Colette Sheridan speaks to the two men who built the Popemobile for his visit to Ireland, which can now be rented for stag or hen parties.

Cork will start four U21s in today’s Munster SHC clash with Tipperary. How much of a step is it, to go from underage hurling to the big show? asks Michael Moynihan.

Each new revelation in the succession of scandals to envelope the Catholic Church cast the transgressions of Bishop Casey in an ever more benighn light, writes Michael Clifford

THE death, yesterday at the age of 89, of Bishop Eamonn Casey, Bishop Emeritus of Galway and Kilmacduagh after a long illness suffered in a Co Clare nursing home, could be an occasion to rehearse all of the hurt and outrage provoked by his deceit, hypocrisy and betrayal.

A special event will recreate a hasty yet lavish Christmas meal eaten by the men of The Endurance expedition before the ship was crushed by ice.

Derek McGrath mentioned it in passing last week but it’s a game worth revisiting.

The All-Ireland hurling race takes on a different tone when the previous season’s finalists come back to the circuit.

Two-time All-Ireland winner Michael Cleary believes serious consideration should be given to cementing Semple Stadium as the permanent venue choice on Munster hurling final afternoon.

Journalist turned actor Joanne Ryan brings her inquisitive eye to the role of Bridgie Cleary who was killed by her husband in Tipperary in 1895 in the belief that she had been abducted by fairies with a changeling left in her place.

A firm owned by Kerry county councillor Danny Healy-Rae and his wife, Eileen, was the highest paid plant hire and haulage contractor to Kerry County Council, last year.

I WAS with a group of young people the other day when the news broke on a telly in the background. The Pope had resigned.

BEFORE Christianity appropriated this time of year, the winter solstice on Dec 21 was one of the important dates in the Irish calendar.

Last night’s GAA-GPA Opel All Star hurling awards served up plenty of surprises with All-Ireland champions Kilkenny’s representation one less than runners-up Galway while Munster winners Tipperary had no player on the team.

Former Wexford hurling boss Colm Bonnar says it would be pointless for anybody to give consideration to the Tipperary hurling manager’s job until Nicky English and Liam Sheedy are sounded out first.

Tipperary chairman Sean Nugent has hit out at Lar Corbett’s online detractors.

Former captain Michael Cleary has described Tipperary’s tactics in last Sunday’s All-Ireland SHC semi-final as “farcical.”

I WATCHED some of the opening ceremony of the Eucharistic Congress on Sunday afternoon.

COMPARE and contrast, if you will, the utterances of two Catholic priests.

SATURDAY

SATURDAY

As Marian Finucane publishes a book of her Saturday radio interviews, she tells Sue Leonard about the background to the project, and why she crashed her car through electric gates for Roy Keane

FORMER Kilkenny star Christy Heffernan has claimed Tipperary people have yet to get over the penalty that paved the way for the Cats’ 2009 All-Ireland final success.

NENAGH is ready for its inaugural Bop While You Shop street festival, which takes place in the Co Tipperary town tomorrow.

An actor and model has been ordered to do 240 hours' community service after he broke a pub doorman's nose during a drink-fuelled attack.

FORMER All-Ireland winning hurler and All Star Michael Cleary will set out today to cycle a go-kart the length of Co Tipperary to raise funds to ease the suffering of sick children.

FORMER Tipperary All-Ireland winning hurler Michael Cleary will pedal a go-kart through Tipperary later this week to raise funds for Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin.

Actor and model Ross Hamilton has been remanded on bail pending sentence for breaking a pub doorman's nose during a drink-fuelled attack.

THERE she was in an ad for a chair.

Actor and model Ross Hamilton, who is charged with assault and unlawful possession of cannabis, was again remanded on continuing bail today pending directions from the DPP.

NOTORIOUS convicted paedophile Tony Walsh has given a description of the inmate who knifed him in the face in prison on Sunday.

FORMER manager Len Gaynor has urged Tipperary officials to be patient as the search continues for Liam Sheedy’s successor as senior hurling manager.

I TAKE issue with points made on this page last week by fellow columnist Stephen King.

EARLIER this week we asked a number of former Kilkenny captains and players if their team could create history tomorrow and complete the five in a row.

FOR likely starters Padraic Maher, Brendan Maher (not related, by the way) and Noel McGrath, and for all the other half-dozen or so U21s on the Tipperary panel, facing Kilkenny in this Sunday’s All-Ireland senior hurling final could be a daunting prospect.

THE first thing that probably strikes you looking at Munster’s best hurling team of the last 25 years – an initiative between the Munster Council of the GAA and the Irish Examiner – is the illustration of various eras within the province.

The number of patients treated for swine flu in Ireland has passed the 50 mark, it was revealed tonight.

THE recent National Hurling League final, won by Kilkenny in Thurles, was very encouraging from a hurling point of view. This was Tipperary playing with a steel that I hadn’t seen in them for a long time, a team that stood up physically to a very strong Kilkenny side.

A JUDGE said yesterday he would not jail a former Fianna Fáil TD for tax fraud because he had already suffered humiliation, disgrace and the loss of his political career.