Mike Quirke

I watched Laois warming up to play Dublin in Croke Park on Sunday lunchtime and began to think of my own time managing Roscommon. And I wondered about(...)

And just like that, the championship is half over. We’ve hardly had time to get a bit of wear out of the good winter coat and already the season is l(...)

Dublin 2-23 Laois 0-7 In the 68th minute of the usual Leinster semi-final cakewalk for Dublin, Paul Mannion cut in off the right and fed Ciarán Kilke(...)

Everyone’s lockdown is different, everyone’s lockdown is the same. It’s 12 weeks since intercounty football paused mid-sentence and everyone was told (...)

Saturday [all throw-ins 7pm unless stated] Division One Dublin v Monaghan, Croke Park [eir sport and RTÉ 2]: Not only are Monaghan on a three-in-a-r(...)

Laois 0-16 Armagh 0-10 The Laois footballers are top of Division Two of the Allianz Football League this evening following a hugely impressive win ov(...)

Allianz Football League [Matches at 2.0 unless stated]  Division One Tyrone v Meath, Healy Park – Back in the big time, Meath face familiar oppo(...)

Meath manager Andy McEntee has claimed that the new advanced mark rule in Gaelic football is unnecessary and only moving the game closer in style to A(...)

Faltering conveyor belt One team had all the confidence of serial winners, their audacious scoring conveying an utter disregard for the laws of physi(...)

Mismatches The calls for a tiered football championship grow louder, it seems, each week, with many commentators referring to the tiered system in hu(...)