Six years ago, Sinéad Finnegan watched with tears in her eyes as Dublin claimed a first TG4 All-Ireland ladies senior football championship title.

Are Michael Daragh McAuley or Barry Moran the most important people in Castlebar and Ballyboden this week?

Performing made me happier than I thought you were allowed to be.

Tyrone football legend Peter Canavan has dismissed suggestions that the curtain will fall on the Mickey Harte era if Tyrone suffer a fourth consecutive Ulster championship defeat to Donegal on Sunday.

New GAA playing rules chairman Jarlath Burns admits he now feels under pressure to come up with solutions after announcing the “death of Gaelic football” at the weekend.

It was hard to know which prompted the greater sense of outrage last Saturday night: the way Dublin and especially Derry went about the joyless business of trying to get a result in Croker or Jarlath Burns declaring via Twitter that the game signalled ‘The death of Gaelic football’, writes Kieran Shannon.

Monaghan’s Dick Clerkin says recently-appointed playing rules committee chairman Jarlath Burns was wrong to describe Saturday’s Dublin-Derry game as “the death of Gaelic football”.

Comedian’s chatshow podcast, An Irishman Abroad, has 1m listeners a week, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

St Vincent’s (Dublin) 1-13 Rhode (Offaly) 0-06

What a remarkable young man…

Basketball crazy Jordan Lee is an exceptional young man with an incredible story to tell.

While other parents stared at his son Jordan’s arm, his father Jarlath Lee didn’t see disability. Instead all he saw was possibility.

ALL-IRELAND SFC ROUND 2B:

CONNACHT SFC FINAL:

Ray Silke has urged Galway footballers to concentrate on their football and ignore their Twitter accounts as the county faces a battle to avoid relegation to Division 3 next season.

Strange to say now, given Mayo have lost six All-Irelands in their last six appearances, but there was a time when the mere act of reaching September was enough to elicit outpourings of euphoria across the county.

Galway was rocked by rumours last night that goalkeeper James Skehill had seriously injured his shoulder in training yesterday evening and could miss tomorrow’s All-Ireland senior hurling final replay against Kilkenny.

IT was a case of the best wine being reserved until last at the final session of the four-day Tramore festival yesterday as the Pat Hurley-trained newcomer Ambush Angel hinted that she holds a particularly bright future by landing the closing 2012 - Tramore Races Centenary Year Mares Flat Race.

ERIC McNAMARA saddled his first winner of the new National Hunt season when Hevelius landed the Frank Purcell Memorial Handicap Hurdle at Clonmel last night.

IT was an All-Ireland Colleges semi-final to savour at the Claughaun Grounds, Limerick on Saturday with sweet, flowing football as St Jarlath’s of Tuam edged out battling Coláiste Chríost Rí to book a final date with holders St Colman’s, Newry.

THOMAS BOYLE beat Olan Noonan by over a bowl of odds in the Sean Scanlon Cup at Donoughmore on Sunday, on a weekend where few fixtures survived the severe weather.

SPILL THE BEANS, who had hit the bar on a couple of occasions previously, got off the mark when landing the opening maiden hurdle at Tramore yesterday.

THERE was a distinctly solemn atmosphere when I arrived slightly late for the start of this year’s Annual Congress in Newcastle’s Slieve Donard Hotel.

ONCE again, the Pierce Purcell Shield produced high drama and great excitement before Letterkenny were crowned champions after beating Corrstown in a veritable thriller.

RICHARD McMANUS is one of the lucky ones. In fact, as he says himself, "I couldn't be luckier."

WINNING the provincial title is the main objective for most team coaches, anything from there on is regarded as a bonus.

GALWAY manager John O’Mahony must plan for next season without Jarlath Fallon after the veteran attacker yesterday announced his retirement from inter-county football.

ST KIERAN’S (Kilkenny) and Gort Community Schools (Galway) have serious injury worries ahead of tomorrow’s All-Ireland Colleges SHC semi-final at Boherlahan (3.30pm).

PLAYER welfare is the primary objective of the Gaelic Players Association and pay for play is not on their agenda, chief executive Dessie Farrell said at last night’s Carphone Warehouse sponsored gala awards function in the Citywest Hotel in Dublin.