Masters champion Tiger Woods played down an injury scare on the eve of his first appearance since missing the cut in the Open Championship as he attempts to play back-to-back events for just the second time this season.

While talk of traffic dominated Day One at the All Together Now festival in Waterford, alas it was the weather that took a U-turn on Saturday.

An aspiring DJ found concealing heroin in his buttocks in a garda station has been given a suspended jail term of two and a half years.

Nobody could be happier than Pádraig Harrington that Royal Portrush is staging the 148th Open Championship this week but the two-time Claret Jug winner wishes his favourite golf course was not in quite such good nick.

2FM DJ Ciara King in conversation with Hilary Fennell.

Mark Sorahan (44), who has 113 previous convictions, told gardaí he had bought the drugs in an effort to make money to fund repairs to his girlfriend's car.

In the second of a Championship series, hurlers chat about their hands the injuries sustained in the service of club and county. This week, All-Ireland winning Clare captain Anthony Daly talks to Michael Moynihan.

Majors are a test of mental strength, and Shane Lowry felt as much a winner as Brooks Koepka following his gutsy tie for eighth alongside Rory McIlroy in the US PGA at Bethpage Black.

A tribute night to The Prodigy frontman Keith Flint aims to raise funds for Pieta House, writes Aileen O’Reilly.

"After 32 years, enough is enough."

Broadcaster and former 2FM DJ Gareth O’Callaghan has said he is not afraid to die, despite being diagnosed with an incurable neurodegenerative disease.

It was Declan Hannon who said it, sitting in the victors’ banquet with the Liam MacCarthy Cup in front of him: ‘We’ve all marched behind the band out the back garden when we were four, five, six years of age.’

It was Declan Hannon who said it, sitting in the victors’ banquet with the Liam MacCarthy Cup in front of him: ‘We’ve all marched behind the band out the back garden when we were four, five, six years of age.’

Oh say can you see a supersized home with stunning views? Tommy Barker salutes a classier ‘White House’.

The festival, now in its sixth year, takes place in Marlay Park from July 13 -16.

Kilkenny youngster Richie Leahy is looking forward to this year’s new championship format, saying “that’s the dream, to play week on week”.

Are you micro-cheating? Is your partner? Is it even a thing? The new buzz-word in relationships has divided social media. Ellie O’Byrne investigates with the help of a relationship counsellor.

Under the Hogan Stand, TJ Reid stopped to chat. After scoring 2-2, it didn’t appear it would be a difficult request, and so it turned out, but his demeanour wasn’t one of delight but righteous indignation.

One of Ireland’s best known radio broadcasters has revealed he has Parkinson’s Disease.

Waterford 0-19 Wexford 2-20: Wexford’s match sharpness was a critical ingredient in their emphatic win over Waterford in this Allianz Division 1A opener at Walsh Park yesterday.

Dustin Johnson and Rory McIlroy have the potential to compete in long drive competitions, but would have to focus exclusively on the discipline for a year or so to be competitive, according to world champion Justin James.

Alan Browne ended four months of frustration in front of goal by scoring a superb volley as Preston marched into the fourth round of the FA Cup by hammering Wycombe Wanderers 5-1 on Saturday.

The visiting Danish journalist bided his time yesterday before finally popping his question as the media briefing with Roy Keane was drawing to a close. 

Kilkenny's former All-Ireland winning captain Eddie O’Connor says the Cats need a “major shake-up” to revive past glories.

There is a “serious lack of discipline” amongst children, according to one of the country’s hurling greats.

Some top Irish bands stood out at this year’s festival in Mitchelstown, writes Joe Leogue

From the roof of the world to its deepest caves and oceans, extreme artist Philip Gray has pushed his body to the limit for his art.

Macroom, Co Cork

She is moving to Ireland to focus more on school.

Blue Jean Country Queens from across the country, and from overseas, will be under the spotlight in Athboy, Co Meath, this bank holiday weekend, as the 30th annual festival gets under way.

Well done, Clodagh.

Fans were so eager, that the band’s website crashed shortly after the dates were posted.

Michael Carey and Tommy Ronan play for St Kieran’s College against Our Lady’s Secondary School, Templemore in the Croke Cup final this afternoon. Their fathers, DJ and Adrian, won the competition with Kieran’s in 1988 and plenty more besides. Two great hurlers met to reminisce and fill in that generation gap, writes PM O’Sullivan.

Just 11% of Irish teens have mastered fundamental movements they should have mastered by the age of 6. The Insight Centre for Data Analytics along with DCU and Dublin GAA today launched the programme which aims to tackle the issue, writes Eimear Ryan.

Eddie Keher finds it “extraordinary” Brian Cody was questioned following the opening Division 1A defeats to Waterford and Clare.

"It's going to make things harder for us all to be together but you have to make sacrifices."

Mary I 3-24 IT Carlow 1-19: DJ Carey said that Mary I manager Jamie Wall is an inspirational figure who could enjoy a successful career in charge of county teams.

IT Carlow 2-20 UCC 1-20: IT Carlow manager DJ Carey has no clue what shape his bruised and battered team will be in for today’s Fitzgibbon Cup final, but says whatever happens they’re in bonus territory now.

IN THE late 1980s, a hurricane blazed a multi-coloured trail through a section of Irish youth culture. In this revolution, rock music was pushed aside as some kids lost themselves in the delirium of electronic beats.

The family of a DJ who died a month after a fall at his home have questions about his care, an inquest heard.

Here’s the lowdown on today’s seven games...

Update 12.15pm: Five people have been reported dead and many others injured after a shooting at one of Mexico's biggest music festivals.