MUNSTER CLUB IHC QUARTER-FINAL:

An offer for nurses to retain double-time pay for working Sundays and holidays is understood to feature in a set of proposals tabled by health service management in an effort to progress Croke Park II among health workers.

THE decision by An Bord Pleanála to refuse permission for the National Children’s Hospital at Eccles Street, Dublin 1, has come as a bolt out of the blue to the development board of the National Paediatric Hospital, government ministers, the HSE and the Department of Health. I don’t like saying “I told you so.”

It was only in the final minutes of this exciting Leinster Colleges SAHC semi-final at Dr Cullen Park, Carlow yesterday that All-Ireland champions St Kieran’s hit four unanswered points to book a provincial final place against Kilkenny CBS.

Tickets go on sale this morning for one of the most anticipated tours in recent years.

THERE are many Septembers in which the GAA form book is as solid and reliable as a Presbyterian family’s leather-bound Bible.

Cork manager Conor Counihan has opted to field an unchanged team for Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC quarter-final against Roscommon.

TEENAGERS vulnerable to problems with drugs and self-harm are in danger of being left behind due to pressure on the public finances, a conference heard yesterday.

AS there’s a shortage of bread (money) in Ireland at present we may as well enjoy whatever circuses are presented to us. Let’s be thankful therefore for having the GAA.

The Wexford camogie team have followed the best tradition of cup final songs by hitting the the recording studio ahead of this Sunday’s All-Ireland final clash against Cork.

KILKENNY 2-19 LIMERICK 1-15

Dublin 3-18 Derry 2-11

Ireland manager Pete McGrath is set to wait until after the All-Ireland final on Sunday week to confirm his final International Rules squad.

The result may not have gone Wexford's way but team boss Seamus Murphy still heaped praise on his players for a dogged display in yesterday's Leinster SHC final.

Westmeath midfielder Rory O'Connell, a 2001 All-star, is to make a last ditch attempt to overturn his 12-week suspension in the High Court and make himself available for the Lake county's first Leinster SFC final for 55 years.