![Cautious: Tyrone manager Mickey Harte knows how to look after his players Cautious: Tyrone manager Mickey Harte knows how to look after his players](http://web.archive.org./web/20170129050028/http://cdn-01.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/incoming/article35375900.ece/7f308/AUTOCROP/w135square/tyon.jpg)
Let amateur GAA players have a life
On May 4, 1994, a number of extraordinary men gathered together in London's Grosvenor House Hotel for a jubilee occasion with a difference.
Home › Sport › Columnists › Declan Bogue
On May 4, 1994, a number of extraordinary men gathered together in London's Grosvenor House Hotel for a jubilee occasion with a difference.
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose, Yuletide carols being sung by a choir and the GAA fraternity keeping Santa on his toes.
If there's one thing the GAA All-Stars' experience of touring Dubai and Abu Dhabi teaches us, it's that this is a mass Irish emigration of a distinctly different hue.
At half-time in Sunday’s Ulster semi-final in Newry, something wonderful broke out. Having gone a man down, the players of Maghery marched to their dressing rooms fuming. Up at the top end of the pitch — the Newry River end — the all blacks of Kilcoo huddled up and...
Derelict stadiums are monuments to failed optimism. At present, Casement Park is such. Last August, a series of pictures were taken by the 'Urbex: Forgotten Ulster' project inside the ground.
True to form, Ronan O'Gara did not skirt the issue when the anomaly of Racing 92 players Dan Carter, Joe Rokocoko and Juan Imhoff's doping tests after last year's rugby French Top14 final showed traces of corticosteroids.
Now that the Ulster Council have named Danny Murphy's successor as the new secretary, we look at the chief areas of concern for their appointment, Brian McAvoy of the Burren club in Down...
It was while reading Joey Barton's autobiography last week that a thought struck. The bad boy of soccer offers mitigating circumstances for his sometimes cruel and often bizarre bullying behaviour. But like any bully, there is a repressed sensitivity too. He admits to...
Over 82,000 fans at Croke Park on Sunday afternoon watched Mayo and Dublin's battle for the All-Ireland crown end in a draw, meaning they have to do it all over again on October 1.
It was the night of last year's All-Ireland final that the story of Mayo 2016 was born. Or, at the very least, conceived.
It was Paul Galvin's column over the weekend that sent us over the edge.
To mark the 125th anniversary of the founding of the GAA, the now-defunct Sunday Tribune compiled a list of the 125 most influential people in the Association in 2009.
In 'Field of Dreams', Thomas Niblock's incredible documentary about life inside the bubble of Crossmaglen Rangers, the outside world got a glimpse of what goes into greatness.
For some reason, the name of Mickey 'The Gun' O'Sullivan has never quite vacated the space of my mind normally cluttered by old landline numbers, the grounds of lower-league English soccer clubs and the starting 15 of the 1997 Championship final losing Tempo Maguires team.
It was a few days before Christmas when the Tyrone squad huddled around the O'Fiaich Cup outside the changing rooms of Crossmaglen Rangers.
Tyrone's Tiernan McCann has revealed how the media outrage surrounding his actions in last year's All-Ireland quarter-final against Monaghan has made him a stronger person.
In January 2014, Mickey Harte attended the Belfast Telegraph Sports Awards where he was inducted into the Hall of Fame.
When Monaghan went for their pre-Championship training break, they had five nights in Portugal, sharing the sun loungers with the Worcester Warriors rugby team.
In the week when we are about to see the Christy Ring Cup final replayed because of a refereeing and scoring counting error, it is almost hilarious to consider the context of Armagh's second bite at Laois (scheduled for Portlaoise, July 2, throw-in 3pm).
It wasn't supposed to be like this. Two All-Ireland winning heroes, now in charge of their beloved counties, praying that everything runs in their favour for a qualifiers win this weekend, salvaging something from distinctly underwhelming seasons.
So, that's that then. There will be a Christy Ring Cup final replay this Saturday night in Newry, with the throw-in at 7pm.
Am I on my own in thinking that, in general, Armagh boss Kieran McGeeney gets a fairly rough old time of it?
The most alarming thing about Tyrone's Ulster Championship quarter-final win over Derry is the striking resemblance it bore to Donegal's victory over the same opposition at the same stage of the competition in Ballybofey in 2012.
