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The Big Interview: Ronan Gallagher
By Declan Bogue
IT'S the Monday after a team training weekend and Ronan Gallagher is slumping back on the seat. On Saturday, he and the rest of the Fermanagh panel had two running sessions completed before 9am, with another couple of 'fun'...>>> more
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Brendan Devenney: So long to the Salad Days
THOSE first few National League games you play as a senior inter-county footballer are never easy, but they're even tougher when you're having to take painkillers to get through them.
I made my debut for Donegal in their first round match against...>>> more
Ladies NFL opening day derby-fest
By Ciaran Woods
THE LADIES inter-county scene explodes back into life this weekend as all 32 counties get their Bord Gais Energy National Football League campaigns underway. It's time to shake off the cobwebs gathered over the winter months...>>> more
Queen's and UUJ deliver classic match
By Ciaran Woods
PREVIOUS clashes between Jordanstown and Queen's have been played out under sunny clear blue skies at the Dub, with carnival football to match. However Wednesday's meeting, their fourth in as many years, was more like a war of...>>> more
Joe Brolly: The Hell of the Pre-season
OVER the last few weeks, players all over the country have been gathering in the club house for that crucial first team meeting of the year.
Many will have a new manager. Some clubs will have a few new faces up from the minors. Some in Dublin will...>>> more
The big interview: Gerard O'Kane
Last week Gaelic Life took a trip to Maghera and Walsh's hotel to meet Derry's new captain, Gerard O'Kane. We find him lazing back in an easy chair, not a hundred yards from the school that helped make him the player he is today. He might be relaxed,...>>> more
Brendan Devenney: The misery of winterball
IT WOULD be fair to say that the McKenna Cup was never my favourite competition to play in. In fact, I must confess that I may have tried to duck out of a few games in the past. I was absolutely delighted when Underarmour and Skins came along to keep...>>> more
From Clogh to Croke Park
By Declan Bogue
GOD knows, if ever a team were set to lose a game, it was Naomh Colum Cille last Sunday. They might have shocked a lot of people on their way to beating Rasharkin in the Ulster final, but having a man sent off in this one...>>> more
The Great GAA and GPA debate
All this week, the debate has rumbled on following the agreement between the GPA and the GAA. Gaelic Life has been inundated with queries about the nature and the ramifications of this new partnership. We decided to put our readers' questions to the...>>> more
St Gall's A-Team
By Ciaran Woods
c.woods@gaeliclife.com
In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still...>>> more
A labour of love
'THE GAA - A PEOPLE'S HISTORY' BOOK REVIEW
BY DECLAN BOGUE
d.bogue@gaeliclife.com
'Despite the rise in quality, a core of GAA officials worried that football and hurling were being coarsened by on-field discipline and a win-at-all-costs mentality....>>> more
St Teresa's v Emyvale take two
Sunday, Pairc Esler, Newry, 2pm
AIB Ulster Club Junior Football Championship final replay
St Teresa's (Antrim) v Emyvale (Monaghan)
BY RONAN SCOTT
r.scott@gaeliclife.com
THE lingering feeling of having 'let their fans down' last Sunday will be a...>>> more
Kilcoo of '92 have come a long way
By Ciaran Woods
c.woods@gaeliclife.com
IT took almost two decades, but Kilcoo's introduction of a robust youth system in the early 1990's has led them to the dizzy heights of Down senior champions, with an Ulster club title now fixed in their sights....>>> more
McGurk still seeking redemption
By Ciaran Woods
c.woods@gaeliclife.com
IT'S A full eight years since a serious knee injury brought the curtain down on Paul McGurk's inter-county career with Tyrone. It was his third season with the Red Hand senior side, a stand-out performer in the...>>> more
No way back for Mike Mac?
By John Martin
WHEN looking for subject matter to fill column inches at this time of year, provincial club championships usually provide the main outlet for debate, controversy and opinion.
