Tag: All Ireland Championships

  • Golden Oldies and a Sunday morning adjusting to a new high

    Golden Oldies and a Sunday morning adjusting to a new high

    With exactly 11 minutes to go in Tullamore on Saturday evening last, my significant other began imploring referee Joe McQuillan to blow for full time. Now read on… After removing the Michael out of the poor woman over her time keep miscalculation, it was readily admitted that such was the astonishment and excitement surrounding the…

  • One step forward, at least four back

    One step forward, at least four back

    The inner sanctum of the GAA at any given time and its surviving elders are about as receptive to change as one would be to a fart in a space suit. To that end, it’s actually quite astounding that initiatives like the Back Door, the introduction of red and yellow cards and the belated adoption…