Saturday 25 May 2013
Paul Grimley has taken the unprecedented step of issuing a statement to offer a personal apology to Armagh supporters and County Board in the wake of Sundays four point defeat to Cavan in the Ulster championship.
Time has not dulled the memory of one of the finest and certainly most significant blocks ever undertaken at Croke Park.
Time waits for no man. It's an old maxim yet it carries a greater ring of truth now than ever given the pace of change in all aspects of our lives.
Not surprisingly, Armagh is engulfed in a cloud of gloom just now.
When it comes to calling a spade a shovel, RTE ‘The Sunday Game’ pundit Joe Brolly tends to leave those who might mince their words wallowing in his slipstream.
Donegal officials believe they have scored a victory already even before a ball has been kicked in the Ulster Championship against Tyrone.
Antrim skipper Kevin O'Boyle has issued a call to arms to his team ahead of their Ulster Championship clash with Monaghan at Casement Park on June 9.
Justin McNulty sees it as nothing more than a "freak of nature".
One of the most subjective exercises a journalist will be asked to do is pick a 'man of the match'. On Sunday, this newspaper along with most others decided that Martin Dunne's nine points were enough to give him the accolade. We were all wrong.
The fear of becoming a part of an ugly statistic is foremost in the minds of the Tyrone players this week as they stare down the barrel at Donegal, in Ballybofey this Sunday.
There is a different look about Cavan now.
The Allianz Football League may be the second most important competition in the annual inter-county fixtures calendar, but Donegal manager Jim McGuinness' curt dismissal of its relevance has carried a caustic edge in the build-up to Sunday's Ulster Championship quarter-final meeting with Tyrone.
Mayo manager James Horan knows that for the rest of the Championship season it is unlikely that his side will enjoy an easier passage in any game than that in which they revelled yesterday.
Antrim hurling manager Kevin Ryan admitted his side just didn't perform as they crashed out of the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship at a wet Portlaoise.
Down remain on course for another Christy Ring Cup final appearance after a 3-7 to 0-9 win in the all-Ulster quarter-final clash against Derry at Pairc Esler.
At some stage of their Championship preparations, every manager will have to decide whether they will play a sweeper or not.
He fronted up afterwards; you have to give him that. While the knives were out for Paul Grimley in the saloons of Cavan town and in the television studios, he stood in the tunnel here at Breffni Park, his shell-shocked players filing out of the dressing room behind him, and defended his approach; not so much attacking, but Charge of the Light Brigade.
Armagh crashed out of the Ulster Minor Football Championship after an injury-time score from substitute Brian O'Connell granted Cavan victory.
Cavan 1-15 Armagh 1-11: To sweep or not to sweep; that is the question. It was answered emphatically by a stirring Cavan performance that put them into the first round proper against Fermanagh, after they beat Armagh by four points on the scoreboard, but won hands down in the tactical exchanges.
Mayo handed out a humiliating 17-point defeat to arch rivals Galway in the Connacht SFC at Salthill.
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Watching Philipp Lahm and Thomas Müller face questions yesterday at Wembley was an emphatic reminder of how they regard themselves.
Speaking ahead of hosting the Champions League final tonight, the ITV presenter Adrian Chiles said that the biggest English clubs cannot match the vocal support produced by fans in other parts of Europe and appealed to clubs to consider lowering ticket prices.
Calum Clark is a doubt for England's tour of Uruguay and Argentina after an ankle injury ruled him out of Saturday's Aviva Premiership final.
Stuart Lancaster has been formally set the challenge of leading England into the 2015 Rugby World Cup as one of the two top-ranked nations on the planet.
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