Padraic Joyce

Not for the first time, the football championship has transformed the GAA season into gorgeous Technicolour. Sometimes, the championship starts with a(...)

The All-Ireland football championship roared into life on a Sunday filled with old scores in need of settling. Sundown came with several talking point(...)

Galway 1-14 Mayo 0-16 The usual spice. What makes this border rivalry predictable in its enduring fascination is the most basic fact: if one crowd do(...)

CONNACHT (Malachy Clerkin) GALWAY Manager: Pádraic Joyce (third year) Odds: All-Ireland 20-1, Connacht 3-1 Next up: v Mayo, Castlebar, Sunday, 4.0 T(...)

We start a ground-breaking season with a sense of possibility in the air. All around the country people are talking about the competitive nature of th(...)

Roscommon 1-20 Galway 0-22 You can say these games don’t amount to a hill of beans and probably, ultimately, you are right. You can remark that this (...)

SATURDAY AFL Division Four Cavan v Tipperary, Croke Park, 2.30 – All’s well that ends well. The respective Ulster and Munster champions from two year(...)

It has been an eventful couple of years for Pat Teehan as Leinster chair. He came into office just before the pandemic tore through society and forced(...)

Saturday Division One Armagh v Kildare - Athletic Grounds, 6.0 (live, BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport NI website) Kildare must be thrilled to have three poin(...)

Already dubbed the Tailteann trapdoor, in suitably threatening manner, the fight to survive in Division 2 of the Allianz Football League is reaching e(...)