IT has been a season of incremental progress for Dublin hurling yet the true barometer at the season’s end will be the amount of silverware that rests on the sideboard.

AS Dublin hurling has sought to climb up the national ladder, they have looked to outside experts for guidance.

STEP inside Ladder 3 firehouse in lower eastside Manhattan and you read the following on a chalkboard just inside the door.

NUMBERS applying for computer and technology courses might be down, but thousands of young students used the internet to accept college places yesterday.