Down GAA

Kildare, Sligo, Fermanagh and Down top groups and secured Tailteann Cup home quarter-finals

Longford exit competition after two goals from Stephen Curry help Waterford to impressive win

Sunday GAA Championship - live updates: as they happened

Follow along for live commentary with seven matches scheduled between the All-Ireland Championship and Tailteann Cup

Back from the brink: 30 years ago this week Down recreated themselves in Celtic Park classic

In the days when defeat meant your summer was over, All-Ireland champions Derry and an apparently faded Down played out an epic duel in the sun

All-Ireland and Tailteann Cup throw-in times, TV details and team news

Kerry look to start faster than last year against a flagging Monaghan outfit; Mayo look to bounce back from Galway defeat

Tailteann Cup wrap: London beat Offaly to record first championship win in 11 years

Donegal native Ciaran Diver finishes with 1-5 for the exiles in their 14-point hammering of Offaly in Tullamore

Armagh book Ulster football final return after fiery affair against Down

Referee Liam Devenney was kept busy during a physical semi-final clash in Clones

Gaelic football previews: Donegal aiming to build on win over Derry

Jim McGuinness’s Donegal side defend unbeaten record this season as they lock horns against old rivals Tyrone

Down make hard work of Antrim in Ulster quarter-final

Conor Laverty’s men seal four-point victory in front of a bumper crowd in Newry

Seán Moran: Make football attractive and cynical fouling counterproductive. Simple?

Jim Gavin’s Football Review Committee addresses age-old concerns about Gaelic football in a contemporary setting

All-Ireland football championship 2024: How the teams rank from 33 to 1 after the league campaign

Who ranks as the main All-Ireland contender heading into the first weekend of championship action?

From Mayobridge to New Orleans - Charlie Smyth’s journey to the NFL

Seven months after his first American football kicking trial, the former Down goalkeeper has signed a contract with the New Orleans Saints

Down fail to put finals hoodoo to rest as Westmeath battle to Division Three title

Sam McCartan puts in ‘one of the best performances a Westmeath man has given in Croke Park,’ according to manager Des Dolan

Armagh could edge past Donegal to deliver win Kieran McGeeney craves

Down’s fortunes likely to improve against Westmeath

Down goalkeeper Charlie Smyth signs with New Orleans Saints

Mayobridge native signs three-year deal with the Super Bowl 44 champions after visiting their facility on Friday

Down goalkeeper Charlie Smyth to train with New Orleans Saints

22-year-old becomes the first of the Irish quartet on the NFL’s International Pathway Programme to visit at a franchise’s facility

Five Things We Learned from the GAA Weekend: Dublin’s league record has hidden depths

Dublin are still leagues apart; Tipperary are lacking leaders; the mystery of Cathal O’Neill; Tyrone left in state of despair; Clare see a clear path

Down too strong for Clare as they set up decider against Westmeath

Two second-half goals helped the home side cruise to victory at Páirc Esler

Ryan McEvoy’s late point earns Down a precious point against Westmeath

Division Three: Promotion battle will go down to the final round of games after draw in Mullingar

Final farewell for Down GAA footballing hero Dan McCartan

Player hailed from one of football’s most distinguished families and transpired to be a formative influence on the county’s 1960s breakthrough

Down considering an unexpected return to action for Marty Clarke

Down boss Conor Laverty exploring the possibility of a goalkeeping role for former GAA All Star and Aussie Rules player Marty Clarke

Five things we learned from the GAA weekend: Injuries and scores are piling up

Derry ring late changes; Cork and Kildare go goal crazy; Galway’s walking wounded ... and is that Brian Cody?

Division Three round-up: Offaly ease relegation concerns as they beat Wicklow

Wicklow are now pointless from five games and look set for relegation

NFL Division Three round-up: Westmeath stay in race with scrappy win over Limerick

Liam Kerr scores two goals as Ulster Down continue fine league campaign by seeing off Offaly in Newry

Division Three wrap: Pat Havern leads the way with six points as Down overpower Antrim

Offaly miss a late penalty as they fall to Clare; Westmeath work past Wicklow to maintain 100 per cent start to the league

NFL tryouts: Ireland’s kicking kings aiming to grasp the opportunity of a lifetime

Rory Beggan, Darragh Leader, Mark Jackson and Charlie Smyth already in the US preparing for month’s NFL Combine in Indianapolis

Football leagues wrap: Ulster teams impress with wins for Fermanagh, Armagh and Down

Wasteful Kildare left to rue chances at Brewster Park

National Football League previews: Eager Mayo can claim prized Dublin scalp

All-Ireland champions Dublin face a tricky assignment in Castlebar after the opening day defeat to Monaghan at Croke Park

NFL Division Three: A fine line between playing in the All-Ireland SFC or the Tailteann Cup

League promotion remains flashing target for Down while Wicklow look to maintain Division Three status

Rory Beggan confirmed as one of four Irish athletes to trial for NFL

Wicklow’s Mark Jackson, Down’s Charlie Smyth and former Connacht fullback Darragh Leader to try out in front of scouts

Armagh qualify for McKenna Cup semi-finals with victory over Tyrone

Armagh to face Derry and Monaghan to take on Donegal this weekend

Monaghan’s Rory Beggan and Wicklow’s Mark Jackson set for NFL trials in February

Down’s Charlie Smyth and ex-Ireland rugby under-20 international Darragh Leader among the four set to travel, with Tyrone’s Niall Morgan missing out

Neil McManus’s 1-14 helps Cushendall win high-scoring thriller against Portaferry

Antrim side were much the stronger in extra-time and go on to play Slaughtneil in the decider

Rory Beggan on Scotstown beating Kilcoo: Any time we play in Ulster, a wee bit of chaos follows

Beggan was instrumental in Scotstown’s win over Kilcoo to move into the Ulster club semi-finals

Rory Beggan helps Scotstown send Kilcoo crashing out of the Ulster club championship

Scotstown will aim to improve their dreadful record in Ulster after beating the two-time Ulster champions Kilcoo with a couple of brilliant injury-time scores

Club GAA previews: Busy weekend with quarter-finals in all provinces

Castlehaven’s Munster SFC clash with Cratloe moved to Páirc Uí Chaoimh because of expected bad weather

GAA club previews: Kerry and Galway football finals down for decision

Ballygunner and Sarsfields meet in Munster SHC quarter-final while Leinster SFC quarter-finals are down for decision

Tailteann Cup team of the year features eight Meath players

Four players for finalists Down, with awards also for Cavan, Carlow and Antrim

GAA set to address rule used by Kilcoo to appeal referee’s appointment

Rules Advisory Committee acknowledges provision ‘probably needs a bit of tightening up’

Ciarán Murphy: Kilcoo’s outrageous behaviour demeans the club’s standing in the GAA

Weak Down County Board should have faced down Kilcoo's successful bid to dictate who referees a county final

Down criticise Kilcoo objection to referee as ‘entirely baseless’

Paul Faloon’s club Drumragh ‘extremely disappointed’ after Kilcoo appealed on the grounds of ‘perceived bias’

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE...

The Irish Times ePaper

Stardust

Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people

Common Ground

How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands