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Column: The GAA has at least admitted now that GAAGO is purely a money making scheme. But with further heavy storms forecast in a month's time, one big question remains: In a world of dodgy boxes, can it ever actually make enough money to pay its way?
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Gary Lineker had really gone up in my estimation until this. The way he takes the sweet out, unwrapped, sneaks it in, doesn't ask either of the lads if they want one. So polished, he's clearly done this many times before. Pocket sweet eaters are the worst of people
@GaryLineker
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You can take the man out of Tyrone but you can't take Tyrone out of the man
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"Small gestures can have a big impact." I just think this is absolutely brilliant by
@TyroneGAALive
#GAA
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Eldest daughter played her first u5 camogie match last week. Marched straight in to full-forward and took the wee girl from The Loup by the hand. Talked the whole way home about her new friend. Must've got it from
@maireadyo
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Just received a lovely call from Ciaran McAleer's father Neil and thought this was worth sharing again. It's Ciaran, who suffers from brittle bone disease, leading out the Tyrone team at Healy Park last year. It's just an outstanding sight to see the joy and pride on his face
"Small gestures can have a big impact." I just think this is absolutely brilliant by
@TyroneGAALive
#GAA
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The final whistle goes and Mickey Moran shrugs off the congratulations to go straight to Kilmacud manager Robbie Brennan for a hug. But at long last, Mickey Moran has his All-Ireland as a manager.
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Unbearably tragic news from Monaghan this morning. From immense pride to unspeakable devastation in a few short hours. I don't think there's a person on the island whose heart won't ache today for Brendan's family, friends, team-mates with county and club. RIP
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Bellaghy goalkeeper Peter Stewart kicks a 65th minute winner against Newbridge. On the final whistle seconds later they all sprint to Declan Brown, who buried his father Damian this morning and came on late in the game. The emotional connection of a GAA community is unrivalled
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Those dramatic last few seconds. To win an Ulster title beating Tyrone, Monaghan and Donegal is some success by Derry
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Never broke stride, never thought twice about going on his left, never looked like he was going to miss even with all that was at stake. This is the score I always think of when it comes to Diarmuid Connolly. The Cantona of Gaelic football
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Con O'Callaghan has been a completely different player since he ate Bernard Brogan
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Unbelievable that the medic and the referee allowed that to happen. A sport can talk about being serious about concussion but actions speak louder than words
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Tomorrow's column. Since Saturday I've spent about 15 hours at football. Watching, playing, reporting. There is so, so, so much good in the GAA, what it does for society. If The Nolan Show contributed one-thousandth of the same, it'd maybe be worth your time
'The appetite for fury is never-ending, and so round and round and round it goes.' - In a no-holds-barred opinion piece, GAA columnist
@CahairOKane1
takes aim at BBC broadcaster Stephen Nolan
#GAA
#Nolan
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Yesterday's man of the match Conleth McGuckian when he was seven years of age, playing against Slaughtneil. Absolutely brilliant photo by
@brianmckenna26
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Understand that Glen have lodged an objection to Croke Park over the result of Sunday's All-Ireland club final after discussions this evening. CCCC expected to meet within 24 hours to decide. A replay the most likely decision, though what Kilmacud now do remains to be seen
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As shared by
@DamianMcLernon
, this is just the most ridiculously perfect pass by Ross Carr 👌👌
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"Anti-Dublin bias is the biggest load of bollocks. Pure, total and utter dung."
