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Antrim a real breath of fresh air
SO IT'S Antrim now who will run out in Clones on Ulster final day. The fact that they'll be there before even considering the prospect that they might beat Tyrone is reason enough to rejoice. The Saffron army has breathed new life into what was...>>> more
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Antrim a real breath of fresh air
SO IT'S Antrim now who will run out in Clones on Ulster final day. The fact that they'll be there before even considering the prospect that they might beat Tyrone is reason enough to rejoice. The Saffron army has breathed new life into what was...>>> more
Joe Brolly: A great bunch of lads
By Joe Brolly
I wasn't able to go to Clones last week. Instead I was chairman of the judging panel for the Edendork club's Strictly Come Dancing at St Malachy's Hall. While Antrim were making short work of Cavan, I was watching heavy breasted ladies...>>> more
Joe Brolly: A great bunch of lads
By Joe Brolly
I wasn't able to go to Clones last week. Instead I was chairman of the judging panel for the Edendork club's Strictly Come Dancing at St Malachy's Hall. While Antrim were making short work of Cavan, I was watching heavy breasted ladies...>>> more
Antrim in Ulster Final on merit
By Rory Gallagher
LAST Saturday, Antrim gave the most complete performance of any team, outside of Tyrone, in the provincial Championship this year. When you look at their players I don't think it was that big a surprise. They have St Gall's lads and...>>> more
Antrim in Ulster Final on merit
By Rory Gallagher
LAST Saturday, Antrim gave the most complete performance of any team, outside of Tyrone, in the provincial Championship this year. When you look at their players I don't think it was that big a surprise. They have St Gall's lads and...>>> more
Derry are going nowhere fast
By Rory Gallagher
What a disappointment last Sunday's match between Tyrone and Derry at Casement Park proved to be.
To me the biggest story and the most disappointing thing to come from the game is the fact that Derry have not improved one bit...>>> more
Derry are going nowhere fast
By Rory Gallagher
What a disappointment last Sunday's match between Tyrone and Derry at Casement Park proved to be.
To me the biggest story and the most disappointing thing to come from the game is the fact that Derry have not improved one bit...>>> more
Fermanagh firing blanks
By Rory Gallagher
THE Cavan and Fermanagh match was by far the poorest game of the Ulster Championship so far. I think Cavan deserved to win the game and in fact they probably deserved to win it by a few points more. Last week's loss leaves...>>> more
Women and hurling - a deadly combination
By The Hallion
THEY SAY behind every great man there is a great woman. We all know that's codswallop. However, behind almost every great achievement or event down through history there has been a man or woman sitting in the background with a smirk...>>> more
Truly awful stuff
By Jarlath Burns
IT'S HARD as a GAA neutral, not to feel glum after watching last weekend's action. When your own team isn't playing, and the result doesn't really matter, what you want to see is good football, long range scores, nice goals, great...>>> more
Rules must be changed
BY JARLATH BURNS
comment@gaeliclife.com
Last year I attended my first Rugby international in Croke Park. Ireland v Wales. As the anthems were finishing, I looked round and spotted Danny Lynch, former GAA PRO behind me. Trying to be a smart assed,...>>> more
The only show in town
By Rory Gallagher
This is the time of year the fans have been waiting for. The players too will also have huge expectations for the championship no matter how things have gone previously in the league. I certainly remember that being the case in...>>> more
Down are bad enough to win
By Joe Brolly
FERMANAGH can defend, but can't attack. Down can attack, but can't defend. Jack Spratt and his wife spring to mind.
The general view is that Down will win, but what is this based on? They secured promotion, but the standard in the...>>> more
Antrim stop the rot
BY JARLATH BURNS
editor@gaeliclife.com
FOUR years ago, I penned an article lamenting the state of the GAA in Antrim. Looking back at now, it was a fairly controversial, hard hitting and contentious article and one which generated much debate. It...>>> more
Don't believe the doubletalk
By Pete McGrath
There's no doubt Derry and Kerry on Sunday will be a good spectacle. I know that both sides have been playing it down, but we'll see a decent game of football this weekend.
