Connacht football opens back doorThe Connacht council will tonight vote on a motion to introduce a modified version of the back-door system ahead of next summer…Tue Oct 12 1999 - 01:00
Sunday's Club Hurling and Football PreviewsUlster Club SF Championship replaysSat Oct 09 1999 - 01:00
Back-door gets full supportDublin County Board secretary John Costello yesterday expressed his delight that the proposal to introduce an experimental backdoor…Fri Oct 08 1999 - 01:00
Clare senior hurling clash eagerly awaitedOver 12,000 people are expected to attend the Clare senior hurling championship semi-final between All-Ireland champions St Joseph…Wed Oct 06 1999 - 01:00
End of an era as old Hogan makes way for the newAs the patrons filed through the narrow, noisy turnstiles of the Hogan Stand for the last time on Sunday, it was hard not to …Tue Oct 05 1999 - 01:00
Wood best hooker `by a street'The aftermath of Saturday evening's win led to improbable thesis on whether or not Ireland would want to beat Australia next …Mon Oct 04 1999 - 01:00
Savouring the momentAfter a lap of honour and many hugs with friends in the Hogan stand, the Mayo women gathered in the winter sunshine and stood…Mon Oct 04 1999 - 01:00
Mayo women end decade of miseryThe storied corridors of the Hogan stand echoed their last yesterday and to the sounds of an emerging voice as Mayo, a county…Mon Oct 04 1999 - 01:00
Mayo v Waterford, Croke Park, 3.0Tomorrow's final is representative of both the emerging new order and the standard-bearers for the sport in less-heralded days…Sat Oct 02 1999 - 01:00
Impressive Birr can make final impactThe Offaly hurling final between Birr and St Rynagh's will be the featured game on TG4's new Gaelic games slot on Sunday afternoon…Fri Oct 01 1999 - 01:00
Holmes to manage MayoFormer Mayo defender Pat Holmes is expected to be named as John Maughan's successor tonight after a meeting in CastlebarThu Sept 30 1999 - 01:00
O'Rourke primed for tests aheadIrish International Rules manager Colm O'Rourke does not believe that the aftermath of the All-Ireland final will hamper the …Thu Sept 30 1999 - 01:00
Holders leave vacancy in their attackDefending All-Ireland women's football champions Waterford have left one position vacant in their team to face Mayo in Sunday…Thu Sept 30 1999 - 01:00
Kilkenny rewarded with three substitutesThree Kilkenny players have been named among the substitutes who will travel with the Eircell GAA All Star hurling team to Boston…Wed Sept 29 1999 - 01:00
Gritty Meath end Cork hopes of a doubleA century of Gaelic football championships ended with another Meath All-Ireland win in Croke Park yesterday as Cork's dreams …Mon Sept 27 1999 - 01:00
A year of personal vindicationWhat are your views on the players' association?Fri Sept 24 1999 - 01:00
Carnaross marksman supremeOne minute, he was setting himself up to radar in on a dropping ball, next thing he was watching the game on television in a …Thu Sept 23 1999 - 01:00
Galway fear backlashThe Kilkenny under-21 manager Richie Power yesterday praised the enthusiasm of his two senior stars, Michael Kavanagh and Henry…Fri Sept 17 1999 - 01:00
Players' gripe `addressed'Although Croke Park have as yet to formalise a response to the inaugural meeting of the fledgling players' association in Belfast…Fri Sept 17 1999 - 01:00
O'Mahony decides to stayGalway football manager John O'Mahony has decided to take up the option of managing the team he guided to the All-Ireland championship…Thu Sept 16 1999 - 01:00
`A lot of ghosts laid to rest'Sean Og OHalpin stands wrapped in a towel, those soulful eyes wide and wonder filledMon Sept 13 1999 - 01:00
Emerging from a legend's shadowPast is past. Diarmuid O'Sullivan merrily explains that he can't see Cork's last All-Ireland triumph in the mind's eye, has no…Fri Sept 10 1999 - 01:00
McConnell fails to keep Irish placeTyrone goalkeeper Finbarr McConnell is the surprise omission from the Irish International Rules squad announced by manager Colm…Wed Sept 08 1999 - 01:00
