Ciarán Murphy

Spectre of the dead rubber has stayed away, showing fans that group stages can have all the drama you can handle

Provincial GAA championships may be losing their lustre but straw hat brigade and, more importantly, players can now enjoy more high-quality games in high summer

Gus Poyet’s comments hardly suggest a man for whom being fiercely loyal is important

Absence of a host of Galway’s big names diminishe the double-bill at Pearse Park but league has never looked more like a secondary competition

The success of a fine Tipperary number seems to have led to a questionable cottage-on-a-shirt industry

Ciarán Murphy: Three Gaelic footballers have a very long shot at a NFL kicking job. Don’t bet against them making it

The job of charting a bright new future for Gaelic football is difficult but former Dublin boss Jim Gavin's presence on the review committee will ensure a thorough approach

Regardless of what the final cost of Casement Park will be, we can be assured that the GAA will not be footing the majority of the bill

Kildare GAA county board, the women’s football board and the county’s camogie board share responsibility for the county’s baffling underachievement at senior level

Surely there is no shortage of games in this toothless hurling league system that busy Fitzgibbon Cup colleges players cannot be rested for

When they talk about ‘a Derry job for Derry people’, it would help if so many of their previous managers weren’t from outside the county

There’s nothing quite like Gaelic football, no matter how it changes

The handling of the mooted renaming of Páirc Uí Chaoimh has exposed a deep lack of leadership

The conditions in Newry for the game were bizarre but at least both Glen and Kilmacud’s managers accepted they it made no material difference to the outcome

At this time of year, managers’ team-sheet selections are only thing we’re going to learn about them