Offaly’s Niall McNamee has spoken of his embarrassment at seeing Tyrone’s state-of-the-art centre of excellence in Garvaghey and claimed more could be done by his own county board to facilitate their county teams.

JOHN DELANEY says the FAI will learn from the ticketing problems which caused the kick-off in the first international at the Aviva Stadium to be delayed for nearly 15 minutes.

An Offaly man who forced a young woman to have sex with him three times a week by threatening her with sanctions from the IRA has been jailed for nine years by Mr Justice Paul Carney.