UCD football manager John Divilly believes the credibility of the Fitzgibbon and Sigerson Cup competitions has been seriously damaged by the eligibility controversies involving players from IT Carlow, IT Sligo and QUB.

Both of today's Fitzgibbon Cup Hurling quarter-finals are postponed after IT Carlow were reinstated in the competition last night, following a meeting of the GAA’s Central Appeals Committee (CAC).

Uncertainty hung over the Fitzgibbon Cup last night as IT Carlow’s appeal dragged into the early hours.

Uncertainty surrounds the Fitzgibbon Cup after IT Carlow last night confirmed they were appealing their expulsion from the competition.

Having spent 37 years with dairy group Glanbia in Kilkenny, Kieran O’Connor has decided to set up his own communications business.

The PFAI, the Irish soccer’s players’ union, has voted in a new management committee to see it through to next summer.

Central defender Pat Scully has become the fifth out-of-contract player to be released by Drogheda United in the close season, as manager Paul Doolin continues to make wholesale changes at the Co Louth club that avoided the promotion/relegation play-offs last year by just one point.

SHAMROCK ROVERS manager Liam Buckley sees tonight’s Dublin derby with Shelbourne as marking the end of the first phase of the season, rather than a chance to reel in the early pace-setters.

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