A sufferer from an illness which causes irreversible damage and severe pain claims he was turned away for vital surgery by a hospital administrator just two days before an operation.

A €1m emergency aid package to help farmers deal with the escalating fodder crisis has received a mixed reaction.

A horse racing tradition that has endured, and blossomed, since it first took place in north Cork, in 1752, will be re-enacted on Saturday, Oct 13.

The Kilmacud Crokes trio of Cian O’Sullivan, Rory O’Carroll and Kevin Nolan have been named in the Dublin defence for the seventh time in eight Championships game tomorrow.

Kerry or Tyrone, Tyrone or Kerry — the debate about the Team of the Noughties continues to rage.

A man who survived cancer three times in the last decade has been told he can no longer receive specialist pain treatment at a major hospital due to HSE and Department of Health cutbacks.

UL are sweating on the fitness of Kerry midfielder Anthony Maher for the Sigerson Cup after he was forced off in the first quarter of this McGrath Cup tie at Doonbeg yesterday.

SOMETIMES, it seems, you can have your cake and eat it. Kilmurry Ibrickane didn’t just claim a county title yesterday – their third in four attempts — they did so on the back of one of those once-in-a-lifetime team performances when everything falls into place.

AFTER an inter-county career which earned him All-Ireland medals with Kerry, Declan O’Keeffe was looking for a footballing outlet to keep him in shape in Clare where he was stationed as a garda.

WAS he expecting it? Certainly not.

PRINCETON PLAINS, who failed to win a maiden over flights or on the flat, broke his duck in style with a last-gasp success in the valuable ladbrokes.com Handicap Hurdle at Killarney yesterday.

BOTH UCD and UCC have storied histories in the Sigerson Cup. Yet both have endured title droughts in recent times.

THESE are heady times for GAA in the University of Limerick. Last Saturday afternoon their hurlers ended a frustrating nine-year drought when they claimed the Fitzgibbon Cup.

Kerry will defend their All-Ireland football title without their last, and most experienced, line of defence. And for keeper Diarmuid Murphy, there’s no going back. He spoke to Tony Leen.

DIARMUID MURPHY’S timely interventions in helping secure a 36th All-Ireland title for Kerry weren’t just critical – they were his last as the Kingdom’s No 1.

THE Mountaineering Council of Ireland (MCI) is the national representative body for hillwalking and mountaineering with over 9,000 members living all over the country.

A TECHNOLOGICAL breakthrough in the management of chronic pain has helped teenager Niamh Redmond pull herself out of a wheelchair and get her life back on track.

Michael Ellard and Brendan Larkin

DIARMUID MURPHY has taken an unusual route to become Kerry’s first choice goalkeeper.

SUNDAY serves up a cracking NFL tie when Kerry travel to Mullingar to face Westmeath, managed by the Kingdom’s former boss Páidi Ó Sé.

MOVES were continuing last night to defuse the managerial stand-off which has split Kerry football.

A NUMBER of senior Kerry footballers publicly threw their weight behind ousted coach Páidí O Sé last night, with a statement criticising the manner in which he has been treated by top county board officials.

LEARN, change, adapt. That was the theme in a solemn Kerry dressing-room. Narrow defeats leave teams distressed, heavy defeats leave humiliation, but beaten fair and square by a better side, well, there is nothing much you can say. And the Ulster champions were the better side, that was not being contested.

AN GHAELTACHT, East Kerry, West Kerry, Mid Kerry and last year’s beaten finalists Kilcummin are all safely through to the quarter finals of the AIB Kerry SFC.

EXCITING teenage prospect Donncha Walsh from Cromane will make his senior intercounty debut when Kerry take on Dublin in the Allianz NFL at Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney, on Sunday.

JOHN O’KEEFFE is banking on goals for Ireland if they are to be successful against Australia in the opening test in the Coca-Cola International Rules Series in Croke Park on Sunday.

KERRY goalkeeper Declan O’Keeffe will be hoping this is as close as he gets to being on his knees in Croke Park ahead of Sunday’s All-Ireland decider with Armagh.

HE SHOULD be on his way to Croke Park like any other self respecting Cork fan, but instead Coleman O’Sullivan, brother of Cork full back, Ciarán, has been distracted this weekend.

KERRY 2-17 GALWAY 1-12

SO at least that's all sorted. Galway are out and meekly at that. Armagh are as vulnerable as we thought beneath the sheer Croke Park stands.

Kerry staged a performance to match the spectacular surroundings on their first visit to new look Croke Park, confidently and stylishly ending the reign of All-Ireland champions Galway.

Meath treated champions Kerry to a lesson in Gaelic football today at Croke Park and booked their place in the All-Ireland final against Galway in three weeks.