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

There are only two teams left in the New York Senior football County Championship: Down and Cork. Eugene Kyne preview the game and wonders what team will popping the champagne this Sunday in the 125th anniversary year of the GAA in Ireland and the 95th year of football in the Big Apple.

Roscommon were crowned intermediate champions for 2009 on Sunday after an enthralling final when came back from a three-point deficit to beat Offaly by 0-9 to 0-8.

The season may be winding up, but that only means that the games are all the more important. Eugene Kyne reports on Down's win over Leitrim in the senior semi, and previews this weekend's intermediate final between Offaly vs. Roscommon and other senior semi between Cork and Tyrone.

Intermediate Football Championships: Tough match yields no winner; Senior football semi-final: Senior Semi comes to a draw

This weekend at the NY GAA, Offaly, Roscommon, Cork and Down came out on top.

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

Meath are through to the final qualifying round after a handy win over Roscommon in Meath on Saturday evening. However, It was the end of the road for Galway and Wicklow as they went down to Donegal and Kildare respectively.

News bits from around the 32 counties in Ireland.

Sunday's results  Connacht Final Galway 1-14 Mayo 2-12(mayo win by a point) Ulster Final Tyrone 1-18 Antrim 0-15 Saturday's results   Wicklow 1-15 - 0-17 Down       Kerry 0-14 - 1-10 Sligo       Donegal 2-13 - 0-18 Derry       Galway 1-19   0-17 Cork     There were one point victories across the board today in three of the senior football championships in Ireland. Kerry hung on in a nail-biting classic to stay on track for another All-Ireland appearance with a one-point win over

Eugene Kyne gives the skinny on the upcoming senior football and senior hurling matches from the Bronx, as well as an intermediate football match between St. Raymond's and Roscommon.

Eugene Kyne highlights the past week's intermediate and senior football matches from the Bronx.

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.

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.

Eugene Kyne's recap of the week's senior football and hurling matches, the John Brady Cup final and the first GAA Minor Board title for Brooklyn.

Mayo reached the Connacht final Mayo after obliterating Roscommon in McHale Park on Saturday, hitting three goals in a devastating first-half display.

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

A tribute to Paddy Reynolds, a fine musician and an even finer man.

Mayo easily beat New York by fifteen points in the Connacht Senior Football Championship at Gaelic Park in the Bronx Sunday.

A review of Sunday's action in the Allianz National Hurling 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.

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

Matthew Macklin (24-2) produced a sensational performance to overpower Wayne Elcock in three rounds at the Aston Events Centre in Birmingham and become the new British middleweight champion on Saturday night.

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.

THERE has always been something more appealing to me than the mere playing of notes and tunes in traditional Irish music. Sometimes people associate that with the craic and enjoyment surrounding the playing of it, listening to it or dancing to it and that certainly adds to its aura and enduring charm.

To me, it is the heart of the musician who is playing, whether it is to a crowd of a thousand or more or just for themselves and a few friends where the intensity never varies.

"I have a great plan this year," 10-year-old Brian Costello told the Irish Voice as he awaits the arrival of Santa Claus on Christmas morning.

"I'm going to borrow my dad's camera, if he lets me, and I'm going to stay up all night and watch for Santa," said Brian, whose father Donnchadh hails from Co. Kerry and his mother Angela from Co.

DNA tests carried out on a body discovered in the Hudson River on Thursday, February 7 confirmed last week that it was the body of 29-year-old missing Roscommon man Tony Devine.Devine, who went missing from midtown Manhattan on Friday, November 30, 2007 was waked at Williams Funeral Home in the Bronx on Sunday. A funeral Mass was held on Monday in St.

MEMBERS of the Irish American community had mixed reactions to the announcement last week that Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern will resign in May.Karen Duke, an immigrant from Co. Longford, believes that Ahern should have stepped down months ago.

HUNDREDS of Irish students are in dire straits lacking accommodation and jobs and seeing their summer dreams of New York disappear.They have been turning up in their droves at the Aisling Irish Center in Yonkers, New York seeking accommodation and jobs and overwhelming the staff there. Student Cormac Glynn, 21, sleeps on the floor of a one-room apartment with five others.

The air at Radio City Music Hall in New York on Tuesday, October 7, was thick with enthusiasm and anticipation, as 6,000 Irish and Irish Americans traveled from all over the state and some further a field to enjoy an evening of musical entertainment from their new favorite Irish group, Celtic Thunder.

