The GAA’s Central Competition Controls Committee (CCCC) met yesterday to discuss referee Francis Flynn’s report from last Sunday’s controversial All-Ireland JFC semi-final between Derrytresk and Dromid Pearses.

TALKS are continuing between management and staff at a weekly newspaper in Co Cork amid a second phase of rationalisation which is likely to include cuts to employees’ wages.

Reporters at the Leinster Leader, Limerick Leader, the Leinster Express, the Offaly Express and the Clonmel Nationalist, are to stage a one-day work stoppage next Tuesday.

REPORTERS at some of the country’s top provincial newspapers are to strike next Tuesday over management plans to use a new production system to get rid of a number of sub-editors.

Former Galway forward Paul Clancy has come on board as a selector for the Laois senior footballers, linking up with recently-appointed manager Justin McNulty.

LAOIS senior football manager Sean Dempsey has slammed claims his squad’s warm weather training camp in the Algarve is a ‘holiday’ for the players.

AN infusion of fresh blood is the key to Portlaoise’s progression to another Leinster final.

AS a Laois man employed in Kildare for the past four years, Willie Brennan should have driven to work last Monday week licking his lips at the prospect of delivering an unmerciful slagging to his many co-workers of a Lilywhite persuasion.

Laois midfielder Padraig Clancy is expected to miss tomorrow night's Leinster SFC quarter-final clash with Wicklow - despite being included in the midlanders' starting line-up.

REGIONAL newspaper publisher Johnston Press is seeking more than 70 redundancies among its 430 staff in Ireland.

THE Competition Authority has sought further information from Johnston Press before it approves the €138 million takeover of the Leinster Leader group.

JOHNSTON PRESS, the Scottish newspaper group, has splashed out more than €240 million to become the largest regional publisher in Ireland with the takeover of the Leinster Leader Group and Northern Ireland’s Local Press company.

THE Leinster Leader group of newspapers is on the market with a price tag of more than €100 million.

PRE-TAX profits at the company that runs the Limerick and Leinster Leader newspapers fell by more than half, accounts just filed at the companies office show.

Dublin's Leinster Council delegate Jim Roche has refused to accept the explanation for the controversial ad taken out by the provincial council in the Leinster Express last Sunday.

THE Leinster Leader has beaten off Irish Independent owners, Independent News and Media to secure the purchase of the Limerick Leader for close to €23 million.