Three-year project. A key phrase in any football manager’s vocab these days. Any chance of a side order of romance with that? Cobh Wanderers gaffer Michael Deasy spins a mean love story.

Had his life taken a different path then Pádraig O’Connor might have been preparing with the Kerry squad for Sunday’s Allianz Football League Division 1 final against Dublin.

Sport played a big role in the social activities of workers and an edition of the plant’s newsletter, Ford News, in December, 1968, highlighted this.

Mr Justice Carroll Moran once said that when he arrived at Limerick Circuit Court every morning, his day was immediately brightened by Oliver (Ollie) McCarthy’s combined wit and insolence.

Travelling under no pressure, non-league St Peter’s are relishing their visit to Turner’s Cross to take on Cork City in tonight’s FAI Cup second round tie.

Tipperary management insist Ian Fahey will play in the EirGrid All-Ireland U21 football semi-final against Dublin next Saturday.

Coláiste Choilm (Cork) 0 St Joseph’s (Galway) 0

FAI ambassador and former Irish international Ray Houghton has said it’s up to people involved in Irish football to make the local game more attractive to fans.

Cork City 3 Kilbarrack United 1

HOLDERS Sligo Rovers were given a major scare before emerging narrow winners over FAI Junior Cup holders Pike Rovers in this FAI Ford Cup third round tie at the Showgrounds last night.

Sligo Rovers 3 Pike Rovers 2

Sligo Rovers entertain non-league side Pike Rovers in tonight’s FAI Ford Cup third round clash at The Showgrounds, kick-off 7.45pm.

LIMERICK’S Pike Rovers are out for revenge when they face St Michael’s of Tipperary in tomorrow’s FAI Junior Cup final at Turners Cross (3pm).

TOMORROW in Semple Stadium, Robbie Costigan finds himself leading the Tipperary football fight from the back.

VETERAN goalkeeper Eddie Hickey emerged as the penalty shoot-out hero for Fairview Rangers as the Limerick outfit captured the Umbro FAI Junior Cup for a record eighth time yesterday.

SUNDAY’S All-Ireland final joust with Cork may be unfamiliar territory for the modern Kilkenny camogie generation, but Lizzie Lyng proves an exception to that trend having strong acquaintances with the Cork set-up.

STEPHEN KELLY has been let go from the Limerick senior football panel by team manager Mickey Ned O’Sullivan.

Bohemians 3 Waterford Crystal 1

Bohemians take a step into the unknown tonight when they face FAI Junior Cup winners Waterford Crystal.

LIMERICK club Carew Park have told the FAI they will not play the re-fixed Statoil FAI Junior Cup semi-final with Westport United.

TWO of the three FAI Carlsberg Senior Cup First Round ties which ended in draws last weekend will be replayed this weekend.

The FAI Senior Council have ruled that the Statoil FAI Junior Cup semi final between Carew Park and Westport United be re-fixed.

Clubs from Munster and Connacht will clash in the last four of the FAI Junior Cup after the semi-final draw was made last night.

THE Statoil FAI Junior Cup 2003/2004 season was officially launched last night with the first round of matches scheduled to kick off around the country this weekend.

SOMETIMES life can yoke the most disparate events together. In the week Wayne Rooney found a home at Manchester United for over £50,000 per week eagle-eyed readers may have noticed an intriguing advertisement in the Irish Examiner yesterday.

AT least two non-League sides are guaranteed a place in the last 16 of the Carlsberg FAI Cup after last night’s draw for the second round at Dublin’s Guinness Store.

THE 2004 FAI Carlsberg Cup kicks off this weekend with the 20 junior and intermediate sides all dreaming of cup glory next October.

Fairview Rangers Limerick 1 Portmarnock, Dublin 0

The third round draw for the FAI Intermediate Cup has thrown up some exciting ties, with the added bonus winners in this round reach the FAI Carlsberg Senior Cup competition.

SHAMROCK ROVERS could play their last three Premier Division games of the season in November at their new Tallaght stadium after top businessman Ben Dunne yesterday invested a staggering €2m in the Dublin club.

THE teenager stabbed to death at a house party in Limerick was a talented soccer player who just recently celebrated his 18th birthday.

MONAGHAN UNITED manager Bobby Browne yesterday issued a gentle warning to Cork City ahead of their FAI Carlsberg Cup tie.

Fairview Rangers will fly the flag for non-league football after their shock win over Dublin City at the Fairgreen grounds in Limerick this afternoon.

COBH RAMBLERS' Dave Hill has made a big impact in his first appointment as manager and they will take an unbeaten record into their cup match against Malahide United in Dublin.

MARTIN MURRAY, who led Dundalk to the FAI Carlsberg Cup title last season, welcomed their second round draw against Shamrock Rovers last night with the comment: "It is just like the cup final against Bohs, we are again the outsiders. That's how we like it."

The draw for the third round of the FAI Cup takes place this evening in Dublin.