Midfielder reacquainted with Sam for an eighth time and won with Ballymun in 2020

Ronan McCarthy’s side looked removed from reality as they trained on the beach in Youghal

‘My whole sporting career has taught me so much’ says long-serving Mayo stalwart

A ding-dong battle with Oisín Mullin saw both men come out with credit in the bank

In four of their last six All-Ireland finals the opposition’s first score has been a goal

Dogged Mayo finally fell away in the last 10 minutes at Croke Park

Capital Gains: The former Dublin star on why the money debate needs to find some middle ground

Between them, Gearóid Hegarty and Tom Morrissey plundered 12 points from play

John Kiely’s side show that the gap back to the rest is growing

Limerick found a way to avoid him in the Munster final and they’ll need to do it again

Liam Cahill preparing team for All-Ireland final is an outcome few could have predicted

Mickey Graham says it’s up to other counties to get up the level of the champions

Brian Fenton, Ciarán Kilkenny and Con O’Callaghan run the show at Croke Park

Live sport may have gone missing during the pandemic but there was always plenty to read

To understand Cavan people, football is the only starting place that makes sense

For women, going out for a run brings on a spectrum of feelings, from discomfort to fear

Highest scoring game without a goal in championship history makes for sterile tie

Galway manager Shane O’Neill reflects on slow start after both water breaks

Despite the absent fans, headquarters set to witness two fascinating clashes

He was building a legacy - one of the Kilkenny greats - before four cruel years of injury

Tipping point: Beams of light were provided to footballing communities of Tipperary and Cavan

Cavan lift first Ulster title in 23 years as Tipp end 85-year wait for Munster crown

Donegal came in hot favourites and for most of the time played like they were already through

Cavan are without some key players this year but Clarke’s return has been a major boost

There are three provincial football finals and two All-Ireland hurling quarter-finals

The footballers and hurlers are doing their best to enliven one of our darkest periods

Laois hang in their for the first quarter before the champions cruise to 22 point win

Galway left shellshocked as Brian Cody’s Cats secure the Leinster title at Croke Park

Malachy Clerkin looks ahead to four provincial semi-finals and the Connacht decider

Former Galway selector Francis Forde explains how forwards’ work rate is crucial

Ronan McCarthy says he is ‘delighted’ and praises players after last-gasp victory

Golf doesn’t deserve the bad name it gets from the likes of Trump and ‘golfgate’

Kingdom left stunned by late drama at Páirc Uí Chaoimh as Rebels book spot in final

Former player Sean O’Sullivan explains how Kerry are now set up for winter football

Malachy Clerkin and Seán Moran look ahead to a weekend of quarter-finals and semi-finals

Tipping Point: Pain of championship exit felt as keenly as ever during a pandemic

‘I’m not involved in f*****g hurling to go out there and put up the white flag’

Wexford were unrecognisable from last year. Even Davy Fitzgerald was quiet

Malachy Clerkin and Sean Moran look at the opening weekend of football championship

Malachy Clerkin previews every side as the provincial action finally gets underway

Darragh Ó Sé and Kevin McStay recall days when teams got no second chance

Convincing win over understrength Donegal shows Kingdom in rude health for championship

Clear that Donegal were focused on Tyrone as Kingdom took care of business early

Five games in seven weeks could bring a clean sweep of league, Munster and All-Ireland crowns

The hurling championship gets underway as the football league comes to a conclusion

It’s a small bridge over troubled water, but at least it’s preferable to the sound of silence

Our GAA writers reflect on a different working environment over the weekend

Home side were pedestrian with Conor McManus adding some spark off the bench

With the county moving up to Level 4, the footballer is not taking anything for granted

Intercounty season restarts with plenty still at stake in all four divisions

Dr Kevin Moran believes the benefits of team sport far outweigh the pandemic pitfalls

At 42 the Dundalk woman has become national time trial champion

Former greats like DJ Carey, Fitzgerald and McDonald continue to play their part

Malachy Clerkin hands out the marks for Stephen Kenny’s side

‘I’m just so gutted for the players and for everyone in the club’

All has changed from schedules to practicalities of social distancing in commentary boxes

RTÉ and Sky best get busy if they are to echo the roars and sounds of a Champo occasion

Irish showjumper and wife Dianna keep faith after he was paralysed at event in 2019

The summer of 2013 was golden for a hotchpotch collection of footballers in London

Finding a way to fund sport will be much trickier than getting it up and running was

Boden take lead in the first half at Parnell Park but rue letting it slip away too easily

From city superclub to country parish powerhouse the elusive dual remains the target

Malachy Clerkin picks through the details of the latest Government strictures

The government has announced its medium-term plan Living With Covid-19

Limit likely to be 500 with up to 5,000 possibly attending larger grounds in coming months

Recent influx of world-class talent shows women’s football in England is thriving

Malachy Clerkin: Here we go again as teams are picked and inevitable hours are wasted

All-Ireland films from the 1940s onwards will be available on the IFI Player

Ulster Council chief Brian McAvoy believes numbers could be higher for semi-finals and final

Club chairman says Killoe Emmets’ faith in the GAA’s disciplinary system fully restored

Ability to be in charge of everything without being to blame for anything is almost admirable

Hero Books - telling stories that deserve to be told to communities who want to hear them

McGuinness’s men were long shots to take down the champions in 2014 All-Ireland semis

It’s impossible to know yet how or where sport is going to fit into the picture

Event is magnificent if you’re playing or working but otherwise stay on the couch

Decision to keep written press out of the Aviva won’t help promote sport’s return

Members of new club have been told to check under their cars, but they still take the field

Intercounty training return will test counties as crowd restrictions remain at 200

Hurlers know that if you can’t hurl in Thurles, you won’t hurl anywhere

The landscape, crowds, the buzz, the stands, the ring - nothing prepares you for the first time

This is where Croke Park’s messaging needs to be stronger and louder than ever

Ireland’s Olympians and Paralympians left hoping big gamble will pay off in the end

The Park’s splendid backdrop is often matched by the quality of the football on display

GAA needs to step up and support clubs, rather than blaming house parties

GAA club players eager to embrace revived season and a return to some semblance of normality

First round of Dublin club hurling championship much more one sided than expected

Two years and two operations on from a horror knee injury the Tipp hurler is nearly there

Former Ireland captain on how technology changed his approach to rugby late in his career

Mourning over the weekend was for Jack but also for us and for those glorious times

Goalkeeper has played a huge role in establishing Dublin as dominant force in the game

Spotlight has shone on golf after its early restart and particularly on the bulked-up American star

NUIG professor on why the desire to help over-70s could be clumsy during lockdown

The fact that sport has been decoupled from transport could allow a little more light to shine in

The creche reopening, even for the few weeks until my daughter starts school, is life-changing

Billy Stickland looks back on his favourite shots from one of Ireland’s greatest moments

Q&A: There may not have been many goals but dramatic moments were in abundance

Eight different kinds of dad on how their experience of fatherhood has changed them

It’s a dystopian suggestion but sport seems ever so slightly purer with no supporters

Kilmacud-Crokes and Graigue-Ballycallan are sparing no effort to put plans in place