A new generation of ships being built for the naval service will carry unmanned planes along with deep sea search and rescue robot submarines.

For the once hurling-centric Éire Óg club, Sunday’s football finals – and the appearance of Daniel Goulding, Ciaran Sheehan and exciting minor Kevin Hallissey – offer a global platform to the strides the club has made with the big ball. Fintan O’Toole visited the Ovens-based club

If Cork complete the fabled three-in-a-row on Sunday, they will have achieved it with only 17 starters this season. But, as Diarmuid O’Flynn discovered, when you have exceptional players, they can take you a long way.

IT is always an unenviable and invidious exercise to compare teams and players of different eras.

Don’t mention the war, we agreed. “I’ll meet on one condition”, laughed Waterford’s Jim Greene.