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Motion agreed to drop All-Ireland hurling preliminary quarter-finals
Central Council also approves Amateur Status report motions
GAA formally recognises GPA image rights in new four-year deal
Year-long negotiations finally reach agreement on new protocol; players to also benefit from cut of GAA+ subscription revenue
Amateur Status Review Committee to present findings to GAA Central Council on Saturday
Two motions for congress to be put to delegates
GAA provincial football championship draw: Armagh to play Tyrone in Ulster - as it happened
Kerry and Cork, and Galway and Mayo on opposite sides of provincial draws
Ciarán Murphy: GAA should not be cowards and must cut ties with Allianz over Gaza
The GAA is being pushed by its own members - not outside forces - to cut ties with sponsors Allianz over Gaza
Draws for 2026 provincial football championships to take place in Croke Park on Thursday
GAA pushes back draw date aiming to pique interest
Seán Moran: GAA gather to decide what rules cannot be wished away
Weekend’s central council meeting to consider many issues, but amateurism continues to loom large
The Kerry paradox: Why the aristocrats of intercounty football never dominate club scene
Pat O’Shea has enjoyed All-Ireland success in both worlds and believes the county has its priorities right
Weekend Gaelic games previews: Final places on the line in three provinces
All to play for as clubs clash in pursuit of silverware
Why there’s no longer any need to ask the GAA what they think
The days of provocatively looking for Croke Park’s reaction to the Irish soccer team are gone
FF’s Áras contender Jim Gavin says he’s ‘great’ in first public remarks since ending campaign
Former Dublin GAA manager says people need ‘resilience’ to cope with challenges and the most important thing is ‘what you do next’
Alan Connolly ‘itching to get back’ to action with Cork as new era beckons
Blackrock clubman likely to be a vital cog in Ben O’Connor’s post-Horgan Rebels
A neuropsychologist on DJ Carey: Living through the eyes of others hollows a person out
DJ Carey’s values got crushed between the noble mission of the GAA and the glitz of fame
‘The sessions are like a maths exam’: Managing the club-intercounty training balance
The pattern of elite clubs looking for managers and coaches with intercounty experience is ingrained now – but at what point does playing for your local side stop being fun?
Westmeath footballer Luke Loughlin: ‘There definitely is a problem, probably more so in clubs, with recreational drug use’
The 30-year-old was speaking to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Drugs Use
Ciarán Murphy: A year when camogie changed — and was finally seen
From the skorts controversy to the quiet battles off the field, a new RTÉ documentary opens the door on the lives of players
Seán Moran: Australian rules clubs abandon former courtesies in recruiting young GAA stars
Breakdown of communication between GAA and AFL has led to sense of frustration with some officials
The downfall of DJ Carey: Rumours, riches and a staggering mesh of fact and fiction
There were early accusations the hurling star was leveraging his name for money but Carey’s criminal scams took things to an entirely different level
How DJ Carey went from hurling great to convicted fraudster
Nine-time All-Star winner spent years cheating people out of money by claiming he had cancer
Denis Walsh: Joining an intercounty set-up is the biggest gamble any GAA player can take
All over the country there are players who feel chewed up and spat out
Seán Moran: Melancholy times, as the past is celebrated against an uncertain future
GAA media presented their annual awards and regretted the departure of valued colleagues
‘They couldn’t believe my tumour hadn’t spread’: Larry Tompkins on tough year of cancer treatment
The All-Ireland winning footballer is slowly recuperating after treatment for ‘very rare’ lung cancer
The GAA and cocaine: ‘I saw the wildness that got into them after using this drug’
Society’s drug issue poses a different challenge for the GAA than for other sporting bodies because it has always seen itself almost as a secular church
Noel McGrath among recipients of Gaelic Writers’ Personality of the Year awards
Awards for Kerry’s Jack O’Connor, Dublin’s Carla Rowe and Galway’s Shauna Healy
GAA previews: All-Ireland champions Na Fianna chase Dublin hurling three-in-a-row
Big county finals in Kilkenny and Tipperary, with football deciders in Cork and Kerry
GAA streaming service’s profits grow before €1 million dividend to owners
The GAA bought RTÉ out of its 50 per cent shareholding in the company earlier this year
The National Football League has a completely daft schedule. Players deserve better
If we insist on playing the league, the central idea must be to play fewer games and make them all more meaningful
Seán Moran: Barring outside managers risks unjust penalising of weakest teams
Move would be financially effective but would it be fair?
Dan Morrissey and Saoirse McCarthy to captain Ireland in Hurling/Camogie-Shinty internationals
Ireland to face Scotland in a double-header in Inverness on Saturday
GAA club championships: Na Piarsaigh claim Limerick SHC after extra-time win over Doon
Athy dethrone Naas in Kildare; Mayo football final requires a replay; Sarsfields claim Cork triumph; Leitrim Gaels win first title
GPA chief Tom Parsons says players’ body should have role in integration of GAA
TD Micheál Carrigy disagreed with Parsons’ view the players’ body should be ‘sitting at the table with the three associations’
Date confirmed for new-look provincial football championship draws
Four draws to be streamed live from Croke Park on November 27th
Seán Moran: GAA rule on amateurism is a busted flush, so let’s change it
The GAA should ask how amateurism is viewed by its wider membership, and how best to protect the volunteerism ethos
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