Old fox eyes the gamecock (Part 1 - Willie O'Connor)"You could say it's the last supper and whoever performs on the day takes the cup," declares Willie O'Connor, eyes creased as…Wed Sept 08 1999 - 01:00
Everyman for all rolesOn quiet afternoons in Lebanon, Canice Brennan would grab a couple of hurls and a grumbling accomplice and make for a stretch…Tue Sept 07 1999 - 01:00
Burns hits a near perfect pitchHis life as a footballer over, Jarlath Burns stands in a stone corridor and peers into the embers before reminding us of the …Mon Aug 30 1999 - 01:00
Armagh beef up their attackArmagh have made two alterations to the team that will face an unchanged Meath side in the Bank of Ireland All-Ireland football…Wed Aug 25 1999 - 01:00
Bitter blow in year of hard knocks"Hard to know. There's only so many knocks you can take and this is another bitter body blow."Mon Aug 23 1999 - 01:00
Tompkins gets all talkative on tacticsAll Aboard. The Cork lads have a date with the 5Mon Aug 23 1999 - 01:00
Late bloomer ready for CorkAfter lunch the snappers arrange their subjects and a sleepiness descends upon the gatheringSat Aug 21 1999 - 01:00
Loughnane lauds CodyGer Loughnane smiles wistfully as the microphones and recorders are again thrust into his faceMon Aug 16 1999 - 01:00
Kilkenny strike a blow for old orderSo, the hurling century will end with a match resonant of the sepia-tinted daysMon Aug 16 1999 - 01:00
Cork content to stick with their winning formulaCork have named an unchanged team to face Offaly in the first of the Guinness All-Ireland hurling semi-finals in Croke Park on…Wed Aug 04 1999 - 01:00
Sides with similar historiesThe last meeting of the century between these west of Ireland neighbours pairs two counties with a very similar hurling history…Mon Aug 02 1999 - 01:00
Meath have bite to settle usual dogfightThe sweeping authority with which Meath disposed of a solid looking Offaly unit in the Leinster semi-final has elevated them …Sat Jul 31 1999 - 01:00
Down's claim more solidly groundedThe biggest surprise about this Ulster final is the opposition facing ArmaghSat Jul 31 1999 - 01:00
Hurling tailored for the occasionThe afterglow from last Sunday's jubliant symphony is such that the prospect of Monday's replay pushes the two provincial football…Wed Jul 28 1999 - 01:00
Champions in line for stress-free afternoonThe first of tomorrow's Guinness All-Ireland hurling championship quarter-finals (2Sat Jul 24 1999 - 01:00
Neighbourly edge should sharpen Clare's cut againIt is fitting that the paths of Galway and Clare should cross during the last championship of the decadeSat Jul 24 1999 - 01:00
What The Managers Think: Unanimous vote for Clare and OffalyJimmy Barry-Murphy (Cork manager)Thu Jul 22 1999 - 01:00
Soft line on hard men will not workAt first, when referee Seamus Prior brandished the ubiquitous red card - which might yet emerge as the lone star turn of the …Wed Jul 21 1999 - 01:00
Dooley still a cause for concernOffaly last night delayed naming their team for the All-Ireland quarter-final meeting with Antrim on Sunday as manager Michael…Tue Jul 20 1999 - 01:00
Cork trio on the way backThe injury worries which seemed likely to undermine Cork's championship challenge prior to Sunday's Munster final win over Kerry…Tue Jul 20 1999 - 01:00
Extra seats targeted for Leinster finalIt is anticipated that the lower tier of the new stand at the Canal End of Croke Park, currently undergoing reconstruction, will…Tue Jul 20 1999 - 01:00
Dublin find plot just in timeThe revolution has been quelled, for another year anywayMon Jul 19 1999 - 01:00
Underdogs Down bite backShades of summers past in Casement Park yesterday as Down, urgent and rampant, crushed their border rivals in another Ulster …Mon Jul 12 1999 - 01:00
Relaxed McGrath takes it in his stridePete McGrath offers reason to a game without rhymeMon Jul 12 1999 - 01:00
