FROM a taster session in Clydebank to a winning tour of Berlin, Glasgow University Gaelic Football Club has made a flying start to 2026/27.

THE Ladies teams of Tír Conaill Harps and Dunedin Connollys celebrated two great wins in the Scottish Junior Shield and the North of Britain Championship respectively.

DUNEDIN Connollys Intermediate Men were crowned Championship winners after a hard-fought victory over Tír Conaill Harps in Clydebank, bringing the trophy back to Edinburgh following a tense and cagey final.

THE showpiece final of the Scotland GAA season saw the country’s big two of Dunedin Connollys and Glasgow Gaels face off in the Scottish Senior Men’s Championship in Clydebank.

THERE’S 05:38 on the stop-clock: Mayo are three points down in the 2026 All-Ireland Final, nevertheless very much in the game. Unlike in the 1996 replay against Meath, they still have 15 men on the field. Back then star player Liam McHale was red-carded after just six minutes following a mass brawl. 14-man Mayo lost by just one point. At 07.24, Mayo get off the mark with a fisted score.

IT HAS been a busy and successful period for Tír Conaill Harps, with the club’s senior teams in Championship action while four youth sides made the early journey south to compete at the Yorkshire Games in Leeds.

DUNEDIN Connollys retained their Men’s Senior League title following a dramatic one-point victory over Glasgow Gaels in a tightly contested final at Peterson Park in Yoker.

IN 2007, I skipped the afterparty celebrations of a wedding in Gweedore, Donegal and hitched a lift to Derry to watch the Senior County Football Final at Celtic Park, where the success starved club of my birth, Glenullin, was facing Bellaghy, the record title holders.

NEARLY three decades after a young Kilkenny student decided to start a Gaelic Football Club in Glasgow, generations of players, alumni, family and friends gathered to celebrate the remarkable legacy that decision created.

THIS columnist’s weekend centred around a trip to Manchester for the Northern Games youth tournament with hundreds of young footballers to play in competitions across two days hosted by Lancashire GAA.

AT THE recent civic St Patrick’s Day Festival Parade in Glasgow, there was a familiar face among all the flags being held aloft.

AT 37 years old and having just won a second La Liga title in Spain, Robert Lewandowski, the Barcelona and Poland striker, attributes his playing longevity —at least in part—to following what’s known as the ‘reverse diet.’ Basically it means that he consumes his dessert first, before turning to his main course.

MARCH 2026 at Soccerworld, Old Glamis Road, Dundee will live long in the memory of those who are associated with the GAA on the East Coast of Scotland with a celebration of the most significant milestones since the founding of the Dalriada GFC on January 28 1990—a milestone on a par with the enthusiasm of the 58 children who participated and registered with the newest youth GAA Club in Scotland.

FOR those involved with Men’s Gaelic football at the University of Glasgow, the 2026 season will live long in the memory.

FOR those of involved with Tír Conaill Harps GAA Club, it has always been about more than football. Since the club’s foundation in 1994, its members have worked to build something that reflects the very best of community sport—a club where young people thrive, families feel welcome and culture, wellbeing and connection sit alongside competition. Three decades on, the Harps remain a living, growing expression of that original vision.

ONE of the unsung heroes of the GAA in Britain since 1962 passed away at his home in Perth on the evening of Saturday October 25, 2025.

TÍR CONAILL Harps GFC are making a major play in 2026 to get more women and girls involved with the club.

IT'S JUST gone 8pm on a Friday night in mid-September at the Glasgow Hutchesons’ Aloysians’ (GHA) rugby club just south of Glasgow. We’re standing by a neatly fenced 3G training pitch ringed by tall floodlights fending off the encroaching darkness looming beyond the trees at one end of the field. The summer months are coming to a close, but here the youth Gaelic football training is in full swing.

EDINBURGH'S Irish community will have another chance to celebrate its culture and heritage—and the chance to avail of some free pints—thanks to a special event being held this month in Malones Bar in Leith.

TÍR Conaill Harps were crowned Intermediate Championship winners on a blustery afternoon in Glasgow, overcoming testing weather conditions and a determined Glasgow Gaels side to secure a deserved 0-09 to 0-06 victory. The win meant that Harps secured an impressive Intermediate double, adding to their earlier league triumph over Stirling Carrigans. Tír Conaill made a dream start, taking the lead inside two minutes, but Gaels quickly responded with two fine points of their own,