By contrast, Dublin city and county has lost just 10 pubs in the same period, dropping from 786 to 776.

Football is at risk of being “destroyed” until such time as a fair and equitable

A publican lobby group has warned of "rapidly changing" consumer drinking habits to which the industry must adapt.

Vintners say rural Ireland needs an urgent sustainable transport solution to combat the effects of new drink-driving legislation.

Donegal waltzed back to the top flight of the Allianz League with a comprehensive 13-point win over a listless Kildare at Fr Tierney Park in Ballyshannon yesterday.

Kildare claimed their first win in 12 months, with a richly deserved eight-point qualifier win over Derry.

Inter-county managers like to have every last detail relating to their team planned and prepared as best they can. Kildare’s Cian O’Neill is a self-confessed ‘data geek’ and someone who prides himself on the small details, so you can be sure that he steps through every part of gameday in his head in the lead-up to a match.

The organisation that represents publicans outside Dublin has denounced plans by Transport Minister Shane Ross to strengthen drink-driving laws, saying there is no evidence to support his assertion that the move would save lives.

University of Limerick 3-19 Maynooth University 4-15 (AET): The footballers of UL used all nine lives and their get-out-of-jail card to sneak past Maynooth in this thrilling Sigerson Cup first round tie.

Many coaches in sports these days talk about just being ‘figureheads’ for large management groups and facilitating the players’ efforts to improve and succeed as a team.

Publicans have urged Health Minister Leo Varadkar to “plough on” with plans to introduce minimum pricing on alcohol following a European Court of Justice ruling appeared to make the regulations harder to implement.

The head of the Vintners’ Federation has warned that a publican or bar worker could be killed because of increased levels of violence unless tougher sentences are handed down to those involved.

PEOPLE normally go to the local pub for a pint or two, a glass of wine, or a cup of coffee.

Dublin 5-18 Kildare 0-14: With pins the size of swords, Dublin popped Westmeath’s party balloons less than an hour after they had been blown up yesterday.

There have been greater glory days for Westmeath GAA, that’s for sure. The Leinster SFC title on July 24, 2004, for one, would be hard beaten but last Sunday has secured itself a place in the annals.

A blistering opening set Galway on their way to a 2-13 to 1-12 win over Meath in their Allianz Football League Division 2 tie today.

O’Byrne Cup

A coroner has urged the family of a suicide victim to contact the HSE and find out why his medical card had been stopped.

Kildare 1-14 Roscommon 1-11

More than a thousand pubs have closed in Ireland since 2007, with the prospect of additional excise increases likely to further damage the industry, the Joint Oireachtas Committee of Finance heard yesterday.

The main representative body for the country’s publicans has called on the Government to address the sale of cheap alcohol and introduce a ban on price-based advertising and promotional activity.

Resilience, belief but most of all heart — 13-man UCC ticking all three boxes in defying their underdog status and securing a place in this evening’s Sigerson Cup decider.

Publicans will launch an initiative in West Cork and Kerry later this year to encourage “traditional methods”, for young people, of learning how to drink.

Dublin 4-16 Kildare 1-09

Half of pubs are in danger of closing, it has emerged.

RURAL pubs and off-licences across the country are in serious decline, new figures reveal.

A NATIONAL debate on rural isolation is needed following recent comments by the Kerry coroner, the Vintners’ Federation of Ireland (VFI) has said.

The Vintners' Federation of Ireland has described Budget 2012 as 'mixed', welcoming upcoming legislation on the sale of cheap alcohol but criticising the 2% VAT increase.

PUBLICANS descended on Leinster House to warn the Government their industry was “going down the tubes” unless efforts were made to save it.

TOMÁS Ó FLATHARTA’S selector Martin McNamara has slammed the decision to sack the Kerry native, saying it went against the wishes of the players.

A CAMPAIGN aiming to save Ireland’s pub scene and turn local bars into “social hubs” is under way.

PUBLICANS have called on the Government to introduce a series of urgent measures, including a reform of the rates system and a ban on below-cost sales of alcohol, to help hundreds of struggling pubs around the country to survive the recession.

IRISH Vintners’ Federation CEO Pádraig Cribben (Letters, September 1) did not address my point that the people who dispense alcohol in Ireland are not suitably qualified to do so because they do not hold a recognised pharmaceutical qualification (Letters, August 27) .

VINTNERS have been criticised for lobbying to “water down” legislation that will reduce the drink-driving limit.

IRELAND could avoid the loss of 40,000 construction jobs this year by building roads, schools and hospitals with a proposed €5bn Government stimulus package.

THE letter (August 31) from Padraig Cribbens, chief executive of the Vintners’ Federation of Ireland (VFI) left me breathless and somewhat surprised that a person in such a responsible position would in the course of a selective and self-serving presentation of data have the audacity to claim that Dr Declan Bedford, acting director of public health with the HSE – who enjoys a national and international reputation – presented flawed research to an international conference.

PUBLICANS have warned the Government that any tampering with drink-driving limits would accelerate further job losses in the industry.

PUBLICANS have vowed to step up pressure on the Government to introduce a range of measures to prevent the loss of 5,000 jobs at risk in the sector.

Almost 10,000 bar jobs will be lost by next year unless action is taken to save the traditional country pub, industry chiefs warned today.

Former Laois boss Tom Cribben is the new Offaly Senior Football manager.

The Offaly GAA Co Board have moved swiftly to appoint a successor to Richie Connor tonight by installing Tom Cribben as their new senior football manager, following a Co Board meeting at Tullamore.

Ireland’s drinkers were raising their glasses to Europe tonight after bureaucrats called time on scrapping the much-loved pint.