The Derry club went into the final as strong favourites having accounted for Kerry's Na Gaeil in the semi-final but were shocked by the concession of a third minute goal

The huge crowd of 14,328 were no doubt encouraged by last week’s six-point victory over Dublin and this was expected to be a more realistic test, coming signposted as it was.

Half a century after a Bloody Sunday, a thriving GAA club in Derry City will contest and All-Ireland Club final at Croke Park this weekend.

The Glenties-based club overcame Kilcar 4-2 on penalties last August, in the final that had been deferred from the year before because of the pandemic

A point dropped, a point gained: Either side will feel they ride the two sides of that fence after a game that was virtually a throwback to a more helter-skelter time.

A decade after skippering Donegal to All-Ireland success in 2012, Murphy remains Donegal’s key figure though their fortunes worryingly dipped when he has struggled

The Donegal powerhouses claim five adult county championship titles across three codes last year - and have a rearranged final to come this weekend.

Slaughtneil are a peculiar case, in that there was an upside to losing a football county final. It granted them five exclusively-hurling weeks in which to prepare for Antrim champions Dunloy in the Ulster semi-final.

Monaghan booked their place in the final of the Dr McKenna Cup when they pipped hosts Armagh 5-4 in a penalty shoot-out after the sides had finished all-square at the end of normal time

First half goals from Caolan McGonagle and Odhran McFadden-Ferry were enough for Donegal to seal a place in Saturday’s Dr McKenna Cup final

Incoming president Ciarán McLaughlin pledged that the retention of the Ulster Championship will be one of his chief priorities.

The AIB Ulster club finalist top scored for Down in their last game of 2020, an Ulster championship loss to Cavan, but declined to return last season.

Antrim’s footballers opened their 2022 McKenna Cup campaign with a one-point victory over Down in this Section A clash at Páirc Esler.

Cavan bounced back in thunderous style from their defeat to Armagh last time out to breathe new life into their Dr McKenna Cup campaign

This Ulster Club IFC crown was as hard-earned as the score-line suggests, but the Oak Leafers had the quality to eventually break through the Tyrone champions’ defensive wall

The Farney men looked to have secured a crucial win thanks to Kieran Duffy's 73rd-minute point but the draw was little more than the home side deserved

Tony McClenaghan looked to have swung it one way, then Odhran Murdock the other but in the end, Donegal came through

This season sees a changing of the guard in 10 of the 32 inter-county football management teams. Indeed, half of the teams in Munster will be led by different, if not so new faces. For some, patience will be in short supply while for others there will be major implications for teams finishing up in Division 3 and 4

The Orchard County impressed with their high-fielding and kick passing but their shooting was relatively poor, particularly in the first half

Brian McAvoy would like to see a time-based approach replace the current steps-based rule, calling on the Standing Committee on Playing Rules to experiment with the former

Ahead of the GAA’s Annual Congress in February, I feel it is now appropriate to return to the blueprint I first published almost a decade ago, the ‘Kelly Plan’

“They said, ‘look, we have good news and bad news. You are not going to play anymore. But the good news is that if you were a horse, you would be dead.’” 

John Fogarty previews the weekend's club GAA action across hurling, football, and camogie

Ards peninsula outfit Ballycran lead the Down SHC roll of honour with 27 titles, winning 20 of those since the provincial championship was introduced in 1970, but have won just three Ulsters

McKaigue was part of the Slaughtneil team that lost the Derry final to Glen and the Maghera men will face reigning provincial champions Kilcoo in Sunday’s Ulster semi-final

Believing the GAA’s coaching and games development funding of Dublin to be disproportionate, John Connellan has proposed the idea of counties receiving funding based on registered members

The Derry side who face Down champions Ballycran in next week’s final.

Ulster will find out tomorrow if World Cup-winning Springbok Duane Vermeulen can play in their Champions Cup opener away to Clermont on Saturday.

Glen will need all of their tactical sophistication when they come up against Kilcoo on the weekend of December 18/19 with their own clubman, Mickey Moran, in charge of the Down side

There was scant indication of a Clann Éireann victory at the break with the Lurgan side trailing by six, having managed just two points in the opening 30 minutes

Cavan’s wait for a first-ever Ulster Club SFC title continues after Kilcoo came, saw and conquered Ramor United with the greatest of ease.

They needed a monster 65th-minute free from Conall Jones to avoid defeat in normal time, but then pushed on in the added period at Carrickmore.

The club from the football-mad town, synonymous with the excellence of the local St Patrick’s school in MacRory and Hogan Cup competitions, finally had the big one to crow about when they won a maiden Derry SFC

The new GAA task force is charged with bringing forward proposals to change the All-Ireland senior football championship from 2023

Limerick have questioned their earnings from collective commercial deals done by the GAA and are now believed to be considering following Dublin’s example of operating outside the collective agreement

Sheedy's second spell in charge of the Premier hurlers ended this season with Colm Bonnar taking over for the 2022 season.

Grugan has formulated a motion that has been put forward by his club Ballymacnab in the hope that more of the weekend will be free to club players.

Monaghan were stripped of home advantage for their opening National League game and boss Seamus McEnaney was suspended for 12 weeks because of the violation

“It was a complete robbery,” as centre-back Ciaran McFaul put it. “We got out of jail.”

Derrygonnelly's greater craft showed throughout as they blotted out a full 30 minutes between the Gaels’ second and third points

Online abuse of sports people and athletes is a problem in Ireland too, though Glass feels it’s worse in Australia

John Fogarty previews the weekend's club GAA action across hurling and football

Speculation about Laverty taking over alongside Donegal’s 2012 All-Ireland SFC winning boss McGuinness and 2010 All-Ireland finalist Marty Clarke has mounted

Long-serving Donegal captain Murphy says he is ‘all for the move’ though reckons two important tweaks are essential before the motion can return to Congress