Did you manage to change your work-life balance for the better in 2017? Then you could be the new brand ambassador for the Balance Expo.

Donnchadh Walsh, the three-time All-Ireland winner with Kerry, is pioneering an intriguing one-day Balance Expo, in Killarney next January.

Shane Lowry plans to move his family to the US next year as he attempts to halt his worrying slide down the world rankings after two frustrating years on the PGA Tour.

It began with weekend bootcamps. Now, as Pure Results grows from strength to strength, Kathryn Thomas and her sister Linda are turning their attention to the corporates. Vickie Maye meets the team and puts the programme to the test

Shane Lowry would be the first to admit that he’s been guilty of turning a drama into a crisis and making a simple game seem endlessly complicated.

Sports psychologist Gerry Hussey, who worked with Ireland’s boxing team at the Olympic Games, has said that the athletes face very tough times ahead.

He’ll be in the Galway dressing room today - the minor one. Two years ago Tony Óg Regan’s dream of a senior All-Ireland with his beloved maroon and white was smashed by a phone call from Anthony Cunningham. Bitter now? No. Hurt? Wouldn’t you be?

Here’s a thought. Keith Earls has featured in almost three-quarters of the 50 games in which Declan Kidney has held the reigns for Ireland and yet the man from Moyross hasn’t played more than four-in-a-row with the same number on his back.

Olympic silver medallist John Joe Nevin insisted yesterday that Irish boxing cannot afford to lose coaches Billy Walsh or Zaur Antia and that everything possible should be done to keep the high performance team together.

John Joe Nevin set up the fight of the Olympic boxing finals when he out-fought world champion Lazaro Alvarez in a thrilling semi-final bout at the ExCeL yesterday.

A number of things strike you when you meet Katie Taylor.

She probably won’t go on to win a medal like Katie did, she may not even achieve her primary goal of running a national record and personal best, but yesterday Derval O’Rourke proved again what a champion she is.

THE packed GAA Games Development Conference in Croke Park on Saturday last had a host of diverse and impressive speakers but no-one made a bigger impression than Gerry Hussey, sports psychologist to the Irish Olympic boxing team, whose theme was ‘Tools to support player development – psychological focus’.

THE way has been cleared for Alan Mulholland to take over as the new Galway senior football manager after the other candidate left in the race withdrew yesterday.

FORMER Galway boss Liam Sammon will be part of a five-man committee to interview candidates to take over the Tribesmen from Tomás Ó Flatharta.

Alan Quinlan has fears about his imminent retirement, but after confronting depression, a more relaxed Quinlan will cope just fine.

JOHN JOE NEVIN returns home tomorrow with a bronze medal from the world boxing championships after failing by just a single point in his bid to convert it to silver.

EXPECT more boxing medals from major championships over the coming years if not weeks was the message for the former head of the IABA’s High Performance Unit, Gary Keegan, yesterday.

GARY KEEGAN, the High Performance director, has been on the outside looking in for the past two weeks in Beijing but, last night, he was back where he belongs, among his boxers with their Olympic medals.

HEAD Coach Billy Walsh yesterday said that it was a disgrace that Gary Keegan, the man responsible for getting the Irish boxers to the medal stages at the Olympic Games, is not with the team in Beijing.

IT was going to take a cool and calculated performance to see him join the other four members of the Irish boxing team in the last 16 and John Joe Nevin provided just that to outpoint the experienced Algerian Abdelhalim Ourradi 9-4 yesterday.

IRELAND’S five Olympic boxers have arrived in Bugeat, France, for the penultimate training camp in advance of the Olympic Games.

IRELAND’S two most experienced Olympic boxers, Kenneth Egan and Darren Sutherland, are hoping that the IABA’s High Performance Director, Gary Keegan, will have the required accreditation to be with them at the Olympic Games in Beijing in August.

JOHN JOE JOYCE claimed his place in the Beijing Olympic Games in spectacular fashion when he outclassed and outpointed Harun Sipahi (Germany) a veteran of the Athens Olympics, 27-12, in an action-packed light welterweight semi-final at the qualifying tournament in Athens yesterday.

IRELAND will have five boxers in this year’s Olympic tournament in Beijing, the biggest representation since Barcelona in 1992 when Michael Carruth and Wayne McCullough won their gold and silver medals.

KENNETH EGAN and Roy Sheahan take their first steps towards qualification for the 2008 Olympics at the world boxing championships in Chicago today.

THE Irish boxers at the World Championships in Chicago have all been issued with new iPods and will be able to watch some of their best performances to the background of their favourite music as part of their preparations.

Former political lobbyist Frank Dunlop has told the Mahon Tribunal that he cannot explain discrepancies in his evidence about the alleged bribery of Dublin county councillors in the early 1990s.