A four-year suspended jail sentence was imposed on a man yesterday who punched a pub customer for accidentally spilling his drink.

When Jim Gavin admits he’s not a defensive coach, it might come across as peculiar that he added Jason Sherlock to his backroom team this season with a brief on improving Dublin’s attack. 

Talk of a first All-Ireland hurling title for Dublin since 1938 flew loosely from the lips of Anthony Daly’s players last year.

Dublin manager Jim Gavin says that Alan Brogan still has a chance of playing in Sunday week's Leinster SFC final, but only if he shows form in training.

LEINSTER SHC QUARTER-FINAL:

ALLIANZ FL DIVISION 1: Dublin v Tyrone

Ger Brennan says the GAA should be looking to apply the type of officiating that exists in hurling to Gaelic football and do away with the black card proposal.

New Dublin boss Jim Gavin argues inter-county senior managers should be entitled to dictate what off-season break to give their players.

3,000 customers are still without power in Scotland after heavy snow blanketed much of the country.

ONE punch had devastating consequences for a young man who was almost blinded in his right eye by the blow he suffered for accidentally spilling another man’s drink.

NEWLY appointed Wexford senior hurling manager Liam Dunne can expect a warm welcome from his fellow-managers in Leinster next year, but, says Dublin’s Anthony Daly, he can also expect something of a culture shock.

BEFORE the game in Tullamore I met Michael Daly, Anthony’s brother, and he had the typical Daly confident smile.

IT was one of the images of the 2010 championship.

A Belfast man from a "very respectable family", who told gardaí he was making €500 a week distributing cocaine after being made redundant, has been given nine years in consecutive sentences.

THERE may be a glimmer of scientific truth in the Old Testament story of how Adam was fashioned from clay, new research suggests.

HUGE interest is guaranteed for the sale of a substantial 135-acre holding at Moneygorm in Glenville, Co Cork.

LAWYERS for the Planning Tribunal have claimed a £10,000 cash payment by a well-known businessman to Frank Dunlop in 1993 had none of the hallmarks of “a legitimate, professional transaction”.

THE pressure mounted on Fianna Fáil TD GV Wright last night as it emerged that payments he received from lobbyist Frank Dunlop will be investigated by his party’s ethics committee.

EXPERT advice from an Australian sports academy — one of the most advanced in the world was sought in the preparation of a new education programme now available to Irish sporting organisations.

A COUNTY councillor spoke yesterday about how he came across a horrific head-on crash which claimed the lives of two people.

THE GOLFERS of Woodstock Golf Club near Ennis are poised to get a memorable weekend for Clare off to the best possible start.

GALWAY is bracing itself for a shindig to beat all shindigs should Woodstock capture the Bulmers Pierce Purcell Shield over the next couple of days.