Pat Flanagan has revealed that it was his wife who informed him that he had been axed as Offaly senior football team manager on Tuesday evening.

Two gardaí accused of beating a teenager and leaving him with a lacerated kidney denied the assault during their Garda Siochana Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) interviews.

The firm that operated one of the best-known night-time entertainment venues in the country, the Central Park nightclub in Galway, recorded a pre-tax loss of €457,962 beforedeciding to close.

PRE-TAX profits at the company that operates one of the best known night-time entertainment venues in the country, the Central Park nightclub in Galway city, decreased last year by 82% to €353,884.

Tom Cribbin has been officially reappointed as Offaly senior football manager for a third year.

‘OFFALY PRIDE’ was the key ingredient, according to manager Tom Cribbin, as his side rallied bravely to get the better of a David Tubridy-inspired Clare in this All-Ireland SFC Qualifier.

Limerick 2-6 Longford 3-5

Ireland have announced the U-18 club squad to play England in the FIRA-AER U-18 European Championship today.

ENGLAND will be gunning for revenge against Ireland in tonight’s FIRA-AER U18 European Championship semi-final in Venice (7pm, Irish time).

Dublin 2-12 Longford 1-14

CORK needs to establish an embassy in Dublin.

THE Longford team for Sunday’s All-Ireland MFC semi-final against Derry shows one change from the team which defeated Meath in the recent Leinster final.