It's a game of huge importance for Kerry. They lost three...>>> more
Joe's postcard from Kerry
By Joe Brolly
WE went to the Kingdom for our Easter holidays. I had only ever played football there before, so had never really seen it.
You know the drill: bus in, bus out, and a fleeting stop for the standard GAA dinner in a local hotel, which was...>>> more
I'm worried for Armagh
By Jarlath Burns
AS TEAMS who have not reached their divisional finals sift through the debris of their league campaign and take a rest from training for a week or two before the onslaught of championship preparation, the shock from Armagh's tanking...>>> more
Not sorry to see the back of Pat
By Jarlath Burns
SO Pat Kenny is retiring from the Late Late at the end of this series. Good. Not that I blame him totally for the debacle back in January when we saw RTE's version of what a good GAA tribute programme was. No. Like the useless...>>> more
A plan is coming together
By Joe Brolly
THE GREAT Enda Muldoon has returned to the Derry fold and showed that Ballinderry's loss is Derry's gain.
Enda poses a positional and tactical dilemma for Damien Cassidy. Do you play him as a third midfielder, instructing him to roam...>>> more
Goodbye to negative play
By Joe Brolly
I HONESTLY don't know where Seamus McEnaney gets the time. I would have thought that being vice chairman of the anti-football association was a big enough commitment, but he has now taken on the chairmanship of the 'Campaign against the...>>> more
Against all odds
By Jarlath Burns
SIGERSON showtime last weekend. Although the weekend itself lacks the intensity and anarchy of the olden days when knocked out colleges knocked themselves out with cheap booze and usually knocked down anything else that got in their...>>> more
You just can't beat playing
By Rory Gallagher
CLUB football is great, so is working in the media, but nothing replaces that buzz you get from playing inter-county football. I'm 30 now, maybe as you get older you want to play that bit more, you realise what you're missing out...>>> more
Ricey wouldn't cut it with the rugby boys
By Joe Brolly
THE ENGLISH rugby team's visit to Dublin this weekend reminds me of a story that Ryan McMenamin will enjoy. During an international match in the seventies, after a particularly violent scrum, the play moved on, and the huge English prop...>>> more
Red Handed psychology
By Joe Brolly
THE second round of the league brought another excellent and enjoyable series of games. Complaints about the new rules cannot disguise the fact that they herald a new era for Gaelic football, where skills will be rewarded and attacking...>>> more
Ulster hopes dashed as Poly crash out
By Ciaran Woods
c.woods@gaeliclife.com
LESS than five months ago Barney McAleenan knew very little about Third Level football. Come the final whistle of UUJ's Sigerson quarter-final against NUI Galway, he was in no doubt what he was part of.
The...>>> more
Half-backs the real yellow card losers
By Jarlath Burns
As the weeks slip by, it's becoming more and more obvious that the area which is suffering most under the new yellow card scheme is the half back line. On Saturday night, Armagh had three men lined from this sector, Kerry had two on...>>> more
A song for the lovers
By Jarlath Burns
EVERY so often, it does us no harm at all to reflect on why the GAA was created in the first place. In 1884, Gaelic games, like the Irish language and the Irish way of life, were on the wane. Our pastimes were in danger of being lost...>>> more
New Dubs boss, same old mistakes
By Rory Gallagher
SATURDAY night was a great occasion at Croke Park, but even with a new management team in charge and with a few new players, it was the same old story for Dublin.
I don't know what it is about Dublin, I don't think they even know...>>> more
An extraordinary deed
By Jarlath Burns
ONE of the many things we hear said about the GAA, is that it inspires ordinary people to do extraordinary things.
From this simple statement we can all imagine the man who lines out the pitch, the woman who takes the under...>>> more
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