The 28-year-old announced his retirement from the squad on Monday night, ending a ten-year run with the county senior side.

‘Our main men must step up, because Waterford hurling is in crisis’

Former Waterford manager Derek McGrath has rejected claims that the county’s senior hurling team are in crisis.

Former Waterford selector Dan Shanahan says the Déise players must lift a downbeat county against Limerick in Walsh Park tomorrow.

Two critically endangered Black and White Ruffed lemur babies have been born at Fota Wildlife Park in Cork on April 27 to mother 'Cloud', who is 17-years-old, and father Paraic, who is seven-years-old.

One cannot but be struck by hurling’s ability to evoke a reversal of fortunes, not to mention opinions.

Excitement is growing ahead of the Home & Garden Festival, writes Peter Dowdall.

At the tender age of 23, Dr Tom Devine bid farewell to inter-county hurling. It had been on the cards.

This past year I’ve gone back to college to study sports science and yesterday morning I had to hand in an assignment.

The league form of Stephen Bennett will ensure he will be targeted by opposing managers when the Munster SHC commences soon, writes Peter McNamara.

You might be wondering when Pauric Mahony, arguably the best in the business with the exception of Patrick Horgan, will return to free-taking duties for Waterford.

Former GAA president Nickey Brennan has hailed outgoing director general Páraic Duffy as “by some distance” the best sports administrator in Ireland and beyond over the last decade.

Colm Cooper’s first port of call when considering the offer of a testimonial evening in his honour was the GAA’s Director General, Páraic Duffy.

The great Lahinch links, especially when it is swept by a seriously strong wind from the Atlantic, never fails to provide great matches over the closing stages of the Pierse Motors South of Ireland Championship. 

Age should be no barrier to living an adventurous and full life, especially if you have the time after retirement, writes Caroline Allen

The man embroiled in the conflict between the GAA and the Club Players Association (CPA) says his position should not be a conflict of interests.

I signed up as a member to the Club Players Association this week. I believe that the CPA is very much on the side of right when it comes to the fixtures issue. I also believe the interests of the GPA and the CPA are not mutually exclusive.

Club Players Association (CPA) fixtures coordinator Derek Kavanagh believes the “Super 8” All-Ireland SFC proposal will be “the straw that breaks the camel’s back” for club fixtures.

The Club Players Association (CPA) says the legitimacy of the “Super 8” addition to the All-Ireland senior football championship won’t hold up if the Gaelic Players Association (GPA) also oppose it.

University of Limerick 2-21, NUI Galway 2-12: The hurlers of UL booked their place in the quarter-finals of the Fitzgibbon Cup with this second comprehensive victory on home turf.

The newly-formed Club Players Association has made its first significant stand by calling on GAA Director General Paraic Duffy to “park” his proposals for Championship reform.

Cork chairman Ger Lane shares the Club Players Association’s concerns the balance of power has tilted too much towards the inter-county scene. However, he has described their support for All-Ireland finals to be played on the August Bank Holiday as “a bit ambitious”.

Students working in Berkeley, California on a J1 visa say they have encountered difficulties in securing accommodation because they are Irish.

Didn't get him a date though.

This sound Offaly guy saved a woman from getting clamped

Dublin GAA will continue to pocket the largest slice of Central Council funding until smaller counties find their voice and challenge the status quo, according to Sligo football manager Niall Carew.

GAA president Aogán Ó Fearghail accepts Croke Park’s plans to scrap the All-Ireland U21 football championship may have been hasty.

The Australians may have left New York for Dublin on Monday but the Big Apple will be very much on the AFL’s agenda when they sit down for lunch with the GAA tomorrow.

The GPA have broadly welcomed the 11 proposals set out by GAA director general Páraic Duffy aimed at addressing player burnout, overtraining and the fixtures calendar.

Jim Gavin has described as “baffling” Central Council’s decision to oppose the introduction of the clock/hooter, having endorsed it last year. 

"Women and children first". No, Liam O’Neill wasn’t on a Titanic lifeboat but as he bids adieu to the presidency his efforts for the often-overlooked denominations of the GAA may be the defining aspects of his three years, not just the reviews of football and hurling and the arrival of Sky Sports, says John Fogarty.

GAA president Liam O’Neill has defended their contract agreement with Sky Sports, despite a motion from Clare to Congress to make all broadcasted Championship games available on terrestrial TV.

After three Leinster final appearances and three Leinster final defeats, it would be tempting for Paraic Sullivan to suggest Rhode’s latest provincial decider is life and death stuff.

Russell Brand got a taste of his own medicine yesterday as Irish reporter Paraic O’Brien got a little too personal during an interview outside number 10 Downing Street.

Bringing both All-Ireland senior finals forward by week will help "revolutionise" the GAA calendar, claims GAA president Liam O’Neill.

The GAA must have known they were making themselves hostages to fortune when they dubbed their American football showcase as the ‘Croke Park Classic’, but Penn State and the University of Central Florida obliged with a game that lived up to its billing.

The hurler and footballer and soccer player on the ditch is a great fella for tradition. This can be a nuisance for brave, forward-looking men like Páraic Duffy and Pete Winkelman.

“New housing starts at zero and unemployment up 100,000”. This is the headline that your paper may well be printing in the future and I will explain why with a story.