Former Mayo star Conor Mortimer believes that the player-generated attempt to remove the county’s joint senior football team managers Pat Holmes and Noel Connelly has been brewing for some time.

Ladies Gaelic Football Association chief executive Helen O’Rourke has described the furore surrounding Saturday’s Tesco Division 4 League final between Limerick and Offaly, when both teams were denied access to the Parnell Park dressing rooms, as a “storm in a teacup.”

IN Ireland there are particular circumstances feeding the recurring frenzies of first using nuns as guardians of female sexuality, and then turning on them for doing just that.

Paul Bealin is set to make his return to inter-county management with the Westmeath senior footballers, taking over from the Lakesiders' outgoing boss Pat Flanagan.

DUBLIN GAA club Parnell’s has received the green light for a massive €30m development in Coolock village.

Stand in Dublin boss Dave Billings has made two changes to his side ahead of Sunday's O'Byrne Cup semi-final tie against Kildare in Portmarnock.

TOMORROW is Ivy Day at Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin – the 111th commemoration of the death of Charles Stewart Parnell – ‘the uncrowned king of Ireland.’ At noon a wreath will be laid on his grave.