Oisin McConville 😂 have said for a long time he's the best pundit around
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So many All-Ireland finals are about systems and tactics and fear of losing. Today was about David Clifford and Shane Walsh, one-on-one with their men, ripping up the hallowed turf. Seventeen points between them. Seven frees, two marks, a 45' and seven from play. An exhibition
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I could stream this for free if I was in the Republic but because I'm in the north, I have to pay Sky to watch Dublin-Kerry. It should never have happened and it should be stopped as soon as possible because it's partitionist and goes against what the GAA is supposed to be
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Of all the reasons to have wanted Mayo to win an All-Ireland, Lee Keegan was right at the top. But would the medal change much? Men have won All-Irelands that weren't a fraction of the player. Keegan turned up when he was needed. That's a fine legacy
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2,540 days. 45 games. Six All-Irelands in a row. Brian Fenton's first ever championship defeat. Highly unlikely we'll ever see a run like it again. Dublin have been unbelievable, but football needed it to end. And nobody deserved to end it more than Mayo. Unreal drama
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The moment I referred to at the start of my column this week. Watch Eoin Murchan take off when Dublin turn the ball over. Realises there’s no-one ahead of him in blue, busts a gut to get to full-forward and bring his team up the pitch. Vision, awareness, decision making
#GAA
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Hard to believe that Sunday's football final will Darragh Maloney's first live TV commentary of an All-Ireland decider. Their best commentator by an absolute mile, he should have been on every football final of the last decade. Long overdue
#GAA
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Of all the bullshit out of Dublin, there's been nothing as insulting as the recent "we're great because our volunteers work bloody hard". What's the rest of the country been doing this 130 years? The impact of money is far past deniability. If it has no effect, hand it back
#GAA
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I can't see a 0-0 scoreline in the Irish League without thinking of this gem from Apres Match 😂
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That free given to Stephen O'Brien changed that game. Derry were two up, had just made a huge goalmouth block, coming out with the ball. Softest of frees. Kerry win the next three kickouts and get themselves ahead. Huge decision and a hard one for Derry to stomach
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Random idea. Imagine the GAA rotated Croke Park to counties every year to host adult club finals. 1 or 2 counties a year. Snr, int, jnr football, hurling, camogie. How class would that be for clubs that would never get close to playing in it through All-Irelands. Some incentive
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Mattie McGleenan's celebration 😂😂😂😂😂 you'll need to watch the whole thing, it's only 90 seconds
#GAA
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Shaun Patton's technique is unbelievable. One step, kicks it 60 yards over the top and into his man's run. Scary
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By the boot of Jerome Johnston and the hand of Miceal Rooney, they've done it. Kilcoo, tiny Kilcoo, are the biggest club in the country. Kilcoo are All-Ireland champions
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Every single county in Ireland, football and hurling, should be encouraging this at half-time in every single game they play. Nothing engages young ones more than the chance to muck about themselves. Does absolutely nobody any harm. Get the pitches filled all summer
Half time in Parnell Park and all the kids are out with their hurleys… Brilliant to see 🤩
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It is gonna take a lot to wrestle Footballer of the Year off James McCarthy. Not an ounce of tokenism based on his career, it's about the 2023 he has had. First pick in the transfer market for every single county in Ireland. I think he's Dublin's greatest of the great
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Actually tough watching Sambo getting so emotional over this but you can only imagine what that was like. The teachers that did that to weans should have been locked in a cell
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Life's there to be lived. It's only football. This group have had a very tough reminder of that the last few weeks. Can't understand why anyone would want to criticise them for enjoying what was a huge day for Gaoth Dobhair, even if they didn't win
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Vinny Corey called Conor McManus the greatest clutch player in Monaghan's history. I make it of his 9-240 in championship football, 1-43 (18%) of it has been scored after the 60th minute. Of that, 1-14 has been from play (36%). Put all the league games on top of that. Leadership.
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Kilmacud Crokes have 4,800 members - seven adult football teams and five in hurling.
All-Ireland club finalists.
U19&U17 footballers top of Div1. U19 hurlers same.
