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Brown, 61, the chairman of Bellaghy Wolfe Tones GAA Club in Co Londonderry, was ambushed, kidnapped and murdered by loyalist paramilitaries as he locked the gates of the club in May 1997.

Supreme Court to hear Government appeal in Sean Brown public inquiry case

Jarlath Burns (left), President, Gaelic Athletic Association, and Lyn Savage (right), CEO, Ladies Gaelic Football Association, arriving at Leinster House, Dublin, to appear before the Joint Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport to discuss the integration of Gaelic games. Wednesday October 7, 2026. Brian Lawless/PA Wire

McAleese resigned from role over missed deadline, says GAA president

Jarlath Burns took particular issue with Dr McAleese’s remarks about gender issues and the role of women in the GAA, claiming the facts abut gender balance within the organisation are “completely different”.

GAA president hits back over ‘offensive’ comments by Mary McAleese

A community garden planted and maintained by Friends Of The Field on Lower Botanic Gardens faces demolition to make way for a GAA pitch. Photo: Friends Of The Field/Facebook

Fears axing green scheme for GAA pitch will see Belfast fork cash to EU

The £10m Down GAA centre of excellence will open in 2028

DUP concern GAA will ‘squeeze out’ other sports

Any future games at a redeveloped Casement Park could be subject to similar anti-hooligan measures in place at football games . Photo: Ulster GAA

GAA grounds could fall under hooligan laws after Bryson intervention

DUP MLA Paul Frew.

DUP's Frew questions why only football is subject to hooligan regulations

Demolition work on the old Casement Park stadium in March this year

Scaling back Casement 'a vindication of our position' says UUP

Rubble at Casement Park GAA stadium

Smaller Casement ‘logical conclusion’ amid funding pressures – Lyons

How the rebuild Casement Park is supposed to look.

Casement Park 'will be built', insists O'Neill amid reports of 'scaling down'

Members of Goldsprings of Comber LOL 1037 on parade.

BBC has 'nothing further to add' over Orange lodge complaint ruling

Goldsprings of Comber Orange Lodge has received an apology from the BBC.

BBC apologises to Orange lodge over cancelled children's GAA event claim

A statue of Bobby Sands was unveiled at the republican memorial garden in Twinbrook, Belfast, last year

Letter: Neutrality towards glorification is acquiescence

Ballymacash Rangers defender-turned-goalkeeper Eamonn Hughes (centre). (Photo by Paul Harvey/Ballymacash Rangers FC)

'He was brilliant': Defender plays full half as goalkeeper in comeback victory

The community garden planted and maintained by Friends Of The Field on Lower Botanic Gardens. Photo: Friends Of The Field/Facebook

Ripping up community garden for GAA pitch 'agreed before politicians saw detail'

Rev Ron Johnstone speaking at the UDR memorial event in Belfast (with Harold Henning behind him, right, and a banner honouring the two dead soldiers)

Clergyman attacks Sinn Fein and GAA 'eulogising' of IRA murderers
A cleric has savaged Sinn Fein’s glorification of multiple murderer Bik McFarlane and GAA associations with IRA terror.
Adam Kula

Jon Burrows recently became leader of the Ulster Unionist Party after Mike Nesbitt announced he was stepping down from the position

Letter: New UUP leader will have a short shelf life

The community garden planted and maintained by Friends Of The Field on Lower Botanic Gardens. Photo: Friends Of The Field/Facebook

Green projects to be scrapped for GAA pitch in 13 months 'may be relocated'

Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers at 2016's Vital festival in Boucher Road Playing Fields. Photo: Freddie Parkinson/PressEye

TUV 'sceptical' of claims there's enough GAA demand for 38 new Belfast pitches

How the rebuild Casement Park is supposed to look.

Bid to claw back profits from publicly-funded Casement concerts 'attack on GAA'

An aerial view of Casement Park GAA stadium from 2023. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire.

Boucher Road vote part of angle to shove major concerts into Casement Park - TUV

Gig-goers at the Tennants Vital festival in Boucher Road Playing Fields in 2014. Photo: David Fitzgerald

Boucher Road surprise vote shows Sinn Fein don't care about concerts: DUP

Boucher Road playing fields being readied for Tennants Vital in 2024. Photo: Pacemaker Belfast

Boucher Road pitches move pushed through by nationalists

Florence and the Machine perform to a rapt crowd during Tennants Vital at Boucher Road playing fields in 2012. Photo: Charles McQuillan/Pacemaker.

GAA: Gigs at sports grounds 'not uncommon', despite SF claims it'd be impossible

Gig-goers at the Tennants Vital festival in Boucher Road Playing Fields in 2014. Photo: David Fitzgerald

Delay in axing Boucher Road concerts 'discrimination' - Sinn Fein

A general view of the derelict grounds of the Casement Park stadium

Work to prepare Casement Park for redevelopment to recommence next week

Morning View

Editorial: Stormont cannot even balance the generous budget that NI is given
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An aerial view shows redevelopment works at Casement Park stadium in Belfast on March 19, 2024 (photo by PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Stormont 'does not have £100 million sitting about to fund Casement Park'

Former Kilkenny hurler DJ Carey at the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin, where he is due to be sentenced after pleading guilty to inducing people to give him money after fraudulently claiming to have cancer.

