It was Declan Hannon who said it, sitting in the victors’ banquet with the Liam MacCarthy Cup in front of him: ‘We’ve all marched behind the band out the back garden when we were four, five, six years of age.’

It was Declan Hannon who said it, sitting in the victors’ banquet with the Liam MacCarthy Cup in front of him: ‘We’ve all marched behind the band out the back garden when we were four, five, six years of age.’

While Clare were sharp, Derek McGrath’s team were blunt. And surprisingly and disappointedly, undisciplined.

He’s just an interested spectator these days, and Seán Óg Ó hAilpín plans to keep it that way, but from his viewpoint Cork are set up for a positive summer.

An elegant playmaker, Paddy Kelly has retired from Gaelic football with one All-Ireland senior medal. But he wanted more and rather than look back, he is angry about Cork’s future and what he sees as apathy engulfing the county...

A teenager who found a way of stopping his earphones from falling to the ground, and tripping him up, has won the top Student Enterprise Award.

Commemorations might be about the past, but many of the people attending the 1916 Rising parade were thinking of the future and of their children’s futures.

Cork GAA legend Seán Óg Ó hAilpín started his new year in style yesterday, marrying his long-time love in Cork.

Wedding bells rang in the new year for two of the GAA’s fiercest sporting rivals — both Seán Óg Ó hAilpín and Paul Galvin will be tackling 2016 as married men.

A lavish fund-raising effort from Kerry GAA chiefs in New York, Chicago and Boston has helped put a €1 million dent in the cost of the Kingdom’s proposed Centre of Excellence at Currans, near Farranfore.

It is less a matter of what’s professional practice as what’s good practice. The best managers and management teams understand this, writes <b>Kieran Shannon</b>.

Offaly manager Brian Whelahan has revealed how Rory Hanniffy played through 2014 with three knee fractures and lined out against Tipperary in the Championship ‘against all medical advice’.

The nature of goalkeeping is that survival one day means nothing a few weeks later

For a measure of how a player is valued, very often you need look no further than his club. When he was barely out of his teens, Na Piarsaigh trusted Christopher Joyce with the most pivotal and responsible position on the field, centre-back.

I love the romantic idea of the laoch who can play both hurling and football but the environment is making them extinct

John Fitzgibbon’s father, Vincie, told me something once in Cloyne when I was a young fella.

Waterford manager Derek McGrath has dismissed calls for Cork’s Anthony Nash’s free-taking technique to be outlawed, even if he might be lamenting the Rebel keeper’s goalscoring touch this weekend.

Henry Shefflin has revealed he has a growing appreciation of the reasons why the Cork hurlers went on strike in 2002.

Tralee GAA club John Mitchels merge old and new as they look to the future

Managers don’t live or die by their decisions but they either win or lose by them, keep their jobs or are fired by them.

A community is rallying around a family of seven left homeless for Christmas following a devastating fire.

He’s changed. Every so often, working in the bar, he realises that.

By his own reckoning, Seán Óg Ó hAilpín was probably the least skilful hurler to ever put on a Cork jersey — but has there been a more dedicated person to wear it? “That’s what made me survive,” he suggests. Now with his life thoughts put to paper, he’s ready to reflect, without bitterness, without rancour. Anyone looking for sly digs won’t find them here.

I never really got it; the Access All Areas pass.

Former Young Hurler of the Year turned AFL star, Setanta Ó hAilpín, tied the knot over the weekend in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Cork folk in Duhallow are usually gearing up for the All-Ireland football final, but the rise of hurling in the division is no accident.

After a weekend and summer of GAA like that, we have to dispense with our normal practice of zoning in on just the one thing.

Cork selector Ger Cunningham says Brian Murphy’s injury absence for the Munster hurling final against Limerick is a serious body blow.

Chris Joyce is following an illustrious band in the number six jersey.

Eoin Cadogan has intimated he is unlikely to return to playing both football and hurling for Cork.

In his own words Ronan O’Gara was “shocked” when Declan Kidney omitted him from the Irish squad.

Former Cork hurling star Seán Óg Ó hAilpín has said he feels his retirement was down to Jimmy Barry-Murphy and his management focusing more on the future than 2013.

People hung by the radio waiting for his voice to tell them if their county had won or lost.

The late Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin, whose death was announced today at the age of 89, has been warmly remembered for his contribution to Gaelic Games, journalism and Irish life.

Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin, the much-loved and record-breaking GAA radio broadcaster, journalist and author, has passed away at the age of 89.

This is new, whatever about being a nadir, for Cork hurling.

Four Kerry children are spending their first Christmas without their father, who was killed in a hit and run accident close to his home on July 1.

As a remarkable 2012 of sport slips away, what of those we may soon say farewell to — as we embrace a new select group of sporting stars from Ireland.

Hard on the heels of Seán Óg Ó hAilpín’s decision to retire from inter-county hurling, comes the surprising news that his Na Piarsaigh teammate John Gardiner has been cut from the Cork training panel.

Sean Óg Ó hAilpín’s announcement that he has retired from inter-county hurling signals the end of an era — the last outfield link with Cork’s All-Ireland-winning team of 1999.