Modern Ireland demands a GAA transfer system - but one that allows Shane Walsh to go to Kilmacud isn't right
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25 of the Monaghan football panel are based in Dublin but not one of them plays for a Dublin club. They all travel home for their club games. Fair play 👏
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Crazy to think that a tackle scene would be so memorable 18 seasons later. Such a defining sequence for Mickey Harte's Tyrone. Nobody can deny the county's achievements under him, nor that the time is right to go. Like Heffernan and Micko and Gavin, his name will always be spoken
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Final call on this week's column. Catholic, Protestant, no matter what you are, start the week tomorrow by listening to something else
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The 1999 Ulster final and the walk up the hill made by Suzanne and Megan Burns. In the pram, one Jarlath Óg Burns, off to see his father lift the Anglo Celt Cup as Armagh captain. The boy in the pram might get his own tomorrow
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Deep down we all know that when it comes to it, the people of this country retain the inner goodness, generosity, compassion and sense of community we've always prided ourselves on. In the face of unspeakable tragedy, the people of Creeslough and Donegal have come across so well
Siobhan Carr and her tireless staff at The Coffee Pod in
#Creeslough
have been doling out mountains of free food and drinks to emergency workers for over 24 hours now - they’re still going as I write. They also refuse payment from journalists sheepish at the Donegal hospitality
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Ryan Wylie’s 2018 championship
M Bradley 0-0 / R O’Neill 0-0
C Corrigan 0-0
J Curry 0-0 (only played 2nd half)
R O’Rourke 0-2 (R Wylie 0-1)
R Munnelly 0-0
N Flynn 0-2
P Geaney 0-0
I Burke 0-1
L Brennan 0-0 / M Bradley 0-0
He should’ve won an Allstar
#GAA
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Honoured to be launching a new goalkeeping coaching course. Can travel, but would rather not
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Padraig Nugent (St John's) sent off at the end of the Antrim final for clipping Domhnall Nugent (Lámh Dhearg). His brother. The GAA's class
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The Sheridan, Bateson and Lee trophy placed on the grave of Brian Óg McKeever, the young Steelstown star who passed away 13 years ago tomorrow, aged 17, and after whom the club is named. Beautiful thing to be able to do
#GAA
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Four minutes of Donal Og spouting the same stuff. No counter argument presented all summer, just nodding heads. First 11 pages of hurling in Irish Examiner both Sat&Mon. Loads of promotion if you care to look. Sports will always clash. Hard to stomach this stuff. Column tomorrow
Dónal Óg Cusack makes a passionate plea for more "oxygen" to be pumped into the sport of hurling
#RTEgaa
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I'd often be critical of the GAA leadership but they've made a huge contribution for the good of society this week. From pro-actively shutting down all form of gatherings to opening Croke Park for testing. It is the world's greatest community organisation. This is it at its best
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This was from an U15.5 schools game today. It finished 0-2 to 0-1. Abbey CBS are the team defending, Maghera (scored 6-32 in their two games before today) on the ball. This happened in Tyrone-Monaghan recently too, becoming more regular. The rules simply have to change
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Glen, All-Ireland champions! Never seen a celebration quite like it - to a man, they almost all collapsed to the ground. Malachy O'Rourke gets his All-Ireland too. No Derry title until 2021, now All-Ireland champions. Unbelievable achievement.
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I don't think there's a worse action on a football field than trying to put your finger into someone's eye. It has crept in the last few years. Anyone caught even near it should be sitting on the line for six months. Had a man try it on me once. As cowardly as it gets
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TG4 confirm that they will show live coverage of the Antrim hurling final between Dunloy and Loughgiel from 2.30pm on Sunday ⚾🙌
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If ever a place would give you a sense of what it is to be Irish, it's Gaoth Dobhair. Rugged, rural, resolute. Proud.
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How many times is Conor Lane gonna bottle a black card?
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Fair play to the groundsman in Newry sitting on and waiting for me to finish work. Very civil man, nothing a hassle. Late night for a man that I presume has a real job in the morning, unlike me. You do wonder if the next generation will ever provide volunteers like it
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Tyrone has 53 clubs. 2018 games development grant was €119,000.
Dublin has 93 clubs. 2018 games development grant was €1.3m.
If any county is surrounded by the economic resources to be self-sufficient, it's Dublin. Yet it's the rest who are asked to be.
Column tomorrow
#GAA
Of all the bullshit out of Dublin, there's been nothing as insulting as the recent "we're great because our volunteers work bloody hard". What's the rest of the country been doing this 130 years? The impact of money is far past deniability. If it has no effect, hand it back
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@JamieBrysonCPNI
Everyone in the north can throw stones at the past but it doesn't do any good. Be the bigger man. The three major sporting bodies are trying their best, none of them get it all right. Take that look in the mirror and try being a force for inclusion rather than division
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Four-star accommodation in Europe for this Saturday and Sunday night
Croke Park Hotel, Dublin £788 (€918)
Madrid £231
Berlin £305
Lisbon £318
Brussels £339
Barcelona £340
Amsterdam £351
Edinburgh £379
Rome £392
Munich £459
Paris £522
Absolutely scandalous stuff altogether
I've stayed in the
@crokeparkhotel
many times & I have no complaints about the place at all. But €918 for one person for 2 nights this weekend in a deluxe double room without breakfast for All Ireland Quarter final weekend is absolutely crazy.
#RipOffIreland
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Not sure about anyone else but after a full year of patience and understanding and seeing the need for restrictions, the idea of further lockdowns is a bit sickening. If they'd done lockdown properly at the start we wouldn't be a year on and no further forward. People are fed up
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Totally meaningless in a way but the GAA just had the Rare Aul Times sung live and the Dublin fans singing along, building their own atmosphere. Doesn't do much for the appearance of neutrality for an All-Ireland final in Croke Park
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An unpaid one or two-year internship of weekend and evening work, yet looking for someone with a degree and a recognised S&C qualification. That's a long time to do a job you're not getting paid for when you've spent thousands to graduate. Unpaid internships should not be legal
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The GAA has cancelled all fixtures at club level for the foreseeable future. The prospect of an inter-county championship is dwindling by the day. But I'm thankful there was any football this year at all. It's kept a lot of people sane the last few months
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That's how you take a penalty 🔥 take a bow Niall McCarney
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Literally anywhere in the entire northern half of Ireland would have done, but they're sending Slaughtneil and Sarsfields to Gorey in Wexford. There's bound to be a ground somewhere handier that could hold it without doing something as mental as this
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Interesting image. Kilmacud had 16 players on the field defending Glen's last attack.
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All-Ireland senior champions: Glen
All-Ireland intermediate champions: Cullyhanna
All-Ireland junior champions: Arva
Some year for Ulster clubs
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Sport is cruel and unjust and glorious and heart-stopping. What a finish to an occasion those young lads will never forget. "Remember the day we sold out Nowlan Park on our own?" Not much consolation to Offaly now all the same
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Column: Ticket price rises as people struggle to pay bills. Cashless entry only without the infrastructure to do it properly, leaving older people - a core audience - lost and helpless. A season ticket that offers very little. What is happening here?
#GAA
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There were cameras at Mayo-Armagh, Monaghan-Kerry, Cork-Galway, Clare-Derry, Laois-Antrim, possibly others, and yet there's nowhere to watch the games back in full. You'd swear they were state secrets. And then people complain of lazy analysis when we can't watch the games 🤯
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The people that wrote those words and sang and laughed and banged tables aren't human. You couldn't be human if doing something like that would enter your head for even a split second. It is just absolutely depraved, sheer badness. Really, really bad people that deserve no luck
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Full clip of red card incident.
Rory Kavanagh says St Eunan's were told it was for "a strike on the Glenties player on the ground."
Adds: "We try to show [the officials] the video at half-time that shows there is no strike and they don't want to watch it. So, something stinks."
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A brilliant Tipperary hurling final today, a great Dublin hurling final last night and the exit of Corofin from the football championship. We were told for years the GAA would have "no presence" if the county season was shortened. Horseshit. Only ever needed to show more of it
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We’ll sell the games to the world with Sky, they said. And now people who pay for Sky can’t even watch The Sunday Game in the north 🙈🙈🙈 can’t record it to watch it back, no access to it on the RTÉ player. Woeful
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This is our first minister. The person who should be setting the example for everyone else to follow. Her example is, no matter what the circumstances, bring Them Uns into it. This place would wreck your head
This is not protest. This is vandalism and attempted murder. These actions do not represent unionism or loyalism. They are an embarrassment to Northern Ireland and only serve to take the focus off the real law breakers in Sinn Fein.
