In different ways, I think we’re all finding the unwinding of Covid measures a bit strange. Do we really want to go without masks on public transport? Who, in truth, wants to return to commuting and the office five days a week? And how on earth are we going to live without having every GAA match either broadcast or streamed […]
The lads have the weekend off (well, the footballers do, the hurlers are playing London over in Ruislip) so it’s the turn of the county’s women footballers to take the limelight for a bit. Their National League campaign gets going on Saturday evening, with a home fixture in Division One against Westmeath in the Connacht GAA Air Dome (throw-in 7pm). […]
As the days tick down to the planned resumption of inter-county action – it’s just eleven days now until we’re supposed to be facing Galway in the National League at Tuam (throw-on on the 18th is set for 2pm) – so the number of daily Covid-19 infections increases remorselessly. This is no game but if it’s viewed as a contest […]
Photo: RTÉ The GAA have announced today that Saturday’s All-Ireland semi-final replay will be reffed by Meath’s Cormac Reilly. He was, of course, the man in the middle for our quarter-final against Cork and, all things considered, we got a decent enough shake off him that day so I don’t think there should be any concern from our side about […]
Okay, maybe it’s time to shift the focus away a bit from last Sunday and onto this coming Saturday where another Croke Park double-header is in prospect and where this year’s two semi-finalists on the other side of the draw should be revealed. Because these matches take place on Saturday the throw-in times are later than you’d get on a […]
Midweek already with the warm glow of sending the Kerry lads back home crying to their mammies without a second half score to show for their troubles now receding and the prospect of the significant challenge that Tyrone will represent this coming weekend starting to come into view. It’s another one I’ll be sitting out, I’m afraid – this one […]
The Mayo News has a bit of, well, news which is worth drawing your attention to and there are also a few other bits and pieces worthy of mention before I slope off for the evening. The first is that Ed McGreal reckons Aidan O’Shea might be facing a two-match ban for his straight red last Sunday. This is because […]
RTE’s coverage of the league is, to be fair, consistent. They’ve never given a shit about it and 2009 – 125th anniversary or not – is proving no different. We’d never have had any live TV coverage of the league at all had TG4 and Setanta not decided to provide it and, now that they do, all those lazy sods […]
TV3’s GAA coverage began in confident fashion last night, with the start of its magazine programme Championship Throw-In (yes, they did, after all, deploy the hyphen) ahead of its first weekend of live Championship action this Sunday. I thought it was an impressive start last night and the programme looks set to become required viewing over the summer for GAA […]
Not just the days in actual fact but, by the looks of this, the hours, minutes and seconds as well. You’d have to conclude that they’re keen to get going and when they do so this Sunday, it’s with a tasty Munster hurling clash between Waterford and Clare. The first football match they’re doing is the Dubs v Louth meeting […]