A Kerry referee has suggested GAA broadcasters need to help fans better understand the rules.

The black card in Gaelic football could become a thing of the past as the GAA’s playing rules committee looks to simplify the classification of foul play in both codes.

Irish society is bankrupt, fears Pat Daly, who is heading up the new GAA ‘Going Well’ programme aimed at cultivating well-being among secondary school students.

Croke Park isn’t supposed to be a bundle of fun when three-quarters of the place lies out of bounds and the crowd can be corralled into a few sections of the Lower Hogan Stand.

Next year’s junior cycle well-being course will include a unit of learning titled ‘Is Everybody Going Well’.

A two-day benefit series at Castletownbere attracted much of the attention in a very packed calendar over the festive period. Aidan Murphy and Martin Coppinger saw 2018 out in style there.

Former Cork hurler John Fenton believes the Unesco decision to award hurling special cultural status will strengthen the game’s appeal, both at home and abroad.

Hurling took a step closer to Intangible Cultural Heritage recognition from UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) last night as a GAA delegation made a presentation to members of the body in Paris.

Dubbed ‘the voice of Cork’, he started collecting Cork folk songs in the late 1960s and early ’70s when it was neither fashionable nor profitable.

A growing herd of wild goats roaming free in residential and business areas on the western outskirts of Ennis "are procreating like there is no tomorrow" and castrating the male goats in the herd should be considered.

“Tipp v Clare...another turkey shoot. Goals are getting scarce. Sliothar has to be looked at. Travelling far too far. Points from distance. Boring.”

Those wishing to put forward their names to succeed Páraic Duffy as the next GAA director general have until Wednesday to apply. 

Mick Hurley’s star continues to rise with another fine performance which got him past John O’Rourke in the Ballinacurra tournament.

Dónal Óg Cusack has claimed that a standardised sliotar for hurling is urgently required.

Of the many great crimes that befell the last century, Ultravox’s Vienna being kept off the top of the UK single charts by Joe Dolce’s Shaddaup You Face in 1981 stands most unashamedly among them.

Pat Flanagan has revealed that it was his wife who informed him that he had been axed as Offaly senior football team manager on Tuesday evening.

The winners of a new development group will earn a preliminary All-Ireland quarter-final spot in the new All-Ireland senior hurling championship if the Central Competitions Control Committee (CCCC) have their way.

The 2017 inter-county hurling season will be the last in which non-standardised sliotars are used.

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Derry, March 23, 2013. Overcome with emotion, Football Review Committee chairman Eugene McGee sheds a tear upon the announcement that the black card, against the odds, has received 71% support and will come into rule.

The GAA’s standing playing rules committee meets in Croke Park this evening where the black card is certain to be discussed.

Plans for a footbridge over the River Shannon, which could cost over €17m, will be shut down if councillors vote to reject the project next month.

The so-called terrible beauty that WB Yeats said was born in 1916 was nothing of the sort. What materialised, in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising, was a Catholic state and the transfer of dominion from an imperial power to an ecclesiastical one, an outcome that Wolfe Tone and the United Irishmen of 1798 would have abhorred.

Bernie O’Connor says it is a “definite” that hurley makers will lose their livelihoods as a result of the ash-dieback disease and claims it will change the essence of the game of hurling.

The excitement was reaching fever pitch yesterday ahead of the St Patrick’s Day parade in Ennis, Co Clare, as a group of ‘new Irish’ Nigerians raised their voices to sing ‘Ireland’s Call’.

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin is obviously a decent prelate in the right place and at the right time. Unlike his predecessors, however, who alienated the people with their heavy handed authorianism and hypocrisy, Archbishop Martin comes across as one who wishes to serve rather than its opposite.

The introduction of mandatory coaching standards at inter-county level has been delayed until the end of the 2016 season, GAA director of games Pat Daly has revealed.

Diving will not be upgraded to a black or red card this year, as the GAA’s playing rules committee requires more time to study the area.

Margaret Hickey’s version of the history of Christianity ( Irish Examiner, December 18) was not a version I would have chosen.

Field of Dreams was on TV last week. Too difficult to believe, too impossible to love, it had us thinking not about Páirc Uí Chaoimh, Casement Park or a new Leinster venue close to the M50 – “build it and they will come” – but just how precious hurling is to a lot of us as baseball is to people here in America.

Catholic theologian Vincent Twomey recently commented that the reason his church had fallen from its perch was because it had stopped thinking.