GAA chiefs will appear before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Transport and Communications today to explain the reasoning behind awarding Sky Sports exclusive rights to some gaelic games for the next three years.

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A meeting to discuss how public transport connections and services between communities across the country can be sustained and enhanced will take place today.

Ireland’s ability to compete on the international sporting stage will be “destroyed” if the Government proceeds with plans to ban alcohol companies from sponsoring major sporting events.

The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Transport and Communications has agreed to contact the Department of Transport to increase funding to maintain regional and local roads.

I WAS sitting on a Bus Éireann bus at the far western fringes of the island one rainy summer’s night when I woman got on. She sat at the front of the bus, chatting to the driver and to the only other customer on the bus.