The Ulster Council will heed any lessons to be learned from the troubled Páirc Uí Chaoimh stadium project when redeveloping Casement Park and are confident the new venue will be delivered on budget, and be able to pay for itself, when it finally opens.

The stadium has been lying idle since 2013.

It’s rare that a door closes without another one opening so when the chains were wrapped around the gates of Casement Park in 2013 it fell to Corrigan Park, less than two miles up the road in West Belfast, to host the county footballers. Eventually, anyway.

The venue has a capacity of 2,100

Antrim senior football manager, Lenny Harbinson, has labelled the inertia around the crumbling Casement Park stadium an “absolute disgrace”, after their defeat to Tyrone in the Ulster Championship quarter-final on Saturday.

Tyrone charged through to the Ulster SFC semi-finals with a demolition job at the Athletic Grounds.

A jury has returned a verdict in the case of a 37-year-old man shot dead in Finglas more than 10 years ago.

GAA president John Horan has given his clearest indication yet that the association would back calls for Irish unity in the event of any future border poll.

A man who sued St James's Hospital Dublin over the care he received when he was brought there by ambulance after he was assaulted has settled his High Court action for €750,000.

Joe Brolly and Jarlath Burns are strange bedfellows.

It's been a few years since the two of us last spoke and 20 years now since we first met but the wit, wisdom and warmth of John Morrison continued to pop up in conversation and the imagination.

Experienced Antrim hurler Neil McManus has admitted he fears a disorderly Brexit could spell a return to the days of being stopped at border checkpoints on the way to GAA games.

Tom Ryan on...

The GAA championships in both hurling and football have reached a crucial stage.

Sixteen counties have tumbled into the lottery drum that it is the first round of All-Ireland qualifiers and the records show that very few manage to find their feet in any meaningful way again.

Mild-mannered. Genuine. Diligent. Workaholic. As Páraic Duffy prepares to wave goodbye as GAA director general this Saturday, there has been similarities in the tributes paid to him. Rightly too: He is all of the above but we can add steeliness to it.

This afternoon, John Horan will be sworn in as the 39th president of the GAA. His in-tray will be stacked although items will have to be prioritised. Here John Fogarty breaks down the pile into those he can win and those he can bin.

The cancelled Garth Brooks concerts, the 2010 Leinster SFC final, the failed 2023 Rugby World Cup bid and the protracted process to redevelop Casement Park have been cited by GAA director general Páraic Duffy as the major disappointments of his 10-year tenure.

Well, we got our backsides handed to us, and then some.

Problems with venues, IT services, and a lack of experience were major contributing factors which have left Ireland’s dream of hosting the 2023 Rugby World Cup in tatters.

Yesterday’s report by World Rugby’s Technical Review Group was fulsome in its praise for three “outstanding candidate submissions” and the IRFU was particularly keen to cling on to the remark that all of them could host a “successful” tournament.

Frontrunners at breakfast, dirt-trackers by brunch.

A “desperately slow” process to redevelop Belfast’s Casement Park won’t speed up should Ireland’s 2023 Rugby World Cup bid fail.

Philip Browne doesn’t do extremes of emotion or hyperbole.

The Government yesterday agreed to formally underwrite an approximate €320m to host the Rugby World Cup in Ireland in 2023.

Simon McCrory is the captain of the Antrim hurling team, favourites to claim a 16th Ulster title in a row tomorrow against Armagh. McCrory works for the county board as a Hurling Development Officer in Belfast.

Ireland’s bid to host the 2023 Rugby World Cup may yet force the GAA to abandon its traditional slot for that year’s All-Ireland football final.

Ireland is in the final stages of competing to host the 2023 World Cup which could provide as much as a €2bn economic boost and a television audience of 4bn.

Tipperary GAA chiefs have expressed disappointment that Semple Stadium has been omitted from the stadia comprising Ireland’s 2023 Rugby World Cup bid, as TDs from the county are set to demand answers for its omission.

Fionnuala Doran began her career as a Ninja Turtles fan, but has just published a graphic novel on Roger Casement, writes Don O’Mahony

Neil McManus knows it’s high time Cushendall’s litany of hard luck stories ended on All-Ireland semi-final day.

Ulster secretary Danny Murphy has hit out at how media treated claims by a safety official that the proposed Casement Park could suffer a tragedy similar to the Hillsborough Disaster.

After a season’s delay, HawkEye is expected to come into operation at Semple Stadium in time for this year’s Munster championship.

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.

Leinster GAA chief John Horan has given the strongest indication yet that a new stadium will be built close to Dublin’s M50 motorway, suggesting ground could be broken on the project within five years.

A group of Antrim gaels are to make an audacious bid to oust the county board at this year’s annual convention.

The “massive costs” associated with HawkEye is the primary deterrent to the installation of the score detection system at Clones, according to Ulster Council chairman Martin McAviney.

A man has been jailed for sending “grossly threatening” text messages to his ex-girlfriend after she started seeing someone else.

GAA director general Páraic Duffy has allayed fears the Páirc Uí Chaoimh redevelopment project could be in difficulty.