By John Harrington Take a look at the map above this article. It illustrates how almost half of the population of the island lives in a relatively thin sliver down the east coast of Ireland and yet just 18.6% of GAA clubs exist in the same place. A picture paints

By Paul Fitzpatrick In the aftermath of the Corn na Mac Léinn final last Saturday, as the winning South West College team celebrated on the pitch at Bekan, their Fermanagh and Tyrone accents lilting on the breeze, the New Yorkers began to pick up the pieces. Denis Sheahan, a native

By John Harrington When Ronan Sheehan tells you that incoming National Head of Hurling, William Maher, recently rang him to pick his brain, it’s both encouraging and unsurprising. If your brief is to grow hurling in the developing counties, then no better man than the Down hurling manager to give

By John Harrington University of Limerick’s 2011 Fitzgibbon Cup success will always have a special place in the college’s hurling lore for a few different reasons. It ended a nine year wait for the silverware, it silenced the critics who had labelled them as serial underachievers, and it was the