Dundalk manager Stephen Kenny believes his side still have work to do to regain the league title this season but knows they can take a huge step towards completing the job tonight by beating Cork City on their own patch for the first time since April 2015.

When players have real belief that their team is good enough to win a Championship game, then we see good decision-making and football played with a real purpose, writes John Divilly.

Not since 1998 and 1999 has there been this much fanfare about Connacht championship games, writes John Divilly

All the big issues that the weekend threw up. 

The Galway footballers have kept up their unbeaten start to the league, a first win on Kerry soil since 2000 handing Kevin Walsh's charges their fourth successive Division 1A victory.

The family of backpacker Danielle McLaughlin may not be reunited with her body until next Tuesday, more than two weeks after she was murdered in India.

Galway 3-13 Clare 1-11: It’s six years since Galway lost their top flight status and while they are now in the driving seat to make a return, manager Kevin Walsh is not getting too excited just yet.

Galway 0-14 Cork 1-11: A point lost by Cork, a point earned by Galway. And both knew it.

Galway 3-16 Roscommon 0-14: Sit up and take notice, was the Galway message. And in clinical style was it delivered.

Galway 0-15 Meath 1-12: You can only imagine the scale of the inquests in Meath this morning had Mick O’Dowd’s men not rescued a draw with a scramble of points in the closing stages of this bizarre game at a cold, wet Salthill.

Galway 2-8 Roscommon 0-13: January silverware is no guarantee of a golden summer but Galway fans will be suitably heartened by this FBD League success, the first trophy they have brought home since they last won it in 2009.

A man has been jailed for three years for swinging a golf club into the chest of another male outside his home in the early hours after St Patrick’s Day.

A retired pathologist has told a manslaughter trial that he disagrees with the conclusions of the chief State pathologist that the alleged victim died from a rare type of cardiac arrest.

A lethal disruption of heart rhythm occurring as a result of a blow to the chest directly over the heart at a critical time caused the death of an alleged victim of manslaughter, a court has heard.

Galway 1-20 Wexford 0-11: Holders Cork will face familiar opposition in next month’s All-Ireland intermediate hurling final after Galway cruised to a maiden Leinster title success last night.

A 7-year-old boy who was catastrophically injured during his birth at Cavan General Hospital has settled his High Court action with an interim payout of €2.1m.

Roscommon 3-14 Galway 3-11: The new president of the Connacht Council, Mick Rock, hit the nail on the head when he said that if there was any truth in recent reports about Gaelic football being dead, it was appropriate the resurrection should take place over the Easter weekend.

Corofin 5-12 St Michael’s 0-9

A man who was married with three children; was engaged separately to two other partners; and had a girlfriend in Poland with another child was in prison last night after admitting fraud.

Derry 2-19 Down 1-15

Croke Park resident Peter Brannigan has said the GAA should use €500,000 offered to locals during mediation talks to compensate fans left out of pocket by the decision not to licence two planned Garth Brooks concerts.

A retired teacher has settled a High Court action for damages over claims that he was allegedly bullied and subject to homophobic incidents while he was employed by a Vocational Education Committee.

One of the stars of TV3 reality series 'Tallafornia' has today begun an appeal aimed at clearing his conviction for having green diesel in his BMW car.

An arrest warrant has been issued for a mother of four who assaulted her close friend outside the Rotunda Hospital in an incident that led to the victim’s death.

Down 1-13 Tipperary 0-11

Down manager James McCartan has confirmed that Aidan Brannigan is definitely out of Sunday's Ulster SFC semi-final against Monaghan.

Aidan Brannigan faces an anxious wait to see if he faces a retrospective suspension as Central Competitions Control Committee (CCCC) meet today.

Cork 2-17 Down 1-12

Armagh 1-14 Down 0-16

A game that began with Mayo as overwhelming favourites to maintain their unbeaten record ended with Down tearing up the form book and the referee being escorted from the field by local stewards.

James McCartan insists survival in Division One remains Down’s priority despite a one-point win over Ulster champions Donegal in Newry on Saturday night.

Down 1-10 Donegal 1-9

A JUDGE was given a brief account yesterday of how to bake cannabis cakes.

A former soccer player has been jailed for three years for killing a woman he thought was spreading rumours about his new-born baby being taken into care.

A mother-of-four who was acquitted of her close friend’s manslaughter but found guilty of assault causing harm outside the Rotunda Hospital, is to be sentenced in July.

A MOTHER of four has been acquitted of her close friend’s manslaughter outside the Rotunda Hospital two years ago.

The trial of a mother-of-four accused of her close friend’s manslaughter has reached its closing stages at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A woman has gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for the manslaughter of another female in the city two years ago.

Teachers of Ronan Kerr were left stunned today as they paid tribute to the former pupil.

IT took almost four hours of energy-sapping action to separate them, but Tyrone finally triumphed to qualify for the Ulster U21 Football Championship semi-finals.

Cork 3-17 Down 0-15

A chronic addict who continued to deal drugs from his home even as it was raided by gardaí six times in just more than a year has been given a 15-year sentence.