Another Year Over...

That's that then. The GAA is over for another year, or at least, the All-Ireland is. There's the National League starting up after the Australia games of course, and at county level some championships and leagues and shields are still being played out, but the main event is over for another year.

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Fit and Fitter

There's a different level of fitness among GAA players these days, but then again, there's a different attitude too. I was talking to a footballer a while back, he rambled about an player from a generation gone by, who told him how the team would bicycle thirty or forty miles, play a game, and then cycle home again the same evening.

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Rainy Days in Clones When Giants of Ulster Meet

There's a sweetness in beating the favourites. All the more so when they're not just favourites, but you can't even get a price on your own men.

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Ramble in the Park

A few years ago, I saw Ireland play Mexico in Giants Stadium in New Jersey. In Croke Park on the August Bank Holiday, it was hotter, more exciting, and the surroundings were grander.

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That Football Game

Its hard watching them win. Every true Irishman has something in his genetic makeup that rebels against the thought. Anyone but them. Anyone but those arrogant bastards.

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What I Did Yesterday

I saw a football match yesterday. Not Cork V Kerry, something far more important. Naomh Columba's played Naomh Conall in the first round, second leg of the Donegal County Football Championship.

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