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National Geographic has dubbed the spectacle of an All-Ireland final as the experience of a lifetime.

Peter McKenna leads the way down one of the many corridors that wrap around Croke Park, turns what is almost a hidden corner and swipes his ID card to open a door that looks exactly like all the others.

The GAA's Higher Education Council (Comhairle Ardoideachais) are continuing their battle with eligible issues that have dogged the sector in recent years.

THE emergence of the GAA 126 years ago might have signalled the death knell for cricket as a mass participation sport in Ireland but the two codes are set to come face to face at Croke Park next weekend.

A special mass to mark the 125th anniversary of the foundation of the GAA has been held at Thurles Cathedral.

GAA president Christy Cooney is preparing up for a hectic weekend with Sunday's All-Ireland SFC final and the presentation of the Sam Maguire Cup only one of a multitude of duties he will face between now and Sunday.

MICHAEL ‘Babs’ Keating has predicted his native Tipperary will suffer another hammering at the hands of Kilkenny in the NHL final.

MANY Cork fans are angry about the role – and we do mean ‘role’, as in Hollywood films – of Kerry’s Aidan O’Mahony in getting Cork’s Donnacha O’Connor red carded on Sunday. Kerry ‘great’ Dara Ó Sé is criticised for his analysis of the incident on RTÉ’s ‘The Sunday Game’.

As part of the GAA’s National Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention (ASAP) Programme a number of significant new resources were launched in the theatre of the GAA Museum on today.

IT was like the moment when you pick a CD you loved in the trendy days of your youth off the shelf. The Unforgettable Fire, perhaps, or The Queen Is Dead.