One of the top ranking officials in Leinster GAA has bemoaned the "poor level of competition" in the provincial senior championship in the wake of Dublin’s comfortable route to a ninth title in 10 seasons last year.

Widely-respected Dublin County Board chairman Andy Kettle died yesterday, aged 68 after a long illness.

Kilkenny star Henry Shefflin remains non-committal on his inter-county future — but revealed that he is looking forward to making a decision later in the year.

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Another senior member of the Christian Brothers has raised doubts about the truth of some of the complaints made to the Commission to Enquire into Child Abuse.

MUNSTER COUNCIL bosses would have no difficulty in naming the province’s senior football or hurling trophies after Michael Collins.

A SENIOR member of the Christian Brothers yesterday claimed the media’s portrayal of Artane Industrial School had been “seriously unbalanced”.

Four men appeared in court today charged in connection with an alleged attack on a football club director as his team prepared to play.

A witness who falsely alleged he had received a death threat with a silver bullet seemed genuinely traumatised when he reported the incident, a Sligo garda inspector said today.

It was “highly unlikely” that a man who falsely alleged he had received death threats could have sustained the pretence for months on his own, a detective garda said today.

LISTENING to Carol Coleman’s interview with George Bush on Air America (accessible to Irish citizens via the internet) sharply defined the difference between his treatment by real journalists, such as Ms Coleman, and the network hacks we are saddled with here who have spent the last three years asking ‘how high?’ every time Bush commands: ‘jump!’

FORMER Cork star Niall Cahalane believes the County Board should allow the Rebel’s next senior football manager appoint his own selectors.