Sinn Féin have not ruled out the idea of forming a "national government" in order to tackle the coronavirus outbreak.

There is a lingering suspicion that everybody in Thursday’s TV leaders debate was administered a high dose of adrenaline as they entered the studio. All were out of the blocks as if they’d been pumped up on something, and none more so than co-presenter Ivan Yates.

Another debate, another ninety minutes wired for sound and on guard for a slip or stray word.

The owners of a family business once rooted in Cork’s historic financial heart — until the property and housing boom pushed them to the suburbs — have all but returned to their spiritual home, opening the way for a tenant to take over their lease in Bessboro.

It was a touch harsh on Eamonn Barry, Meath’s manager at the time, though the national newspaper headline ‘Barry’s bizarre decisions backfire’ did sum up the confusion felt by some supporters at the time.

Eamon O’Shea, who came on board as part of the coaching set-up last season, has been handed a new role in the Tipp backroom team.

That 2020 campaign will officially begin this Sunday with the Co-Op Superstores Munster Hurling League game against Clare at MacDonagh Park, Nenagh, which will be broadcast live on the Irish Examiner Sport Facebook page.

Early in Wednesday night’s Premier Sports broadcast, Eamon Dunphy settled on a key fact to underline the crisis facing a proud club. He’d repeat it several times throughout the evening: “Everton have never been relegated.”

The shifting power in Meath GAA was further emphasised when first-time finalists Ratoath claimed senior football championship glory at Páirc Tailteann yesterday.

All-Star nominee Conor McGill has admitted Ratoath’s journey from the junior ranks in Meath to the brink of senior success has been a rapid one.

Football legend Larry Tompkins spent two days in a coma as a 20-year-old after a foul blow in a championship game in Kildare with his home club, Eadestown.

Although she is from Watergrasshill, Cork, Emer O’Sullivan’s heart has always been in Tipperary.

“The 10 thought about finding grass, but instead chose to offload to a one-out runner..."

Seven years on, Sunday finally put a seal on the anguish for Tommy Dunne.

It wasn’t a Jordan Belfort-esque declaration but that wouldn’t be Liam Sheedy’s style.

As hurling people, we live for big days like excited kids on our birthday, but the All-Ireland final is usually our Christmas Day, the day when we are entitled to expect — and usually get — that little bit more.

Michael Moynihan Corbett jealous of the freedom enjoyed by Tipp’s ‘dynamite’ attack

Joe Dermody looks at this week's business movers

Deirdre O’Donovan has been appointed as the new head of security operations and police at Cork Airport.

Tipperary manager Liam Sheedy acknowledges that the county supporters have sometimes “questioned our work ethic”, stressing the need for that attribute to succeed in Munster.

Ex-Tipperary captain Shane McGrath senses Liam Sheedy’s team are driven by the negativity that followed their middling league campaign and disappointing 2018 Championship.

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Two men, one aged 52 and the second in his 40s, are still being questioned by police in the North after three teenagers died outside a St.Patrick's night disco in Co. Tyrone.

The Tralee Sports Complex was the hottest ticket in the country Saturday night. The Garvey’s Tralee Warriors were taking on basketball’s Super league leaders Templeogue in front of a raucous and partisan home support. Around 1,200 people packed the venue in a throwback to the great days of Irish basketball in the 80’s. The top of the table clash was all-ticket and sold out within a couple of days.

Lar Corbett is thrilled at the prospect of Eamon O’Shea linking up with Tipperary again but warns his involvement is no guarantee of All-Ireland success.

Des O'Driscoll shares the latest from the entertainment world.

A Dublin school has filmed a charming music video featuring music from The Greatest Showman, despite working against the odds to complete the video.

Diane O’Connor has mined the breastfeeding experience for her stand-up comedy show, writes Nuala Woulfe

From shoe box to window box, Tom Burke recalls the journey of Ireland’s First World War soldiers on eve of the centenary of the November 11, 1918, armistice.

Theo Foley smiled from the pages of other people’s books, had cameos in other people’s stories.

All-Ireland champions Galway have five players on the Electric Ireland minor hurling team of the year.

Donal O'Shea, son of former Tipperary manager Eamon, is selected at full-forward.

Eamon Dunphy is leaving RTÉ after 40 years working with the broadcaster.

Dinnertime in the Kelly household was always an epic affair, but never more so than when all 19 siblings gathered to celebrate their mother Nora’s 90th birthday.