Larry Tompkins was physically so far ahead of the rest of the Cork panel at his first training session that he thought his new teammates were going easy to make him feel welcome.

Football legend Larry Tompkins spent two days in a coma as a 20-year-old after a foul blow in a championship game in Kildare with his home club, Eadestown.

Part of the deal with being inducted into the GAA Museum’s Hall of Fame is a sit-down interview with media.

By the summer of 1990, All-Ireland football champions Cork had Kerry’s number. So much so that Rebel fans were yelling ‘lock the gates’ as they dismembered the Kingdom in the provincial decider in Cork. However a bigger challenge loomed for Billy Morgan, Larry Tompkins, & Co — Meath. In his new book on Cork’s historic double season, Adrian Russell reveals how Colm O’Neill turned from peripheral to pivotal figure on the road to GAA history.

Former Cork manager Larry Tompkins has welcomed proposals to overhaul Gaelic football and claimed that as things stand, the game is close to being “destroyed”.

There is no other team sport that is more reliant on one position consistently throughout a contest as a gridiron team is on its quarterback writes Kieran Shannon.

Clermont beat Bordeaux in a cracker in Ulster's pool.

Limerick 2-23 Wexford 0-15: There was a time in the third quarter at a wet and dreary Gaelic Grounds on Saturday night when you suspected that the teams had just swapped playing kits at half-time, rather than changing ends.

Limerick got their latest drive for promotion from Division 1B off to an encouraging start as they led from pillar to post in wet and cold conditions at the Gaelic Grounds.

More than 20 years later, the 1994 Cork SFC final between Castlehaven and O’Donovan Rossa remains steeped in local lore.

Larry Tompkins believes that the next Cork senior football management team needs to be composed primarily of All-Ireland winners.

By now, you know the cold, hard facts about one of the most jarring weekends for Cork GAA. 

The link is obvious. The man who anchored Cork’s defence in the 1990 All-Ireland was on the sideline counselling Daniel Goulding as he took the last kick in the 2010 decider.

Tomás Mulcahy and Larry Tompkins have called on the Cork County Board to reinstate the jettisoned tradition of club champions nominating county captains.

Cork legend Larry Tompkins has offered a damning assessment of the modern game, labelling it “cotton wool football” and calling for an urgent overhaul.

West Ham 1 Man Utd 1: It comes to something when Sam Allardyce calls Manchester United a long-ball team; but that’s what it took for Louis van Gaal’s side to earn a point at Upton Park – and the post-match comments should make uncomfortable reading for United fans despite the temporary frisson caused by their side’s last-gasp equaliser.

During the week Larry Tompkins seemed to annoy a few people in Mayo with some observations about the western footballers and their quest for an All-Ireland.

Former Mayo footballer Anthony Finnerty has hit back at Larry Tompkins’ claims that James Horan’s players "lack the stomach" to perform to their best on All-Ireland final day.

Two-time All-Ireland winning Cork footballer Larry Tompkins has launched a withering attack on the Mayo players, claiming James Horan’s troops "need to grow up" if they are to bridge the county’s 63-year wait for Sam Maguire glory.

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Martin Daly is regarded as Clare’s greatest ever forward; some would say their greatest ever footballer. But among a list of achievements the Lissycasey man clocked up for the Banner County, one stands out above the others

A legend in GAA was honoured in Cork last night as long-serving county board secretary, Frank Murphy performed the official launch of Teddy McCarthy’s autobiography, ‘Teddy Boy’ at the Rochestown Park Hotel.

Larry Tompkins can still feel the hairs on his neck spike as sunlight bathed the tunnel leading to the pitch and a wall of noise was just seconds away.

Two players have attracted plenty of attention in the run-up to Sunday’s Cork SFC final: Donncha O’Connor, Duhallow’s attacking trump card, is well known, while Castlehaven’s Brian Hurley pocketed 1-6 in the semi-final win over Carbery Rangers.

There was a stage in my footballing life where Donegal was more important to me than Cork.

It was actually 25 years ago this weekend.

Larry Tompkins says he is undecided whether Seanie Johnston’s transfer to Kildare was for valid reasons, saying it would be incomprehensible to him that someone would leave his home club just to play county football elsewhere.

Karl O’Dwyer shakes his head at the thought of it now.

Weary and running out of gas, the Kerry footballers and Cork hurlers met their Waterloo in the summer of ’87

Larry Tompkins has criticised the new Division 1 structure which sees semi-finals take place in Croke Park this weekend.

FORMER Cork senior football boss Larry Tompkins is one game away from claiming his first county title as a manager after his Mitchelstown side overcame Courcey Rovers 1-4 to 0-6 in dramatic fashion in the Cork JAFC semi-final in Páirc Uí Rinn last night.

FORMER Cork football boss Larry Tompkins says he’s in favour of legitimate payments being made to inter-county managers.

MORE INNOCENT times. On the day Fianna Fáil launched its 2002 election campaign, PJ Mara walked into the party’s press conference in the Shelbourne Hotel and announced: “It’s showtime.”

Cork football legend Larry Tompkins is set for a return to management.

CORK football legend Larry Tompkins is set for a return to management.

THE city centre bar belonging to Cork football legend turned publican Larry Tompkins has been fined €2,500 for housing undeclared cross-border bottles of spirits.

WHEN news broke yesterday that Conor Counihan would be staying on as Cork senior football manager, there was a sense of relief, and not just in Cork.

Having ended his county's 20-year wait for an All-Ireland SFC title at Croke Park yesterday, Cork manager Conor Counihan proclaimed that it was "a great day to be a Rebel".

EVEN amidst the euphoria of ending Cork’s two decades of football misery, Conor Counihan still exuded considerable poise and calmness in Croke Park after yesterday’s All-Ireland final triumph.

I Love Me sprung a monster 50-1 shock on her debut in the £200,000 Tattersalls Millions Auction Trophy at Newmarket.

Mark Tompkins suspects there was more than meets the eye to Ted Spread’s tame Ladbrokes St Leger reverse.

CORK football legend Larry Tompkins believes it was impossible for Henry Shefflin to feature at inter-county level so soon after suffering a cruciate ligament injury in last month’s All-Ireland semi-final against Cork.

Mark Tompkins is praying for rain in his native Yorkshire to aid Ted Spread’s cause in the Ladbrokes St Leger at Doncaster on Saturday week.