GPA chief executive Paul Flynn has implored members to respect the collective activity ban until March 29 or risk the Championship being affected by the coronavirus outbreak.

Tonight’s battle to become the next GAA president is a two-horse race between Jarlath Burns and Larry McCarthy.

At Congress two years ago, the GAA voted to prohibit the sponsorship of any GAA competition, team, playing gear or facility by a betting company.

In large font on the front page of both ESRI reports commissioned for the GAA and GPA exists the phrase “evidence for policy”.

It was never really about the report. Nowhere in GAA director-general Tom Ryan’s annual offering was there a criticism of the Gaelic Players Association (GPA). Nowhere in those 60 pages was there a mention or a scintilla of evidence that the GAA consider the inter-county players’ body ‘a problem child’.

Farrell presided over his first official press conference as Jim Gavin's successor at the offices of Dublin GAA sponsors AIG and had good news for supporters.

On the eve of the roaring twenties, John Fogarty hails the doyens of the last decade in hurling

Less than one in four inter-county GAA players say they have ever been tested for doping during their careers.

The result, which played out in front of a crowd of 1,628, means the All-Ireland champions cannot now progress to the decider.

Research by the Economic and Social Research Institute has revealed a number of alarming findings about Gaelic players, including unmonitored supplement use among inter-county players and education choices based on their playing pursuits.

Readers of this column know what they can find here is a long-term and, we hope, healthy scepticism of the Gaelic Players Association (GPA).

All-Ireland champions Tipperary went down to visitors Clare in this Co-Op Superstores Munster Hurling League opener at MacDonagh Park, Nenagh.

GPA chief executive Paul Flynn on the importance of maintaining amateurism in the GAA, the importance of the club player, and challenging the misconceptions surrounding the work of his association.

The Tuesday night after Donegal scraped through the 2014 All-Ireland quarter-final, Jim McGuinness crammed his players into a makeshift portable building at Donegal’s yet-to-be-built Centre of Excellence in Convoy.

Gaelic Players’ Association head Paul Flynn reckons the Club Players Association has performed a service of sorts by quitting the GAA’s task force on fixtures reform.

It used to be like this. A call for coffee with the manager, or a discreet invitation from one of the selectors. In the worst-case scenario a league panel without your name on it might appear in the paper.

Sunday afternoon Ballygunner host Patrickswell in the Munster Club SHC semi-final in Walsh Park (throw-in 1.30pm).

Inter-county players, they’re either schoolteachers or studying to become school teachers. Or just studying full-stop.

Six-time All-Ireland winner Paul Flynn has admitted that quitting Dublin and stepping away from inter-county football isn’t an easy thing to do.

Honours to Borris-Illeigh in this Tipperary SHC final - the 7,250 in attendance saw them defeat Kiladangan in a hard-fought encounter.

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Stephen Cluxton has spoken about his return from serious injury last season, his obsessive focus on self-improvement, and his admiration for manager Jim Gavin.

Former footballer of the year Bernard Brogan has announced his retirement from inter-county football.

Seven points from Conor Kenny guided 14-man Borris-Ileigh to a Tipperary SHC showdown with Kiladangan after they dismissed Kilruane McDonaghs 0-16 to 0-15 in Semple Stadium.

Upperchurch-Drombane’s bid for a first Mid Tipp SHC title ended in agonising disappointment at Littleton yesterday as they lost to Drom-Inch by 2-19 to 1-21 after extra-time.

RTÉ pundit Kevin McStay has slammed the “sad haters” who are attacking GAA stars on social media.

NA PIARSAIGH overcame the second-half sending off of Ronan Lynch to see off Kilmallock

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Players chief Paul Flynn has called on the GAA to ‘shelve’ next month’s vote on a new Tier 2 football Championship structure until everyone has had their say on the proposed change.

The Gaelic Players’ Association will likely propose the introduction of a concussion sub rule at next year’s annual congress.

Bohan shared the story of Niamh McMorrow, who overcame huge odds to be the champion's mascot.

Iis anticipated that each will receive along the lines of €50,000

Bernard Brogan is one of the founders of Peptalk, a corporate well-being company that counts big businesses like Coca-Cola, Zurich and Northern Trust as clients.

When Diarmuid Connolly sat back into the pocket, setting himself up for power fade with the outside of his right boot, in a similar way to Ronan O’Gara and the Grand Slam drop goal over a decade ago, I thought perhaps the story was written in the stars for the prodigal son to return home with the fattened calf.

The birthplace of Irish hospitality is undoubtedly east Cork thanks to Myrtle Allen and her Ballymaloe House and the market town of Midleton, long time host of one of the country’s original farmer’s markets, is the very natural HQ for the upcoming fEAST food festival (September 1-8) although events span the region.

The Oxford Dictionary defines juggernaut as ‘a huge, powerful, and overwhelming force’ and by way of explanation uses ‘the juggernaut thundered through the countryside’ as a descriptor.