That is of course, until you look towards Munster. Last...>>> more
The value of values
By Jarlath Burns
THE RECENT goings on up in Derry are a salutary lesson in how far apart the worlds of GAA and professional sport are. Each professional club has to run its affairs as a business, the moment it ceases to become viable, it goes to the...>>> more
Trapdoor swings open for struggling schools sides
By Ronan Scott
r.scott@gaeliclife.com
Ulster Colleges MacRory Cup Group A
Saturday, 11am
St Colman's, Newry v St Mary's CBS
ST MARY'S are experiencing their 'difficult' second season in the MacRory cup, having made such an impact last year when they...>>> more
'Magic' gets a shock in shinty showdown
By Ciaran Woods
c.woods@gaeliclife.com
Down's Gareth Johnston insists that he enjoyed his first hurling-shinty adventure last weekend, even though he's got the scars to show for his exertions in Inverness.
Three stiches across the bridge of his nose...>>> more
Jockeys swap their silks for jerseys for Children's Hospital
BY RONAN SCOTT
r.scott@gaeliclife.com
A GROUP of high-profile racing jockeys and trainers, who are also fanatical about gaelic football, will play a charity match tomorrow at Simonstown club in Navan to raise funds to buy a dialysis machine for a...>>> more
Crunch weekend in MacRory
BY RONAN SCOTT
r.scott@gaeliclife.com
IN this weekend's round of MacRory cup group stages matches, it's win or bust for the vast majority of the teams.
There is a full round of fixtures down to be played and with two games already played a handful...>>> more
Up or down - where all the teams finished up
BY RONAN SCOTT
r.scott@gaeliclife.com
LEAGUE form tends to only concern those clubs who have no ambitions of winning their respective championships. However, this year the amount of teams that find themselves in a struggle to avoid relegation also...>>> more
Clarke- "Your club is your life"
By Niall McDonald
THE majority of GAA fans have at some stage in their life felt the feeling. The referee blows the final whistle and all the hard work, the training, the agony of past defeats melts away into pure delirium as your team has realised...>>> more
Cassidy blasts the future of Antrim hurling
BY RONAN SCOTT
r.scott@gaeliclife.com
MAGEEAN Cup-winning coach Joe Cassidy reckons that his victorious Cross and Passion side are at a higher standard than this year's Antrim minor team, yet he believes that some of the strongest players will never...>>> more
A week's a long time in the GAA
By Jarlath Burns
IT'S SUPPOSED to be a quiet time in the world of GAA, but last week threw up a number of interesting stories which left me spoilt for article ideas this week. There was the Tadhg Kennelly 'I am a big tough man' story, the...>>> more
History means nothing
BY RONAN SCOTT
r.scott@gaeliclife.com
DUNLOY'S Gregory O'Kane is not one for making fancy statements or catchy sound-bites. When you've played senior hurling for your club for 20 years, trying to talk yourself into winning is a waste of time.
You...>>> more
Relegation trapdoor creaks for top sides
By Ronan Scott
r.scott@gaeliclife.com
THE eight county champions competing for Ulster club championship glory may be on a high at the moment, yet for two sides their league situations present very little reason to be cheerful.
Fermanagh's...>>> more
Gaelic life forecast competition leaderboard
Click here to see the updated leaderboard for the Gaelic Life forecast competion>>> more
Pubtalk
IT MIGHT seem a bit late in the year for silly season but here we go again...It seems Nutty Nelson is resurrecting that old ultra-loyalist vote catcher of calling for public funding to be withdrawn from any GAA club named after a terrorist (sic)....>>> more
Writing is on the wall in Donegal
BY RONAN SCOTT
r.scott@gaeliclife.com
IN an interview with Gaelic Life at the start of the 2008 season, Brendan Devenney told Declan Bogue that in the mid '90s, as an eager young county footballer, he took pain killers to allow him to play in a...>>> more
Loup looking to leap forward
BY RONAN SCOTT
r.scott@gaeliclife.com
THE Loup manager John Brennan is not a man who puts much stock in former glories, he's very much a manager who lives in the here and now.
On Sunday he leads a Loup team, who are on the brink of replicating their...>>> more
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