Cork will “test Dublin’s pulse” this week, insists former Kerry manager Éamonn Fitzmaurice, who suspects Jim Gavin’s side aren’t moving as well as their manager would like in the quest for a fifth All-Ireland title in a row.

All six of this weekend's hurling and football quarter-final games will be broadcast live on TV, despite some high-profile fixture clashes.

It sounded like a parting shot as Kevin Walsh hit out at those who have depicted his tactics as ‘negative’.

Mattie Kenny? Not happy. Boy, was he not happy.

The Kerry juniors will seldom have easier games than their 3-20 to 0-7 victory over Scotland in Saturday’s All-Ireland semi-final.

Former All-Ireland winners John Cleary and Tony Davis believe Cork have nothing to lose heading into this year’s Super 8s on the back of a comprehensive victory over Laois.

James Horan believes Kerry won’t care about his remark that his Mayo team should have beaten them by 12 points in March’s Division 1 final.

Mayo arrested a seven-game losing run against their neighbours with this wire-to-wire victory that sees them face Kerry in Killarney in their opening Super 8 game tomorrow week.

Tracey Leonard fired goals in each half as Galway claimed their third TG4 Connacht Ladies SFC title in a row, but they needed to fend off a strong Mayo comeback to claim the win in the first Connacht final staged in Munster.

An Ghaeltacht from Kerry are celebrating winning Comórtas Peile na Gaeltachta on home soil after an epic final against Kilcar of Donegal yesterday.

This collaboration between the Abbey and the Complex, an arts venue in Dublin’s Smithfield, began when Vanessa Fielding, of the Complex, initiated the Browbeating Project, in which 100 women from drug-blighted inner-city communities came to share their experiences.

Killeen Farmhouse, Co Galway, was the big Irish winner at the 2018 British Cheese Awards which took place at the Royal Bath and West Show in Somerset, England.

A three-year-old boy with a catastrophic form of epilepsy, who was the first person in Ireland to be legally allowed used cannabis for medicinal purposes, has been asked to leave his preschool because of concerns by staff in relation to the treatment of his condition.

The Fleming family of Downpatrick maintained their grip on the dairy interbreed title at the Balmoral Show in Belfast, winning it for the third consecutive year with an animal from their well-known Potterswalls Jerseys herd.

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Peter Dowdall sings the praises of Hostas, a powerful stimulant to our happy memories of childhood.

On Sunday, it will be 150 years since the first Clonmel Horse Show was held in 1865 and since then, it has survived economic turmoil, a civil war, two world wars, says historian Turtle Bunbury.

Cobh Flower and Horticulture Club holds its next meeting in Cobh Community Centre on Monday 2nd March at 8pm. 

Pop superstar Kylie Minogue is to headline a major outdoor show in London’s Hyde Park this summer.

A FLEET of 47 leggy beauties (though only eight are officially ordained Angels) recently landed in London for the Victoria’s Secret fashion show, ready to strut their stuff while pop stars Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande performed.

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WHEN Sharon Osbourne told Colin Farrell on the Graham Norton Show that vaginal tightening was the most excruciatingly painful cosmetic procedure she ever had, fifty per cent of viewers flinched — and that was just the men.

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Politicians in the North have not given up on building a shared future, Stormont’s First Minister vowed.

The weather wasn’t quite stable but it took more than the threat of biblical-style floods to deter Ireland’s equestrian community who braved tumultuous downpours to attend the opening day of the 139th Dublin Horse Show at the RDS in Ballsbridge.

Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney (and his daughter Beth) were on hand to congratulate Pat and Derek Frawley, from Croagh, Rathkeale, Co Limerick, and their cow handler Stephen McLoughlin, when they won the prestigious Maverick Golden Vale Cup, presented by Kerry Agri Business at Charleville Agricultural Show last weekend.

GARDEN design guru Diarmuid Gavin is digging his heels in after being refused a meeting with Cork’s city councillors to discuss the controversy over his €2.3 million Irish Sky Garden.

WILLIE ‘BIG BANG’ CASEY’S return to competitive boxing has been put on hold after a problem with the venue emerged yesterday.

Henry Cecil hopes Jacqueline Quest can set the record straight in the Coronation Stakes after her crushing relegation into second place in the 1000 Guineas.

A fashion designer who created the costumes for 'Riverdance the Show' has claimed before the High Court that he has been "airbrushed out of the history" of the world famous dance and musical sensation.

Susan Boyle has boiled over as the pressures of her new-found fame got the better of her, her spokesman said today.

CLARE exhibitor Tom Casey had an early showing season double at Bandon last Sunday, where he won the young horse and three-year-old horse championships.

WHO could have imagined a month or so ago that John Patrick Daly, of all people, might ride to the rescue of this week’s 3 Irish Open at Baltray, Co Louth?

HANKIES at the ready, everybody.

Rolls-Royce's ambitions in Russia were boosted today after national carrier Aeroflot placed its first ever order for the company's Trent engines.

Fuel efficiency through new technology and hybrid vehicles will be a top theme at this year’s Geneva Motor Show.

Thousands of people are expected to flock to the Dublin Horse Show from today to view some of the best of Ireland’s horses in action.

JESSICA KURTEN’S decision to compete in Russia at the weekend and miss this week’s Dublin Horse Show paid rich dividends as she netted $45,000 in prize money.

HUNDREDS of protesters are expected to gather outside the Dáil today as public outrage intensifies over the child rape debacle.

Commonwealth heavyweight champion Danny Williams has been added to the King’s Hall show in Belfast on Saturday night following the withdrawal of WBO featherweight title holder Scott Harrison.