Laois manager Eddie Brennan has claimed that a “worrying” level of simulation and diving is creeping into the game of hurling.

Interim Offaly manager Joachim Kelly met with the county’s embattled hurlers for the first time yesterday evening.

Former Offaly hurler Brian Carroll insists the same rules should apply to Munster as they do to Leinster and relegation has to be a factor.

Davy Fitzgerald is minding his p’s and q’s as well as his f’s.

I don’t know whether it was shock or despair or whether he was hoping something light would lighten the shock and despair, but Damian Martin was somehow trying to introduce a sense of hope after yesterday’s game in Tullamore.

Colm Basquel was at the Dunboyne Castle Hotel last Thursday evening for the launch of the Sean Cox charity football game, using his status as a Dublin football star to help promote the event.

JP McManus’ €100,000 donation to each county board has been described as “the greatest ever gesture to the clubs of Ireland”.

Former Offaly hurler Brian Carroll has accused the GAA of behaving in an elitist fashion by preserving the Munster SHC “at all costs”, while, at the same time, tearing Leinster apart.

Two Galway club teams bet on themselves ahead of crucial fixtures in 2016, outgoing county board chairman Noel Treacy alleged last night.

The most eagerly-awaited ‘big alley’ doubles match in many years serves off this evening Croke Park as Dublin meet Meath in the MyClubShop.ie All-Ireland 60x30 Senior Doubles final.

Not too many Dundalk townhouses get to feature in these pages, - but, then again, not too many are as good inside as at 14 St. Malachy’s Villas.

Twenty years ago today Garda Jerry McCabe was shot dead by the Provisional IRA in Adare during an attempted robbery. His widow, Ann, spoke to Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

Brian Carroll outlines the bizarre case of Kevin McGeever, who conned his way around the world duping investors on a fictional path that lead to his conviction over a fake kidnapping

With more than 1,200 acres of land in total and an impressive Georgian pile in the middle of it, Kilcooley Estate in South Tipperary is a property of multiple aspects which will attract a lot of very different interested parties.

Brian Carroll announced his retirement from Offaly hurling this week. Son of two-time All-Ireland medal-winner Pat, he was a member of the last Offaly team to capture the Leinster minor crown (2000) and played in the provincial senior hurling final back in 2004.

New Offaly hurling manager Eamonn Kelly will have to plan without experienced wing-back Cathal Parlon for 2016.

Twenty people are facing charges of fraud following a garda investigation into car accidents that were allegedly staged to claim insurance payouts.

Offaly SHC

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Laois put a difficult fortnight behind them in the most definitive fashion possible, blitzing old rivals Offaly in the final 45 minutes to record their first championship victory over them in 43 years.

Allianz HL Division 1 quarter-final

Tipperary only scored two second-half points, but advanced to their fourth Allianz Hurling League Division 1 semi-final in a row, after a six-point win over Offaly at O'Connor Park today.

Scenario A. A Kilkenny team versus an Offaly team in the Leinster club hurling final in Portlaoise tomorrow. It may not result in a win for the Offaly crowd but the chances are it’ll be close.

Two of the last six All-Ireland Club hurling finalists will meet at the semi-final stages of the Offaly SHC next month after Kilcormac-Killoughey and Coolderry both eased through their quarter-final ties this weekend.

Tipperary 5-25 Offaly 1-20

Tipperary 5-25 Offaly 1-20

Former Offaly All-Ireland winning captain Martin Hanamy believes it would be a "great bonus" if the county’s hurlers stay within 10 points of Tipperary in Saturday’s qualifier.

LEINSTER SHC QUARTER-FINAL:

Get the house in order or soon there will be no house to worry about — that was the blunt message from Offaly’s Brian Carroll to his own county board after this latest humiliation at the hands of Kilkenny.

Kilkenny 5-32 Offaly 1-18

Offaly 3-19 Kerry 0-14

Offaly 3-19 Kerry 0-14

Antrim 1-18 Offaly 1-14

Antrim 1-18 Offaly 1-14

Cork 1-24 Offaly 1-18

Cork 1-24 Offaly 1-18

Wexford 2-19 Offaly 2-13

Cluainín 3-14 Carrick 1-10