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Global pandemic claimed the life of an All-Ireland hero a century ago

The GAA wasn’t found wanting when it came to cancelling all activity because of the coronavirus pandemic — a precedent was set over 100 years when the Great Flu swept the country, writes Joe Ó Muircheartaigh.

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Co-workers set to meet on the field on All-Ireland final day

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When the hurlers for Queen’s county were Kings of Ireland

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Mayo were back... until a very Mayo thing happened

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How sport opens a window on to Ireland in the 20th century

Limerick come out on top in a passion play like no other

Ten things you’ll hear around Croke Park

1. “I’m outside the Shakespeare! THE SHAKESPEARE! What? What Luas stop?”

Sat, 02 Sep, 2017

Somewhere in a parallel GAA universe...

Hi Joe,

Mon, 28 Aug, 2017

Cork v Kilkenny - Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final

Kilkenny have all the energy and desire as Cork fall flat

Hunger makes the difference after all...

Mon, 12 Sep, 2016

Famine over as cool Kilkenny back at the top table

Kilkenny 1-13 Cork 1-9: It wouldn’t be September without at least one Kilkenny captain climbing the steps of the Hogan Stand. So, where the men failed last week, the women encountered no such difficulties yesterday – both the county’s intermediate and senior teams delivering All-Ireland camogie glory.

Mon, 12 Sep, 2016

The mission accomplished to end Cork famine in 1966

It remains one of Cork’s most romantic titles, won without expectation and savoured all the more as a result.

Sat, 03 Sep, 2016

Is anyone gripped by another Kilkenny-Tipperary final?

“Sunday’s eagerly awaited All-Ireland hurling final is not yet sold out,” according to a headline yesterday. 

Thu, 01 Sep, 2016

Oisin McConville on Conor McManus: The best forward in football

When I sat down to watch a game televised by Sky Sports last year, Peter Canavan was asked a fairly simple question by presenter Brian Carney: “Would you like to play gaelic football in the modern era”?

Tue, 07 Jun, 2016

Briege Corkery swings battle

Here’s the scenario that you didn’t want to see if you were a Galway camogie fan yesterday in Croke Park.

Mon, 14 Sep, 2015

Hunger game on the menu

Readers of a non-feline persuasion still a little glum after the events of last Sunday, will do worse than to tune in to TG4 tonight. 

Sat, 12 Sep, 2015

Henry Shefflin is still undecided

They finally found a national treasure in Spain yesterday, the long-hidden resting place of the poet Cervantes. Contrast with Croke Park yesterday, where a national treasure was on open display.

Wed, 18 Mar, 2015

Old rivals Cork and Tipperary have Croke Park history

While Sunday’s All-Ireland semi-final will represent the first championship meeting between Cork and Tipperary at Croke Park, the counties also clashed in that part of Drumcondra in the only Munster final ever to be decided outside of the province.

Wed, 13 Aug, 2014

Artane Band typifies the sound of the summer

Jimmy Deenihan had developed a grá for the Artane Boys Band long before he set eyes on the red and blue uniform.

Tue, 31 Dec, 2013

They’ll party like it’s 1995, but Clare are already looking forward

We should have known it was Clare’s year really. A once-in-a-generation heatwave. Dublin winning the football. All we’re short is a spat about Blur and Oasis and we might as well be in 1995 all over again.

Mon, 30 Sep, 2013

‘Piper’ and ‘Bomber’ will scale any heights for tickets

Two die-hard rebel fans are prepared to go to great heights to get their hands on All-Ireland hurling final tickets.

Tue, 03 Sep, 2013

Croker to host Congress on regular basis

Croke Park is set to hold the GAA’s Annual Congress every three years after a new hosting rota was agreed by the association’s Central Council.

Thu, 27 Jun, 2013

UCI taking the wrong road with Armstrong affair

Just over a year ago, Eugene McGee got into a bit of bother with some of the head honchos in the GAA.

Thu, 18 Oct, 2012

Gilroy: Don’t blame Dubs for maximising Croke Park effect

The look on Pat Gilroy’s face says it all — what can he do about it?

Thu, 28 Jun, 2012

The Cats and the Catalans

THE Thurles man who was in Hill 16 is still shook after it, worse than when they took pavlova off the menu in Hayes.

Sat, 10 Sep, 2011

Pied ‘Piper’ rallies Rebel army

DIE-HARD Cork fans issued a rousing rallying call to the Rebel army yesterday as they prepare to march on Croke Park.

Sat, 18 Sep, 2010

Don’t fence me in: Croker out of touch

AT Wimbledon, they eat their strawberries and cream and quaff their glasses of Pimm’s and ice.

Thu, 12 Aug, 2010

A Cork victory would be nice, but...

BECAUSE Cork’s priorities are of a higher order these days, I’m sure there are many of the county’s football supporters less interested in success tomorrow at Croke Park than in whether the final pieces of the jigsaw are coming together to ensure All-Ireland success later in the season.

Sat, 24 Apr, 2010

Understanding and adapting: the true reason for Kerry win

IN A truly fascinating essay published last month on the effect of Celtic Tiger affluence, Declan Kiberd, professor of Anglo-Irish literature at UCD, said that “things are often studied only when they start to go wrong. The end of things is the moment we start to understand them: and only when they are understood do we begin to realise what might be lost”.

Sat, 26 Sep, 2009

Jubilant cats crush hopes and dreams of the Déise

A FESTIVE atmosphere, jersey-bedecked fans cheering and singing, white and blue as far as the eye could see: Waterford’s city centre was truly a heaving mass of joy and celebration yesterday afternoon. Then the match started.

Mon, 08 Sep, 2008