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06/12/2021

Did we forget one province people? 🤔🤫Sure, no event in Croke Park would be complete without the men and women of Munster! 😆

06/12/2021

There was no All Ireland for them this year! But the Dubs arrived in force to Croke Park for a certain book launch!
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05/12/2021

"By some distance the most entertaining GAA book of the year is Grassroots: Stories from the Heart of the GAA" - We'll take that Mr Malachy Clerkin 🤗👊 The Irish Times GAA

03/12/2021

Who's that with GAA President Larry McCarthy? 🧐 It wouldn't be All Ireland winning Offaly footballer and Ballpoint Press author Seamus Darby would it? ... Looking great Seamus 😉'About That Goal', biography of Seamus, published by Ballpoint, is well worth a 📖 this 🎄

02/12/2021

You can't have a book launch in Croke Park without the Kings & Queens of Leinster in attendance 👑 A very royal party indeed 😉

02/12/2021

There's plenty of art, culture and song in the real ones too 🤣 😌 ... Recreation of Irish bar wins prestigious Turner Prize

An art installation of an Irish pub has earned its Belfast creators the UK’s prestigious Turner Prize for art.

01/12/2021

Well said Martin 😉 Like all good ideas, you're thinking 'why didn't someone think of this before'? Luckily, 'Grassroots: Stories from the Heart of the GAA' is here and available to buy now! It's a profound insight into what the GAA means to so many people, up and down the country

30/11/2021

Up the west

30/11/2021

Next up, the men and women of the mighty 'Whest' 😉

30/11/2021

Good coverage of Grassroots launch in the Westmeath Independent 🥳God bless our local newspapers people, they do fantastic work 👏🙏

Westmeath GAA fans have been told a new publication on life within the association highlights the ‘madness’ that joins them together.

29/11/2021

In the fourth of our Grassroots extracts, Mick Byrne (in a lovely story) describes his maiden journey to Croker; the Leinster semi-final between Wexford and Killkenny of 1954 ... He experienced the pulse and excitement of Croke Park for the first time, and saw first-hand the genius of Wexford hurler Nicky Rackard ...

"We approached the turnstile and my father asked the steward: 'How much for the chap?' The kindly man, winking and nodding uttered with a smile: 'I can't hear ya.'"

29/11/2021

A truly amazing story involving David’s grandfather

Lovely extract from David Carroll's Grassroots story on his grandfather Chris 'Yarra' Duffy in Ireland's Own's bumper Christmas edition🎄 Find out how the legend survived getting shot in Bloody Sunday, and how he got the nickname 'Yarra'! 🤔