Options, options, options. For all the pieties to be heard after NHL games, managers are keeping an eye out all the time for options.

Wing-back Paudie Foley was the hero for Wexford as he landed a point in the fourth minute of injury-time to capture the Walsh Cup at O’Moore Park in Portlaoise.

St Brendan's College Killarney staged a dramatic second-half comeback with this last-ditch Corn Uí Mhuirí quarter-final win over St Flannan's in Ballyagran.

“You just can’t beat games.”

Sarsfields ended Moorefield’s dominance of the Kildare senior football championship with victory in yesterday’s replayed final in Newbridge.

Champions St Joseph’s are 60 minutes away from retaining their title after a semi-final victory over Doonbeg at Cusack Park on Saturday.

Two sons of Independent Kerry TD Michael Healy Rae have gone on trial charged, along with a third man, of assaulting a man in Kenmare two years ago.

A 41-year-old Shannon native has had to move house twice since his child pornography downloading offences were made public.

The Clare roar was nowhere to be heard yesterday as the relative silence of Cusack Park in the second half was eventually broken by chants of “Tipp, Tipp, Tipp”.

Aaron Gillane pointed a free in the fifth minute of injury-time to snatch a draw for All-Ireland champions Limerick against the only team to beat them in last year’s championship.

No county has taken as much satisfaction from the All-Ireland club hurling scene as Galway.

It wasn’t Seamus Callanan’s goals which were his standout moments on Saturday evening. We’ve seen them before, delightful and all as they are in their delicate craft and deadly execution. What we hadn’t seen was such a relentless work-rate from the no.14.

St Flannan's are into the quarter finals of the Corn Ui Mhuiri after a comprehensive 6-12 to 1-8 victory over High School Clonmel in Cappamore.

Jim Gavin dug deep into his all-conquering Dublin panel with impressive consequences as the three-in-a-row All-Ireland winners signed off on their Super 8s campaign in style.

Some hurling matches resonate far more than others, with a draw doubly eloquent.

A circuit court judge has hit out at the ‘absolutely outrageous’ conduct of feuding traveller families in Ennis telling them that it is ordinary workers who are funding their legal aid.

While soccer, courtesy of Croatia, is no longer winging home, hurling truths are dropping towards a roost.

Arabic videos used in the most recent Garda recruitment drive were viewed more than 10,000 times — the most popular foreign language version of the campaign.

A senior lawyer has hit out at the “massive delay” by the State in analysing technical evidence in child pornography cases.

With Shane Walsh in top form, Galway survived a rocky opening half to storm past Roscommon and claim a second Conancht title of Kevin Walsh’s tenure.

Tipperary 1-21 Clare 1-23

The year ends with an eight, Galway are reigning All-Ireland champions, there’s a McInerney in the half-back line and a Cooney in the half-forwards.

The victim of a city centre robbery was left frightened by the attack which happened as he walked to his city home shortly before midnight and two of those involved were jailed yesterday.

A dispute between Traveller families over who won an organised 13-minute long ‘fair fight’ between two men quickly erupted into a ‘ferocious encounter’ at a halting site where a number of petrol bombs were thrown and other weapons were used.

Offaly had eight different scorers compared to Meath’s four and that told the tale.

Putting an end to the yawning 29-year wait for an All-Ireland title has lifted a weight of anxiety off Galway, believes All-Star centre-back Gearóid McInerney, who hopes the county will now hurl with greater freedom and confidence.

Cyril Farrell has tipped Joe Canning to win hurler of the year — but believes Galway’s Gearóid McInerney should have been one of the three players nominated.

In a TV interview afterwards, David Burke spoke about an incident midway through the second half, where he shouted to Joe Canning, Conor Cooney, and Joseph Cooney.

Ken McGrath begins to feel his age as he discusses the All-Ireland final between Waterford and Galway.

As Galway v Tipperary games go, Anthony Daly felt yesterday’s was on another level.

Three banks have now retrieved almost €5.7m after appointing receivers to the assets formerly owned by TD Mick Wallace’s main building firm.

After Clare were well beaten by Cork in the 1998 league semi-final in Thurles, myself, Fergie Tuohy, and ‘Sparrow’ O’Loughlin went back to Powers in Clarecastle.

Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll all abound in this rambunctious, character-driven story that buzzes through the streets of Cork city. 

Lisa McInerney’s new novel continues her exploration of Cork’s seedy underbelly. Whatever the city’s faults, however, she still has a grá for the place she used to call home, writes Marjorie Brennan

The Special Criminal Court trial of a man accused of assaulting and falsely imprisoning another man has been listening to evidence of garda interviews conducted with the suspect.

A woman “tricked” the Department of Social Protection into paying money into an account which she opened in the name of her dead son.

UU 0-9 UCD 1-18: After a tight, combative first half of immense quality, Sigerson Cup holders UCD raced away in the second-half to crush 13-man University of Ulster at Jordanstown.