Sam Maguire

Castlebar’s status as the luckiest town in Europe continues following the announcement that the largest ever Irish Lotto prize has been won there. Th(...)

Donegal’s All-Ireland winning defender Paddy McGrath has retired from intercounty football. Speaking to the Donegal News, the 32-year-old confirmed (...)

Dublin’s eight-time All-Ireland winner Kevin McManamon has announced his retirement from intercounty football aged 34. McManamon spent 12 years with (...)

Somewhere in the Billy Connolly comedy archives is a sketch where he claims that Mexican food is always the same dish, just folded differently. “That’(...)

It’s late October, season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, and normally GA championship draws. That usually provides a focus on the following year, w(...)

We tend to sleepwalk into things in life. If the current All-Ireland football championships proposals are passed, then very soon the big summer jambor(...)

All-Ireland finals are merciless occasions. They don’t care who you are or what you’ve been through or how far you’ve come. They are over so quickly t(...)

Tyrone 2-14 Mayo 0-15 For all the historical portents and yearning around Mayo, the 2021 All-Ireland football title was not decided by anything more (...)

When Dermot Flanagan dismisses the Mayo ‘curse,’ as having the same basis in reality as “a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow”, he does so with some (...)

The intense build-up to Saturday’s All-Ireland final between Mayo and Tyrone has included some familiar curiosity about the Mayo mind. Our colourful s(...)