A STEADY stream of understandably devastated Kilkenny locals have been turned away from Croke Park this morning after security staff gently broke the news to them that their county, winners of 8 out the last 12 All-Ireland hurling championships, were not in this year’s final. “Fuck sake,” declared an upset Kilkenny native, who, owing to… Read more »
IN ANTICIPATION of Sunday’s All Ireland hurling final, and to ensure no quarter is given, no advantage handed over to the other team lest it prove to be the vital difference between lifting or not lifting the Liam MacCarthy, Limerick and Galway locals have taken to shouldering each other aggressively and jostling for nothing in… Read more »
IN A BID to give the upcoming All-Ireland senior football final the false sense that Dublin could be usurped in some way by Tyrone, the Dublin panel have agreed to give Tyrone a 12-point head start to ‘make things fair’. “I feel numb,” confirmed one Dublin star, who was weighed down by a variety of… Read more »
THE GAA, the governing body for Gaelic Games in Ireland, has set the record straight and corrected the false stories emanating from around the country, specifically Kildare, which incorrectly claim the GAA has use of more than one stadium. Issuing a statement after the Kildare county board invented an imaginary stadium they claim can hold… Read more »
THE DUBLIN GAA team have clinched the Leinster Senior Football Championship title for the eighth year in a row, after a decisive victory over Laois at Croke Park yeste rda y at Crokk park wher decisive victory Leinster… Sorry, just dozed off there for a second. Apologies. Dublin cruised to victory over Laois with a… Read more »
THE GAA has confirmed it is to end its highly controversial practice of only placing the visually impaired in umpire positions in All Ireland Hurling games. The welcome news comes after blind umpires failed to notice a goal scored by Tipperary against Waterford in Sunday’s Munster Championship clash was not in fact a goal, as… Read more »
BY now we’re all familiar with the banteriffic actions of an intermediate hurling team from Kilkenny, whose unique and amusing celebrations following their county championship win is everything that is great about the fun side of our national game. Scenes of women, believed to be hired strippers, performing sex acts on at least one of… Read more »
ALTHOUGH great leaps have been made in the past year to promote women’s GAA as equally exciting as its male counterpart, new statistics have shown that ladies playing football or camoige receive 14.4% fewer sambos after each match. Under the standard GAA pay structure, male participants in games such as hurling, football, and handball receive… Read more »
This is the first glimpse of the lavish new home of one of Ireland’s top sporting figures. The Kilkenny hurler, who cannot be named for home safety reasons, has given WWN permission to showcase his luxurious new property, purchased from the proceeds of his 12 year career with the GAA. The 32-year-old half-back’s home was… Read more »