Let me paint you a picture. It's mid-May. You are a young county footballer in the prime of your life. You might be a student, thinking of the four long months stretching out ahead before you have to report back for another semester.
One bright Saturday last August, Stevey McGeown trotted into Gosford Forest Park in Armagh. The end of the line for his successful bid to complete 100 marathons in 100 days, becoming the first man to do so in Ireland. Time for a modest celebration.
Something caught my eye a few days ago when I was scanning through the Ulster fixtures.
Last Sunday, a fellow journalist turned to me in the press box and asked about Tyrone full-back Ronan McNamee's boots.
This weekend, Armagh ladies have a glorious chance of qualifying for the National League semi-finals, a brilliant accomplishment for Ronan Clarke in his first year in charge.
Sometimes the story is more interesting when you consider the details that have been left out.
At the end of January, Tyrone ace Tiernan McCann was charged and sentenced by the court of public opinion after an incident in the very first play of the Dr McKenna Cup final.
Derry Under-21 manager Fergal McCusker believes they are going into tonight's Ulster Championship preliminary round clash against Antrim virtually blind, having been refused entry to the Shamrock Cup.
The story that former Liverpool player Jamie Carragher is considering paying the fine imposed upon Longford club Dromard, for hosting his soccer school on GAA premises, has highlighted one of those archaic rules that trips up the Association from time to time.
Managers have become the 'front of house' for their team, with their methods and reactions afforded ridiculous levels of study. When Harvard Professor Anita Elberse decided to do a case study on Sir Alex Ferguson for example, we would have loved to have heard his...
Excuse us while we perform the knee-jerk of all knee-jerks, but it's not too early to say that Down's season - in both league and Championship - is a write-off.
So, that's Rory O'Carroll away for a year. And Offaly's Brian Carroll has retired. And Martin Dunne is unwilling to commit to Cavan.
Word reaches us this week of one company whose team are commencing strength and conditioning training for the Ulster Inter-firms Gaelic football competition in the New Year.
You are fresh out of the minor set-up and this is your chance. The big leagues. The glamour. The kudos. The respect. The adulation.
With time almost up in the Ulster club final, Scotstown goalkeeper Rory Beggan stood over a free under the main stand in the Athletic Grounds. A successful kick would have surely brought the Seamus McFerran Cup back to north Monaghan.
Speaking on the Matt Cooper Show on Today FM on Monday night, former Donegal manager Jim McGuinness was pushed and prodded on a matter that had come to light over the course of that day.
Last weekend, I found myself at the home of the newly-crowned Down Junior champions, marvelling at the modest grounds of St Mary's, Glasdrumman.
We have had 6am gym sessions that obviously worked for us," said Scotstown manager Mattie McGleenan after they won the Monaghan Championship last Sunday.
It's time we talked about the lesser-spotted straight knockout football Championship. In grave danger of extinction, its Corncrake call can only be heard across three remaining Ulster counties - Antrim, Fermanagh and Tyrone.
When you read and listen to influential opinion-formers in the GAA over an extended period of years, you recognise their default position.
After climbing the Hogan Stand steps to accept the O’Duffy Cup, the All-Ireland camogie title, Cork captain Ashling Thompson thanked the Rebellettes backroom team, noting that there were “too many of ye to mention.”
Did you read the Disputes Resolution Authority report on the Diarmuid Connolly case?
There are few greater work requests than getting asked to go to Rome for the weekend, with flights and hotel room booked.
On Sunday, I noticed something I hadn't seen before in Croke Park. Close to the very far wing of the press box in the upper Hogan Stand, there were a couple of Kerry supporters who cheered louder when Tyrone players were blown up for over-carrying or missing a...
When asked recently if his Tyrone side would be reminded of their proud tradition against Kerry in Croke Park, manager Mickey Harte opted to body swerve the question.
Over the past five seasons, Donegal have played 18 games in the Ulster Championship, losing only twice - both times against Monaghan in the final.
It was on March 29 that reporters gathered around Tyrone's Tiernan McCann (yes, the very same) in Ballybofey, and asked him to pick through the bones of a pitiful Allianz League performance that ended Donegal 1-13 Tyrone 0-6.
Nightlife
Nightlife
World
NI Assembly Election
Northern Ireland
News
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
World
Northern Ireland
News
Telebest
Politics
Northern Ireland
Opinion
Events