By Paddy Hunter and Niall McCoy CONFUSION reigns over Conor McKenna’s apparent ‘positive’ Covid-19 test that had seemed to put his Aussie Rules future in doubt. The Eglish man tested positive for the virus on Saturday, but on Tuesday he tested negative, raising the possibility that the weekend’s result was a false positive. Advertisement He […]
Paul McKillen on Saffrons’ past, present and future
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Paul McKillen, the All-Star Antrim hurler from Ballycastle tells the story of his career.
Joe Brolly: Ashley and Steven
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IT was 2004 when I stopped watching soccer and abandoned any pretence at fandom. What did it for me was the serialisation of Ashley Cole’s autobiography (how can they call them autobiographies when someone else writes them?) “In My Defence.” That was the year when Cole was in negotiations with Arsenal about a new contract […]
Steven Poacher: Let’s put smiles on their faces
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OVER the past few weeks we have been inundated with articles, session templates and more advice than a president would get on the return to play within the GAA. I have my own thoughts on it, and over the past few months I have done a lot of reflecting on how I coach, what my […]
PGthePT: The roadmap for a return to action
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This is it, the roadmap is out and the return to play is so close we can almost touch it. What we need to make sure is that along the road you don’t trip, fall and hurt yourself – metaphorically of course – as the increased risk of injury for players right now is real. […]
Patrick Morrison: Critical non-essentials
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“The area of immense interest to me was the importance of detail, not just any kind of detail but the development of things that would and could set us apart from any other team in the world. We had to assume that our main competitors would also have the same quality of players, the same […]
Five Minutes with… Monaghan’s Shauna Coyle
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Shauna Coyle from Monaghan answers the famous questions.
My GAA Life with Cavan’s Tony Brady
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Tony Brady remembers the great days of his playing career.
Players will feel pressure to take risks – Donnelly
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Fermanagh footballer Eoin Donnelly suggests that relegation puts undue pressure on players.
Patton anticipates confusion and mistakes
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By Frank Craig SHAUN Patton admits there will be plenty of trepidation surrounding the GAA’s return to play – and it won’t all be Covid-19 based. The GAA has confirmed that the new playing rule changes, implemented at the start of the year, are to remain in place. Inter-county sides have some experience of the […]









