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By Kieran Rooney AT last, the pundits got it right in the knock-out stages of the All-Ireland Football Championship. But only just. Dublin had a pl...

By Kieran Rooney SUDDENLY we have a real final on our hands. Tipperary's 3-19 to 1-18 All-Ireland semi-final victory over Waterford at Croke Park l...

By Kieran Rooney PROBABLY the best team ever. That appears to be the generally accepted opinion following Kilkenny's 3-22 to 0-19 demolition of Cor...

By Kieran Rooney NOT everyone is going to agree but last weekend's All-Ireland Senior Football Championship quarter-finals had everything. Perhaps ...

By Kieran Rooney DEVASTATION. You could see it in Galway manager John McIntyre's face, you could feel the emotion in his voice as he tried to expla...

By Kieran Rooney letters@irishecho.com IT'S around this time that teams really begin to find out about themselves. Sligo and Monaghan have more, qu...

By Kieran Rooney IF you thought that the World Cup final was controversial, it had nothing on what happened at last Sunday's Leinster Football Cham...

By Kieran Rooney NOT that anyone really doubted it but the weekend's two big provincial finals provided further evidence of Kilkenny and Kerry's ab...

By Kieran Rooney DUBLIN and the England soccer team, sadly, have something in common. They concede goals, lots of them. In the case of the Dubs it ...

By John Manley [PHOTO BY: INPHO/Action Images/REUTERS/Danny Moloshok] In a performance that surprised many, Graeme McDowell became the first Irishm...

The North American County Board of the GAA held its annual pre-playoff meeting recently at Chicago Gaelic Park, the venue for this years finals. Th...

By Frank Brady CORK 3-13 SLIGO 0-9 At the end of a low-scoring first half, Cork led by 5 points to 2 at Gaelic Park with Conor Doherty, Declan Reil...