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.”

CIT 0-17 DCU 1-6: CIT manager Pat Mulcahy praised Tipperary star John O’Dwyer’s big-game character after inspiring his team to an opening-day Fitzgibbon Cup success. The All Star forward shot four important points in the final quarter, and 0-8 in total, to settle a tie that hung in the balance.

A 32-year-old Derry club GAA player tragically passed away during a training session last night.

Peter Creedon is expected to extend his reign as Tipperary football manager into 2015.

The heartbroken father of a 14-year-old Liverpool fan who died suddenly while playing football told his requiem Mass that he will “never walk alone”.

St Aidan’s Community College, Cork claimed the Umbro FAI Schools Dr Tony O’Neill Boys’ Cup in dramatic fashion yesterday at Tallaght Stadium through Anthony McAlevey’s late winner.

Education Correspondent Niall Murray gets a snapshot of how the budget might be considered in a typical school staffroom and, while the school and the characters are fictional, the figures are very, very real

MORE than 27,000 transition year students across the country will be able to study a new road safety programme from next September as part of the Government’s Road Safety Strategy.

IN A Wexford village silenced by the death of a family, it was the innocent classmates of murdered Mark and Julie Flood who tried to articulate the enormity of emotions involved.

Two young children died in a fire, apparently started by their father after he murdered their mother, it emerged tonight.

IT’S not every day you get to meet a robot — unless you’re a time traveller like Dr Who.

THE curtain falls today on the first half of colleges activity for the season, with some finals down for decision.

THOMAS LEE (Oughterard) and Eric Donovan (St Michael’s, Athy), members of the Irish team for the multi-nations tournament in Cork, will be in action at the national under-21 boxing championships finals at the National Stadium tonight, while a third member of the squad, Conor Ahern (Baldoyle), gets a walkover in the light flyweight division.

MORE than 1,000 secondary school students took to the streets yesterday in a series of countrywide school walkouts against war in Iraq.