Tailteann Cup

SIX Ulstermen have been named in the 2023 Tailteann Cup Team of the Year with runners-up Down winning four spots on the team and Antrim and Cavan sharing one apiece.

As the dust settles on another season, the GAA will look to do an deep dive and see how we make our games better. Nothing should be off limits.

The Oak Leafers will have huge regrets about a game that was there for the winning against Kerry

DOWN will have to do it the hard way if they are to play in next year’s All-Ireland series after the goal-den touch deserted the Mournemen in Saturday’s Tailteann Cup final

IT’S almost four years on, and we’re back in Newry’s Canal Court Hotel, a few tables up from the last time.

With the Tailteann Cup final on the horizon, we looked back at the past four meetings between finalists Down and Meath, and it doesn’t make for good reading for the Mourne men.

Down assistant manager Marty Clarke has claimed that Meath ‘were clearly the better team’ when the two sides met in early June, but the path that their 1-11 to 1-9 defeat against the Royals sent the Mourne men on, may have been ‘a blessing in disguise’.

TWO-TIME All-Ireland winner Conor Deegan is desperate for this generation of Down players to make their own history, and says you don’t get to pick and choose where you begin writing it.

GIVEN that Paddy O’Rourke has been playing his football on the outskirts of Sydney for the last three and-a-half years, it was to be expected that he wouldn’t be among the crowd for Saturday’s Tailteann Cup final at Croke Park.

DANIEL Guinness knew the texts would start flying once Down and Antrim had safely secured passage towards the business end of the Tailteann Cup