Sixteen Irish players are on board for the 2020 AFL season set to start on Thursday. Dingle’s Deividas Uosis will join the contingent next season and possibly Donegal starlet Oisín Gallen too.

Paul O’Connell’s presence in Ireland camp got both of Ireland’s contenders for the starting hooker’s role thinking this week.

When Dave Kilcoyne and Jack McGrath were named in Ireland’s matchday 23 to face Italy 12 months ago, Cian Healy lost no sleep.

Sligo snapped a 13-game losing streak in Ruislip on Sunday but manager Paul Taylor maintained that there was no added significance in the defeat of London at McGovern Park.

Mark Collins offers with a wry smile. He is talking about his modest Cork senior inter-county record, which began a few months after the county’s 2010 All-Ireland SFC success.

Cork football selector Seán Hayes believes that the returning Ciarán Sheehan will bring his influence to bear on and off the field.

Here are just a few of the families.

RTÉ lied to us. The theme of this year’s ‘Toy Show’ wasn’t ‘Frozen 2’, but inclusion.

The popular broadcaster passed away last Monday at the age of 85.

Cork City have made Cian Coleman the first signing of the Neale Fenn era. The midfielder returns to City after a three-year absence that saw him play for Cobh Ramblers, Limerick and St Patrick’s Athletic.

Ballyhale Shamrocks manager Henry Shefflin remembered the late Eugene Aylward after yesterday’s county final win — Shamrocks panellist Aylward passed away a few weeks ago and captain Michael Fennelly dedicated the title win to him.

Ireland legend Jamie Heaslip was never one to take a backward step during an illustrious playing career — and it’s an approach he continues to take as he creates a life outside rugby

Aaron Gillane revealed that he lined out for Patrickswell in Sunday’s Limerick SHC final against medical advice.

Early last year, after winning the Sigerson Cup with UCD, Con O’Callaghan concluded a remarkable run of 25 games for club, county and college in just over 12 months, winning 24 of them.

Cork manager Ronan McCarthy is opposed to the introduction of a second-tier football championship.

New Kildare senior football manager Jack O’Connor says he is undeterred by the lengthy commute from South Kerry.

After plummeting from the highs of Sheffield United’s Premier League promotion to the low of crisis club Bolton Wanderers, Danny Lafferty has found solace in the League of Ireland.

They were born at just over 25 weeks gestation, weighing between 1 pound 6 ounces to 1 pound 11 ounces.

Jack O’Connor, who guided his native Kerry to three All-Ireland titles, will be ratified as the new Kildare senior manager early next month.

Jack O’Connor is the front-runner to replace Cian O’Neill as Kildare senior football manager.

Meet the kids who’ve just qualified to tackle any barriers Irish streets may throw at them.

It is difficult to keep up with everything happening in the championship with so many big games coming so close together.

Michael McCabe passed away peacefully at home in Mountnugent, Co Cavan surrounded by his family yesterday.

The full-back's contract expires in November after the Rugby World Cup.

The 88-times capped Ireland prop's contract will run until summer 2021.

"You have to have that positive mind frame because, if you don't, you'll give up and you're going to let it win, and by God, I'm not going to let it win."

The husband of the late and much-loved award-winning author Emma Hannigan has revealed that a documentary is to be screened by RTÉ.

Aaron Gillane has admitted he cringed when he reviewed a DVD of the Allianz Hurling League final, despite being named man-of-the-match.

A man claimed he was followed down a lane and struck with a glass but the man who admitted assault was adamant that he did not use a glass.

Brendan O’Brien Rory Best will meet Ulster bosses in the next week in a bid to decide whether he will play for his native province after next season’s World Cup.

Irish people living in the United States fear for the lives of their children, who are only armed with active shooter drills if a gunman targets their school. Some miss home, writes Aileen C. O’Reilly.

Ballyhale Shamrocks weren’t exactly listing dangerously when Henry Shefflin took control of the bridge.

As first-half performances go, Ireland’s 40-minute demolition of France in Dublin on Sunday was among the best Joe Schmidt had seen in his six seasons as a Six Nations head coach.

Joe Schmidt believes that his Ireland team has got its mojo back but the head coach has added the rider that the last Six Nations appointment of the year, away to Cardiff next Saturday, will be a much more complicated affair.

Dublin-born Fiachna Ó Braonáin, 53, is a guitarist with Hothouse Flowers.

There’s usually less debate about the hurling All-Stars than you get with the football All-Stars.

If there’s one bit of advice Gary Kirby would give John Kiely from Limerick’s last All-Ireland final appearance it would be to shelve any ideas about a fans’ night.

They’ll have to play it in Croke Park, but this time they won’t mind.

WHO’D have thought the entire GAA grassroot community would be so vexed about Kildare retaining home advantage for this evening’s All-Ireland SFC qualifier with Mayo?

Kildare president Seamus Aldridge is surprised, given Ned Quinn’s previous experience in Kilkenny, that the CCCC chairman decided the county can’t host their All-Ireland SFC qualifier against Mayo in St Conleth’s Park on Saturday because of capacity issues.

Kildare 1-16 Longford 1-13