GRAFFITI criticising next month’s visit of the Queen to Ireland was discovered in Mullingar’s Cusack Park last week.

MICHEÁL O Muircheartaigh may have announced his retirement at the age of 80 yesterday but the man born in Dun Sion just outside Dingle is showing no signs of slowing down.

Damien Irwin laments the passing of an era when bloodied, bandaged hurlers staggered across the landscape – and a player became synonymous with a gap in his teeth or a shock of red curls

FIRST there was Micheál Ó Hehir, then there was Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh, the two legends of Irish sports broadcasting.

MAURICE WALSH has worn many hats, but one of them has now been hung up forever — his garda inspector’s cap.

THE BIGGEST weekend of the 2006 GAA calendar looms large on the horizon, but the questions over relegation, promotion and semi-final spots continue to lie in the shade.

A number of sections of the Croke Park stadium were re-named today at a special ceremony, presided over by out-going GAA President Sean Kelly, the President elect Nickey Brennan and the Association's Director General Liam Mulvihill.

THE Freedom of Limerick was conferred yesterday on two priest brothers for helping the starving millions of the Third World and a third native of the city who has enriched traditional music in this country for more than 50 years.

TO those of a certain generation, there is something magical about radio on All-Ireland final Sunday.