Munster secretary Simon Moroney has echoed concerns that hurling will lose out its share of “the marketplace” as a result of new championship changes announced last weekend.

Sepp Blatter has insisted he was not the high-ranking FIFA official who authorised a 10million US dollar payment to the disgraced Jack Warner saying: “Definitely that’s not me.”

This week will offer the US Congress its best chance to obtain answers about president Barack Obama’s new counter-terror strategy in the Middle East.

India’s new government introduced a reform-minded budget today, focusing on promoting manufacturing and infrastructure and expanding the tax base.

Barack Obama and US political leaders believe the president does not need Congress’ permission to take certain measures to quell the al Qaida-inspired uprising sweeping through Iraq, the Senate’s top Republican and others have said.

A number of small changes will be made to the public clock/hooter for tomorrow’s Fitzgibbon Cup semi-finals in Belfast.

A concern about the ‘Anthony Nash motion’ failing to receive the necessary two-thirds majority support was the reason it was removed from the Clár of Congress on Friday.

Central Council is likely to defer the new age rule on inter-county minor teams until next year, GAA director general Páraic Duffy has revealed.

Gaelic Players Association chief Dessie Farrell says plans to overhaul the football Championship aren’t ‘radical’ enough and are rooted in a fear of being binned by conservative officials.

A commuter train that derailed in New York, killing four passengers, was travelling at 82mph as it entered a 30mph curve, a US government investigator has said.

Republicans and Democrats have hit an impasse in the US senate over spending in their last-ditch struggle to avoid a debt default in just four days and end a partial government shutdown that enters its third week.

US Senate leaders have taken the helm in the search for a deal to end the partial government shutdown and avert a federal default.

The focus of efforts to end the government shutdown and prevent a US default has shifted to the Senate, where leaders were in talks aimed at resolving the twin stalemates.

A US Senate resolution authorising President Barack Obama to use military force against Syria would bar American ground troops fro combat operations and set a deadline for any action.

A Syrian state-run newspaper says that President Barack Obama’s decision to seek congressional approval before taking military action against Syria marks “the start of the historical American retreat”.

A French presidential official has said that France's president, Francois Hollande, has agreed to act with the US on Syria.

President Barack Obama has urged US lawmakers to remember the children gunned down in America and not get “squishy” in the face of powerful forces up against gun control legislation, as supporters struggle to win over moderate Democrats before a Senate vote expected next month.

As Eugene McGee wiped away a tear after Saturday’s black card vote, it all became clear: labour of love, as it was for him, it still had taken its toll on the Football Review Committee (FRC) chairman.

GAA director general Páraic Duffy admits the association face a major challenge to prepare for the introduction of the black card in 2014 — but remains convinced it will be for the betterment of Gaelic football.

The IRFU last night welcomed the GAA’s decision to make stadiums available to their potential Rugby World Cup bid in Ireland in either 2023 or 2027.

Barack Obama announced plans to withdraw more troops from Afghanistan and take steps to boost the fragile US economy as he delivered a closely-watched State of the Union address today, laying out his priorities for the year ahead and his newly-begun second term in office.

President Barack Obama will reveal the details of how the US will address gun violence on Wednesday, the White House has said.

The top US gun lobby today rejected Obama administration proposals to reduce gun violence, saying it expects to have enough support in Congress to fend off a ban on assault weapons.

Mouthguards, medical kits and injury databases.

Argentina’s takeover of its formerly state-owned energy company from Spanish shareholders won easy approval from legislators.

Steven Spielberg gives us a crowd pleaser in The Adventures of Tintin and a tear-jerker with War Horse. Is it too much for one man? David Ansen reports

Stocks have plunged in the US after Congress’ latest bid to resolve the federal budget gridlock appeared to fail.

In an exclusive questions and answers interview the Chairman of the Central Competitions Control Committee, Seamus Woods, discusses his group’s workings with our GAA correspondent John Fogarty

The future of a US nuclear aircraft carrier’s captain was in the balance today over a series of lewd videos he once made to entertain his crew.

THE US military’s top uniformed officer yesterday made an impassioned plea for allowing gays to serve openly in uniform, telling a Senate panel it was a matter of integrity and that it is wrong to force people to “lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens”.

THE US has for the first time outlined a dual path toward cutting greenhouse gases.

The Government tonight vowed to press ahead with €1.3bn public sector pay cuts after talks with unions on alternatives dramatically collapsed.

One of the country’s largest trade unions is to ballot its public sector members for strike action over proposed pay and spending cuts.

THE Obama administration is looking at creating a courtroom-within-a-prison complex in the US to house suspected terrorists, combining military and civilian detention facilities at a single maximum-security prison.

The ruling Congress party swept to a resounding victory today in India’s mammoth national elections, defying expectations as it brushed aside the Hindu nationalist opposition and a legion of ambitious smaller parties.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has declared victory in India’s national elections, saying voters have given the Congress party-led coalition a “massive mandate”.

The governing Congress party will win India’s month-long elections and form the next government, media reports said today.

Barack Obama has urged his supporters to work “like our future depends on it” as the race for the White House focused on a few crucial battleground states at the start of its final week today.