Lee Corso didn’t make the journey to Dublin this time but the veteran ESPN analyst could hardly contain himself on TV this week when he was asked for his memories of the original ‘Emerald Isle Classic’, played in a very different Lansdowne Road, back in 1988, writes Brendan O’Brien of the Irish Examiner.

Shane Ryan finished third in his 50m freestyle heat at the Rio Aquatic Centre last night, ending Ireland’s interest in the swimming pool at the Olympic Games.

The Aviva Stadium is to host another American Football game in 2016 — four years after it last welcomed gridiron teams to Dublin.

Croke Park Stadium Director Peter McKenna has revealed his ambition to make Croke Park the home of American college football despite the failure to secure a profit from last August’s ‘Croke Park Classic’ — but the dream of bringing the NFL to Jones Road has faded.

GAA director general Páraic Duffy has hit out at the "corporate GAA" characterisation of the organisation.

If the last week has shown us anything — and we say this without any intended pun regarding the coming All-Ireland hurling final between Kilkenny and Tipperary — it is that there is more than one way to skin a cat when it comes to the tricky business of managing a team.

Ok so the first skydiver on Saturday missed but this guy nailed it.

An amazing video of last Saturday’s parachute jump into Croke Park from the jumper’s point of view has been posted online.

The GAA must have known they were making themselves hostages to fortune when they dubbed their American football showcase as the ‘Croke Park Classic’, but Penn State and the University of Central Florida obliged with a game that lived up to its billing.

Barely an hour had passed since Sam Ficken kicked the game-winning field goal for Penn State against the University of Central Florida on Saturday, but Croke Park and everyone inside and around the stadium were already moving on.

Hapless parachutist takes match ball on whistle-stop tour of Drumcondra.

“Hurling? It’s like baseball with a goalie”.

20,000 American visitors are in Dublin this weekend for a major football game.

Croke Park stadium director Peter McKenna says attracting American football, including NFL games, to the stadium is part of a long-term strategy designed to help the GAA to maintain its financial independence.

The American Football College teams contesting this weekend's Croke Park Classic have been training at their team bases ahead of their meeting at GAA HQ this weekend.

GAA chiefs are predicting a sell-out for Saturday’s All-Ireland SFC semi-final between Mayo and Kerry at Limerick’s Gaelic Grounds.

The outrage bus doesn’t discriminate. It takes all comers.

The Sunday Game will be on air from Limerick from 4.40pm for the Kerry v Mayo replay on Saturday.

Mayo’s request for next Saturday’s All-Ireland semi-final replay with Kerry in Limerick to be postponed and held in Croke Park seven days later is unlikely to be entertained by the GAA.

With just over three weeks to the Croke Park Classic, a programme of events around the American College football game between Penn State and the University of Central Florida (UCF) has been announced.

Croke Park chief Peter McKenna said the Garth Brooks concert cancellations amounted to a "complete fiasco" that cost the GAA €5m.

Charlize Theron said Googling her name would make her ‘feel raped’. Other celebs detest their online experiences, Rita de Brun writes.

John Ri Manhattan College, a modestly-sized third level institution in the Bronx with a modestly-ranked athletics department, resonates quite deeply with the GAA in New York.

A 7.3% increase in the number of tourists was recorded in the first three months of this year compared to the same period last year.

Irish tourism has enjoyed a bumper year with record numbers of visitors from most countries with the exception of Britain.

Next August’s College Football Croke Park Classic will bring Bandon’s Sean Galvin home. John Riordan spoke to the University of Florida kicker ahead of today’s clash at Penn State. Getting to one day play in Croke Park was the plan all along for Sean Galvin.

Getting to one day play in Croke Park was the plan all along for Sean Galvin.

Páraic Duffy loves American sport.

Thousands of American football fans are expected in Dublin next year for the opening game in the college football season.

Al Pacino is set to reunite with Brian De Palma on 'Happy Valley'.

Snack favourites including KP Nuts, McCoy’s crisps and Hula Hoops were sold to a German firm today in a deal thought to be worth more than £500m (€615.9m).

No one is quite sure why they’re called the Fighting Irish, but it seems like everyone has an explanation.

A young man who testified against a former college American football coach sued Penn State University, blaming it for how its top officials dealt with complaints that Jerry Sandusky behaved inappropriately with boys.

An American college at the centre of a child sex abuse scandal has been fined $60m (just under €50m).

An American college at the centre of a child sex abuse scandal has been fined $60m (€49.35m).

WHEN Bob Lipsyte was a kid in New York, he went to a total of two professional baseball games.

FORMER Penn State coach Joe Paterno admitted he wished he did more after hearing accusations former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky had been caught acting inappropriately with a young boy in 2002.

CELEBRITIES may want to resist the urge to send a stream of consciousness on Twitter in the New Year after so many of them tweeted their way into trouble on everything from boxer briefs to breast-feeding in 2011.

IT’S time to bury the memory of the 2011 villains. The Sepp Blatters and the Joe Paternos who use and abuse sport to massage their own medieval egos.

THE quarterback of Penn State was taken to hospital after a locker room fight with a teammate, said the university, which is struggling to restore its image from a child sex abuse scandal.

More than four years after the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, the horrors of that day on the Virginia Tech campus are about to be relived in court.

A YEAR ago last weekend, tremors of excitement reverberated through America’s midwest.

Hollywood star Ashton Kutcher has apologised after tweeting several uninformed messages about an alleged child sex abuse scandal at a US university.