HIS county may have won six of the last seven Leinster SFC titles but Pat Gilroy believes that the provincial championships have had their day and should be replaced by a more equitable system.

HIS presidential campaign in turmoil, Republican favourite Herman Cain refused to say last night whether he will ask his former employer — the National Restaurant Association — to terminate confidentiality restrictions on women who accused him of sexual harassment in the 1990s while he was head of the trade group.

HIS last involvement with his country was warming the bench in the Stade de France as Ireland crashed out of the World Cup on an infamous night last November but now Stephen Hunt is on the way back after starting a match for the first time in eight months.

BY HIS own admission, Andy Keogh was “rotting away” on the bench at Wolves but the Dubliner is hoping his temporary switch to Cardiff City can reboot a career that had stalled at club and international levels.

HIS wealth was estimated at a staggering €55 million in 2008, but yesterday former Anglo chairman and bankrupt Sean FitzPatrick told the High Court he now has an income of just €188 a month.

HIS team had just taken care of Cork with consummate ease to reach yet another All-Ireland final but Kilkenny manager Brian Cody was as usual a model of serenity after yesterday’s action in Croke Park.

HIS team produced a brave and defiant display to properly test warm favourites Waterford, but the failure to ultimately garner the spoils left Clare boss Ger O’Loughlin deeply disappointed in Thurles yesterday afternoon.

Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) has named the Irish squad for the European Eventing Championships in Fontainebleau, France.

HIS head insists he doesn’t have a hope of featuring against Dublin but his heart tells Kieran Donaghy that he will answer the call if Jack O’Connor turns to him with five minutes to go.

KENNY EGAN’S silver medal and bronze medals for Paddy Barnes and Darren Sutherland earned boxing top billing in the Olympic Review.

IN HIS letter (November 17), Con Hayes argues that a full human person is not present until long after the early embryo stage in human development and it is therefore ethically permissible to kill the human embryo to further biomedical research.

IN HIS letter (June 16), John Jackson says ‘afforestation’ in Ireland needs a massive boost and the “barriers (to) afforestation which have been erected on very dubious scientific grounds” need to be examined.

Horse Sport Ireland has today informed the Olympic Council of Ireland and the FEI that they intend to send a three day eventing team (five riders) to the Olympic Games in Hong Kong this August.

HIS team hasn’t kicked a ball yet, but Ireland’s new soccer manager has already been immortalised in song.

GREEN GLENS owner Noel C Duggan, the organiser of what is arguably Ireland’s biggest show jumping event, yesterday confirmed that he is to run independently of the Show Jumping Association of Ireland (SJAI).

HAEMOPHILIACS have accused the Government of betraying them in not pursuing the US pharmaceutical firms that supplied the State with contaminated blood products.

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AN MRSA victim advocacy group has questioned the methods being used by the Hospital Infection Society (HIS) to measure MRSA levels in the first extensive study of hospital infection in this country.

Marine wildlife is being destroyed because fishermen continue to flout European regulations banning driftnets, according to a report being presented to the European Commission today.

HIS appearance in the Lions tour may have been brief, by rugby star Brian O’Driscoll was a no-show in Dublin yesterday leaving dozens of fans disappointed.

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) is planning to spend up to €400 million on an IT system that former Health Minister Micheál Martin ordered stopped because he feared costs would spiral out of control.

THE introduction of another €170 million computer system, being developed by the Health Service Executive, is to be put on hold following the PPARS payroll fiasco.

HIS team may have won but Mickey Harte looked like he’d aged 20 years as he made his way to the Kerry dressing room to commiserate with the beaten finalists.

THIS is a huge week for golf in Ireland and Britain with at least four major tournaments down for decision.

Haemophilia patients who received certain blood products in Irish hospitals before 1992 were today urged to come forward to be tested for HIV or Hepatitis C.

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HIS nomination for the presidency has not even been confirmed, but Green Party TD Eamon Ryan’s tentative bid for the Áras may have already gone up in smoke after he admitted to having used cannabis.

IN HIS letter (Irish Examiner, August 9) Bill Perdue accuses the Israelis of ’mindlessly’ killing Palestinians. The Palestinians have been relentlessly killing Israelis and will continue to do so until either of the following occurs:

The Irish Haemophilia Society is reportedly furious at the Government’s failure to honour commitments made in the wake of the Lindsay Tribunal.

HIS captaincy tenure may be just a short one, but Ken McGrath has yet to skipper a losing Waterford senior hurling team.

Even before he made his first-team debut for West Ham, Joe Cole was dubbed as the player who had it all.

If there was one consolation for England after being drawn with favourites Argentina in the ‘Group of Death’, it came with the knowledge they will have the inside track on their South American opponents.