Sport Ireland has dedicated over €10m in high-performance funding to this year’s Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, its highest ever support at this level.

Here is a selection of people who have begun interesting new roles with companies in Ireland.

Never mind the Republic of Ireland’s loss in Cologne, or Munster’s woeful experience in Edinburgh, Irish sport’s most damaging defeat is about to be recorded today, and in Leinster House, of all places.

JOHN TREACY has warned high-performance programmes will have to be dismantled and jobs lost if the current government continues the trend of its predecessors by shaving the budget for sport.

The Irish Sports Council has today announced details of its funding package for 2011.