurehead and an ambassador.

Paddy Buggy, whose death has taken place at the age of 84, was a member of a select group of All-Ireland medal-winners who served as President of the GAA.

ARE they trying to kill the woman? In this time of peace process, reconciliation, normalisation, closure, are they trying to grind the British monarch into the ground?

A former GAA President has committed a royal faux-pas during the visit to Croke Park today.

KILKENNY legend Eddie Keher has stoked the fires ahead of Sunday’s All-Ireland SHC semi-final by claiming that he would not touch Cork goalkeeper Donal Óg Cusack’s autobiography “with a 40-foot pole”.

History has been made at GAA Congress within the past hour, as the Gaelic Players Association has been given official recognition by the GAA.

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Outgoing GAA president Nicky Brennan will hand the reigns of power to Christy Cooney at this weekend's annual congress in Cork.

CORK hurling legend Willie John Daly last night described the late Wexford great Billy Rackard, who died aged 79 on Monday, as a “colossus”.

The IRFU and the ERC have welcomed the decision by the GAA's Central Council to make Croke Park provisionally available as a semi-final venue for this season’s Heineken Cup.

FÁS managers might have felt in need of the kind of beauty treatment availed of by Mary Harney in Florida as they were left battered and bruised by the end of a marathon six-hour session before the Oireachtas public spending watchdog yesterday.

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Cork captain Graham Canty is relishing the return of the autumnal series in which he captained Ireland in 2003, as the GAA prepare to announce the dates and venues of this year's International Rules Series.

Dublin Senior Football Manager Paul Caffrey is rejecting claims that his side is showing signs of indiscipline in the game.

The North's Sports Minister Edwin Poots is calling for an end to the playing of the Irish national anthem ahead of GAA games in the North.

Sony Computer Entertainment Ireland (SCEI) today announced that 'Gaelic Games: Hurling' will make its debut exclusively on PlayStation 2 on Friday.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern found himself in the middle of a plot when visited the National Ploughing Championships at Annaharvey yesterday — but it had nothing to do with politics.

The GAA and VHI Healthcare today launched details of a nationwide initiative to help clubs tackle the phenomenon of Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndrome.

GAA icon Con Murphy gave his life to the association, mourners at his funeral were told yesterday.

The president of the GAA, Nicky Brennan, has suggested all-Protestant teams to encourage more to become active in Gaelic games.

GAA president Nicky Brennan refused to be drawn yesterday on the future of the International Rules series following the violent scenes that marred yesterday's action at Croke Park.

LAST week, promising young hurler Liam O’Regan wore his beloved Kilkenny jersey sitting his Leaving Cert.

The Leinster Football Championship semi-finals will be played as a double header at Croke Park on Sunday, June 25.

THE GPA's hopes of building a more permanent relationship with Croke Park received a boost yesterday.

THE possibility of a players strike during the All-Ireland hurling and football championships was firmly ruled out by the GPA yesterday, but this weekend’s National League fixtures will be delayed by 15 minutes as a form of “dignified protest”.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern was a surprise recipient of a GAA President's award as the grass-root heroes of the association were honoured at the weekend in Croke Park.

A NEW GAA internet results service is up and running thanks to three Cavan natives, Vincent Kelly and current county seniors Micheal Lyng and Michael Hannon.

THE impact of any form of professionalism on the GAA would have a “catastrophic” effect on the promotion of their games, the GAA’s Director-General Liam Mulvihill insisted yesterday.

MOST players would favour the International Rules series being played every second year, according to GAA director general Liam Mulvihill, who added that such a format would ease the pressure on the GAA’s creaking fixtures calendar.

The Gaelic Players Association is due hold an emergency meeting tonight to consider the next step in its campaign to secure grants for inter-county players.

GAA chiefs on both sides of the Atlantic last night reiterated that the New York board fully support a decision to abandon stadium development plans for the Randall’s Island site in the big apple.

THE New York Board of the GAA agreed with the decision to abandon to proposal to develop a stadium on a site in Randalls Island, association President Sean Kelly insisted yesterday.

NEW YORK’S Irish community will have to wait until the new year before discovering whether their hopes for a GAA home in the heart of the city are to be realised.