New research shows we can teach our children to be tenacious from an early age, writes Jonathan deBurca Butler

Back in 2004, long before several of Jack McCaffrey’s teammates hauled Mayo defenders to the ground to prevent them from receiving a kickout in the closing moments of an All-Ireland final, his father Noel, along with some other eminent academic colleagues, conducted a study into the attitudes of Irish athletes towards cheating.

 

The GAA has been urged to increase efforts to help young players battling with mental health issues, after a new documentary found that clubs across the country losing members to suicide on a weekly basis.

Documentaries about two Cork related murders have been included by TV3 in its autumn schedule.

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A former mayor of Limerick yesterday branded the TV3 documentary Donal Mac-Intyre: Breaking Crime as the greatest “hatchet job” against Limerick he had ever seen.

Donal MacIntyre’s TV3 programme Breaking Crime made a valid point about the need to tackle petty youth crime in disadvantaged areas of Limerick but it was not a balanced portrayal of the current feeling in the city, says Robert McNamara.

Des O’Driscoll highlights some television highlights for the week ahead.

When Eamon Casey’s son first met his father, the then Catholic bishop of Galway so upset the youngster that he fled from him in tears.

Former footballer Graeme Le Saux became the first celebrity to be kicked off Dancing on Ice tonight.

A FIVE-YEAR hunt for a man accused of killing a police informant in Phoenix, Arizona ended in Toronto thanks to a “courageous” young woman who turned in her boyfriend.

RANGERS last night admitted banned hooligans had infiltrated their supporters at Wednesday night’s UEFA Cup match in Spain.

IRELAND’S show jumpers dropped to the bottom of the Samsung Super League yesterday, after finishing second last in the German Nations Cup in Aachen.

Darren Day, Donal MacIntyre and the BBC’s political heavyweight John Pienaar are set to follow Ricky 'Balboa' Gervais into the ring as contenders for the next celebrity boxing bout.

Undercover reporter Donal MacIntyre and his BBC team were this morning receiving an apology from a police force after they reached an out-of-court settlement in a legal battle.

On the face of it, Donal MacIntyre’s latest assignment appears to be a world away from the hard-nosed, investigative reporting of MacIntyre Undercover, the series which made his name.

Gardai in Cork say they are not yet certain what caused Sunday morning's tragic accident in which two members of the force were killed.