Frank! Incensed! Mirth!

Liam Brady is "looking forward to a good row with the lads", after it was confirmed that the famous RTÉ football panel will be back in the harness next week — on Premier Sports.

Relations between the FAI and Brian Kerr have been strained further after the former Ireland manager angrily rejected an offer to become a “media watchdog” for the association.

Mark English has declared his intent to qualify for next month’s World Athletics Championships in Doha following yesterday’s sensational 800m win at the Diamond League meeting in Birmingham.

John Giles has said John Delaney should resign from the FAI.

John Giles would not only welcome Declan Rice back into the fold but would put him straight into the Irish team.

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

The lads done well… Liam Brady is the latest ex-Irish international to show that talking a good game can be very lucrative after hanging up the boots.

In the end the margin of victory was just five points, but Munster were the dominant force at the Liberty Stadium as they made it three straight Guinness Pro14 wins.

We’re just seven years shy of a century since a side representing the 26 counties first played international football and in all that time, only one midfielder has broken double figures when it comes to scoring goals.

Giles, a lovely gentle film by Loosehorse, retraced the route through a football life of our greatest football man, writes Larry Ryan.

Soccer analyst Johnny Giles has revealed how RTÉ was reluctant to sign him up as a pundit because he had a reputation for not saying much.

A former PC World worker who stole €27,000 worth of Apple products from his workplace and sold it to another store in a “stupid” attempt to make money has been ordered to perform community service.

Maud-Annie Foley’s late point secured a draw for Westmeath against Cavan in the Lidl Ladies National Football League Division 2 final at sun-splashed Parnell Park.

How tricky is it for these managers to deal with players from a different generation, asks Michael Moynihan.

I don’t recall, as an 11-year-old, being aware I was watching an exhibition of sport as a thinly disguised substitute for war, writes Liam Mackey.

Though with not a trace of Irish blood in him novelist Jeffrey Archer likes to be known as a seanchaí, a description he first encountered when chatting with a tramp in Dublin. This time round, he chats with Sue Leonard. 

Liverpool 2 Leeds 0: Ben Woodburn had a grin as big as the Mersey as he left the pitch, the youngest goalscorer in Liverpool’s long and illustrious history.

Australia coach Michael Cheika has rested most of his top names for tomorrow’s clash with France as the test is the only one on the tour that is not part of the Wallabies’ grand slam bid.

Prehistoric’ was one of the kinder words used by critics of Jack Charlton’s brand of football when he was manager of Ireland but in the foreword he has penned for a newly published biography by Colin Young, the man himself makes the claim that, au contraire – or, more likely, ‘bugger that’ – his Ireland team actually laid the foundations for the game as we know it today.

One of the ironies of the Premier League being so hyped through the years is that criticisms and critics of the same league can be guilty of gross exaggeration as well.

Ronald Koeman has accused Republic of Ireland manager Martin O’Neill of mishandling James McCarthy after the Everton midfielder played all but nine minutes of last week’s victories over Georgia and Moldova.

The Kerins O'Rahilly's footballer who broke his leg in two places during Saturday's Kerry SFC quarter-final had to undergo an emergency four-hour surgery that evening.

Australia's prime minister has ordered a sweeping investigation into claims that teenagers were abused at a juvenile detention centre in the country's north.

As John Giles completed 30 years on the RTE football panel last night, Eamon Dunphy paid an eloquent and emotional tribute to his friend and colleague’s career in football.

Larry Ryan on what we’ll miss most from Gilesy…   

The decade is associated with sex and music, but the Russians and the threat of annihilation loomed large, as they do in Helen Dunmore’s new spy novel, ‘Exposure’, says Sue Leonard.

New figures show that outspoken soccer pundit, Eamon Dunphy, who turned 70 last year, still has massive earning power.

The acclaimed second novel by novelist Louise O’Neill is heading for the small screen after confirmation yesterday that a production company has secured the television rights to Asking For It.