SEMPLE STADIUM may host one of this year’s All-Ireland senior hurling semi-finals if Thurles Town Council is successful in a plea to the GAA as part of the town’s celebrations at being the European Town of Sport for 2012.

THE chairman of the Dáil Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Bernard Allen, has revealed the long-running legal action concerning the National Aquatic Centre is to be investigated.

THE Department of Sport has finally admitted defeat in a seven-year legal battle to claim €10.5 million worth of VAT from the former operators of the National Aquatic Centre.