In New York last week part of a Maynooth College expo, Tyrone football manager Mickey Harte took time out from his busy schedule to sit down with Eugene Kyne to discuss his team, his future, his favorite players and other aspects of his legendary career.

News from the 32: Antrim, Armagh, Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Cork, Derry, Donegal, Down, Dublin, Fermanagh, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Leitrim, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary, Tyrone, Waterford, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow

The latest GAA news from around Ireland, including Tipperary hurling goalkeeper Brendan Cummins' vow to fight for his place next year and Donegal star Brendan Devenney's decision to retire.

New York hosts Galway for the second year in a row in the annual FBD League final in Gaelic Park this Sunday. While Galway had a relatively easy time last year, this year’s contest takes on extra meaning, with Galway employing a new manager a month ago in the form of Joe Kernan.

Kerry won their 36th All-Ireland today at Croke Park beating Cork 0-16 to 1-09. After a slow start, they gained control at midfield and led at halftime by two points. Cork dominated early play and held a three-point lead after 15 minutes.

Kerry have been handed a massive boost ahead of Sunday’s All-Ireland final derby date with Cork after both Colm “Gooch” Cooper and Paul Galvin were cleared to play after recent injury scares.

News from the 32: Antrim, Armagh, Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Cork, Derry, Donegal, Down, Dublin, Fermanagh, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Leitrim, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary, Tyrone, Waterford, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow

News from the 32: Antrim, Armagh, Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Cork, Derry, Donegal, Down, Dublin, Fermanagh, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Leitrim, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary, Tyrone, Waterford, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow

Eugene Kyne with the match reports from all the action at Gaelic Park in the Bronx

The number of Irish attending Gamblers Anonymous meeting in Ireland has spiraled in the past six months.

FULL TIME: Kerry 2-08 Meath 1-07 Kerry are off to yet another All-Ireland SFC final, and we can only hope their game picks up. A dreadful afternoon's football saw 32 wides from both sides in a dull affair at

Ireland’s International Rose of Tralee Festival will celebrate its Golden Jubilee 50th anniversary this year when the renowned event kicks off on August 21. 50 Roses from all different walks of life will travel from around the world to compete at the festival.

Bits and bobs from newspapers across Ireland's 32 counties, North and South.

Eugene Kyne gives his predictions to this upcoming weekend's hurling and football fixtures from the Bronx, as well as outlining upcoming schedule changes made by the NY GAA.

Eugene Kyne with the lowdown from last weekend's games at Gaelic Park in the Bronx.

News bits from around the 32 counties in Ireland.

On Monday, June 29, Rita Keane of Caherlistrane, County Galway passed away at age 86 in a Galway hospital. Before leaving this earth, however, the pair left a rich legacy for others to emulate and to keep the songs of Ireland inhabited by generations of singers who they touched with their own authentic voices and styles.

Eugene Kyne gives the lowdown on the upcoming football action from the Bronx between New Jersey/Kilkenny and Offaly, Cork and Tyrone, Roscommon and Brooklyn/Long Island, and the John Joe McGovern Final between Rangers and St. Barnabas, the first junior final of the season.

Eugene Kyne highlights the past week's senior hurling and junior and intermediate football action from Gaelic Park, as well as the results from the Dennis McHugh under-8 Gaelic Football Tournament in Rockland.

Cathal Dervan highlights the recent transfer news regarding departures and arrivals of some of Ireland's best footballers, the result of the British and Irish Lions' third test against South Africa and the past week's Gaelic action from Ireland.

A round-up of the results from the All Ireland Football and Hurling Championships that saw Cork win the Munster football title and Kilkenny bag another hurling title in Leinster, with a busy first round of football qualifiers on Saturday.

Eugene Kyne gives his predictions for the upcoming weekend's football and hurling fixtures from the Bronx.

The Irish Network is an Irish networking group for professionals in New York. Ninety per cent of its members are Irish rather than Irish American, and while they’re not necessarily fresh-off-the-boat, many of them are new to the States.

Eugene Kyne gives the skinny on this weekend's upcoming football and hurling fixtures in the Bronx.

Armagh got the better of Roscommon in the John Brady Intermediate Cup, while Cork beat Tyrone in the Senior Football league

After a brief sojourn in America, the 2009 Football Championship returns home this weekend, with the Ulster and Leinster competitions starting on Sunday afternoon.

A roundup of all the action in the last round of the Allianz National Football league

All the latest news and views from the New York GAA world.

A roundup of all the action in The Allianz National Football and Hurling Leagues.

The lowdown on the weekend's action in the Allianz National Football and Hurling leagues.

All the latest on the teams for this weekend's fixtures in the Allianz National Football and Hurling Leagues.

The All-Ireland Senior Club Football and Hurling finals took place at Croke Park today.

Sunday was a busy day in the Allianz National Football League with action in all four divisions.

The New York GAA football scene got a little clearer for the upcoming year with a dramatic piece of editing by the Association this past week. The alignments of the senior and junior divisions were changed dramatically, with an intermediate division born from necessity and intuition.

The more that I am around the traditional music scene, the more apparent that it is a very special community that thrives on equal measures of commitment and craic, especially in the New York area when it seems like any weekend can be a very good one to enjoy it. All generations gladly participate with one another in the living tradition celebrating the past, present and future all at once, and they don't need to wait until the St. Patrick's season to boast about their heritage.

The summer Irish festival season is now in full swing, and from the small-scale offerings to massive three-day music events, there's one for you, nationwide. This week the Irish Voice picks some tried and tested highlights.

July 13-15 sees the annual Irish American Heritage Festival in Chicago.

