Congress comes but once a year and when it does, it brings good cheer. Really? Perhaps in days gone by, this was the case. Nowadays, it is perhaps less colourful and more serious, but it has evolved and changed for the better.

Páirc Uí Chaoimh GAA stadium in Cork will have a full house of 45,000 for the Liam Miller benefit soccer match on September 25. The fixture is now sold out.

GAA chiefs and the committee organising the Liam Miller tribute game yesterday held an ‘open and constructive meeting’ yet the controversy over the venue for the match rumbles on.

The Irish women's golf team travels to England this weekend to play in the Ladies Home Internationals at Frilford Heath on September 13-15.

Gerard Butler’s Almnadia came good last Monday when the three-year-old filly came fast and late to deny Mountsorrel by a neck in a selling handicap - and she can repeat the trick at Musselburgh tomorrow.