Football Championship

Gaelic games previews: Offaly look to kick-start season, Tyrone aim to rise to Armagh

Galway women take on Cork in search of their county’s first Division One league title

Malachy Clerkin: It’s clear Gaelic football rules aren’t quite right yet – but throw it in, ref

Any other tweaks and nips and tucks to football rules will have to wait until after the championship

‘It changed the mentality’: when Laois won the league, only to fall in the Battle of Aughrim

Being crowned NFL Division One champions 40 years ago was ‘something special’, recalls former manager Kieran Brennan

Leinster Football Championship needed a shake-up, Louth provided the blueprint

After Dublin’s provincial run ended last season, more counties are daring to dream

Tyrone and Armagh know victory in heavyweight tie will only bring them to the start line

Ulster is a notoriously tricky province to negotiate without the added difficulty of a preliminary-round match

Kevin Quinn longing for some good old days in Wicklow football

A nephew of Wicklow All-Star Kevin O’Brien, Quinn fondly recalls the Mick O’Dwyer era in the Garden County

GAA: RTÉ to televise 35 live championship games this season

Championship coverage to begin with Armagh v Tyrone in the Ulster championship

New York GAA’s future in the championship at risk amid rising costs and visa issues

There is a significant drop-off of players coming from Ireland, manager Ronan McGinley says

‘Not something that’s driving me to play on’: Aidan O’Shea on 18 unbroken seasons with Mayo

Stalwart forward hails fresh approach and energy of manager Andy Moran

Seán Moran: Unlike the All-Ireland, league wins are always contextualised

Donegal’s gratifying takedown of Kerry shows they are on the right track but it won’t define their season

Sam Mulroy: ‘Someone ending that cycle of Dublin winning Leinster was so, so important’

Louth are being held up as the team that have inspired everyone in this year’s championship to dream big

Donegal’s dominance from restarts leaves Kerry with an overwhelming problem

Meath did a similar number on Cork in the Division Two final, underlining a renewed focus on the strategy

From North Macedonia to Munster, it doesn’t pay for teams to be hopeless for long

More and more sports bodies realise the value of keeping teams in the running for glory for as long as possible

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Once again, league has become the football season’s focal point

High-voltage league conclusions have been charging up since the turn of the century

Roscommon weather the storm, while Dublin deal with Con job: What we learned from the weekend’s GAA

Tipperary continue their player churn; Kildare continue their slide

Donegal’s Ulster championship match against Down to be played in Letterkenny

County Board confirm upgrade works will not be completed in time

Derry light up the league while Cork hurlers consider change in goal: What we learned from the weekend’s GAA

Armagh’s lack of depth costing them; Attacking returns for Dublin

GAA Congress: Motion to extend intercounty season to August withdrawn

A motion to discontinue All-Ireland preliminary hurling quarter-finals was successful

Malachy Clerkin: The GAA’s split season is a success – so why are we still debating it?

It’s okay for those of us who said the GAA were mad to move the All-Ireland finals from September to admit we were wrong

Motion to restore All-Ireland minor deciders as senior finals curtain raisers to go to GAA congress

Push for football final to be in second week of August also among motions at meeting

Galway left Tralee with more than just a draw: Five things we learned from the weekend’s league action

Kieran McGeeney bemoans kickout ‘piggery’, while Meath and Cork impress

Poor structures, underage failures and ageing stars: Why has the Dublin conveyor belt stopped?

Ger Brennan may well cut All-Ireland winners from his panel but there’s no evidence that the young guns exist to replace them

Donegal v Kerry was everything good about the league: Five things we learned from the weekend’s GAA

Louth and Cork football teams are going in contrasting directions

Denis Walsh: The GAA community has no stomach for strict enforcement of rules

The furore over the sending-off of Loughrea’s Cullen Killeen showed our mixed-up attitudes to discipline

‘He’s a hyper-talented boy’: Andy Moran on Kobe McDonald’s inclusion in Mayo 2026 squad

Mayo manager also made a strong case for keeping pre-league competitions in the GAA calendar

‘The grá was slow coming, but it’s back’: Pádraic Joyce on staying as Galway manager

Boss gives his thoughts on Guardiola, the new season, his SFC final ambition and turmoil at Old Trafford

Galway without Young Footballer of the Year nominee Matthew Thompson for National League

Peter Cooke’s involvement for 2026 in doubt

Son of his father: How Robbie Brennan’s dad inspired him to bring Meath back to victory

The Meath manager wouldn’t be the Meath manager without his Meath dad, Patrick Brennan

‘It felt like every football fan in the world saw the goal’: Ken Early on the late, late Troy show

Irish Times writers pick their most memorable moments from a year featuring outstanding performances by Katie O’Connor, Ava Crean, Louth’s footballers and more

Complete guide to the 2026 intercounty league and championship fixtures

National Leagues to kick off on January 24th with a number of heavyweight clashes

Armagh and Tyrone to meet in Ulster preliminary round next year

Dublin’s new manager Ger Brennan could meet former team Louth in Leinster semi-finals

Draws for 2026 provincial football championships to take place in Croke Park on Thursday

GAA pushes back draw date aiming to pique interest

Why there’s no longer any need to ask the GAA what they think

The days of provocatively looking for Croke Park’s reaction to the Irish soccer team are gone

David Clifford moves within touching distance of history with third Footballer of the Year award

John McGrath named Hurler of the Year to crown an extraordinary return to form with Tipperary

Kerry’s dominance in Croke Park harvests eight All Stars

Comeback award for Donegal’s Michael Murphy and a first for Meath in many years

Jack O’Connor: ‘For whatever reason, this one seemed to matter more to Kerry people’

Five-time winning manager believes this season was David Clifford’s best to date

Kingdom v Dubs, 1975: Year zero for modern football and the start of Kerry’s Golden Age

On the 50th anniversary of that pivotal All-Ireland final its legacy is very much alive

Donegal pip champions Kerry with 10 All Star nominations

David Clifford, Joe O’Connor and Michael Murphy nominated for Footballer of the Year

Ex-Clare stalwart Keelan Sexton now making his mark with Dublin’s Na Fianna

Kilmurry-Ibrickane’s loss clearly Dublin club’s gain after game-changing impact in county quarter-final defeat of Ballymun Kickhams

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