Young guns fire new belief into Saffrons
ANTRIM supporters left Dublin disappointed on Saturday, July 25, 2005. There wasn’t anything new in that. It happened almost every time Antrim supporters went to an All-Ireland semi-final or, more recently, a quarter-final. But there was something different this time.

Oak Leafers in battle to keep hurling alive
One of Derry’s finest ever dual players has taken over the reins of the county’s hurling team, but as Brian McGilligan tells Eamonn O’Hara, the chances of more young Oak Leafers following in his footsteps have all but disappeared...

McKernan prepared to do things the Ards way
Many felt he was treated harshly by Antrim after a relatively successful season with his native county, but Jim McKernan hasn’t allowed bitterness to get in his way and tells Paul McConville about his plans to bring the glory days back to Down...

Coulter and Orchard are on a building job
Armagh will probably always be a football mad county, but there are some in the Orchard determined to put it on the hurling map. Neil Loughran talks to one such devotee, star forward Declan Coulter...