Widely-respected Dublin County Board chairman Andy Kettle died yesterday, aged 68 after a long illness.

Dublin GAA chief John Costello has hit out at suggestions that weaker counties should be propped up financially at his county’s expense.

Your November 8 editorial speaks of the “honourable contribution” that Britain’s Great War Irish soldiers made to the world, and of the “dishonesty” of the Irish view of that war which, you say, caused us to “dishonour” the memory of those Irish soldiers.

Dublin chairman Andy Kettle believes Galway wish to enter their minor and U21s hurlers into the Leinster championships because they regard it as the easier province.

Dublin GAA chiefs are closing in on former Cork coach Ger Cunningham to replace Anthony Daly as the next manager of the capital’s hurlers.

Dublin County Board have expressed their determination to crown Anthony Daly’s successor by the end of this month.

GAA director general Páraic Duffy has revealed Dublin will not be the only county hit with a reduction in central funding.

Dublin chairman Andy Kettle insists the county will strongly resist any attempts to cut its funding and redistribute it to other counties.

There was a timely boost for the Premier League, this week, when it was estimated that at a typical Arsenal home game, more than 6,000 people with tickets don’t show up at all.

Dublin chairman Andy Kettle has admitted they must take stock of where hurling in the county is at after Sunday’s disappointing All-Ireland quarter-final exit.

County board chiefs have slammed Central Council’s decision to back the proposal to finish the club championships in a calendar year.

Weekend food columnist and McKenna’s Guide contributing editor Joe McNamee is back with his annual accolades. Read on for his best in fine dining, pub grub, afternoon tea and much more, in Cork and around the country.

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Elsewhere in these pages today, you’ll read of Dublin GAA’s new car deal.

GAA director general Páraic Duffy insists Dublin won’t get first call on the Association’s new €8m centre of excellence on the National Sports Campus (NSC) in Blanchardstown.

‘Make’, a symposium on ‘making’ in art, technology and science, is at the CIT Cork School of Music on March 7.

On a week of anniversaries and landmark moments, the best Gaelic footballers in the country traded kick passes with the best rugby players in the world.

The National Hurling League row could yet rumble on past Saturday’s Central Council meeting after Dublin raised doubts about the legitimacy of the new proposal.

"Jesus, it was unbelievable … he slaughtered everyone … it was horrendous … venomous … he absolutely overstepped the mark … the worst imaginable spectacle…”

Dublin GAA chairman Andy Kettle has confirmed the county board’s spending on intercounty teams will hit close to the €2m mark again this year.

Anthony Daly has expressed dissatisfaction to the executive committee of the Dublin County Board over the absence of a training centre for the county’s hurling team.

How has the ‘look’ of Gaelic football’s most storied rivalry changed over the years?

Dublin GAA chairman Andy Kettle and team captain John McCaffrey have both stated their wishes for Anthony Daly to remain in charge of the Dublin senior hurlers for next season.

Dublin GAA officials are banking on their hurlers’ successful championship run to help them get a new shirt sponsor next year.

Dublin chairman Andy Kettle believes other counties could learn from the capital’s successful transition from hurling pauper to provincial royalty.

Dublin GAA Chairman Andy Kettle has confirmed that approaches have been made to the Metropolitans to have the 'Opt for Life' charity logo on their jerseys during the Championships this summer.

Dublin chairman Andy Kettle said Kevin O’Brien has been “pilloried” as a result of bite allegations made against him and rejected some of the claims made by Jim McGuinness.

A top Dublin footballer has been hit with a proposed three-match ban for biting Donegal’s Patrick McBrearty — but last night vowed to appeal.

Dublin GAA chairman Andy Kettle says the burden of proof rests with Donegal to prove that Paddy McBrearty really was bitten at the weekend.

Dublin chairman Andy Kettle last night said he had not been made aware by Donegal of an injury to Paddy McBrearty during Sunday’s draw in Ballybofey.

GAA director of games administration and player welfare Feargal McGill doesn’t expect the new five-person limit on sideline team personnel to change.

Dublin are among a number of counties against the GAA’s new guideline to reduce the number of officials on the sideline to five.

Dublin GAA chairman Andy Kettle says that his fellow Congress delegates are likely to back the Football Review Committee's (FRC) proposals to Congress 2013 in Derry.

Thomas O’Gorman will miss Waterford’s Allianz Football League campaign due to a persistent shoulder problem.

There’s been a lot of weeping and gnashing of teeth since the Irish whitewash in Europe over the weekend but it is about time people start to realise that we have no divine right to be winning Heineken Cups with the regularity we’ve enjoyed in recent times.

Dublin chairman Andy Kettle has criticised Croke Park for what he perceives as them dragging their feet on next year’s proposed Spring Series.

Cork will begin the defence of their Division 1 title with a visit to Dublin next February but, at the other end of the scale, Kilkenny have elected to pull out of the competition.

Kerry are facing an All Stars blackout for the first time since 2003 after being nominated for just one place on football’s team of the year.

Jim Gavin’s former U21 selector Declan Darcy believes the 1995 All-Ireland winner is the stand-out candidate to succeed Pat Gilroy as Dublin manager.

A Disputes Resolution Authority (DRA) decision from six years ago has convinced Dublin not to appeal against Mayo’s use of substitutes in last Sunday’s All-Ireland semi-final, the Irish Examiner reports.

A Disputes Resolution Authority (DRA) decision from six years ago has convinced Dublin not to appeal against Mayo’s use of substitutes in last Sunday’s All-Ireland semi-final.

Dublin county board officials will meet this morning to consider appealing against the legitimacy of Mayo’s use of substitutes in Sunday’s All-Ireland semi-final.

Dublin chairman Andy Kettle says Anthony Daly is all but certain to remain in charge of the senior hurlers for a fifth season next year.

Dublin chairman Andy Kettle said the county board haven’t yet spoken to Anthony Daly about staying on as senior hurling manager.