Features
Antrim's Sigerson contingent come of age
By Niall McDonald
YOU might not necessarily associate Antrim with Sigerson football but no other county in Ireland has a higher representation of third level students and graduates in its ranks than the Saffrons: 13 out of the 15 players who started...>>> more
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Antrim's Sigerson contingent come of age
By Niall McDonald
YOU might not necessarily associate Antrim with Sigerson football but no other county in Ireland has a higher representation of third level students and graduates in its ranks than the Saffrons: 13 out of the 15 players who started...>>> more
Saffron success a long time coming
By Alan Rodgers
a.rodgers@gaeliclife.com
SMALL steps of progress during the past few years have taken Antrim to the brink of a rare Ulster Final appearance to further highlight their recent improvements.
It's a process that can be traced back to...>>> more
Saffron success a long time coming
By Alan Rodgers
a.rodgers@gaeliclife.com
SMALL steps of progress during the past few years have taken Antrim to the brink of a rare Ulster Final appearance to further highlight their recent improvements.
It's a process that can be traced back to...>>> more
Time for Donegal to deliver
BY RONAN SCOTT
r.scott@gaeliclife.com
Forget the worry of where Donegal's scores are coming from against Antrim, or their over-reliance on the hand-passing game, Sunday's clash might be decided by a weakness at the back.
That's according to leading...>>> more
Looks who's talking now!
I MADE my debut for the Derry Masters on Saturday against the Dubs. It was like going back in a time machine. Opening the changing room door, I was hit by a wall of wintergreen, enough to burn my eyes.
I hadn't smelt wintergreen for twenty years. Is...>>> more
Saval hope to avoid drop
By Alan Rodgers
a.rodgers@gaeliclife.com
SAVAL'S seniors are under pressure to end a disappointing losing streak which has seen them drop to the danger zone in Down's top flight.
The silver lining is that one of their county players, Danny Hughes is...>>> more
The Clones factor
By Ciaran Woods
c.woods@gaeliclife.com
So often, Clones has been described as Armagh's playground. The Orchard don't lose at Clones and the fact that this Sunday's game at St Tiernach's Park in many people's eyes is a huge boost for the reigning...>>> more
Spillane ready to up the ante
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By Ciaran Woods
c.woods@gaeliclife.com
SPILLANE is back on our TV screens this Sunday and he is not in the mood for taking prisoners.
First up for the Kerry man is a dose of Northern 'puke' football as Fermanagh take on Down, but the pundit is glad...>>> more
Tuning in for Championship
By Ciaran Woods
c.woods@gaeliclife.com
IT'S going to be a bumper summer for GAA fans, with more live televised coverage of games than ever.
Once again, RTE will lead the charge with the first of 40 live games getting underway this weekend, when...>>> more
The Iceman cometh
By Ciaran Woods
c.woods@gaeliclife.com
ONE of the stars of the summer is sure to be Down's attacking phenomenon Paul McComiskey. Last year he tormented the Tyrone defence after his introduction and nervelessly kicked the equalising free in injury...>>> more
Free-thinking Fermanagh
BY DECLAN BOGUE
d.bogue@gaeliclife.com
ULTIMATELY it cost Fermanagh an Ulster title and it's a problem that all Fermanagh will have been fixating on in their run-up to Sunday's Championship opener.
As the stats would suggest there's no quick-fix...>>> more
Crowe flies to Oram's rescue
By Alan Rodgers
a.rodgers@gaeliclife.com
A COMMITMENT to club football was taken to a new level in the modern era by a Monaghan Junior player when he led Oram to a vital league win at the weekend.
Last Saturday, Declan Crowe lined out for the...>>> more
Bridging the gap to the Championship
One week and counting... the county teams have gone to ground - clubs take priority, challenge games are played at obscure venues up and down the country - so what exactly goes on in the final days leading up to the start of the Ulster Championship?...>>> more
The hardest job in football
MY STYLE of management is based on the view that players who are respected will produce better performances. I'm certainly not one for banging tables and that sort of thing on the day of a match.
From the moment I get up I'm thinking about a game and...>>> more
Pubtalk
Overheard at the GAA...
A club reserve manager told his players in the pre-match huddle a few weeks back...
