THE GAA admits they don’t expect county managers to be happy at having to wait until September for access to players, but believe the idea is realistic.

Ireland’s oldest inter-county player says he has no plans to retire, and if the 2020 season is lost, he’ll be back for more next year.

On This Day - Sunday June 6 2010: Taken Apart: Monaghan leave Armagh in Casement basement Ulster Senior Football Championship first round: Armagh 0-9 Monaghan 1-18 DARREN Hughes played an unexpected central role in yesterday’s terrific tale of underdog triumph.

ANTRIM senior football manager Lenny Harbinson has strongly criticised the GAA leadership for its delays in providing clarity about the proposed way forward.

THE sun was splitting the rocks as the four of them headed out towards the Coast Road.

NEIL Best's sporting career could easily have taken a different trajectory had he fulfilled his promise as a footballer when at school and not switched to the oval-ball game.

TWO years ago St Ronan’s, Lurgan, less that three years up and running as a school, won their maiden MacRory title and went on to cap a marvellous season by lifting the Hogan Cup.

THE more years that have passed, the more obvious it has become.

The events in the small Irish village of Ballygawley on a March night back in 2010 proved to be significant in the resurrection of a club tainted by financial irregularities and a first ever relegation.

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‘SPACE is your friend’ is the key message for a return to training and playing contact team sports.

TRAINING is likely to pose a greater infection risk than matches as the GAA moves towards a return to play.

TODAY, if the GAA goes ahead and publishes it’s return-to-play roadmap, it could be the glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel that we have all been waiting on.

Seamus Maloney selects Antrim hurling's top six during the 2010s

MARTIN O’Neill has been installed as favourite to take over as Liverpool manager after Rafael Benitez left the club yesterday.

DOWN hurling manager Ronan Sheehan is also a Celtic fanatic. He selects the best XI he’s watched in more than 30 years.

THE question about whether or not the Olympic Games goes ahead next summer breezes beyond Kellie Harrington.

TOKYO 2021 hopeful Kellie Harrington believes a later return to action can actually work in Ireland’s favour by the time the Games roll around next summer.

WHEN David Moran punched rather than caught that fateful throw-in last September, Eoin Murchan had no idea that he was 10 seconds from history.

CLUB GAA could be set to begin in early August as optimism grows ahead of the publication of the GAA’s return to play roadmap in the coming days.