A major new landmark for GAA supporters opens for business today right beside Croke Park - the new 4-star Jurys Croke Park Hotel.

CIARAN McMANUS believes Sunday’s defeat of Louth will offer Offaly the perfect launching pad to seek revenge on neighbours Laois when the sides meet in Croke Park on May 29.

IT’S a sign of the times when 24-year-old Karol Slattery is described as one of the senior members on the Offaly football team.

Dublin City Council has granted planning permission for a proposed hotel development near Croke Park in the north of the city.

WHAT a difference a year makes. Tomorrow afternoon, Alan Brogan will line out for Dublin, not exactly a senior member of the team, but certainly as a young man with an inordinate amount of responsibility on his young shoulders.

Armagh manager Joe Kernan has rowed in behind the Dublin suggestion that the counties' NFL fixture on February 3 be played at Croke Park.