Malachy O Rourke

Reform it and they will come A couple of weekends into the radical departure of the round robins in the Munster and Leinster hurling championships, t(...)

The biggest GAA weekend of the championship to date drew the crowds and provided plenty of talking points. Munster’s hurling championship, held sacred(...)

 Monaghan 1-18 Tyrone 1-16 Who needs television, anyway? The lack of live cameras in Healy Park exercised plenty of the 15,029 who were here – a(...)

ANTRIM Manager: Lenny Harbinson (1st year) Odds: All-Ireland 2,000/1; Ulster 100/1 Allianz league: 3rd Division Four, beating Leitrim, Waterford, L(...)

A creative blueprint which is in part the brainchild of former Árd Stiúrthoir Paraic Duffy means Monaghan may actually be one of the few counties stri(...)

Dublin 0-17 Monaghan 2-12 This is the only foolproof way to beat Dublin – score the go-ahead point as the clock ticks past the last minute of injury-(...)

It’s 30 years since Monaghan beat Kerry in Monaghan and when Cormac Reilly blew his whistle at the end the roar in Inniskeen reverberated around the s(...)

(2.0 unless stated) Allianz Hurling League Division 1A Clare v Cork, Cusack Park [Live, TG 4] – On a form-line worked through Kilkenny, Clare were m(...)

Most in need of a title The easy and annual answer to this one is, Mayo. If only they could win the league they’d be better set up for the championsh(...)

Dublin manager Jim Gavin spoke extensively (for him) about concerns relating to Diarmuid Connolly’s enforced exile which inconveniently ends the night(...)