With ink in his veins and who once famously described himself as “a chemist by training, a shovel engineer by vocation, and a manager by desperation” is the first person in the history of the Cork Person of the Year Awards to be inducted into a Hall of Fame.

A number of the country's leading sports stars took to social media to praise the excellence, excitement and sheer spectacle served up by Clare and Cork in yesterday's All-Ireland SHC final replay.

This isn’t an easy write for a guy who, as a kid, dreamed of playing in front of the Stretford End, but as the start to another Premier League season approaches it brings with it the realisation that there would be no better script than for Liverpool to return to the summit of the game.

PAUL NOLAN, who has had just four winners so far this campaign, could see his season move up a notch with Westmeath in the Tote Placepot Races 1 to 6 Maiden Hurdle at Ballinrobe today.

CAIM HILL, off the track since September, and On The Way Out, ninth in the Pierse Hurdle at Leopardstown, dead-heated at the end of a thriller for the Listed Surehaul Mercedes Novice Hurdle at Clonmel yesterday.

I WAS taken aback at the uproar in Fine Gael over the election of Diarmuid Scully as mayor of Limerick. The hypocrisy is breathtaking.

I STILL miss him, that great actor, singer, raconteur and proud Corkonian, the late Joe Lynch.

Mathew Gilmore and Michael Keohane finished first and second in today’s final race of the British Formula 3 Scholarship Class at Brands Hatch.