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The Tyrone jersey and crest with the evocative red hand. Photograph: Andrew Paton/Inpho
September Road: When Tyrone wore the green and gold

The evocative red hand against the white background is synonymous with Tyrone GAA, but few realise that the All-Ireland finalists once played in diffe(...)

Arthur Griffith: the many lighter pieces he wrote reveal a witty man with a keen sense of humour. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
The best medicine – Brian Maye on a lighter side to Arthur Griffith

December this year marks the centenary of the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the foundation document of Ireland’s independence. The person who led(...)

Dr Siobhán Doyle, TU Dublin lecturer and GAA Museum tour guide, at the launch of the GAA Museum’s Bloody Sunday centenary events series. Photograph: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile
The GAA must ensure Bloody Sunday is remembered appropriately

Living memory of Bloody Sunday has now escaped us. Those who recounted their stories as witnesses to the events that unfolded in Croke Park on Novembe(...)

The family of Irish-born Margaret Keene want the words “In ár gcroíthe go deo” on the stone above her grave at St Giles burial ground at Exhall, Coventry. Photograph: iStock
Church of England rules Irish inscription on grave stone must have translation

The Church of England has ruled that an Irish-language inscription on a Coventry gravestone must have a translation with it to ensure the phrase is no(...)

Sport Ireland chief executive John Treacy. ‘We don’t think we have a huge doping culture in Ireland, but we always have to be vigilant, and we will continue to be vigilant.’ Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho
Rugby and cycling the focus for Irish anti-doping testers

Irish sport does not have “a huge doping culture” according to Sport Ireland chief executive John Treacy. Of 1,303 anti-doping tests carried out in (...)

November’s International Rules series has been called off - the last one was held in Australia in 2017 . Photograph: Tommy Dickson/Inpho
November’s International Rules series is called off

This year’s planned resumption of the international rules series in November will now not go ahead. The news was expected given that both the GAA and (...)

Seán Moran: What nostalgia tells us about how the GAA sees itself

In the days of ‘Breaking Ball’, the GAA television programme in which I had an involvement, one of the most popular elements was a strand called ‘Heav(...)

Niall Murphy, one of Northern Ireland’s most well-known solicitors, who is in a critical condition in hospital with coronavirus, his law firm has said. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA
Leading Northern Ireland lawyer in critical condition because of coronavirus

One of Northern Ireland’s most well-known solicitors is in a critical condition in hospital with coronavirus, his law firm has said. Niall Murphy, 43(...)

‘It is essential that people do not turn up without an appointment to this designated testing centre,’ the HSE said
Coronavirus: Croke Park to become testing ‘drive-thru’ centre

Croke Park is to be used as a temporary testing centre for coronavirus in north Dublin from Tuesday, the Health Service Executive has said. The HSE h(...)

A healthcare worker at Shamrock Rovers’ Tallaght Stadium in Dublin which is being used as a testing centre for Covid-19 (Coronavirus). Photograph: Collins
Coronavirus: 54 new cases confirmed in Ireland, 15,000 forecast by end of March

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has warned of an “exponential increase” in cases of coronavirus as the confirmed number in the Republic reached 223, and in the(...)

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