The identity of the new Antrim senior football manager is expected to be revealed next week after three candidates were interviewed for the position on Tuesday night.

Kieran McGeeney's sixth season in charge of the Kildare senior football team was confirmed at a County Board meeting last night.

Conor Counihan is to be invited to remain on as manager of the Cork senior football team, should he so wish.

Paul Grimley would be interested in taking over as Armagh manager in a caretaker capacity until Kieran McGeeney, or another former player, is ready to accept the job.

The Armagh County Board will cite an incident involving a member of the Laois official party at their meeting with Central Hearings Committee (CHC) tomorrow night.

FOUR years on and St Gall’s midfielder Aodhán Gallagher still finds himself brooding over his last St Patrick’s Day visit to Croke Park.

Three Co Galway hurlers have secured a High Court injunction preventing the county's GAA authorities from taking disciplinary action against them arising out of an alleged assault on a referee.

Three club players in Galway accused of assaulting a referee will have to serve bans of almost a year after GAA bosses in Croke Park threw out a 12-week suspension imposed locally.

THREE club players in Galway accused of assaulting a referee will have to serve bans of almost a year after GAA bosses in Croke Park threw out a 12-week suspension imposed locally.

REFEREE Christy Helebert has sent a file to Croke Park asking the GAA’s top brass to investigate the incidents which occurred at the end of the controversial Galway SHC semi-final between Mullagh and Loughrea.

THE Clare hurling crisis intensified over the weekend after the majority of players expressed a vote of no confidence in manager Mike McNamara and his backroom team.

Paul Grimley and John Rafferty are believed to be amongst the four men to have been interviewed for the vacant position of Armagh senior football manager.

A CONSUMER guide is being prepared to help tourists from home and abroad understand the baffling array of spa facilities that have exploded on to the Irish holiday market.

DECLAN KIDNEY was presented with the Philips Manager of the Year award yesterday, capping an unforgettable year for Munster rugby.

Joe Kernan is to continue as manager of the Armagh senior footballers - 2007 will be the Crossmaglen clubman's sixth season in charge.

A CONGRESS being held in Dublin this week will generate €900,000 for the Irish economy, according to Fáilte Ireland.

The Down County Board are on the look out for a new senior and Under-21 football manager after Paddy O'Rourke's failure to be re-appointed last night.

LIKE the hurling game, no one will be pulling the tape of this football final out of the archives for a second look any time soon.

THE men of St Gall’s go into Friday’s All-Ireland Club Final as everybody’s underdogs but, by now, they would not have it any other way.

NEMO RANGERS will not be dangerously undercooked going into Sunday’s AIB All-Ireland club semi-final against Antrim’s St Gall’s, according to midfielder Maurice McCarthy.

ONE has more than twice as many All-Ireland club titles as its nearest challenger, the other is from the footballing backwater of Antrim.

St Gall's manager John Rafferty has won the Tennent's/Ulster GAA Writers' Merit Award for November having masterminded the Antrim side's AIB Ulster Club football title win.

Failte Ireland has called on employers and entrepreneurs to help attract more international business conferences to the country.

BORD FÁILTE has offered an all-expenses-paid holiday to nine Israelis who were refused accommodation in a four-star holiday home because of their government’s treatment of Palestinians.

Three Irish republicans today pleaded guilty to a bomb plot and trying to procure an arsenal of high-powered weaponry.

Three men accused of IRA-linked arms offences will go on trial at the Old Bailey in London in April, it was decided today.

Three men extradited from Slovakia have appeared before a British court today charged with terrorist offences.

Three men extradited from Slovakia are due before a British court today charged with terrorist offences.