gaelic football

On Dubland this week, Suzanne and PJ talk about Dublin's "Drive for Five" after the men's Dublin Gaelic Football team won their fifth championship in a row. This develops into a discussion about fan culture and stadiums. PJ wore a Kerry…

On this episode we're joined by an Irish sportswoman who's had a season to remember in her county colours, as Dublin banished the demons of the last three years of All Ireland football final heartbreak to claim the Brendan Martin trophy for…

November 1920 was a bleak and bloody time in Irish history. Kevin Barry was hanged in Mountjoy, Tom Barry led his West Cork flying column at the Kilmichael Ambush, the town of Tralee was sacked by auxiliaries and the playing field at Croke…

KICKING THE HABIT OCTOBER 2008 The year was 2008 and change was everywhere. Ireland was suffering its worst economic crisis in decades and the shadow of austerity loomed large as the excesses of the Celtic Tiger slowly retreated from…

THE OXEGEN FIASCO JULY, 2007 It was the first weekend in July of 2007. The weather was great for a change and we were all eagerly awaiting our first Oxegen, a music festival, which took place annually in the grounds of Punchestown race…

OUR FINEST HOUR MAY, 2007 It was about one year into Pascal’s reign that we began to see visible improvement. Despite his many detractors, it was difficult to argue that his controversial training methods weren’t getting results. We were…

THE MAN FROM ARGENTINA OCTOBER, 2006 It was an October evening down in the New Park that we were first introduced to the man who would oversee us all the way up until minors. His name was Pascal Reilly. He was a man of contradictions.…

INITIATION – THE ANNUAL GRANARD U-10’S TOURNAMENT APRIL, 1998 They got me when I was nine. We were in Ms Kilduff’s class, when she announced that the training for the U-10’s would be starting that Tuesday evening up in the Old Park with…