Kildare president Seamus Aldridge is surprised, given Ned Quinn’s previous experience in Kilkenny, that the Central Competitions Control Committee (CCCC) chairman decided the county can’t host their All-Ireland SFC qualifier against Mayo in St Conleth’s Park on Saturday because of capacity issues.

Sky Sports say they have a contingency plan in place should the All-Ireland SFC qualifier double-header not take place in Croke Park this Saturday.

Update 6.12pm: One of the men was named locally as William Vaughan, 76, who was known as Charlie and owned the house, and the other man was John Paul Flood, 33.

A highly anticipated Cork County Board meeting last night allowed delegates to air grievances, but the only real development was the announcement of the composition of the committee to find the new county football manager.

Now that the unthinkable has happened and Meath have lost to Westmeath, is it time to revisit Martin McHugh’s much ridiculed explanation for the decline of Gaelic football in the county?

A college that the four Kildare crash victims had attended has said it is "devastated at the loss of four beautiful young girls."

League games at Croke Park could be a lucrative business for a debt-ridden county like Kildare.

Kildare star Dermot Earley will continue his return to inter-county action tonight in the low-key arena of the Leinster junior championship when the Lilywhites face Kilkenny in a quarter-final tie in St Conleth’s Park in Newbridge at 7.30pm.

OXEGEN came to a close last night after three days of top acts and overall pleasant weather at the music festival.

The fire that has been raging for 27 days at a landfill in Co Kildare has been extinguished today.

HILL 16 and its controversial new perimeter might have been all the talk last week but the Davin Stand end of Croke Park has been the epicentre of the summer’s drama and so it proved again yesterday.

Former Defence Forces Chief of Staff Dermot Earley was a mighty Irish legend who was loved and revered around the country, his funeral Mass heard today.

WITH Oxegen tickets going on sale yesterday, a look down the concert listings for the coming months shows we are set for a scorching hot summer of rock and roll.

RECOVERING from Saturday’s torrential rains, festival goers’ spirits were lifted yesterday as blue skies and sun once again returned to Punchestown. For a while anyway.

SNOOKER wild man, Hurricane Higgins has been “blackballed” by the organisers of a major exhibition charity match in Limerick over his behaviour at a tournament in Kildare last week.

Club senior hurling titles in Kilkenny, Clare, Meath, Kildare, Mayo, Wicklow and London were up for grabs this afternoon, with Ballyhale Shamrocks amongst those tasting victory as they captured their third successive Kilkenny crown.

Veteran Kildare defender Glenn Ryan is facing a two month lay-off from inter county football after undergoing surgery on his broken jaw.

THE chairman of Croke Park’s GAC, Tony O’Keeffe, has pledged to act on a bizarre rules anomaly which again surfaced in last Saturday’s All-Ireland qualifier between Roscommon and Kildare.

Thirty thousand people have descended on Creamfields for the annual dance festival.

Two adults and a child are recovering in hospital in Naas, Co Kildare, today after a house fire in Kildare town last night.