Calls to eliminate VAT on accommodation and food services to 0% immediately until the crisis passes.

They want payments to Revenue, banks, and local authorities to be postponed as a first step in supporting the sectors.

A seventh pointed free by Jason Curry in the sixth minute of added time earned Waterford a deserved draw in the Fraher Field, Dungarvan, in Sunday's Allianz Football League Division 4 title.

The tag of raging hot favouritism meant that for Cork this journey into the West Clare night was first and foremost about avoiding any potential banana skins they might encounter along the way.

Tourism Ireland has suspended 'Global Greening' in China due to the coronavirus

If ever there was an illustration of the power of the Healy-Raes in Kerry, it wasn’t just the convincing — and some might say inevitable — vote they received.

Confirming his status as Kerry’s biggest vote-getter, tallies put him at topping the poll with 16,695 votes.

Michael Healy-Rae is set to top the poll in Kerry according to the final unofficial tally for the five-seat constituency.

All through last summer, while the indefatigable Mark Tighe kept breaking stories highlighting the scale of the incompetence and mismanagement of the FAI, there was another weekly occurrence in another sport.

The Sinn Féin surge looks set to claim a major scalp in Kerry in the form of Independent TD Danny Healy-Rae, according to the latest TG4/Ipsos MRBI poll.

For almost 30 years, in terms of Kerry politics, we have spoken of the Spring dynasty, and it is a real reflection of the low ebb in which Labour finds itself when it cannot even stand a candidate in the Kingdom.

Shane Ross has described his first meeting with the board’s newly appointed chairman and directors as “an encouraging and, frankly, warm discussion.”

Minister for Sport Shane Ross has tonight welcomed the appointment of Independent directors to the board of the FAI.

There will be no extra-time in either game in the event of a draw, with a penalty shoot-out to determine the victor.

The FAI’s Paul Cooke has starkly outlined how perilously close to the end game he believes the embattled association really is.

The Minister’s statement came after the FAI had issued a formal apology for what it termed “the mistakes of the past”.

St Mary’s’ bid to complete the six-in-a-row of Jack Murphy Cups will have to wait until the middle of January at the earliest, as Dromid Pearses secured a late draw with two Niall Ó Sé frees during six minutes of added time in the Kerry SFC final at a bitterly cold Portmagee yesterday.

The financial and governance farrago which has engulfed the Football Association of Ireland could see the country’s international teams and the League of Ireland driven out of existence.

Another day, and another battering of the FAI’s reputation — but this today's pummelling in Leinster House could prove the tipping point for its survival prospects.

Minister Ross said the Monday meeting, details of which the attending members of the FAI declined to divulge in its aftermath, had been a “sobering” experience.

The Government “is not in the business of bailing out” the debt-ridden FAI under any circumstances.

The FAI’s executive lead Paul Cooke tonight refused to deny a claim by Sports Minister Shane Ross that the association have sought a bailout of over €10m.

The government has said that there are still reformations needed in the Football Association of Ireland before the body gets its State funding back.

Fine Gael TD Bernard Durkan has launched a blistering attack on Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy during a private meeting of the parliamentary party.

Sport Ireland have approved payment of 2019 grant funding worth €195,000 to the Women’s National Football Team, with the disbursement of the money to be overseen, not by the FAI, but the accountancy and business advisory firm BDO.