Dáithí Ó Sé in conversation with Richard Fitzpatrick.

Peter Duggan knocked 67 frees between the posts for Clare in last year’s hurling championship yet ask your average punter to recall an attempt he stood over and plenty would dig up one among the small handful that didn’t make it.

More than 2,000 people took to the streets of Youghal, Co Cork, last night to pay tribute to the town’s newest and greatest double act since Moby Dick and Ahab.

Tyrone 4-24 Roscommon 2-12

Daniel Brennan, all 6ft3in and 20 stone of him, sits in a small chair in the courtyard of the vineyard where the French U20 team are staying outside Narbonne, and tries to rattle off his phone number before realising he can’t do it in English.

Bridges unite, but unseen currents and troubled waters are often never too far away.

Kilkenny youngster Richie Leahy is looking forward to this year’s new championship format, saying “that’s the dream, to play week on week”.

Paula Hynes swapped her farm and family in Cork to spend almost three weeks with the Maasai in Kenya for a show on RTÉ tonight, writes Helen O’Callaghan

Boomtoom Rats frontman and charity campaigner Bob Geldof has described Myanmar’s de facto leader and Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi as a “pig” and “handmaiden to ethnic cleansing”.

If Ireland are to extract a buzz from their final two World Cup group games, then they’re going to have to search for it within, not in the fact that Gareth Bale will be absent for Wales.

The Social Protection Minister has said she would not be able to survive on her own department’s social welfare benefits, writes Elaine Loughlin of the Irish Examiner.

The Social Protection Minister has said she would not be able to survive on her own department’s social welfare benefits.

With handmaids protesting outside, the budget and abortion dominated on day one, writes Political Editor Daniel McConnell.

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A tragic death overshadowed the fun and games at the annual music festival, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

Brendan Bugler has described Clare’s Munster hurling championship record as ‘cat’ and insisted it’s ‘shit or burst’ time as they begin their latest campaign.

Sexism with a new wrinkle, should you pardon the word. The new wrinkle is to put femaleness and age together, writes Terry Prone

Jamie Wall tried wheelchair tennis. He tried wheelchair basketball. He even tried a bit of writing. None were for him. None filled the void.

So, I've been doing this shtick of dressing on point for The Marquee gigs this year. Before you ask, it's because, honestly, I don't get out much these days and I'm quite easily amused.

Dublin 0-21 Meath 0-11: Paddy Cullen tells a story of a thunderous hit that put Colm O’Rourke to the turf in the last of the four-in-a-row games in 1991.

It’s early March and Fintan Goold is beginning to get nervous.

Mitchelstown man of the land Maurice Walsh swapped the soil for the salon when he was enlisted to help out hairdressers in Tallaght, writes Ruth O’Connor

While driving around Belmullet, Co Mayo yesterday Clement Shevlin spotted something out of the ordinary.

Limerick 1-21 Dublin 1-19: Limerick manager TJ Ryan has launched a scathing attack on local commentators, describing them as ‘vultures’ and claiming they haven’t given his team near enough credit.

In the words of Pádarig Colum “I pray to God on high, I pray him night and day” ...that I am wrong.

Yesterday, thousands of people across the country took to the streets to protest against water charges. As we all know, it’s an issue that many feel very strongly about.

TJ Reid says he has grown tired of people having pop shots at the state of Gaelic football in Kilkenny.

As captain Diarmaid Byrnes climbed the steps of the stand in Ennis’s Cusack Park, Limerick U21 manager John Kiely, lost in a sea of green and white on the pitch below, attempted to make sense of their summer-rescuing win.

Larry Tompkins believes that the next Cork senior football management team needs to be composed primarily of All-Ireland winners.

Gerard Taylor’s true tale of family tragedy and independence-era deeds could be one of the highlights of Immrama in Lismore, writes Richard Fitzpatrick.

An ill Cathal Barrett has revealed he was so concerned about losing his starting place in the Tipperary defence last Sunday that he only cried off on the morning of the game.

It has rained overnight. This I construe as good news for Djakadam, my Gold Cup fancy.