The National Ploughing Championships brings them out…

The mother of Oscar nominee Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly has two things going for her: She keeps her daughter on the rails amidst the madness of Hollywood and — most importantly — she brought a packet of Barry’s Tea from her home in Cromane, South Kerry, all the way to LA.

Longford 3-06 Cavan 0-12

Longford 1-16 DCU 0-10

IT'S nonsense, isn't it, all this Clare crisis lark? The physio resigns, and it's a crisis? A guy makes a crack in a private telephone conversation about a fella he patently doesn't like, and it's front-page headlines?

THIS All-Ireland Vocational Schools SFC B final turned out to be a titanic struggle at a windswept Cashel yesterday when the gale, blowing straight down the field throughout, was a major factor in the outcome.

FIVE months on after meeting in what Cyril Lyons recalls as "a poor League match" in Ennis, Clare and Waterford will be fighting it out for a place in the Guinness All-Ireland hurling final in Croke Park in two weeks' time.