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Sponsor of the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championships, Ulster Bank, assembled its array of GAA stars to kick-off their 2010 campaign in Dublin during the week.

2010 will herald a new era for the GAA Museum at Croke Park. Having undergone extensive renovation works since November 2009, the GAA Museum at Croke Park officially unveiled its new look last Thursday.

Mayo 1-12        Kerry 1-10

Fresh from their two point defeat to Cork on Saturday, the Galway footballers take on more Munster opposition this Sunday in Pearse Stadium at 2.30pm when they face All-Ireland champions Kerry in round four of the NFL.

Inter-county management is a tough station. The facts speak for themselves this season.

Inter-county management is a tough station. The facts speak for themselves this season.

A well known former inter-county footballer, whose name escapes me at the time of writing, coined the phrase “puke football”! He was referring to the ugly defensive style of play that became de rigueur in Ulster counties in the early noughties. Regrettably that phrase was very much in my mind as I watched some appalling fare in Croke Park last weekend. Teams are just so reluctant to kick the ball these days for fear of giving it back to the opposition. We are consequently presented with a game of handball with practically no creativity and most teams packing their defences for fear of getting caught out by a long kick into a porous defence. Perhaps it is time to look at the “off side” rule in Gaelic football?!

Over the past few weekends there has been much made of the huge decline in spectator interest in the Railway Cup.

After the deluge that hit Croke Park last Saturday evening, Kerry were the ones sitting up proud, but clearly shaken, on the liferafts.

Over the past few weekends there has been much made of the huge decline in spectator interest in the Railway Cup.