Cavan maintained their grip on top spot in Division 2 of the Allianz Football League with a deserved three-point win away to Cork, writes Stephen Barry.

The Government will need to restore pay equality for teachers, pay retired teachers more to come back to school or employ panels of teachers to bridge gaps in substitution cover, TDs and senators have heard.

The recruitment of teachers to cover substitution needs is expensive and ineffective, Richard Bruton says.

Dublin’s four-time All-Star Paul Flynn has defended both the All-Ireland champions and the GPA against recent attacks by newspaper columnists.

It was late spring when the first withdrawal symptom sprouted like a new leaf on a tree.

The compelling story of this season’s National League took another dramatic twist in Castlebar yesterday when the Cavan footballers ended a 13-year wait for a win in the top division.

Tyrone 0-19 Cavan 1-9: Tyrone’s unbeaten record in this Division 1 campaign never looked in any danger, even when they trailed by four points at Healy Park.

Tyrone turned on the power in the second half to take over the leadership of the Division One table and send Cavan crashing into a relegation dogfight.

Cavan 0-11 Dublin 0-18: An occasion to remember for Cavan, business as usual for Dublin.

Captain Conor McManus admits the departures of Dick Clerkin and Paul Finlay will affect the Monaghan set-up, but has put it up to his younger team-mates to make up an experience deficit in 2017 and make amends for this year’s disappointment.

The Egyptian ambassador has declined an invitation to appear before an Oireachtas committee and discuss the ongoing detention of Irish teenager Ibrahim Halawa in a Cairo jail.

Dick Clerkin has been knocking about Monaghan’s senior panel for 16 years and the veteran midfielder has little doubt that Conor McManus is the best player he has soldiered with in all that time.

Monaghan 0-16 Cavan 0-15: LOGIC and basic biology tell us that there will come a time when Cavan’s burgeoning youth will overtake Monaghan’s grizzled vets, but that was postponed yesterday thanks to the nous and experience of Malachy O’Rourke’s wily old soldiers.

Monaghan’s Dick Clerkin says recently-appointed playing rules committee chairman Jarlath Burns was wrong to describe Saturday’s Dublin-Derry game as “the death of Gaelic football”.

He’s as unpredictable as he is exciting, as controversial and divisive a figure to some as anyone there’s been in Irish football, says Ewan MacKenna.

Tyrone 0-9 Monaghan 1-13: Allianz Football League Division 1: It’s three years since Seamus McEneaney’s era ended and the obituaries were written for this generation of Monaghan footballers, but the team he built continues to show obvious signs of rude health under Malachy O’Rourke.

Monaghan returned to Division One in a blaze of glory, turning over Tyrone at Healy Park to launch their season with two points on the road.

Another awesome attacking master-class from the Dubs blew Monaghan away at Croke Park.

I’m 37 years old. As such I consider myself not far removed from the present generation of players and I am of a similar vintage to the growing pool of ‘young’ managers, such as Kieran McGeeney, Jason Ryan, James Horan, Jim McGuinness and Eamonn Fitzmaurice.

Dick Clerkin is leaning back against the front wall of Monaghan’s impressive training base at Cloghan, just outside Castleblayney.

Super-cool substitute Rory Grugan rescued Armagh with a free deep into stoppage time, earning a replay for his side and another chance to shock Ulster champions Monaghan.

Achievement is the word that should be commonly associated with Monaghan right now.

Monaghan 1-16 Donegal 1-10

Two events took place over the weekend designed to showcase Gaelic sports internationally.

Cluainín 3-14 Carrick 1-10

Monaghan 0-12 Tyrone 0-14

Tyrone made it through to their first All-Ireland SFC semi-final since 2009 with a narrow win over Ulster neighbours Monaghan in an attritional battle at Croke Park.

In one corner of the tunnel was Dick Clerkin holding court with a gaggle of journalists.

Dick Clerkin has been included in the Monaghan team for Saturday's Ulster SFC semi-final against Cavan in Clones (throw-in 7pm) despite doubts over his fitness.

Antrim 0-06 Monaghan 0-11

Antrim 0-6 Monaghan 0-11

Monaghan 2-16 Meath 3-08

Monaghan 2-16 Meath 3-8

Elan has around $2 billion (€1.54bn) to spend on investments as it looks to rebuild its asset portfolio following the sale of its headline asset and revenue generator Tysabri.

A couple found shot in an apparent murder-suicide in a Carlow B&B spent the previous night socialising in the pub across the road.

Down 0-13 Monaghan 1-12

Elan has reported an 11.2% year-on-year rise in first-half revenue, to $576.4 million (€474m); but came up short of market estimates in the second quarter of the year.

Laois 2-12 Monaghan 0-12

The game needed a dramatic intervention from somebody and Tommy Freeman was the man to provide it.

Monaghan 1-12 Antrim 1-9

A miserable afternoon for Monaghan at Healy Park ended with the news that Westmeath had beaten Derry to condemn the Farney men to Division Three next season.