Over half a century ago Harold MacMillan reduced all of politics to those four words. Even now it’ll have to do as a description of Galway-Clare on Saturday evening.

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Tony Leen asks three key questions ahead of the clash between Cork and Kerry. 

Paul Rouse has more than a few issues with the place of women’s sports in the heart of Irish society.

We’ve been told that Cork’s priorities this spring centre on winning matches and getting their best 15 players on the field as often as possible. After that, promotion will look after itself. Or so we’re told.

A re-mastering of The Dawn, the Killarney-inspired 1930s film that was Ireland’s first full-length talkie, drew an extraordinary crowd at the Killarney Cineplex for its first screening.

Events to mark the centenary of the only Cork man killed during the Easter Rising will also remember his fiancée after fate brought descendants of both into contact this week.

Hurleys, uilleann pipes, and Waterford Crystal could soon enjoy the same EU geo-legal protections currently available to the manufacturers of food items like Parma ham and Feta cheese.

Handler Denis Prendergast and rider Kevin Power were in splendid form at yesterday’s well-attended Inch point-to-point fixture, run under the auspices of the Killeagh Harriers at Ballyanthony, as they combined to record a double.

The US military is prepared, it seems, for every eventuality, including the rise of the living dead.

An Irish MEP is calling for hurleys to be awarded special protective status by the EU.

Heritage runs deep in Castlehaven.

A rural parish is planning to give foreigners some stick — and a few sliotars — as part of a novel community celebration to mark The Gathering.

Fishy Fishy, Crowley’s Quay, Kinsale, Co Cork; tel: 021-4700415; www.fishyfishy.ie

The five-star golf resort Druids Glen had its most profitable year last year since 2001 to record profits in excess of €1m.

Michael Duignan’s plea could have served as an entreaty for all manner of frustrated parties.

Friendships formed on football fields twenty years apart bind together two of the country’s best know sporting families. But near tragedy has brought them even closer. Tony Leen addressed yesterdays and tomorrow with the Egans and the Cahalanes.

IT’S 13 years since the game of rugby union officially shed its amateur status and yet here we are still, in the middle of another raft of ‘autumn’ internationals, lamenting that lingering north-south divide.

A POLISH man died yesterday when fire ripped through his mobile home on the grounds of a top racing stable.

THE supreme pony championship at Newmarket show was won by David and Tim Hurley, Blennerville, Tralee, with Philippa Mansergh-Wallace, Grenane House, Tipperary, taking the reserve rosette.

THE Hurley character in the hit American television show Lost is the practical one.

GAA president Sean Kelly has declined to speculate if suspensions be imposed on players who played with hurleys carrying the brand of Paddy Power.