Dublin hero Michael Darragh Macauley left the field with a suspected concussion as Ballyboden St Enda's put their bodies on the line to secure a fourth county SFC title.

Thomas Davis and Ballyboden St Enda’s will contest this year’s Dublin Senior Football Championship final, after semi-final wins over Kilmacud Crokes and St Jude’s, respectively, at Parnell Park on Saturday evening.

Former All-Ireland winning Cuala captain Paul Schutte has admitted he was advised to quit hurling by medics last year but opted not to.

Colm Basquel was at the Dunboyne Castle Hotel last Thursday evening for the launch of the Sean Cox charity football game, using his status as a Dublin football star to help promote the event.

Ballyboden St Enda’s (Dublin) 2-25 Clonkill (Westmeath) 2-19

Veteran Ballyboden St Enda’s star Conal Keaney has claimed that even some of their own club members wondered if the team was over the hill.

Goals in either half from Conor McCormack and Paul Ryan proved pivotal as Ballyboden St Enda’s regained the Dublin senior hurling crown when narrowly overcoming Kilmacud Crokes in their final replay at Parnell Park yesterday afternoon.

St Jude’s manager Padraic Monaghan pinpointed a powerful second-quarter showing as a crucial factor in his side’s stunning success over St Vincent’s in the Dublin SFC at Parnell Park yesterday.

The UK’s accounting watchdog has fined audit firm PwC a record £5.1m (€5.6m) and given it a severe reprimand after it admitted misconduct when auditing collapsed accounting firm RSM Tenon.

It’s three years last month that Greg Kennedy was convinced by Mattie Kenny to join him on his ticket with Cuala as coach and selector.

Asked to consider the lowest point of his year-long rehabilitation from a cruciate knee-ligament injury, Eoghan O’Gara, the big Dublin forward, didn’t have to thumb too far through his mental files.

Ballyboden St Endas were made to bend low to secure a first All-Ireland final spot that looked beyond them for so much of the second half of normal time.

“Strike while the iron’s hot or forever regret it,” is the battle cry from Ballyboden St Endas’ Michael Darragh Macauley ahead of tomorrow’s All-Ireland club semi-final.

Ballyboden St Enda’s 2-9 Portlaoise 1-11: Not so much a game won as one frittered away.

Dublin chairman Sean Shanley says Armagh manager Kieran McGeeney’s claim that they are more physical than northern teams is laughable.

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Second-half goals from Darren O’Reilly and Ryan Basquel helped secure a 2-13 to 1-11 win for Ballyboden St Enda’s over St Brigid’s in Saturday’s Dublin SFC quarter-final at Parnell Park.

Ballyboden St Enda’s advanced to the to the Dublin SFC quarter-finals following a controversial win over Kilmacud Crokes on Saturday.

They’ll be coming down from an incredible high but Anthony Daly has no doubt his Dublin players will be mentally and physically right for Sunday’s Leinster final against Galway.

COOLDERRY had an impressive six points win over Ballyboden St Enda’s in this entertaining Leinster Club SHC semi-final at Parnell Park yesterday.

BALLYBODEN ST ENDA’S and O’Toole’s will contest this year’s Dublin SHC final following semi-final wins over Lucan Sarsfields and St Brigid’s respectively at Parnell Park last night.

ANTHONY DALY has admitted Dublin’s hurlers will lose a considerable advantage by the decision to switch their forthcoming Division One home games against Tipperary and Kilkenny from Parnell Park to Croke Park.

BOSS Liam Hogan toasted absent friend Stephen Perkins as Ballyboden St Enda’s claimed an historic fourth Dublin SHC title on the trot.

FEW people would be more deserving of a provincial club title this winter as Clara native and senior football manager Pat Flanagan.

Dublin SHC Final: Ballyboden St. Enda’s 1-16 Craobh Chiarain 0-12

AFTER a fortnight of energy sapping action, Ballyboden St Enda’s put their fatigue to one side to claim a remarkable Dublin SFC title at Parnell Park.

Ballyboden St. Enda's 2-12 St. Jude’s 1-13

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France’s Gwladys Nocera claimed a two-shot victory at the Scottish Open today - her sixth women’s European Tour success inside two years.

France’s Gwladys Nocera birdied the last three holes to share the lead with Sweden’s Maria Boden at the Aberdeen Asset Management Ladies Scottish Open.

PAUL JEWELL must be the only Premier League manager that views a fortuitous draw against a struggling Championship side as a step in the right direction.

Kilmacud Crokes 0-11 Ballyboden St. Enda's 2-2

THE company that provided the controversial “drink link” in a Kerry pub has said it’s providing the service at no extra charge — for now.

New statistics show online retailing is continuing to grow quickly in the UK.

A helicopter carrying six UN military observers and three crew members was shot down today over Georgia’s breakaway Abkhazian region.