The turmoil and tension engulfing Mayo GAA is a sorry state of affairs, especially as it could have been nipped in the bud months ago.

There is a cracking Sportsfile picture of Liam Sheedy after the Munster Championship win over Clare.

When Kilkenny and Tipperary meet tomorrow in Croke Park, it’s also a big day for the team sponsors.

The Tipperary County Council are seeking further information on the redevelopment of Semple Stadium’s Kinane Stand before deciding to give it the go-ahead.

The Thurles Gaelic Sportsground Society Ltd and Tipperary County Board have been asked for more details concerning the multi-million plans to transform the area affectionately known as The Old Stand.

A man killed in a suspected hit-and-run in Arklow in the early hours of Monday morning has been named locally as Declan Kelly.

Teneo, the international executive advisory firm co-founded by Declan Kelly and headquartered in the US, has acquired Dublin-based public relations agency PSG Communications for an undisclosed sum.

Big businesses have significant access to Brussels-based officials of the Irish Government to promote their corporate agenda, according to transparency campaigners.

Big businesses have significant access to Brussels-based officials of the Irish Government to promote their corporate agenda, according to transparency campaigners.

Donagh Kelly’s record in this season’s Triton Showers National Rally Championship is near perfect.

Dean Raftery is ready to make his mark in the World Rally Championship after being honoured at the Irish Motorsport Awards yesterday.

Motorsport: Organisers of the Irish Forest Rally Championship received a major boost at their awards ceremony in Clonmel on Saturday night with the announcement that Valvoline will underpin the series for the next three seasons.

WHEN he came from virtually nowhere to win the nomination to contest a seat for Labour in the European Parliament in 2009, Alan Kelly told party members he would run "the most professional campaign you have ever seen".

Nerve-wracking and exhilarating are the emotions plucked by young Declan Kelly in describing his freestyle hurling victory at Croke Park on Sunday.

GAA clubs need to make a much greater effort to prevent players between the ages of 16 and 20 from becoming distracted and quitting the game, former Tipperary manager Liam Sheedy has said.

An up-and-coming GAA star has been jailed after an attack in which a man lost the sight in one eye.

The GAA hope to see their overseas playing membership outnumber the figure within Ireland by 20 years’ time.

This evening’s GPA fundraiser in New York, the Irish-American Heritage awards dinner, is sold out.

Former US president Bill Clinton has hailed the political significance of next week’s meeting between the Queen of England and Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness.

It was, in the words of a local sage, a day borrowed from the weather gods at the Old Head of Kinsale. The water sparkled, the sky stayed blue and the breeze was testing enough to brook no debate about who was boss.

Former US president Bill Clinton visits Ireland this week to deliver the keynote address at the annual conference of the worldwide Ireland Funds.

A chance sample of companies has offered a rare insight into a stream of political donations that toothless reporting laws have let go under the radar.

Many of Cork’s leading golf clubs will forget their etiquette as they scramble to invite former US president Bill Clinton for 18 holes next month.

Former US president Bill Clinton will visit Cork for the first time next month to make a keynote address at a conference for business leaders and philanthropists.

I was a late starter.

A staggering $50,000 (€38,000) — the going rate for a game of golf these days.

US NEWS anchors, filmmakers and business leaders will join former US President Bill Clinton in Dublin to discuss how the diaspora can help in rebuilding the economy.

DECLAN KELLY, who recently stepped down as the US economic envoy to the North, is to join forces with Bill Clinton and Tony Blair in a private equity and international consultancy business.

KILLERERIN’S Alan Keane will bid to add to his impressive gaelic football CV in tomorrow’s Connacht club SFC final against Roscommon champions St Brigid’s.

More than 100 jobs will be created after a US technology company said it was establishing a European centre in the North.

Fifty new software jobs are to be created in Belfast by the US-based ATG company.

Former US president Bill Clinton today outlined an imaginative economic strategy to lift the North from its current economic woes.

Former US president Bill Clinton will use a visit to the North today to promote the prospect of American investment in the region.

The US government today confirmed plans to host a major investment conference focussed on the North.

A NEW US-based commercial group has agreed to act as business ambassadors for the mid-west.

More than 100 jobs are to be created through a multimillion-pound expansion of an eco-friendly energy business in Lisburn, it was announced today.

FORMER Fianna Fáil MEP Eoin Ryan received the highest amount of political donations last year, followed closely by Labour MEP Proinsias de Rossa.

THE North’s economy is ready to rise out of recession, despite the threat from dissident republicans, President Barack Obama’s special envoy predicted yesterday.

A €4.4 million make-over of the Canadian residence of an Irish ambassador has been condemned as an outrageous abuse of taxpayers’ money at a time when the country is in economic freefall.

The Foreign Affairs minister today defended a multimillion-euro revamp at the residence of the Irish ambassador to Canada.

The Ard Comhairle of Sinn Féin is meeting in Dublin this morning to map out a plan for devolution following the collapse of talks with the DUP.

A special panel of US business experts is to help boost the North's economy, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today.

US SECRETARY of state Hillary Clinton has thanked Ireland for accepting two detainees from Guantanamo Bay and helping her country untangle the human rights mess created by the prison camp in the Caribbean.