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Inside Track: Seamus Flood Cup will satisfy Kickhams – for now

It’s not the title they crave, but until they get back in the hunt for the Joe Ward Cup – and that will be next season – Cooley Kickhams will be happy to take custody of the intermediate championship. Kickhams’ defeat of St Kevin’s at Ardee on ...

09 Oct 2022 at 15:33

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Joe Carroll: Meath trainer doing the business for this county’s owners

County Meath trainer, Gavin Cromwell, is certainly doing his bit for owners from these parts. Over the past couple of weeks, he has sent out the winner of a big Galway hurdle for the best known of Louth-based syndicates. However, it was a ...

01 Oct 2022 at 16:33

Steven Moffat: The BBC will never be safe in the hands of the Government

Former Sherlock and Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat has said the BBC “will never be safe in the hands of the government”. The screenwriter and producer, 60, praised the public service broadcaster for its role in “speaking truth to ...

27 Sept 2022 at 01:01

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Inside Track: Which would Rooney go for, the Sprint or the championship?

A question for Mickey Rooney, bookmaker, greyhound-owner, chairman of Ardee St Mary’s GFC: If you had to choose between Runninta Shay winning next Monday night’s final of the Bar One Racing Irish Sprint Cup, and Mary’s being crowned ...

13 Aug 2022 at 19:33

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Barney Rowan is 'Living with Ghosts'

Barney (only his mother calls him Brian) Rowan’s Holywood burr belied his horrific description of the 1992 deaths of Gregory Burns, Aidan Starrs and John Dignam. The former BBC journalist was reading several excerpts from his new ...

22 Sept 2022 at 16:33

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Joe Carroll: Search for the championship winners is on in earnest

It’s club championship time and for the next number of months at GAA venues up and down the county activity will be feverish. Okay, ‘feverish’, is probably pushing it a bit, certainly in relation to the early stages. Since the ...

20 Aug 2022 at 10:33

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Inside Track: A look back at Louth vs Cork battles down through the years

Cork footballers could have packed it in altogether had they not come up with a half-decent performance in their Munster championship tie with Kerry a number of weeks back. They had been lambasted throughout a terrible league ...

03 Jun 2022 at 18:33

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Inside Track: Present Down team only a shadow of 1960s’ history-makers

There are enough years on the clock for me to have vivid memories of the great Down teams of the late 1950s and early ‘60s. Here was a team whose black-and-white was a colour new to Croke Park. So, too, was their style of ...

22 May 2022 at 10:33

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Inside Track: Season ticket at the ready, Jim eyes an Oriel return

As of earlier this month, Jim McCourt had still to make his Oriel Park bow for the 2022 season. But don’t bet on it not happening before the league is decided or the Cup is tucked away in some club’s trophy cabinet. You ...

22 May 2022 at 15:33

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Joe Carroll: Louth should take nothing for granted in Navan as history shows

Louth seniors should tread warily at Navan on Sunday week. They are overwhelming favourites to beat Carlow in the opening round of the Leinster Championship and on all known form should advance for a quarter-final ...

17 Apr 2022 at 14:33

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Inside Track: There were once fears televised games would do damage to the GAA

Television itself, like the televising of Gaelic games, was new to this country in the early 1960s. Telefis Eireann, as it was then known, had its initial broadcast in 1961, and it was on St Patrick’s Day in the ...

17 Apr 2022 at 10:33

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Inside Track: Rugby should follow the GAA Model for second tier competition

The GAA has done something about, let’s say, the equality in inter-county championship football – rugby should follow suit. The GAA knock-out has always had outsiders. Wicklow, for instance, have never won the ...

13 Mar 2022 at 14:33

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