THE 27th annual Milwaukee Irish Fest closed out Sunday night literally with a bang with the usual fireworks display over the Lake Michigan shores alongside the Henry W. Maier Festival Park. Usually it provides the final memory for those who stick it to the very end of the four-day event every August that represents the largest Irish festival in the world on the spacious and convenient grounds just made for an outdoor summer festival that has attracted 140,000 in the past for Irish Fest.

ANOTHER family with an Armagh connection is the Quinn family of Long Island, whose patriarch, Louie Quinn, came from Newtownhamilton in Armagh.

Louie Senior was a very fine Irish fiddler who played a huge role in promoting and preserving traditional Irish music not only in New York but also around the country through his friendship with so many great musicians, and also his organization skills through the Irish Musicians Association, a forerunner in many places for Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann in North America.

He got his family involved in Irish music and dance in a big way out on Long Island, and the oldest boy, Sean, has continued to teach music both in the public school system and with Irish music pupils on the fiddle.

AT 28 years old, one of John Finucane's first tasks as a newly appointed solicitor is to help prepare the legal case for the families of six unarmed men shot dead by the security forces in a controversy which became known as Shoot-to-Kill.It is 25 years since IRA men Gervaise McKerr, Eugene Toman and Sean Burns were shot dead by the RUC as they drove in a car towards Lurgan in Co. Armagh.

Finn McCool's Irish bar located in the heart of New Orleans' Irish community re-opened its doors six months after Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, only to have them shut again on Sunday, August 31, as Hurricane Gustav approached.

This time, however, no damage was done and proprietors of Finn McCool's in the Mid-City area of New Orleans (mostly residential) are hoping to have their doors re-opened by the weekend, just in time to see Ireland play Georgia in a World Cup qualifier and Kilkenny hurlers take on Waterford hurlers in the All-Ireland final.

Finn McCool's was busy on Sunday evening when Stephen Patterson and his wife Pauline, both from Belfast, were told they had to shut up shop and evacuate the town immediately, as Gustav was on route.

The New York GAA football scene got a little clearer for the upcoming year with a dramatic piece of editing by the Association this past week. The alignments of the senior and junior divisions were changed dramatically, with an intermediate division born from necessity and intuition. The senior division for the coming year will involve nine teams.

Ryan Henderson marked his full Armagh debut with a four goal haul in Sunday's 4-16 to 2-9 NFL win over Wexford, much to the delight of manager Peter McDonnell. Handed a late chance to start in the game due to an injury, Henderson took full advantage in this Division Two tie at Wexford Park. "Ryan certainly made the best of his opportunity and I think he deserved what he got because he worked hard and won a lot of possession too," McDonnell said.

Cork's striking hurlers have appealed to the club chairmen within the county to sort out their latest dispute - and laid the blame firmly at the door of County Board secretary Frank Murphy. The 30 strong 2008 squad, who are still refusing to ever play under boss Ger McCarthy again, finally went public on their latest angst in a lengthy press conference on Monday. A statement read on behalf of all 30 players by 2008 captain John Gardiner blamed Murphy for a "sickness" at the heart of Cork GAA.

The New York football college squad is traveling to Birmingham, England next week to again compete in the British College Games. The panel, which was announced last Friday, is returning to that city after a very successful trip last February when they won their division with wins over Rennes, France, Nottingham, Lincoln and a draw against Carlisle before they bowed out at the hands of Manchester in the semifinal. The Manchester team went on to win the Plate in that section of the competition.

Tyrone 3-14

Armagh 0-8

TYRONE had far too many weapons for Armagh in the only Junior A semifinal to be played this year. Nine different scorers and a defense that never allowed Armagh to settle made for an easy passage into the next round where St. Raymond's stand in the way of a title and a return to senior football.

Offaly 0-9

Donegal 0-8

THE Junior B title returns to Offaly and joins the Senior Hurling trophy on the Faithful mantle for the inter months. The Jim O'Neill Cup donated by the Armagh club joins the Michael Flannery one in what has been a wonderful season for Offaly.

They jumped out into a four point lead at the break and were able to withstand a stirring comeback by Donegal by chipping over points when required and using a strong defensive showing in the last few minutes to get the win.

TYRONE will provide Kerry with a stiff All-Ireland final challenge in just over a two weeks -- and manager Mickey Harte can't wait to take on the Sam Maguire Cup holders. The Ulster side booked their place with a well deserved 0-23 to 1-14 win over surprise packets Wexford in Croke Park on Sunday.

"It's very satisfying to be back in an All-Ireland final.

THE New York senior football team has a new manager for the visit of Galway on October 9. (Didn't we write this last week!)

News over the weekend was the appointment of Seamus Smith, who is a familiar face at Gaelic Park over the years. He can be seen commentating on Sundays as he shares the chore with Mike Cassidy.

IN the period of Connaught football between Galway's All-Ireland wins of 1966 and 1998, a host of stars stood tall in all five counties.

While All-Ireland success was missing, players of the caliber of Dermot Earley and Eamonn McManus of Roscommon, Willie Joe Padden and Liam McHale of Mayo, Sligo's Mickey Kerins and Mick Martin of Leitrim all had distinguished careers over long periods.

Galway also had some players that ploughed long in often painful furloughs in that time, with Gay McManus, Val Daly, Tommy Joe Gilmore and Tom Naughton springing to mind.

GALWAY and Antrim will both play in the Leinster hurling championship next season after a radical vote to amend the structure of the provincial game was passed at a Special Congress in Croke Park on Saturday.

Delegates from Dublin, Offaly and Wexford all spoke out against the proposal, but an 80% yes vote ensured the changes will come into place next year.

The move has been welcomed by GAA President Nickey Brennan, who also confirmed that Leinster Championship games could be played outside the province next season if Galway or Antrim receive home draws.