Five in a row or not, Jim Gavin was in character facing the press after the final whistle.

Cork chairman Bob Ryan last night claimed the GAA’s new interpretation on penalties and 20-metre frees has thrown the game of hurling in disarray.

Another prominent GAA doctor has slammed the new sideline regulations, describing them as “bad medicine”.

A youth involved in a 170km/h car race in which a priest and two other youths were killed on the M50 has been jailed for two years by Judge Desmond Hogan at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man whose car racing with another man on the M50 led to the death of three men, including a priest, has been further remanded on bail for sentence by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on July 7.