Currently, protein is expensive, but it is very necessary for animal performance, writes independent ruminant nutritionist Brian Reidy.

For a few years now, referees have been instructed to be vigilant about players in possession holding their tacklers

Those vicious, disgraceful scenes at the end of normal time in the Galway-Armagh All-Ireland quarter-final could so easily have been avoided

'I tipped Colm Lyons for a final a couple of years ago but I wonder if it turns out to be Clare and Limerick on July 17 will he be strong enough to handle it?'

What an unbelievably good Munster final that was yesterday and what a huge honour it would have been for John Keenan to be a part of such a classic

The problem here once again is consistency. How can you expect hurling to develop and counties to perform to the best when one referee is saying yes and the other no

Two weeks after he was whistled for taking too long over a late free, there might have been a sense of poetic justice about Conor Cooney claiming the two points in Salthill yesterday

You know the crowds are back in the championship when referees are being put under pressure by the home support.

From the word go, it was clear that Joe was going to be up to the task of keeping order in the All-Ireland final and had his house in order.

Kerry and Croke Park played to Tyrone's tune because it seemed they had little choice but to, although this game really should have gone ahead last week