With respect to their provincial opponents, the 2022 club championship for Ballygunner was not so much about retaining their Munster title as meeting Ballyhale Shamrocks in the All-Ireland semi-final on Sunday week to prove their late, late final win in February was no fluke.

Kilcoo 3-14 Enniskillen Gaels 1-9 As if we didn’t know it already, Kilcoo gave us further evidence on Saturday that they would be formidable oppone...

Kilcoo 2-14; Ballybay 1-7 There are heavyweight contenders… and then there are teams like Kilcoo. Monaghan side Ballybay must have had notions afte...

Ireland 19; South Africa 16 We’ve been here before – in 2018 to be precise against the All Blacks – only to flatter to deceive. This time around th...

East Kerry 1-16 Mid Kerry 0-10 David Clifford spent last year learning to accept defeat at every turn; this time round titles and awards are tumbli...

Connacht 22; Ospreys 19 Bravo Connacht! And they can thank Jack Carty's second-half drop-goal for giving them the spoils in Swansea at the weekend....

Leinster 27; Munster 13 Have no doubt Leinster deserved to win and were the better side, but hats off to an almost Munster academy group for puttin...

Kilmacud Crokes 0-20 Na Fianna 0-17 Kilmacud have become the Dublin kingpins in both codes by successfully retaining the senior football and senior...

Now, has there ever been a better time for New York to make waves in the Gaelic Football championship than in the 2023 Connacht series? Fate has or...

Shinrone 0-26 Kilcormac-Killoughey 2-13 They were given as much chance as a snowball in hell of surviving the expected onslaught from serial winner...

Brian Mullins was more than the caricature of strong, bustling yet skilful man with a short fuse that many of the obituaries have portrayed him as ...

Leinster 20; Ulster 13 We thought we might see a rugby changing of the guard – what with all the backroom reshuffling going on in Leinster and Ulst...