Gaelic Football Premium Electric, selfless and sorely missed - Touching tale of ‘Blue Panther’ continues to absorb GAA fans “If you look at the individual components of a Picasso painting, none of them make sense. They’re awkward and they’re out of place. But put them together and you have a masterpiece. And that’s what Anton O’Toole was.”
Hurling Carthach Daly hoping to bounce back to his best for Déise under Davy Fitzgerald It is often said that a week is a long time in politics, and Carthach Daly can definitely resonate with that notion after a season that promised big things for Waterford before it spectacularly fell flat on its face.
GAA Premium Martin Breheny Opinion Silence isn’t golden, let alone essential. So why are a generation of intelligent GAA players being gagged? It wouldn’t happen nowadays because the majority of players avoid interviews, having been convinced by either controlling managers or meddling media advisers that silence isn’t just golden but an absolute essential.
Gaelic Football Premium Pat Spillane's 2022 review: Thrilling championship, league final farce and why Ulster decider was pure dross
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Gallery GAA Premium 50 years on: The Thomond trailblazers, including Brian Mullins, Pat Spillane and Jimmy Deenihan, who led a GAA revolution
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GAA Premium Pat Spillane Opinion The split season debate reminds me of Brexit – the opposing sides are so entrenched, there is no middle ground
Premium It’s 10 years since the great Páidí Ó Sé died, but my memories of him still burn as bright as ever
Premium ‘People will go and see the pub and the statue but a lot go back to the grave too. It has become such a shrine to him’
Premium How Glen’s 'no excuses' policy in underage set-up propelled the Derry club to compete with the best
Gallery Gaelic Football Premium 50 years of football champions: Dublin edge Micko’s Kerry in battle of the best
Gallery Gaelic Football Premium 50 years of football champions: Kerry or Dublin? We are down to the final two in search for the greatest football team
Gallery Gaelic Football Premium 50 years of football champions: Tyrone harnessed an ‘us v them’ mindset to build title success
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The Throw In The Throw-In: Cora Staunton on Meath’s All-Ireland win and Cork v Kilkenny camogie final preview With Meath retaining their All-Ireland title, Cora Staunton joins Sinéad Kissane and the Irish Independent’s Donnchadh Boyle to look back on the Royal’s ten-point victory over Kerry and how the champions will be affected by the departures of Vikki Wall and Orlagh Lally to the AFLW.
Podcast The Throw In The Throw-In: Joe Brolly, Pat Spillane and Philly McMahon on the All-Ireland Football Final Philly McMahon joins Joe Brolly and Pat Spillane who are reunited once again for a special Throw-In podcast looking back on the All-Ireland Football Final that saw Kerry regain the Sam Maguire after eight years.
The Throw In The Throw-In: Kerry's mettle is tested - but they get over the line Kerry have answered the doubters and those who questioned if they had the mettle to come through the pressure.
The Throw In The Throw-In: Philly McMahon on the future of Dessie Farrell and this Dublin team After losing to Kerry by way of an incredible injury time free kick, what does the future look like for Dessie Farrell and the once all-conquering Dubs?
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Poll GAA Top 20 Premium Revealed: The Top 20 footballers in Ireland over the past 50 years And so to the super 20. We started with a cast of thousands and worked it down to 465, comprised of the top 20 in every county.
Poll GAA Top 20 Premium Revealed: The Top 20 hurlers in Ireland over the past 50 years Kilkenny changed everything between 2000 and 2009: most All-Ireland titles in a decade, most Hurlers of the Year and most All-Stars.
Decades of the Dubs Premium Charlie Redmond: How my All-Ireland final red card changed the course of GAA history FEW enough people get a chance to say they changed the course of the GAA
Decades of the Dubs Premium The glory of '95, the death of his brother Jim and the 'sliding doors' moment - Brian Stynes' Dublin journey BY now, it’s fair to assume, Brian Stynes is half-Aussie. He has spent more of his adult life Down Under than in downtown Dublin.
Decades of the Dubs Premium 'Mother Theresa's death was page two... I was page one' - meet the ex-Dublin star who fought back from the brink KEITH GALVIN won his All-Ireland as the 20-year-old with the barely teenage features playing in an unfamiliar position during the long, hot summer of 1995.
Decades of the Dubs Premium The legends, the youngsters and the messers - Paul Curran on the Dublin All-Ireland winners of 1995 One of the stars of 1995, Paul Curran, paints pen-pictures of his fellow heroes who brought the Sam Maguire back to the capital after an absence of 12 years
Decades of the Dubs Premium 'We were on the back foot. So much so that, at the end of the match, I thought it was a draw' WHEN the final whistle sounded, Pat O’Neill was cursing the outcome and already plotting for the replay.
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Decades of the Dubs Premium The man who missed out: the Dublin star, his injury nightmare and the All-Ireland medal that got away