Custodial sentence for ex-GAA star

An aerial view of Casement Park GAA stadium in Belfast. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire.

O'Neill and Little-Pengelly split over Casement £100m funding gap

Joe Brolly during a previous appearance on RTE; the latest furore surrounds a gesture he made on his Free State podcast

Barrister Joe Brolly voices regret over simulated oral sex act during podcast

Gerard Lawlor (left) pictured at the Northern Ireland Football Fund announcement. (Photo by Pacemaker)

Gerard Lawlor feels NI Football Fund provides 'chink of light' to Irish League

DUP MLA Michelle McIlveen said that she supports the Orange Order's statement - as does the TUV

Unionists have faced 'deeply unfair' treatment in the media says MLA

Casement Park in the Andersonstown area of Belfast. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire.

Joe Cahill controversy: UK minister silent on impact on £50m Casement Park grant

Mervyn Gibson (pictured here at Schomberg House in Belfast, by Arthur Allison of Pacemaker Press) has said that the order's complaint has 'hit a nerve'

Complaint over how media portrays Orange Order 'has hit a nerve'

Members of the Orange Order on parade in Belfast for the Twelfth in 2023. Photo: PA/Liam McBurney.

Orange Order attacks media coverage - accusing the BBC of 'poor journalism'

Six people were killed in the Oxford Street explosion on Bloody Friday: two British soldiers and four Ulsterbus employees

Letter: IRA killer should not be celebrated at GAA youth event

The Belfast Giants have chosen not to play the UK national anthem at home games; a decision that breaks with standard practice in the Elite Ice Hockey League, but is widely seen as a thoughtful gesture toward neutrality and inclusion

Letter: GAA cannot credibly claim to represent a shared future

Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan said that all visa applications have to be assessed “fairly and accurately”.

Palestinian children’s trip to Republic for GAA cancelled

Through the Irish language, sport and music people are being conditioned and prepared for change

Letter: Years of unionist apathy have taken their toll on our community

Sean Brown's murder by loyalists in 1997 was an "awful, awful" killing said Hilary Benn, but it was not a unique case

Sean Brown murder was awful but so were all murders, says Benn

The government this week provided £50m for the Casement Park redevelopment in west Belfast.

Call for Casement Park funding to be 'clawed back' to public purse

Morning View

Editorial: Dublin and GAA allowed to evade Casement demand

Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn says the government has done its bit on Casement Park - and the options are an affordable redesign, or raising more funds. Photo: Ben Whitley/PA Wire

Casement Park: Hilary Benn says smaller stadium is an one option

TUV MP Jim Allister questioned the government's £50m 'preferential' spending on the GAA's Casement Park project.

Jim Allister criticises government's £50m spend on 'political' GAA

NIFL CEO Gerard Lawlor. (Photo by Press Eye / Phil Magowan)

Gerard Lawlor insists football clubs can't be forgotten amid Casement update

The GAA still wants a £260 million Casement Park arena, not much less than the projected £300 million plus for Euro 2028

Lord Elliott: extra GAA cash will be seen as 'excluding unionists'

Morning View

Editorial: GAA and Dublin should fund the Casement extra

Emma Little-Pengelly said the executive stood by its original commitment of £62.5 million for the GAA stadium

Casement Park: No ‘special case’ to fund one sport, says Little-Pengelly

The GAA still wants a £260 million Casement Park arena, not much less than the projected £300 million plus for Euro 2028

Owen Polley: The nationalist grievance machine never stops

Communities Minister Gordon Lyons during a press conference at Parliament Buildings at Stormont in Belfast. The GAA will need to make it plans for Casement Park more affordable if the UK government fails to cover a £150 million gap for the current proposed rebuild, the Sports minister has said

Sports Minister Gordon Lyons: GAA must make Casement affordable

GAA president Jarlath Burns, whose organisation faces a sharply different legal situation either side of the border after the Supreme Court ruling on how women are defined in law. Photo: Ulster GAA

GAA: sex ruling by the 'highest court in the land' has NI 'implications'

Northern Ireland’s Communities Minister Gordon Lyons is to attend his first GAA match in the role this weekend

Gordon Lyons to attend first GAA match as Stormont Communities Minister

DUP councillor Clement Cuthbertson

Councillor suspended for three months over social media comments

Attempts by GAA President Jarlath Burns to classify the A5 road as "belonging" to one section of the community is "crass" and does not take into account the fact that people from all sections of the community have lost their lives on it, the Assembly has heard.

'Description of A5 as a GAA road ignores deaths from across community on it'

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