WHEN Jim McGuinness was with Donegal in his first tenure they placed a lot of stock on the third quarter of games. They would have come out of the blocks all guns blazing at the start of the second half and gave everything they had. Suddenly they had scored maybe 1-4 or 1-5 on the […]
WEEK five of the league has just passed and ‘moving day’, to use some golfing parlance, has come and passed. Each division is starting to take a sort of shape in terms of how the top two or three teams are panning out, a middle cohort of teams and then the bottom two or three teams […]
THIS time last week it would have been very appropriate to tell all that ‘there’s a storm a-coming.’ Well, even though Storm Éowyn has now left these shores, leaving behind a trail of devastation, we can still use the phrase and apply it to the footballing scene. With the league starting last week and games […]
“THE cream always rises to the top”. That saying is pretty much how the football fared out last weekend in both Derry and Tyrone club championships. Derry are down to the last four – what many people would perceive as the four strongest teams in the championship. Glen are going for four in-a-row and that […]
A QUICK glance around the counties in Ulster will tell you about how each county championship is progressing and people’s thoughts on each of the formats. The Tyrone Championship sticks out as an outlier as it is straight knockout. Tyrone people are immensely proud of this fact as they feel it reflects the true nature […]
by Michael McMullan WITH the search for Mickey Harte’s successor as Derry manager still ongoing, former Derry defender Gerard O’Kane feels the current crop are in the window to challenge for an All-Ireland title. Gaelic Life understands no announcement of a new boss is imminent five weeks after the deadline for clubs to have submitted their nominations. […]
THREE weeks on from the All-Ireland Final and the business of club championship has ramped up in nearly all counties. Even with the club championship in Armagh just around the corner, the topic of discussion on most Armagh people’s lips is still their recent All-Ireland victory. It will probably garner more interest in their club […]
IT’S All-Ireland final weekend with Armagh and Galway set to lock horns to get their hands on the Sam Maguire Cup. Gaelic Life is full of previews, columns, interviews and features ahead of the big game. We also have two special Gaelic Lives podcasts looking ahead to Sunday’s Croke Park showdown. They are available via […]
BALANCE is a key word often used to describe how to obtain happiness in life. Too much of a good thing can’t be good for you while you need some sort of light at the end of the tunnel to keep you going. Well the last fortnight Derry football teaches us that balance and perspective […]
IT was Brian Clough who famously said, ‘We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass’. Well the same can be said in a roundabout way for Derry on Saturday this week. Of all the teams Derry could have got in the draw, Mayo were maybe the best team on […]
