What were your GAA highlights of the year ?

[thejuice]

Beating Kildare certainly put a smile on face. It felt like we could still play football despite all that is wrong with the county set up.

Enjoyed being a Leinster final again against the Dubs, despite the result it was good to make their acquaintance once again at a final stage.

The final was good too. Enjoyed Donegal winning it, the team and the athmosphere they brought was refreshing.

Didn't get to see a lot of hurling but great to see Galway starting to show something for all their underage success.

[Syferus]

This.

You're welcome.

[seafoid]

Not surprisingly, Loughgiel winning the All ireland. 

That was fantastic. Great to see Antrim hurling in Croker on the big day and winning. 

[johnneycool]

Not surprisingly, Loughgiel winning the All ireland. 

That was fantastic. Great to see Antrim hurling in Croker on the big day and winning.

The bodies win was something to behold, made us nordie hurling types feel for just a while that we weren't absolutely useless at the sport, for a while anyway.

Galway's absolute demolition of Kilkenny in the Leinster final blew a bit of life into hurling over the summer even if those pesky Cats showed in the end why they're an exceptional team.

[AQMP]

Loughgiel winning the AI Club Hurling
Antrim's win over Galway in the Qualifiers (apologies seafoid)
Aisling Reilly winning the World Handball title (beating St Paul's clubmate Fiona Shannon in the final) and later the US Open.
Antrim Ladies winning the AI Junior Football

OK, outside Antrim:

Michael Murphy's goal in the football final

and outside Ulster:

Joe Canning's goal in the drawn hurling final (thus making up with seafoid)

[seafoid]

I forgot about Donegal beating Kerry

[Paul Callanan]

Apart from all the Galway hurling memories already mentioned I'll rememeber this as the year of "Jimmy's winning matches", the best GAA song since the mid '90's ( I'm talking about "The Joe dooley Song" and "The Purple and Gold" obviously ).

[Bingo]

Mine would be all club related, mainly to our minor team that won the championship. A team you'd not have backed to win much at start of the year but grew into a team that refused to be beaten, they turned a few defeats into victories against the odds at times.

[Declan]

The launch of the new Dubs jersey

[trasna man]

The launch of the new Dubs jersey

Think someone could have run a iron over it

[Aristo 60]

Running on the field after Down beating Monaghan and seeing my arse on the box that night.

[mouview]

Going to Celtic Park, Derry, for the first time on a cold, rainy Sunday afternoon and being one of a few diehards to witness Galway upset the odds and beat the hosts in the opening round of the league. Good football and  good crack with the lads. Sadly, this was nearly as good as it got for the footballers all year.

In hurling, JC's performance in the Leinster final; a timely reminder of the force of nature he can be with the proper support around him.

[ONeill]

The Dromid v Derrytresk semi. It represented all what was good in gaelic football. High catching, long kicking and played in a gentlemanly manner. No play-acting or sneaky jabs were even considered. The losing team were gallant in their acceptance whilst the winners were gracious in victory. Both sets of fans mixed merrily and hearty laughs were exchanged at the final whistle. Friends made for life. A real advertisement for the game and set the tone for another year of fine sporting attitudes across the country.

[NaomhBridAbú]

Kilkenny v Galway...first game was lethal
Donegal v Mayo...Doneagl winning
Tyrone v Armagh...beating Armagh
Eglish v carrickmore at the launch of Pairc Chormaic.
Ardboe v Donaghmore (Niall McKenna was lethal)
the first 11 minutes of Crossmaglen v Kilcoo...Cross were lethal
Tyrones New sponsorship deal

[stew]

Cross winning the club AI & the Armagh ladies winning an AI was pretty special.

the county team was a nightmare however the right man is at the helm and hopefully next years answer to this question will be a lot better.