The powerful midfielder crashed home a goal in the 31st minute to put Meath into a lead they wouldn't relinquish and his second with nine minutes to go killed the contest.

Graham Reilly crowned his first Championship game as Meath captain with a thrilling display to help secure a Leinster SFC semi-final clash with Kildare.

Galway 0-15 Meath 1-12: You can only imagine the scale of the inquests in Meath this morning had Mick O’Dowd’s men not rescued a draw with a scramble of points in the closing stages of this bizarre game at a cold, wet Salthill.

A business woman and county councillor, who is standing in the next general election as an independent, has spoken of her relief after gardaí arrested a phone stalker who had made her life ‘a living nightmare’ over the last two years’

The Data Protection Commissioner has confirmed Irish Water inadvertently disclosed the bank account details to third parties of some people who had registered with the utility.

The promoters of the Garth Brooks concerts in Croke Park were given no assurances that five shows could go ahead, while the debacle might have been avoided if a formal pre-application consultation had taken place before the tickets went on sale, according to Dublin City Council.

Dublin City Council officials stood by their commendably forthright manager at yesterday’s Dáil hearing, writes Noel Baker.

Meath 7-13 Carlow 0-06

Meath 1-9 Longford 1-7

Laois 1-15 Meath 1-12

On a weekend of championship shocks, the unfortunate reality for once mighty Meath was that this stalemate probably wasn’t one of them.

Mark Keogan, brother of TV and radio star Hector Ó hEochagáin, was today awarded €85,000 compensation for unfair dismissal in September 2009 as manager of The George Pub and Nightclub in Georges Street, Dublin.

Former Cavan player and manager, Donal Keogan has been appointed to head the county’s sub-committee to deal with the payments-to-managers issue.

A 39-YEAR-OLD woman who fainted and fell after she had stand-up tanning sunbed treatment in a Chartbusterts video/sunbed outlet resulting in a scar to the centre of her forehead secured €20,000 in damages in the High Court yesterday.

New Cavan senior football manager Tommy Carr has warned the county's players that he expects their full commitment right from the off for his first season in charge.

OUTGOING Cavan manager Donal Keogan has slammed his former players who he claimed “wanted the trappings of an intercounty footballer, but weren’t prepared to put the effort in.”

ONE of the first men to make his way onto the field to congratulate Peter McDonnell yesterday was his predecessor Joe Kernan.

IT’S a testament to how the family has worked its way into the marrow of Armagh football that there are more Kernans involved in the senior football set-up this year than last, despite the gaping hole left by Big Joe’s decision to walk away.

NINE weeks after their last competitive fixture, and five weeks after Longford and Westmeath fired the first shots in the 2008 football championship, Armagh will finally get the chance to begin their All-Ireland challenge against Cavan in Breffni Park on Sunday.

Monaghan manager Seamus McEnaney has kept faith with a winning line-up for tomorrow's crunch NFL Division 2 tie against Cavan at the Kingspan Breffni Park, throw-in 7pm.

An Bord Pleanala has given the green light to a controversial €115m commercial and housing development just outside Nenagh, Co Tipperary.