My thoughts are with the bus driver.
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Caught up with Dungannon's number one supporter, Pedro Gomes for today's paper. Born in Portugal, moved to Ireland aged four and is GAA mad. This is the video of his celebration at the final whistle, if you hadn't seen it. It is absolutely brilliant 🏐
#GAA
In tomorrow’s Irish News and at …
“My heart was going, I tried to just keep calm to show my mates what was happening. I was in two places at once, showing the penalties and watching as well”:
@DgnClarkeGFC
super-fan Pedro Gomes relives a night of drama
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Kilmacud Crokes have played eight championship games in Croke Park in the last three years. No reason why Glen should be asked to go there any more than Kilmacud should be asked to come to Armagh. A provincial venue would add so much to what should be a firecracker
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Games won in the Ulster championship in the last decade (2012-now)
Donegal 27
Monaghan 16
Tyrone 12
Cavan 9
Down 7
Armagh 4
Fermanagh 4
Derry 1
Antrim 1
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Aside from the other allegations, the idea that BBC staff were planted in the audience for Stephen Nolan's TV show and that rows were manufactured is really damning too. Wrote this three years ago about how brutally divisive his TV and radio shows are
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Column: The GAA more than pays its way in society. The narrative that they're standing with a begging bowl for Casement Park is deeply unfair. Since Ireland was partitioned, nationalists have had the raw deal on public funding. £100m? It's barely a start
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Strange statement from Waterford. If they don't want to play then don't play. But throwing 'Northern Ireland' at it as though it's a foreign country is totally unnecessary. And Portglenone is nowhere near Belfast. They're 45 minutes apart
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Ticket prices for National Leagues increase from €15 last year to €18 in 2023. Revenues from last year's leagues were higher than in 2019. In 2019, leagues brought in €3.5m, cost €1.3m to run. They'll no doubt say costs have gone up. Times are hard enough. No need.
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Not having a back door is shit for Clare and Sligo and everyone else in the middle tier. But remember the reason there is none. Giving clubs a proper window for championships is far more important than 50 back-door games that won't change a thing in terms of who wins it
#GAA
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Dessie Farrell's backroom team of 28. There has to be some form of regulation placed on all this. Some counties can barely afford to carry 28 players 😂
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Mad stuff Ted. Lamh Dhearg and Portglenone 9-9 on free kicks after their replay finished level AET, Antrim chairman stepped in and both clubs agreed another replay at the weekend. 3,500 people watching it live at the end - more than watch All-Irelands on Sky! 😂
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Wow. Jack McCarron, as he did last year, saves Monaghan again. Dublin are relegated to Division Two. Monaghan will start 2023 as with second-longest unbroken run in Division One behind Kerry. What a remarkable result, what a remarkable game, what a remarkable day's football
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By the end of this year, Gearoid Hegarty will be 27. Tom Morrisey, Aaron Gillane, Sean Finn and Cian Lynch will be 25. Seamus Flanagan will turn 24 and Kyle Hayes will be 23. It could be a while before they stop winning All-Irelands
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My God. Asked a simple question about the controversy over free-to-air games, GAA president Larry McCarthy literally walks away from the microphone and shakes his head. As strategies go for dealing with tough issues, that's just about the worst you could imagine.
Spoke to Larry McCarthy at the launch of the All Ireland series today, the GAA President declined to take questions on the future broadcast rights of the hurling championship from
@VMSportIE
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Get the big CD player at Croke Park tuned to this before the game next Saturday
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Ruairi Canavan's dummy amassing just the 450,000 likes on ESPN's TikTok account. Has there been a more viral GAA moment in history? We'll have to forgive
@espn
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Since the tail end of 2013, Rory Beggan has started 123 consecutive games for Monaghan.
52 championship games.
71 league games.
One injury-time substitution.
One black card.
All 8,600+ minutes otherwise.
Incredible run. Good luck to him with the NFL gig. He's done his bit 💪🙌
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