There’s always a Twitter wag who can cut to the quick of what a lot of us are thinking: Imagine a competition where men line up in their finery to be interviewed by Gráinne Seoige and to dance a jig while their dads weep in the audience and say how much they love their Irish granny. No? Too much to imagine?

John Delaney, who stepped down as FAI chief executive on Saturday, will receive a six-figure salary in his new role as executive vice-president, it is believed.

Historian Catherine Corless, the Irish Coast Guard, crew of Rescue 116, rugby referee Joy Neville and campaigner Vera Twomey were among those honoured at tonight’s Rehab People of the Year Awards.

The Irish Coast Guard, which lost five members over the last two years, is to be honoured at the People of the Year Awards tomorrow night for putting their lives on the line for others.

Asumpta Sweeney says her little boy would not be alive today without the heroic actions of a passing student, who performed CPR on baby Hugh after he turned "totally lifeless".

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Après Match of the Day has the comedy crew delving into Ireland’s glorious soccer history on Monday.

If the pen is mightier than the sword, then satire is the scimitar of political pomposity, argues Rita de Brún.

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Maia Dunphy examines our concepts of beauty in the concluding episode of her series What Women Want on RTÉ2 on Thursday.

It is one of the great inconveniences hindering daily newspapers; the inability to postpone our All-Ireland final verdicts until Up For The Match is over.

Inspiration

TV presenter will be wed in both Ireland and South Africa.

Rachel Pilkington makes plea to Irish Government.

The widow of murdered garda, Adrian Donohoe, has spoken publicly for the first time about the devastating impact of her husband’s violent death on her family.

Highlights include Great Irish Journeys and a documentary on the Luas.

A senior RTÉ executive has criticised the lack of spending by Sky on television content in Ireland given the large revenues the Rupert Murdoch-owned media group takes from Irish customers.

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Glenda Gilson and Paul McGrath.

Grianne Seoige and Des Cahill present Up For The Match on RTÉ One tonight.

Heroic, inspiring, and selfless acts were rewarded at Ireland’s answer to an honours system.

The Ladbrokes Irish Grand National is one of the most precious jewels in Ireland’s racing crown, and it was Lion Na Bearnai who came up trumps, returning at odds of 33/1, with the crowds happy to cheer him into the winners’ enclosure with his popular local trainer Tom Gibney.

Young classical instrumentalists and singers have been performing at the Feis Ceoil since 1896, and 5,000 more do so this week, says Carl Dixon

People from Donegal have the sexiest accent in Ireland, according to research.

THIRTIES

TV presenter Gráinne Seoige has revealed she has to work hard to maintain her new svelte figure.

LEGAL eagles have been drafted in to sort out the aftermath of a verbal row in a Dublin pub in which radio satirist Oliver Callan claims Kerry footballer Paul Galvin challenged him to a fight.

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IF I TELL the truth about being a judge for this weekend’s People of the Year Awards, they’ll never invite me again.

IT might be one of the poorest summers on record but you know winter is certainly on its way when RTÉ launches its new season of TV programmes.

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THE victory of 14/1 shot Radharcnafarraige in the featured Group 3 Ballyogan Stakes proved the highlight of a double for Jim Bolger and Kevin Manning at Leopardstown last night, when the arrival of heavy showers turned ground conditions to ‘good to yielding’.

STUDENTS of racing could well apply the sametechniques used in selecting horses to pick out winners of fashion competitions.