The boys, PBS powerhouses, were back in town and this time performing to a full house at Radio City.

Minutes before the five young men took to the stage under the guidance of veteran Irish singer and songwriter Phil Coulter, men, women and children shuffled into their seats, programs and treats in their hands.

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.

The annual rules convention of the New York GAA took place last Sunday at the Riverdale Steak-house. While the draft of rules for discussion was 21 long at the outset, the manner in which they were dealt, with Frank Brady from Lietrim in the chair, was tame to say the least. With nothing earth shattering on the agenda, Brady ran the afternoon smoothly to its conclusion, with just a tweaking of the rules taking place.

SEVERAL senior Offaly players are threatening to lead a walkout if Richie Connor is left in charge of the county's senior football team after just three games in charge. Reports on Tuesday claimed that a row erupted between Connor and some players at halftime in Sunday's NFL defeat to Roscommon . .

Na Fianna 7-7 Cavan 4-16

IN a thrilling Ladies final at Gaelic Park on Sunday, Na Fianna defied the odds with a dazzling comeback from 16 points down to secure a draw with the last kick of the game. It sets up a replay at the same venue on Sunday at 3:30 to try and decide who will be crowned this year's champions.

With both sides giving virtuoso performances in front of goal, Cavan in the first half, Na Fianna in the second, no one deserved to lose.

Tyrone 6-14

St. Raymond's 1-6

TYRONE returned to senior football after a five year absence with an emphatic win over St. Raymond's in the Junior A final last Sunday.

Kerry 1-12

Cork 0-8

KERRY is back in the New York Senior A final after a one year absence where they will face the winners of the Down/ Leitrim semifinal. They used a brilliant second half performance where they outscored Cork by 1-8 to 0-3 to secure the victory.

Stephen Kavanagh was the mastermind with a personal total of 1-8.

Down 0-14

Leitrim 0-12

AFTER an opening 15 minute period when they had given up a penalty, and were behind by 0-5 to 0-1, Down slowly and methodically came back into this Senior A football semifinal and booked their place in the county final against Kerry next week.

With Patrick Downey starting in the middle of the park and then leading the defense on a merry dance at number 14, giving a man of the match display, they were able to clinical pick of points from frees and play. Introductions of subs and a small reshuffle of their personnel to effectively shut down Leitrim were all reasons for the win.

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.

DUBLIN'S County Board have turned to former player Pat Gilroy and former manager Mickey Whelan to revive their All-Ireland football title hopes. Gilroy, a Sam Maguire winner as a substitute in 1995, was the surprise announcement as successor to Paul Caffrey late last week.

A managerial rookie, Gilroy will be joined by former Dubs boss Whelan as team trainer in a new look management team.

Galway 4-15

New York 1-13

GALWAY came to Gaelic Park last Sunday and left with an easy win over New York in the FBD Connaught League final of 2008.

A trophy that New York won in 2004, Galway are now the standard bearers with five titles, followed by Mayo with four since the competition's introduction in 1995.

Jumping out in to an early 3-7 to 0-2 advantage after 25 minutes, they used a brilliant display by the full forward line and excellent defending by the defense when it mattered most to get into an insurmountable lead.

Ireland has avoided another Pool of Death in the draw for the 2011 Rugby World Cup finals in New Zealand, but they have been thrown in with Australia and Italy.

The Hartnett name appears in many forms: Harney, O'Harney, Hartney, Harnedy, Haherny and more. The surname is derived from the Irish O hAthaire, which is thought to be derived from the Gaelic word athardha, meaning paternal. The ancient Hartnetts resided in Connacht (the region of Ireland comprised of Galway, Mayo, Leitrim, Roscommon and Sligo).

Kelly comes second to Murphy as the most common surname in Ireland. The name is popular because it originates from at least seven different and unrelated ancient clans or septs. These include O'Kelly septs from Meath, Derry, Antrim, Laois, Sligo, Wicklow, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Galway and Roscommon, and the McKelly sept from East Connaught.

The original Irish name is " Coimn and its variations are numerous in every part of Ireland. The name lends itself to many interpretations. Some say it comes from the Irish word cam, meaning crooked, while others incorrectly believed the name derived from the word camán, which means a hurling stick.

The annual ritual that is transfer night arrived last week with some big winners and losers as the night ended. In contrast to prior years when clubs could not lose more than three players to one club, this season Armagh and Donegal took major hits to their