Chasing Sam Maguire

Kildare native Dermot Reilly has had a lifelong affiliation with the GAA as a player, supporter and administrator. In a true labour of love, he has dedicated years of painstaking research to the history of the All-Ireland Football Championship since 1928, the season Dermot's beloved Kildare became the first team to win the Sam Maguire Cup.

Now retired, Dermot was formerly a Partner with PwC.

A sports journalist his entire career, Meath-born Colm Keys has accumulated a formidable knowledge of the players, personalities and politics that have shaped the modern GAA. He started at the Meath Chronicle and was the Irish Mirror’s GAA correspondent and chief sportswriter, before joining the Irish Independent where he has been the GAA correspondent since 2003.

Larry Mc Carthy took charge as Uachtarán Chumann Lúthchleas Gael in 2021. The 40th GAA President since Maurice Davin in 1884, the New York GAA representative is the first-ever overseas official elected to the high office.