Full coverage: GAA

With revenues rising and standards at an elite level, the GAA must decide how to protect amateurism without suppressing ambition.

Today's sports stars receive media training in the art of how to engage without giving much away. With the GAA's 2026 national leagues getting under way and rugby's Six Nations being launched this week, don't expect that to change.

Once dismissed as a fringe crusade, the GPA’s rise has reshaped intercounty life, chipped away at amateurism and forced the Association to confront issues from image rights to under-the-table payments.

Last Sunday's Kerry All-Ireland victory was was a 15-man demonstration of everything that is possible in modern Gaelic football.

The first All-Ireland final of the new era may well define the era. Chaos has been injected into Gaelic football this year, but will systems triumph over talent as Donegal take on Kerry in Croke Park on Sunday?

Bruised, short on rest, and outgunned on paper — but Kerry’s ability to thrive in unpredictability makes it the most dangerous kind of underdog.

Sometimes, Gaelic football seems to be too concerned with future planning: new rules, new structures, something better in the distance. But sport exists for us to escape life’s drudgery right now. This weekend, we can lose ourselves in the moment.

As Dublin football faces an uncertain future, Paul Flynn reflects on the rise and looming fall of a once-dominant empire.

Croke Park stadium director Peter McKenna’s role with the GAA has grown to include commercial operations for the association. He talks about television rights, sustainability, and the lessons from his career.

In cars, in counties, in teams remade from the sand up, Mick O’Dwyer chased something bigger — not just victory, but a vision.