Introducing PE as a Leaving Certificate exam subject this year will have “no effect” on schoolchildren’s fitness levels because it will only attract those who are good at it.

Donnchadh Walsh has confirmed he will return to the Kerry set-up for the latter stages of their Division 1 campaign.

The Government is drawing up action plans and policies to encourage more physical activity in schools but Brendan O’Malley tells Caroline O’Doherty it is only rhetoric without action and a lot more needs to be done to counteract the negative perceptions of PE

Last year’s young hurler of the year. Tadhg de Búrca, is one of 10 stellar talents honoured in the annual sports awards, to be presented tonight by University College, Cork.

We are doing something wrong in this country as we are on course to be the fattest nation in Europe in 15 years. But what is it asks Andrea Mara

 

There is one serious flaw with the defensive-based running game which has been slavishly adopted by virtually every team in the country.

Schools need to employ different strategies to get more girls involved in physical education classes, writes Helen O’Callaghan.

Primary school principals are calling for two hours of PE classes per week to fight childhood obesity.

In June 2007, then Ireland U21 manager Don Givens hired a little known 35-year-old coach, whose previous experience was in the youth academies at Chelsea and Fulham.

UCC captain Paul Geaney says the semi-final win over Maynooth with only 13 men provided the belief to claim the scalp of Sigerson Cup favourites UUJ in Saturday’s decider.

Arlene Harris looks at how the drive to get fit and ripped is encouraging young men to join Justin Bieber and Niall Horan in regular gym trips.

While it was a year ultimately ending in defeat by Cork at the All-Ireland semi-final stage, 2013 was one of progress for Kerry ladies footballers.

A man wanted for an alleged £1.5m swindle in South Africa has been unmasked as a fugitive by a former pupil at a British school where he taught.

The Irish Stock Exchange contributed €310m to the €3bn initial public offering (IPO) surge across the EU in the third quarter of this year.

The OECD is working to overhaul structures which big multinationals, including many US tech giants, use to shield tens of billions of dollars of income from taxes, writes Tom Bergin.

As a rule, I don’t believe in harbouring regrets, but it’s a damned hard rule to follow.

The world is a cruel place.

A school team once failed to control their snorts of laughter when a PE teacher informed them that the secret to success in football could be boiled down to one word: “Hard work.”

Ratoath GAA club will host an international hurling training camp for teams from Denmark, Norway, France and England.

THE latest move by Greencore Group to mount a counter-bid for Northern Foods has been criticised by two leading Irish stockbrokers as bad for the company’s shareholders.

'X Factor' reject Wagner could face an investigation over claims he falsely claimed incapacity benefit, Britain's Work and Pensions Secretary said today.

Gareth Bale is relaxed about his status as football’s fastest-rising star – and admits his previous hard times played a vital part in making him the player he has become.

SPORTSMEN and women who might have been looking upon Britain’s strategic spending review as a bellwether for the much-dreaded Irish Budget on December 7 have 42 sleepless nights left.

'X Factor' detractors are hoping to scupper the hit ITV show with a campaign to get eccentric singer Wagner Carrilho to win.

The Labour Party wants PE to be a Leaving Cert subject.

THE Department of Education must immediately introduce strict new guidelines to protect physical education (PE) teachers who have to enter changing rooms with students from “accusations of inappropriate behaviour”.

IT IS a little after 10pm on Wednesday night when Sligo captain Charlie – always Charles to his mum – Harrison walks through the doors of the Westwood House Hotel on the outskirts of Galway city.

A REFURBISHED 147-pupil national school at Faha, outside Killarney, was officially opened yesterday by Ceann Comhairle John O’Donoghue.

THE Labour Party yesterday promised to make physical education a Leaving Certificate subject carrying third-level points.

THE State’s defence of a High Court case taken by the parents of an autistic boy has been described as immoral by a teachers’ union leader.

The Green Party today launched a new initiative aimed at enhancing children's involvement in physical activity at schools.

Elite amateur sports people should be awarded tax-free grants and Physical Education (PE) should be made a points subject in the Leaving Certificate, the Labour party claimed today.

St Gall's manager John Rafferty has won the Tennent's/Ulster GAA Writers' Merit Award for November having masterminded the Antrim side's AIB Ulster Club football title win.

A LACK of indoor facilities means half of all primary schools can't teach physical education in bad weather, a survey has found.

Three in four primary schools in Ireland don’t have a sports hall for PE, it was claimed today.

IRISHMAN Pat McQuaid is confident any inquiry into his relationship with the International Cycling Union (UCI) will clear all parties of wrong-doing.

MOST schools do not have facilities to provide a physical education (PE) programme recommended by the Government to tackle obesity among young people, teachers warned last night.

The Irish National Teachers Organisation has called on the Government to provide schools with proper resources for physical education.

SPECIAL Olympics boss Mary Davis let out a sign of relief and whoop of delight simultaneously at the close of Saturday night’s opening ceremony as she realised a dream eight years in the making had finally come to life.

Jeffrey Archer has been transferred to an open prison in rural Lincolnshire.