THERE is a sense that the GAA’s new streaming policy that is very similar to how Noel McCaffrey’s motion to Congress around the volume of games inter-county players should have with their club was vie...

LESS than a minute before half-time, Derry were in a good position. Having played against the wind, they led Cork by a point.

APPRAISING Tyrone’s 2025 in a few sentences is about as difficult as it gets.

THE reds and greens and whites and 50 shades of blue paint Dingle as a snapshot of old rural Ireland.

THE biggest call Brian McEniff had to make leading into the 1992 All-Ireland final was whether to give Tommy Ryan’s place to Manus Boyle.

IN Matthew Syed’s acclaimed book Black Box Thinking, the author spends a lot of time examining a closed loop mindset.

WHEN Galway were chasing an equaliser in stoppage time of last year’s All-Ireland final, they kept the ball for two minutes and 46 seconds.

WHEN Eddie O’Sullivan was coaching the US Eagles in the late ‘90s, a holidaying young Ronan O’Gara met him for a meal in San Francisco.

IF there’s anything to be learned from the friendliest of Saturday evening friendlies, it is that the measurement of football’s shape-shift will be over months and years rather than days and weeks.

WHEN Errigal Ciaran first journeyed into an All-Ireland semi-final, the weather played havoc.

IN the long and decorated history of post-match plámas, Billy Lee’s interview after Austin Stacks had won the Munster intermediate title was a real doozy.

NORMALLY the club management merry-go-round would be ready to come off its rails at this stage but this has been a winter season notably devoid of moving and shaking.

URBAN Meyer has won three NCAA championships.

LET’S do brass tacks here.

MARK Gilsenan is loathed to reach for the word ‘normal’. Hates it.

ALT: a woman with a white mask on her face is saying hello

THE public perception of Kilcoo’s style of football is baffling.

AS Cushendall rowed gradually clear of them in Newry twelve months ago, it almost felt like the sun was setting on Sleacht Néill’s dream of an All-Ireland club title. It has never been more alive than...

THERE’S almost nobody in the restaurant. The tall, lean, unmistakable figure of Jim McGuinness sweeps through the door, searching past a blissfully unaware elderly couple.

ULSTER will say yes to Gaelic football’s proposed new playing rules, paving the way for their introduction at this weekend’s Special Congress.

JIM McGuinness believes that the proposed new rules for Gaelic football will speed the game up “by a multiple of what it was” if Special Congress opts to vote them in this weekend.

THIRTY-three years ago this month, the GAA found itself stood in front of the High Court.