In the past the Eircom National League has found itself in all kinds of controversies from player registration forms going amiss to ineligible players being fielded for all sorts of competitions.

Finbarr Flood has stepped down as caretaker chairman of Shelbourne.

THE vastly experienced Mick Scully will provide Cup specialists Bluebell United with strong leadership when they play Rockmount in the Carlsberg FAI Intermediate Cup final at Richmond Park on Sunday (3pm).

THE names represent a strange amalgam between a culture that is as old as the Blasket Islands themselves and a comparatively new fashion — Rattoo Rovers, Asdee Rovers, Lenamore Rovers, Tralee Dynamos and Killarney Celtic to name but a few.