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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

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

SDLP MLA Patsy McGlone.

Reform UK accuse nationalists of 'manufacturing outrage' over Gaelic ban

BLK BOX founder Greg Bradley on how a life-changing injury shaped the mindset behind building a global fitness manufacturer from Belfast, now scaling across 13 countries — and still only just beginning

How a turned a simple NI idea into a £27m fitness empire now eyeing $100m

In a letter about the sectarianism of the Old Firm in Glasgow following match chaos, the word 'crack' was changed to 'craic'

Letter: All in the name of good crack – not ‘craic’

Irish language commissioner Pól Deeds has defended comments on opposition to the Irish language weakening the Union.

Irish tsar has 'no awareness' for unionist feeling on language - Gaston

Morning View

Editorial: Time for Alliance to admit Belfast Irish sign policy is not working

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'

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

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

Irish Language Commissioner Pol Deeds says Jamie Bryson "has poison and enmity" but he has "a law".

Jamie Bryson lodges NIPSO complaint against Irish Language Commissioner

Rev Dr Martin “Marty” McNeely, 55, passed away on Saturday after a long illness.

'Cleric embraced flute bands and hurling to spread Gospel'

The Anglo-Irish Agreement signing at Hillsborough Castle on November 15 1985, by the then UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald. Pic: Pacemaker Press Intl

Ben Lowry: The coming 40th anniversary of the disastrous Anglo Irish Agreement

Has the use of bilingual languages been weaponised by Irish republicans to isolate the unionist community?

Letter: What sort of democratic society do we want to live in?

A vote at the Camogie Association's special Congress to give players across Ireland the option to wear shorts or skorts during matches has been welcomed by the SDLP’s Cara Hunter.

Vote on shorts and skorts welcomed by Cara Hunter MLA
A vote at the Camogie Association's special Congress to give players across Ireland the option to wear shorts or skorts during matches has been welcomed by the SDLP’s Cara Hunter.
By The Newsroom

Why the need for Gaelic signs at Grand Central Station which few people can read?

Republicans have provoked sectarian row over pointless Irish signs

Crowds, including former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams, have gathered in west Belfast to protest about the failure to redevelop Casement Park stadium.

Gaelic games players and supporters march to derelict Casement Park

The Queen spoke Irish on a visit to the Republic of Ireland in 2011 - the visit was seen as a major step in normalising relations between the UK and Ireland

Letter: Gaelic is not a foreign language

GAA President Jarlath Burns (left) called the 53-mile A5 a 'GAA road' while joining protestors against farmers' legal action on Wednesday (2nd). Photo: Kelvin Boyes/Press Eye

Jarlath Burns has some cheek claiming 53-mile A5 is a 'GAA road', says DUP MLA

The Catholic church did not enforce penance on other religions or non-believers at Lent

Letter: We should not have to endure Gaelic language

Wallace High School captain Jon Rodgers ready for the rugby Schools' Cup final against Royal School Armagh. (Photo by John Dickson/Dickson Digital)

Wallace's Jon Rodgers 'destined to be a back row' with final prize in sight

Dr Sean McMahon fell ill at South Lakes Leisure Centre in Craigavon and later died

Funeral tribute to Sean McMahon who excelled as a doctor, friend and family man

Letter to the editor

When living in the Hebrides I came over time to connect with Gaelic culture

Connor Marron, a 19-year-old GAA player who was struck by a train and killed in London

Teenage GAA player hit by train ‘had a bright future ahead of him’

You can now buy a gin made from peas - this is what it tastes like

At the Lurgan Tigers Rugby-St Peter's GAA Run4Lurgan event on Friday.

Clubs join in cross-community run
Last Friday was a red letter day for two of the town’s sporting clubs – Lurgan Rugby & Cricket Club and St Peter’s GAA Club – when both came together in the centre of Lurgan for a symbolic gesture of togetherness.
By The Newsroom

Raymond Gleug

AN OCCASIONAL TIPPLE: Sumptuous suppers with lovely low-calorie wine

IMAGE DOWNLOAD: Wikipedia has created a Gaelic version of its popular website and needs articles to fill it (Photo: Getty)

Wikipedia seeks Gaelic speaker to fill Â£30k-a-year role

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