"Right lads, we're uphill this half, but work hard and don't worry because you'll get to freewheel into them in the second half!"
This...>>> more
Armagh and Donegal set for final showdown
By Ciaran Woods
c.woods@gaeliclife.com
Saturday 25th April
Ulster Minor Football League Final
12.00pm, Extra Time if required
Armagh v Donegal at Healy Park, Omagh
Ref: Eugene McConnell (Tyrone)
DONEGAL face an early...>>> more
They came from the clubs Down Under
By Ciaran Woods
c.woods@gaeliclife.com
LIKE a big kid waiting on Christmas to come, I spent three days waiting to hear that beep. Then finally on Sunday morning it arrived. The all-important text message, the one from Ricky Nixon which told me where...>>> more
Football in its purest form
BY RONAN SCOTT
r.scott@gaeliclife.com
ON Wednesday, Down retained their Ulster U21 title. The record book will show that they were one point winners in the final, but what that number won't show is how close this year's Ulster U21 championship was....>>> more
Hard times, hard men
By Alan Rodgers
a.rodgers@gaeliclife.com
Youngsters laugh at you when you say it. But, there was a time, not so long ago, when Monaghan were the most feared team in Ulster. In the 80s Monaghan had a famously rugged side. Players like Gene Sherry,...>>> more
Where did it go wrong for Antrim's aristocrats?
By Alan Rodgers
a.rodgers@gaeliclife.com
MARADONA was the hottest property in world soccer, Ronald Reagan trying to put distance between himself and the Iran Contra affair, the Soviet Union launched the Mir space station and Ballycastle won the...>>> more
GAA star glad to be one of the Bhoys
By Alan Rodgers
a.rodgers@gaeliclife.com
IT REALLY was no contest for Niall McGinn when he made the choice between lining out with Tyrone at Croke Park or living the dream as a professional soccer player with Celtic at Parkhead.
Just months on from...>>> more
The mystical art of the ash
BY DECLAN BOGUE
d.bogue@gaeliclife.com
Scullion Hurls have manufacturing camans for the past 30 years in Loughgiel. Michael and Dennis Scullion have taken over the family trade from their father, who cut his first hurl by hand. These days the...>>> more
Antrim: We'd be better off with the McGourty brothers
BY RONAN SCOTT
r.scott@gaeliclife.com
FORMER Antrim footballer Mickey Darragh believes that the lack of Belfast players on this year's team will severly limit the Saffron's chance of making an impact come Championship time.
"I would have thought...>>> more
Neighbours clash in Ulster final
BY RONAN SCOTT
r.scott@gaeliclife.com
TEN years on from their meeting in the Ulster Senior Football Championship final Brian McAlinden and Pete McGrath are set to lock horns again, but this time as managers in the Ulster U21 final between Down and...>>> more
Where's the money gone?
By Ciaran Woods
c.woods@gaeliclife.com
WITH clubs across the country struggling to operate in the current economic climate, cash earned from the opening of Croke Park to soccer and rugby which had been identified for grassroots level is instead being...>>> more
Pubtalk
Overheard at the Gah...
At the rugby last weekend, a particularly toffee-nosed sort was not enjoying his first visit to the famous old sporting cathedral of Croke Park. He turned to his equally repugnant partner and said in the finest of south...>>> more
Farney bid for All-Ireland glory
Tomorrow, Pearse Park, Longford, 2.30pm
All-Ireland Vocational School's Final
Monaghan v Cork
BY RONAN SCOTT
r.scott@gaeliclife.com
LAST weekend the Monaghan Vocational School's team achieved history when they ended the 18-year hoodoo the Cork mens...>>> more
A stranger in a strange land
BY DECLAN BOGUE
d.bogue@gaeliclife.com
THEY were all there last Saturday night in Croke Park. People I had only really read about in the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series of books, and not having much experience with either rugby or that particular south...>>> more
Five years on and the hurt remains
BY DECLAN BOGUE
d.bogue@gaeliclife.com
***STANDFIRST***
IT'S five years on from the tragic passing of Cormac McAnallen. Five years since Fr Gerard McAleer announced it at morning Mass to an astonished and disbelieving...>>> more
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